Thanks for all the book suggestions earlier. I don’t have the energy to compile them just how. I’ll tackle that tomorrow.
Oh. So there’s this. “The 9pm Edict” episode 21. stilgherrian.com/edict/00021/
Nearly there.
RT: Me at @CSO_Australia: “Anonymous hacks Sony again, except no they didn’t”, so thank you Journalism. http://t.co/9Is0emu4
Final RT: “Patch Monday” podcast: “Porn industry innovates itself to death” with @Jeff_Sparrow http://t.co/uvUXiUiS
While I’m waiting for this audio to render (that’s another clue) I’ll re-pimp the things I had published earlier today, then talk to you.
Maybe slightly longer than that. I keep forgetting that my substitute computer is a bit slower than my usual one.
This will take me around another 30 or 40 minutes, I think.
If you watch this music video, you’ll gain yourself a small clue about what I might be doing right now. http://t.co/4YaRz2iN
Setting up the apparatus.
I am back at @bunjaree, doing things involving risotto, tokay and SEKRIT ACTIVITIES.
Sliver, just a tiny sliver instagr.am/p/OitDMqCFhC/
RT @mikko: Here’s a comparison chart of commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interfaces. So you don’t buy one that sucks. http://t.co …
samsonjbutler Political satire just isn’t truly cutting unless Are You Being Served? is involved. pic.twitter.com/FFrpjFNv
@eskimo_sparky Is your definition of social media being presented to an audience than can handle the phrase “self-obsessed cunts”?
FAT PEOPLE GETTING THINNER THANKS TO NEW TECHNOLOGY OH @TenNewsSydney YOU KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE!
BernardKeane MUST READ: Michael Pascoe not merely gives Larry Pickering both barrels, he then clubs him repeatedly with the shotgun is.gd/8pFGnR
The @TenNewsSydney reporter out there amongst the cows in her expensive white power jacket doesn’t look happy at all. Poor petal.
I have nothing against @TenNewsSydney in particular, it’s just what this particular front bar has provided for my edification today. Suffer.
Yay! @TenNewsSydney reports on the M9 plans, SW to foot of Blue Mountains to NW, live from… the Anzac Bridge. Relevance? 200m from Ten HQ.
So this JayJay’s TVC is encouraging the inappropriate groping of others as “fashion”? Ping @mumbrella [smirks]
Yes, @TenNewsSydney is reporting LIVE from where something happened in London yesterday. “Hunted by powerful and ruthless governments”!
Dear @TenNewsSydney, the consensus of this front bar is that there doesn’t seem to be much blood there at all what are you even on about.
OK, I think I’ll do this as a blog post. I’ll compile the suggestions I receive into a post later this evening, and we’ll roll from there.
Fact or fiction, @Dom_Innate, I think. Whatever you reckon will give him an understanding of this place.
A Singapore-resident Indian has just asked me to name the two best books for him to read about Australia. Your nominations are…?
@michaelmeloni Yeah but my railway station photos don’t have topless 15yo girls in them.
BRAYDON IS NOT A NAME, TEN NEWS, WHAT EVE… Oh. I’m on very shaky ground here, aren’t I?
Sometimes Twitter makes me very happy.
RT @michaelmeloni: Has anyone tried Mountain Dew Energized? Their energy drink [No. Because I’m not a 16yo bogan.]
“AMD hacked, staff logins leaked”, writes @darrenpauli as part of his continuing stream of happy news. http://t.co/fdArYG7S
RT @HarrisonPolites: MasterChef production moves to Melbourne Showgrounds… bit.ly/QRusV6 [Missile coordinates adjusted, Sir!]
Listening to a bloke’s story of being kidnapped by Basque guerillas. Buying him another drink.
N165Mars OW OW OW! STOP IT!
“Be the goat.”
RT @mikko: “Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers hacked a brain…”
Sorry, they did WHAT?
http:/ …
@MargaretGees That journalists and media critics continually want to turn every tweet in reportage actually shits me to tears. :)
@MargaretGees Twitter’s no more nor less a reporting medium that paper, TV, radio. All can also be used for fiction, satire, organising BBQ.
@MargaretGees “Twitter is essentially a reporting medium right”? Nope. It’s just a messaging platform. Global conversations made visible.
@MargaretGees Quote away! I’m speaking in public. This is all echoes of stuff I’ve probably said at some point anyway.
@MargaretGees And people have “x teacher at y” too, but not everything they tweet is expected to be a primary school class exercise.
@MargaretGees Just because someone works in the media (or anywhere!) they don’t lose the right to openly use new social tools in the life.
@MargaretGees Saying that you work at a news outlet is not the same as saying everything you tweet is capital-N news.
@MargaretGees I think it’s still easy. Is that Twitter stream part of the masthead’s journalistic output? Y/N What is the stated intent?
@MargaretGees I find the line very clear, actually. No-one owns me. If it’s a paid gig, I write by the boss’ rules. Otherwise, I’m me.
@Idealaw Arrange some days off for you? Sure. We’l hack your computer, add kiddie porn, call the police. Done.
This list “Journalists who took a tweet too far” assumes a journalist’s tweets must all be journalism. http://t.co/DMmxBwUU
@michaelneale @nitecoder Please copy me in on the answers. Data is the key. Sod talking to people or this quaint “SMS” thing.
