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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Another Barnaby observation

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Is he still Deputy Leader?   What a glutton for punishment. I would guess that tweets about him are running at  98% calling for resignatio...
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More PR - but does it ever sell anything?

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Boston Dynamics has been making creepy animal-motion robots for a long time, and they are fun to watch, but have they ever actually commerci...

The questionable science of paleoanthropology

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For whatever reason, I've never had much interest in which group of humans or proto-humans went where in pre-history.   But it sure soun...

More Barnaby

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A few comments on the walking dead red: *  I don't think he realises that the continual appeal to "private matters" that ha...
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You think propaganda is bad now...

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A pretty interesting article at Buzzfeed News about some tech dude who reckons that things might be bad regarding "fake news" pro...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Time to go, Barnaby

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Surely it's only the wafer thin majority of the Turnbull government that it making them want to try to tough it out with Barnaby.   (Tha...
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Local UFOs

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The Brisbane Times has an article about UFO research organisations in Queensland , inspired by this State Library blog post. The articles ...
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Only worth defending if white

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Have a look at this Axios post noting Trump's history of giving "the benefit of the doubt" (or more) for guys accused of sexu...

Just another potential supereruption to worry about

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I guess it's better than Mt Fuji erupting, at least for Tokyo, (I'm just guessing, really), but still: Some 7,300 years ago, a s...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Byrne does Bowie

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David Byrne recently did a cover of Bowie's Heroes with the Choir Choir Choir people.  I think his distinctive voice does very well with...

Yet more unwanted movie reviews

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*   Rushmore:   even though I have been underwhelmed by Wes Anderson's last couple of movies, I thought I would see what his shtick was ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

The propaganda problem described clearly, but no solution identified

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You really should read Ezra Klein's terrific column at Vox:  Donald Trump, Fox News and the Logic of Alternative Facts. It's a cle...
Friday, February 09, 2018

The sound of heads pointlessly hitting brick walls, again

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Sinclair Davidson sure knows how to run a stupid argument. Today it's to suggest that the ABC must be failing its purpose (or not be g...
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Every Clint Eastwood film in ten words

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"...and then righteous testosterone did what had to be done." [A post inspired by the rather bad reviews of his latest movie , ...
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Back to Barnaby

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It was an interesting discussion on Radio National Breakfast this morning about the matter of the public's right to know about Barnaby J...
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Just an opinion

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I can't stand Senator Jim Molan - his whole manner grates, and he strikes me a prime example of how the Army office corps allows pompou...
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Brave advertising

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I'm sure many must be amused to see this advertisement appearing on Twitter recently: So, some advertising exec, and the fund itsel...

Nice research from QUT

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QUT researchers have identified a drug that could potentially help our brains reboot and reverse the damaging impacts of heavy alcohol co...
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Liberated German kids

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Well, while I knew that Japan raises kids to travel around the city alone and not be afraid, I didn't know that Germany had a view to ch...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Qualms rapidly overcome

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Gee, it was only a couple of years ago, when the HIV prophylactic drug Truvada was first becoming available, that there were articles talkin...
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