Wow. Natasha Stott-Despoja has edged into the lead as the politician you’d most like to see sing Samantha Fox’s Touch Me. It looks like I’m the only one who was interested in Helen Coonan. I’ll leave the poll open until midnight Thursday night Sydney time, just to make sure. Vote at the website.
Rudd’s lead widens: bye-bye John Winston
Oh, I so wish I had time to write more. The latest Newspoll shows that Labor’s lead has widened to 59 versus 41 on a 2-party-preferred figures. The ALP now has 51% of the primary vote! The politics news will be very interesting to read today.
Weekly Poll: Still to come
OK, I normally do the Weekly Poll on the weekend. But I’ve been so distracted by Julie Bishop that I’ll leave the current poll online for another day.
Is “wankworthy” a word?
Is there such a word as “wankworthy”? If not, I reckon there should be, don’t you?
Dom Knight on Joey’s E bust
Dom Knight of The Chaser has written an interesting column about retired rugby player Andrew Johns’ arrest for ecstasy possession. Nice to see someone using some rationality.
5 marketing lessons from Houdini
37signals posted an excellent summary of Five marketing/business lessons from Harry Houdini: focus on the killer bit; judo big problems into small ones; beat copycats by innovating; give ’em a story; free samples build buzz. Worth a read.