Club Troppo

Gummo is sick, Amanda doesn't have computer access at the moment, Jen is under the hammer to finish assignments for her Masters, and I'm not sure where Stephen Hill and Tim Sterne are (flat out looking for a job in Tim's case, I suspect). Gilmae is going on a holiday soon and...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Nationals bitch slap ALP and LP in Gippsland . Ralph Buttigieg finds good news for Bren...

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Who knows if this speculation is true, but it gives me a thrill the way the human mind can deduce things so far from its immediate knowledge by a process of inference and deduction. Just like we can know things about the universe and about what goes on inside atoms from the ti...

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Many years ago, Robert M. Pirsig's hippy cult novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of my favourites. A few weeks ago I discovered he'd written a sequel in 1991 called Lila: An Inquiry into Morals . I've been reading it as a break from seemingly interminable...

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While some members of the Missing Link team have subscribed their selections and others have done so partially, others (where are you arts people?) haven't done so at all. They're no doubt as flat out as I am with work commitments. In my case it's finishing exam and essay mark...

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Barry Jones is a human search engine. Crawling over thousands of pages of words and numbers, he commits the data to memory and indexes it for regurgitation on demand. "When Mozart's name is mentioned", he says "a detailed entry appears in the screen in my head, Mozart, Wolfgan...

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OK Geeks, I have a question for you. Tell me where my reasoning is wrong. Linux is in many respects a superior operating system to Windows, and seems to work perfectly well for people who know what they're doing as a desktop operating system. The runaway success of products li...

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About a year ago Joshua Gans showed me some draft chapters for a book on parenting at which he'd been working away. To use an expression from the AFL, Joshua has a high 'work rate' and he writes blog posts in the morning over breakfast - and perhaps at some other times. Anyway...

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Peter Martin highlights an excellent column by Barry Hughes , but the part of the column I'd stress is not the idea that the RBA shouldn't be slowing the economy (and as a result increasing unemployment). As Hughes says, this is appropriate to prevent the current increase in p...

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I think I may have spoken too soon in my praise of Optus Wireless Broadband in this recent post - well the absence of a link brings me to my point - broadband shmoardband. My 'broadband' was too slow to allow me to put in a link. I just did a speed test on it and it's about 10...

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The Herald's transport correspondent Linton Besser reinforces standard confused thinking about motorway tolls in yesterday's edition. He reports that the NSW Government's 'Cashback' scheme, whereby private motorists can claim reimbursement for the tolls they pay on the M4 and...

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Thursday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Andrew Norton bids farewell to the Australian De...

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Last week the mainstream media devoted tens of thousands of words to "analysing" the effects of the Brough/Howard NT Indigenous Intervention. Today the NT Department of Justice published its March quarter 2008 crime statistics (also see my previous post on NT crime figures ove...

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As a long time fan of Hegel, I remember thinking as I skimmed a book on him in a bookshop that Peter Singer would make an awful mess of him - as people like Bertrand Russell did from a similar tradition a couple of generations back. But though there were various bits of Singer...

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There's a dark side to the internet, says David Burchell , an eerie parallel universe that spreads across the web "like green moss on a neglected lawn." And here you are, right in the middle of it. The parallel universe Burchell is writing about is "the world of the political...

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Wednesday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian A Committee in the Coalition-dominated Senate g...

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Tuesday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Daily life in Afghanistan Gary Sauer-Thompson , L...

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Check out this Blogging Heads . Its interesting to watch people you read as it adds a whole new dimension. Anyway, check out Tyler Cowen. Some politicians have the skill of speaking in perfect paragraphs. John Howard, Margaret Thatcher and Gough Whitlam spoke in perfect paragr...

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Based on the idea that a bleg is a blogged bit of begging, here is a blogged offer - a bloffer. I've just escaped from my Telstra wireless broadband subscription after two expensive years. If anyone wants my modem, just let me know and come round and pick it up. You have to pl...

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Monday's Missing Link is over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Ralph Buttigieg, believing Brendan Nelson's day...

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