Well, John Howard is still Prime Minister — but the day is very young.
Christian Indoctrination
The 16-year-old son of a major Australian blogger has written an amazing essay objecting to the Christian indoctrination at his school — particularly the peer pressure and other psychological tactics. A taste: “As a non-Christian in the heart of a fundamental Baptist school. I’ve dealt with peer pressure on the topic in the bucket loads, absolutely backwards fundamentalists, and speeches that seem eerily reminiscent in tone and substance to those that preceded the infamous Kristallnacht.”
More APEC “Great Fence” photos
’Pong has just posted some images of yesterday’s APEC (in)action, including the 21-bum salute to George W Bush. As always, click through for the full-sized beauty. He’s just left to see what’s what with the “main” protest today.
Bruce Schneier on The Chaser’s APEC breach
Security expert Bruce Schneier has blogged about The Chaser‘s APEC security breach — which means it’s just been read by most of the switched-on security professionals on the planet. “Social engineering” attacks like this are easy, he says. You just have to look like you fit in. One commenter points out that this goes beyond “security theatre” into “security opera”.
LFO: “Freak”
While digging out the videos for the Perfect Lists I stumbled across another fave from LFO: this wonderful video for Freak. The music isn’t as good as the more famous LFO but man, that video! Nothing to do with the Silverchair song or Daniel Johns.
“Get a room, boys!”
Heard on ABC-TV’s The Midday Report just now, during a report on this morning’s joint press conference by John Howard and George W Bush:
Newsreader: You couldn’t hide the warmth between the two men…
Reporter: It was almost “get a room” time.
Now there’s an image!