Open Source Management
The lobby at Google headquarters - where "open source management" (whatever that is) no doubt takes place Here's an interesting article on Google...
Dusty: death of oz musical theatre?
Tamsin Carroll belts one out in Dusty: The Musical Troy Dodds at AussieTheatre.com has an engaging rant about the "jukebox musical"...
The art of conversation
Are birds better conversationalists than humans? Why the cover illustration? Some Troppodilians may be interested in this New York Review of Books review of a...
Alternative freedom
Courtesy of Slashdot, there's a new documentary on open source and free culture featuring various leading lights - most particularly Laurence Lessig and Richard Stallman....
Ask a silly question: get a collection of desire
Yesterday I asked people to tell me what a list of books have in common. They include Enid Blighton's The Magic Faraway Tree and Milan...
Beauty and the Beast (2)
Jacqui Stockdale, The Nature Maker. Courtesy Art Gallery of NSW. The Art Life has a long-ish post reviewing the Wynn, Sulman and Photographic Portrait Prizes...
Rattling skeletons in the family closet
The Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele in 1917 One of the advantages of blogging for almost 4 years (as I have done for...