Comments on: Missing Link Daily

By: NPOV

NPOV — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:23:18 +0000

I have to say – the rate at which GetUp pulls in these donations is mighty impressive – I think it’s gone up by about $20,000 since I first looked at it earlier today.

By: NPOV

NPOV — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:57:18 +0000

Well yeah…I think they could have squeezed in a mention of better bicycle paths, carpooling and advice on how to drive more efficiently (*), but I’d still love to see it go to air.

(*) I dunno how accurate the fuel usage meter on cars generally are, but I reckon on an average trip I can reduce fuel usage by at least 20% by paying better attention to my speed, the flow of traffic, and even upslopes and downslopes. Unfortunately the single biggest saving seems to come from accelerating hard near the bottom of a hill to minimise the need for acceleration up the next slope – which usually involves exceeding the speed limit considerably!

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:41:26 +0000

But I suppose I shouldn’t expect a learned essay in 30 seconds

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:36:19 +0000

Cheeky, but a bit simplistic.

By: NPOV

NPOV — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:56:03 +0000

Speaking of FuelWatch, has anybody else seen this?

https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/FuelWatch?id=357&dc=430,292818,1

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:04:03 +0000

Is it so hard?

A SPECTER is haunting ~~Eastern Europe~~the Muslim World: the specter of what in the West is called "dissent". This specter has not appeared out of thin air. It is a natural and inevitable consequence of the present historical phase of the system it is haunting. It was born at a time when this system, for a thousand reasons, can no longer base itself on the unadulterated, brutal, and arbitrary application of power, eliminating all expressions of nonconformity.

The essay may be written about totalitarian Eastern Europe but frankly I could rewrite it about totalitarian islamist regimes with ease, it is not so specific in its message.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:03:24 +0000

Bawer’s piece about Vaclav Havel is indeed a very good outline of Havel’s amazing courage and achievements, but it is also rather cartoonish in its desparate efforts to equate the story of Havel’s resistence to totalitarian communism in his own country with lots of cheap shots at those in the West who are allegedly appeasing Islamofacist/jihadists – lots of bogeyman Muslim bagging thrown around without any effort to define what on earth he’s talking about (unless he thinks labelling something Muslim is sufficient to draw an analogy with Communism, which is (a) ludicrous, and (b) not something which would be likely to be consistent with what Havel’s views.

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:11:36 +0000

I’ve barely noticed Spin Starts Here until now. I knew they were some sort of pop culture blog and I do recall they once said something snarky about Catallaxy but I thought ‘who cares what they think?’ and ignored it. Who knew they were that big an item?

By: rog

rog — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:30:50 +0000

Munns definition of "parallel universe" might need some tweaking; with over 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media you need more than half a dozen posts to prove a point, any point You can find anything to prove anything on the parallel universe of the internet.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:13:56 +0000

I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t get any discussion going with my post on gendered games. I thought the subject was interesting. Perhaps I should have arranged to get monstered for being sexist.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:30:38 +0000

Is that a theme or are you just pleased to see me?

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:59:24 +0000

“although Clive and Hetty certainly have the adolescent predeliction for the simplistic high moral ground and energetically enforcing it on others.”

I see the theme emerging……

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:06:48 +0000

Honnor said:

They should do it in the nude and get Bill Henson to photograph it.

None of that bunch would seem to have the neccessary physical bloom or adolescent indecision although Clive and Hetty certainly have the adolescent predeliction for the simplistic high moral ground and energetically enforcing it on others.

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:10:41 +0000

“Finally, for those for whom too much Henson is just barely enough, Andrew Frost announces that theres a Henson symposium(!!!) next Thursday for you lucky Sydneysiders featuring luminaries like Margaret Pomeranz, David Marr, Julian Burnside, Hetty Johnson and Clive Hamilton.”

They should do it in the nude and get Bill Henson to photograph it.

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:45:47 +0000

Helen’s “Glass Floor” post is spectacular, and wretched.

Thanks for top-billing the femmocarnival.