*blinks*
@Colvinius Mr Herring’s podcasts are queued up for me. Looking forward to them.
@jclacherty @dannolan I’ll just leave this here. ustream.tv/recorded/20966…
Why? Do you have large breasts?
Mind you, if you want to listen to the very best thing I have listened to this year, this is it. soundcloud.com/britishcomedyg…
Imagine if @dannolan and I co-hosted a late night talkback radio program.
@BennettArron It is nice, isn’t it. I think we should all live by this motto.
Do not underestimate the possibilities of the pineapple.
@adamgdunn Some things are, at their core, inexplicable. One must learn to let go.
You know, listening back to it, I think episode 15 of “The 9pm Edict” was one of the best. stilgherrian.com/edict/00015/
@BennettArron I’ll just leave this here. youtube.com/watch?v=LvZL8O…
I know about this domination. Hence I am opening the Amenity right now.
Yeah and in WWII we bullied the Nazis too. How bad of us.
Oh no @ataraxite even worse than soulmates.guardian.co.uk is theatlasphere.com/dating surely?
Ar you guys talking about christianmingle.com …?
Yeah I know, my cult is pretty shit. Could. Do. Better.
RT @jplonie: @GeordieGuy we have been reduced to play things for @stilgherrian amusement. [That happened years ago, possums. Wake up.]
@jplonie @GeordieGuy All true comedy involves the eating of an animal. Der.
I love how Ms Rinehart’s idea of an “advanced economy” is digging rocks out of the ground. More Neolithic, I’d have thought.
RT @chrisberg: where is the common cold on the smoking-gay health index?
RT @rod3000: Twitter: Lord of the Flies for grown ups.
OrkneyLibrary To celebrate the return of #Dallas today you can only enter the library if you are a drunk, a tramp or an unfit mother pic.twitter.com/mrFwdcAC
@BundyB Well WTF is wrong with you? I’ve been out of the country for more than a week?
RT @BundyB: Should we be upping the insurance? [Probably wise, yes.]
Suddenly inspired.
@RantRotAndRuin @NewtonMark “Hallucinating Goldfish Syndrome”? That rings a bell…
@dannolan So there’s this at the Palmer Coolum Resort. flickr.com/photos/stilghe…
dannolan Lets compare mining billionaires, Gina hacks shit on poor people, PALMER TRIES TO MAKE FUCKING DINOSAURS. I know which one I support.
lukehopewell I’m starting a Kickstarter to fund a project to fire Jim Wallace into the Sun.
RT @izevaka: My timeline funny coincidences, part two. /cc @stilgherrian @mike_acton pic.twitter.com/MfTKFREz [Works for me!]
RT @samquigley: Chicken omelettes are not about hunger, they are about power. Because fuck you, chickens, that’s why.
@RealNickHodge @mpesce @jplonie Also, do not correlate the unexpected Maralinga fallout drift over Adelaide with when we were conceived.
Andrew_Zammit Yesterday’s speech by ASIO head David Irvine - Australia’s Current Security and Intelligence Operating Environment: asio.gov.au/Publications/P…
Two of my favourite words: Two-for-One Happy Hour.
@jplonie @mpesce @RealNickHodge You can make computers out of cane toads? WHY WAS I NOT TOLD THIS?
RT @GreenJ: trolling. yfrog.com/obfdnctj
OH: “The problem is the median wage isn’t enough to retire on now.” Orly? Most people can live AND SUPPORT THEIR KIDS on that!
@mpesce @RealNickHodge And Mr Pesce has been using computers for such a very, very long time…
RatbagsDotCom Polite request to Australian media outlets - please pick just one day next week and publish nothing except fawning iPhone hysteria. Thx.
@paulwallbank Hang on. Is this the Festival of Dangerous Ideas? I’m in that, so obviously it’s good. Germaine Greer is my warm-up act.
