Scene: The Logies After-Party. Kate Ceberano starts singing. Anthony Callea, who recently “revealed” he was gay, shyly declines to join her in a rendition of Young Boys Are My Weakness. And fair enough. Everyone knows that Anthony’s real weakness is stocky, heavily-tattooed Latvian leather daddies. Actually I just made that up. But it’ll be interesting to see how far the rumour spreads. [Update: And if you read the comments, you’ll see that’s not the only part which was “made up”.]
The Marvel of Flight, at $3 a go
Some Australian airlines announced record-low $3 airfares this month. But do you really want to travel on an airline where you contribute so little money to pre-flight checks and other maintenance tasks…?
TagCrowd: visualising writing
Tag clouds have emerged as a great way to visualise what some text is _really_ about — whether it be a political speech or anything else. Now TagCrowd (still in alpha) allows you to create tag clouds from any arbitrary text.
Here’s a tag cloud of my post Stay alert, ye nameless, toiling animals:
No TV Fortnight
I just realized that I haven’t watched any TV for two weeks! Well, apart from incidentally at the gym or the pub. And I don’t find it to be unacceptable.
Stimulus-Behaviour Cycle
If you liked the post about Making up your mind, you might like this diagram of the stimulus-behaviour cycle.
Sidebar everywhere?
Currently the left-hand “sidebar” column only appears on “index” pages, not on the individual article pages. Should it appear everywhere?