“A funny thing happened on the floor of the [US] Senate last week,” says Gary Brecher (pictured left). “Somebody asked a serious question: ‘If the war in Iraq is lost, then who won?’.” The brief answer is “Iran in the short run, China and India in the long run.” Read the full post for Brecher’s observations and reasoning. [Thanks to Blog Them Out of the Stone Age for the tip.]
Anthony Callea: “Young Boys not My Weakness”
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:
achievements affect amnesia animals civilization construction cultural democracy die doesn economy essential fighting freedom generation global government harder herald hindsight hitler howard hypocrisy immorality impact james liberal life lives minor money obvious people possible re rise says sir stern sydney talk though threat today toiling vast war warming won years
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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.