RT @SnarkyPlatypus: You are our broken lighthouse, guiding us to the shore in the stormy seas. [“Away” from the shore, surely? Oh. I see.]
Someone just called me their “voice of reason”. I think their medication needs adjusting.
I see that dullard @kcarruthers has stolen my idea for flogging cheap WebForward@CeBIT conference tickets. http://tr.im/ktlY
Also today I discover the destination for #secretmission, apparently. Will it be Kenya, Sierra Leone or Tanzania? They tease me so.
I’m liveblogging @newmatilda’s forum The Tangled Web (Internet censorship) http://tr.im/ktjv at http://tr.im/ktjF from 6pm AEST.
@firstdogonmoon Do one of your witty videos explaining wombat sex, with diagrams and sound effects! Call it “Liberal pre-selection”!
@SnarkyPlatypus It’s Channel Nine. Their viewers wouldn’t know the difference between a Senator and a sea cucumber. Mix it up, I say.
@SnarkyPlatypus Your task today: Match the Opposition front bench (and backbenchers?) to crew of HMAS Hammersley! http://tr.im/kt7y
@SnarkyPlatypus “Senator Patrol”! Coalition Senators crew a patrol boat, facing smugglers, boat people and plunging ratings. As they do now.
@BreakfastNews Rudd fails to deliver a key election promise and tackle a vital environmental problem. Here, have $900, don’t question me.
Il pleut en Enmore. Merveilleux.
@SnarkyPlatypus Can’t be bothered reading “The Australian”? Just masturbate. The political analysis is just as relevant, and it’s more fun.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui. La Fusion est un phénomène mondial, réalisé dans de petites étapes.
@SnarkyPlatypus Maybe we could swap Penny Wong for Penny Cook. Or Lisa McCune. Senator McCune. Yes, I like the sound of that.
@firstdogonmoon This wombat is not dancing. I’m not sure what he IS doing. “Secret sex life of wombats” http://tr.im/kt0m
@SnarkyPlatypus Huh? You want Senator Wong playing basketball? I’d pay to see that.
@firstdogonmoon Or possibly musical chairs. Do wombats dance?
@firstdogonmoon An Emissions Trading Scheme is kinda like playing the shell game while the ship is sinking, or something.
@SnarkyPlatypus La comparaison a été positive, non pas que nous sommes tous les deux vieux pédés graisse. http://tr.im/ksY2
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai trouvé un article stupide sur Twitter. Cependant, un commentateur a comparé avec mo@stephenfryry!
@maxmarkson You can stream live video from a phone using Qik, providing you download the app and have the bandwidth.
Emerges. With fish.
Small mammal overload. [exit]
@WoollyMittens Good question. Does Twitter count as “operating heavy machinery”? Let’s see. Can it dig a ditch?
Waiting for the medication to work.
Maybe I need to open a thread for “Cnut of the Week” earlier to trigger discussion.
@infoholic Yes, http://is.gd/wwnv is exactly the kind of stupidity that deserves “Cnut of the Week”. Make sure to nominate Thursday.
Want to go to WebForward@CeBIT http://tr.im/kpCW next week for $196-odd instead of $1400-odd? Read http://tr.im/kpCX
The day of bookkeeping and ATO paperwork ends. So, what ‘s been happening? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
@vardenrhode Not “The Prisoner”. Room 101 is from “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. http://tr.im/kp1i
@PeterBlackQUT “More flexible morals” is a delightful euphemism.
@PeterBlackQUT But I thought Justice Michael Kirby was going to be Australia’s Jerry Springer! http://tr.im/koMc
@vardenrhode Ah, but which is worse? The Box or Room 101?
Fear is the mind-killer. Now where’s that spin-dry cycle again…?
@martinbarry “Letter”? I used this new-fangled contraption called the “telephone” and she entered our conversation directly into my file.
Once more impressed with the practicality and efficiency of the people at the Australian Tax Office. Despite my, erm, “little problem”.
@lzcd You’re right. There is so much negativity about experiencing pleasure in public, at the laundromat or elsewhere.
The spin-dry cycle really can bring a small moment of joy to an otherwise ho-hum day.
@jg_rat What have you got against blond surfing labradors? http://tr.im/kogl
@ragamouf I just read that youth transgender surgery story over lunch. http://tr.im/kofL Agreed, the headline is pure tabloid.
Errands. Don’t question me.
@jayrosen_nyu Even a student journo here in Oz can’t separate “journalism” from “newspapers”, product from packaging. http://tr.im/ko0a
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Paging Cleese! “I am shocked to find there is unreliable information on this open bulletin board anyone can scrawl upon.”
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Who ever said that social media would be a great way to screen out noise and get reliable facts…? http://tr.im/knTb
@rbbrown There’s got to be a special term for deliberately angling for a Wankley Award.
@rbbrown “Natalie Bassingweherhuergferjgfrjerwhatever” is about spot on, and I didn’t even watch the Logies.
RT @jdub: ZOMG, first web-exclusive story on new Crikey website (officially real this morning): http://is.gd/wrUM Classic @rbbrown snark!
@piawaugh I’ve got Sen Lundy’s forum http://tr.im/knHz in m diary as a “possible”, but this week is, um, insane for me. ;)
@andrewbarnett Even if they were ladyboys I’d be uninterested. Actually it’d be even more annoying. Tastes differ. YMMV.
YouTube just recommend that I watch “FHM’s Girls Next Door Thailand 2004”. I mean, just how WRONG can you get?
RT @neerav: #secretmission Option1: Drop ship @stilgherrian from a C130 Hercules cargo plane - literally from cargo hold. [Really? Eek!]
Tue plan: A leisurely, less stressful trawl through outstanding paperwork & planning before 1800 “The Tangled Web” forum http://tr.im/ktjF