Australian Art : In the suburbs, and below them
I don't want to overstate the case here - there are many, many more spectacular sights in nature than the tide-turn at Styx Creek -...
So who the bloody hell are we? (Would it get your attention if I told you this post was sort of about Lindsay Tanner?)
It was around four in morning when I pulled the car over to the side of the road and switched off the engine. I was...
On macro, the Financial Crisis, Global Warming, and Plato
Jan Libich from Latrobe University is running a televised series on economics. He gets people into his TV studio to talk about some aspect of...
A title that ought to be cleverer than it is
This an opinion piece, my effort to entertain or provoke you while I make an important point. In this paragraph I should start making an...
Innovation, connectors and interfaces between parts of an emergent system
You're looking at two Segues ® converted by Marathon Targets in Sydney into a moving target for the training of our military. The input segues cost...
What do the moon landing and the Dubai Tower have in common?
They are both amazing feats of human engineering? They both cost billions with little tangible benefit? They were both launched in a desert? Both mainly...
Lord Wellington on bureaucracy
Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with...