“Like Laurie Oakes, Paul Kelly now only exists as an outlet for his self-importance”, writes @R_Chirgwin http://t.co/HYq06Kmy
RT @BernardKeane: Bob Ellis isn’t sexist… Best laugh I’ve had since Godwin Grech lectured us about public service accountability.
Thank you, Guy Rundle.
“Assange appeared, in clipped white hair, blue shirt, a maroon tie and a sheaf of papers … like he was about to process your home loan.”
RT @mukimu: There’s shiny confetti all over George st. Is there a Godzilla-sized ke$ha around? [Nah, just the Olympic team.]
If the Senate has any sense (shoosh!) consideration of Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill will be postponed until #NatSecInquiry reports.
Violence breaks out at The Grand View instagr.am/p/OiSdmECFlZ/
RT @BernardKeane Cybercrime bill is back on in the Senate tonight: Scott Ludlam on it here: is.gd/Rz2OVG
Further aquatic mysteries instagr.am/p/OiQhgWCFkF/
High Pressure instagr.am/p/OiP-c9iFjw/
We’re a long way from The Shire, nevertheless… instagr.am/p/OiPpF9CFjh/
JU something something 96 instagr.am/p/OiPWZdCFjS/
Dangerous, evil tree instagr.am/p/OiPBMyCFjC/
Mobile: Walk a dirt (but re-gravelled) track then Railway Pde to Wentworth Falls; lunch at The Grand View Hotel; remainder TBA, but guess.
AvengingUterus Legitimate Rape should not be confused with Asking For It Rape and Had It Coming Rape. Consult a misogynist for details.
I’d like to thank the US Republican Party for writing an entire podcast segment for me overnight.
RT @delimiterau: Turnbull rejects Kohler’s “pure fantasy” NBN analysis bit.ly/TOye5y [Rightly so, as MT’s policy is still fantasy.]
@youngnick Fortunately this mail loop has a built-in delay my end, so we’ve only got a couple hundred emails to clear.
The way gay men keep retweeting things about how gay men are cool is as bad as SEO experts and SMEGs. ;)
Uhoh. My support system’s email responder has just gotten into a loop with a supplier’s support system email responder. Bytes everywhere!
@jeamland How can I email you when the email I just tried to send someone hasn’t gone through yet? Do you even know how the internet works?
Mon plan: A gentle afternoon of research, writing and administrivia including late lunch at the pub, followed by something a bit SEKRIT.
20 August 2012: The day we opened fire on Mars. We are so screwed.
@iir_australia Your email address info@iir.com.au is broken. Redirects to non-existent infoiir@service.informa.com … just a heads-up.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Agoda, Kayak, Hotels.com, Expedia and (yeah) Airbnb. Will compare, will report back tomorrow.
@feed_the_chooks So Hotwire is ALSO the same database at Wotif/Lastminute? This is worse than washing powder!
Wotif / Lastminute.com.au seems to have a poor selection of San Francisco hotels. Can anyone suggest a suitable US bookings site?
Me at @CSO_Australia: “Anonymous hacks Sony again, except no they didn’t”, so thank you Journalism. http://t.co/9Is0emu4
RT: “Patch Monday” podcast: “Porn industry innovates itself to death” with @Jeff_Sparrow http://t.co/uvUXiUiS
purserj I wonder if @stilgherrian broke a record for the most mentions of the word porn in an introduction #patchmonday
It’s that spilt coffee, I reckon. The Spill of Synchronicity.
@tigerinatube We are good. We are done. You have my sincere thanks. Much appreciated. All shall be revealed this evening. Thank you.
So I woke 0230, worked 0300 to 0700, collapsed quivering, blearily tweeted a podcast link, collapsed again, and now it’s now. Hello, Monday.
Oh dear. I am feeling rather a bit dreadful. Maybe some caffeine will stop the shaking.
“Patch Monday” podcast: “Porn industry innovates itself to death” with @Jeff_Sparrow http://t.co/uvUXiUiS
“Patch Monday” podcast filed! I think I might go back to bed for a while now.
Heh. I’ve just found a free OS X and Windows audio plugin to remove the sound of the vuvuzela from live streams. vuvux.com
garyslapper A complaint against the advertising of Northampton bargain furniture store ‘Sofa King’ was unsuccessful. PRICES - ALWAYS SOFA KING LOW!
To complete this episode of the “Patch Monday” podcast on pornography, I’m giving my credit card number to a website in Sweden. True.
Since I’m up, I’m doing the final edits on the “Patch Monday” podcast. It’s a chat about pornography on the internet with @Jeff_Sparrow.
@michaelneale Alas, for most of this week I have to be operational in normal AEST business hours. This won’t be fun.
trustrachel Ahahaha. The rock @MarsCuriosity is about to lase now has a Twitter. And NASA engineers are chatting with it. pic.twitter.com/CwBQWK9R
This tweet is dedicated to all the hard-working journalists at @theheraldsun and everywhere that takes interns. http://t.co/eWayEh1I
So this is rather nice commentary on That Book With “50 Shades” In The Title… http://t.co/QB2pkABD
“God-given discounts”. http://t.co/4pD0euhw
Why yes, Brain, being wide awake at 0230 Monday morning was PRECISELY what I wanted. Sigh. Am I now in US PDT ready for Sunday?