I guess the kids are different now
I'm not very old at all, but I'm old enough to have caught the tail end of a era in playground equipment design. This period...
Tim O’Reilly on the iPad: my sentiments entirely (well mostly)
From the NYT where you'll find other excellent reviews: If you’re old enough to remember the original 128K Macintosh, underpowered, not expandable, and soon-to-be obsolete, you know...
For the budget – do something positive (about negative gearing)
From today's Crikey: Kevin, will that be two terms, or four? The government has got its eye in, and been blooded through the odd embarrassment....
Bureaucracies temporarily reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
An interesting post by Clay Shirky on the collapse of complex business models. This points to an issue which jumps out at me when I...
The third way in the UK Part Two: this time from the left
My last post on the UK and the third way began with this sentence. What do you do if you’re a ‘third wayer’ and things...
Time for more theology?
Evelyn De Morgan, The Worship of Mammon (1909) An embarrassingly bad story on PM about economics versus Christianity spoiled my drive home on Good Friday....
A land of sunburnt proles
What will Der Spiegel's German readers make of Kevin Rudd's dispute with comedian Robin Williams? In an interview with David Letterman Williams jokingly said that...