RT @paulwallbank: Sydney has an ideas festival on? Kewl, Sydney’s as deep as today’s edition of MX so we should be finished by five.
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme / I’m on the hunt I’m after you / Mouth is alive with juices like wine / And I’m hungry like the wolf
In touch with the ground / I’m on the hunt I’m after you / Smell like I sound I’m lost in a crowd / And I’m hungry like the wolf.
Woman you want me give me a sign / And catch my breathing even closer behind / Do do do do do do do do-do do-do-do do-do.
Dark in the city night is a wire / Steam in the subway earth is afire / Do do do do do do do do-do do-do-do do-do.
RT @Hippopeteamus: ‘cosmo’ would be even better [This is possibly true, and I thank you.]
@zennith That’s precisely why I think it’s misdirecting efforts into focusing on internet and “social” tools instead of social support.
RT @iain_chalmers: But nobody does electro-bullying anymore, these days it’s all dubstep-bullying.
@vealmince European practice, Sir. Reverse use of “.” and “,” in numbers.
I think I’ll start using “electro-” rather than “cyber-” to highlight how stupid it is. #accan12
Can we please stop calling it “cyberbullying”, folks? It’s “just” bullying, whether done by Facebook or notes in the sports locker. #accan12
Things to avoid doing with your container ship #64: gcaptain.com/hansa-berlin-g…
No, Pumphouse, if you have no ATM and I must walk elsewhere, I won’t walk back. I’ll have a beer there.
I’ve decided not to do the #ACCAN12 dinner after all tonight. Not in the mood for a large group.
Apropos of nothing in particular.
There’s a kind of inverse proximity law with #RI sometimes. The closer you look the less #RI is actually there.
@ssharwood @R_Chirgwin Gawd.
This way! instagr.am/p/PLkwRrCFja/
@ssharwood @R_Chirgwin Oh I’m not arsing around with source while walking.
@ssharwood The “a a”?
Secrets of a Good Thai Lunch #1: Everything is more Very Thai if you put a fried egg on top.
Has anyone coined the word “Ginaverse” yet?
People who post stumbleupon links. #IceMoonPrison
@ssharwood Then you’re too subtle for me. That said, I’m jet lagged to buggery. And vice versa.
@ssharwood Is it the reference to Gosling being on Google’s list?
RT @ssharwood: I’ve been too subtle. [I find this very hard to believe.]
Darling Quarter free Wi-Fi is a good idea. Except 512kb/s max speed is shite. I’ll use my own thanks.
Right. This can only be fixed with Thai food. Mobile.
“National security hysteria, the fastest-growing crime in Aust”, writes @BernardKeane crikey.com.au/2012/09/05/nat… #NatSec
@einspruch @snerdish @jeamland @deconstructo STOP IT ALL OF YOU STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT.
Dear PR People, any media release beginning “Unlock the power of…” will now be deleted without being read. First and final warning.
RT @R_Chirgwin: Blog post: personalising the #Natsec debate to Nicola Roxon is a strategic error. bit.ly/R5LtAa [So’s hacking shit.]
paulmckeon Stop Press: Minor Story From Euro Tabloid Makes Front Page News on SMH Web. No apparent Australian or iPhone connection smh.com.au/travel/travel-…
You want to sext the AFP? Hang on, I’ve got a few numbers for you… Stand by.
@iain_chalmers I was in San Francisco YESTERDAY, Iain. Do try to keep up with the times. Sydney now. Gold Coast next week.
Wed plan, updated: Minor client webby work; planning; drop over to #accan12 at UTS and touch their base before the dinner.
New blog post: “Talking internet bullying (again) on Balls Radio, FM 99.3”, with last night’s audio. stilgherrian.com/conversations/…
Call me old-fashioned, but I reckon that when it comes to handing power to people with guns then critical thinking is paramount.
I hope I haven’t mangled @leslienassar’s argument, but there’s a severe lack of critical thinking from the government side in this one.
