Music, film, gaming, politics, and Shanghai
One of the best things about coming to China is the extent to which I’ve been able to keep up with Australian politics, as well as the international issues that interest me. I was expecting it to be much more difficult – the firewall, my (mis)conceptions about the reliability of internet connections in Shanghai, as [...]
I call the process Moncktification, and it can be applied to any picture that is wanting of eye-googliness. So, Lord Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is visiting Australia to give talks on climate change, and also presumably to have his desiccated penis massaged by his staunchest allies in Australia. Alan Jones – who, in [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Forget Andrew Bolt – graphs on climate change are so 2009. Tony Abbott’s recent attempt to soften his public image with lewd and nigh-incestuous photographs has triggered a flurry of research into the alarming trend of skyrocketing silliness on the conservative side of politics. The findings of this [...]
The appointment of Barnaby Joyce to the Shadow Finance portfolio may well be Tony Abbott’s biggest mistake for the coming election year. Regardless of how many times the guy reminds us all that he’s an accountant, Joyce has the heart of a market interventionist. He has proven, time and again, that his loyalties lie only [...]
Uh… Some kind of a pun there. On Miller Puckette, whose achievements warrant more than the measly Wikipedia entry about him. Perhaps it is appropriate, for its humility mirrors that of the man himself, who named the Max programming environment after yet another amazing pioneer of computer music, Max Mathews. Max for Live came out [...]