MT @leslienassar: Talk about solving crimes with data retention… should we also discuss crimes that are only possible with data retention?
RT @leslienassar: Did she cite any UNsolved crimes that would have been solved with increased data retention? Not so much.
RT @leslienassar: Roxon cited a solved, 20 year old murder case as the reason for increasing data retention. She’s no Denny Crane.
@michaelmeloni I think that’s most unfair on @DBCDEgov, given that a department can only do what the law and budget constraints permit.
So Keith Besgrove of @DBCDEgov will presumably be sacked for ageist remarks and not understanding societal comms trends, right? #accan12
zennith Keith Besgrove of @DBCDEgov says the younger generation is “tragic” cos we never turn our mobile phones off & we sleep with them #accan12
@juhasaarinen @wolfcat @deconstructo I’m SO tempted to try this at thing at a nearby car park…
RT @wolfcat: Scooter on fire at Flinders St Station flickr.com/photos/wolfcat… flickr.com/photos/wolfcat… and flickr.com/photos/wolfcat… [Bloody hipsters.]
@Gwyntaglaw @foomeister Hah. No, US TSA did not leave any complimentary mints. Or even offer a cigarette afterwards.
@6564828 And @AppDotNet could be “worse”, since it’s got a way of adding attributes to messages to assist automation. IT IS THE END TIME.
@6564828 Gawd, you’re following people ever worse than me? Poor thing!
@6564828 So, my tweet immediately before that one says…? Or should I send you a scroll bar?
@snare This was an el cheapo 50-cent padlock. I reckon even I could pick it. When drunk.
Thank you, US TSA, for putting my clothes etc back exactly as I’d packed them. And for not stealing my bottle of Californian merlot.
Hah! Just found a note INSIDE my suitcase from US TSA saying it was inspected. They picked the lock (easy) but thoughtfully re-locked it.
@ozdj @igbtys Maybe a few more employees need to say “No, I won’t, I don’t want to look like an idiot.” Employees aren’t slaves.
“How I audit SCADA systems” securityreactions.tumblr.com/post/308661006… HT @0x1C
@SnarkyPlatypus Didn’t we have some Object of Explication that we could deploy?
I wonder how many people at ACMA actually think that anyone will be converted to saying “The A-C-M-A” apart from themselves. #accan12
So the audio on the webcast from #accan12 is distorting massively. Levels are WAY too hot, folks.
“The ACMA is active from outer space to the depths of the sea.” Oh hands off it, people! Watch it live at aceinfo.net.au/ACCAN/ #accan12
The Fall of Civilisation instagr.am/p/PK_ri-CFpt/
Mondrian meets the Chaff Bag instagr.am/p/PK_iOECFpl/
Spinning out, man instagr.am/p/PK-xkDiFo9/
Pumped instagr.am/p/PK-oXSiFo1/
Major Problem instagr.am/p/PK-LyBiFoj/
Why keep explaining tweets are not endorsements? We don’t imagine “I watched Australian Idol” means “I agree with Kyle Sandilands”.
Dear Tech Media, “reporting” your industry does not mean being its cheer squad.
My room isn’t quite ready. Loose in Darling Harbour.
It appears that Android Automangle has drastically improved my plan.
Wed plan: Check in and freshmen up; tackle comms and planning backlog; brunch (where?); write stuff for tomorrow; ACCAN conference dinner.
@SnarkyPlatypus I have worked through the paratranslation and I believe that my response is, once again, “Yes.”
@semiboganman @peterkruse Thanks, I’ll be checking this out as soon as I’ve had a long hot shower. I smell of Qantas right now.
Sheep instagr.am/p/PK1hZ5CFig/
Shuttle instagr.am/p/PK1fjZiFie/
Boarding instagr.am/p/PK1cr2CFiZ/
Waiting for a train. I’ll clear the unsent Instagrams.
Clear.
Approaching the checkpoints.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’adore moI. Et vous?
Touchdown Sydney.