Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
So much for being “The Land Of The Free”: Human Rights Watch has just posted up the latest stats which show the USA incarcerates nearly 7 times the…
I had the pleasure once again today to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist, one of our most popular public speakers and, of course, author…
From the “Just-Cuz-We-Say-We’re-Going-To-Do-Something-Doesn’t-Mean-We-Will” department: The Center for Science in the Public Interest points out that ExxonMobil has just announced “for the second consecutive year” that it is cutting…
On Twitter this afternoon I made a crack about how the two-party system we have in Australia is, I believe, fundamentally broken. Someone asked me how I would…
Here’s something I learned this morning – how to quickly set up a Gmail filter to delete multiple annoying messages. This may not be news to most of…
Renai LeMay did a story on Aussie start-ups in today’s AFR. But, of course, I can’t link to it online, because the zombies running the Fin still have…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8x14cLGh5o&w=425&h=355] Thanks to thomasrdotorg for the link! He suggested that if I had a daughter, this is what she’d be like.
Want to win a block-mounted Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull one-sheet signed by Shia LaBeouf And Steven Spielberg? TPN has one to give away…
More evidence that it doesn’t matter which one of the major parties is in power, the same game is played: The narrow terms of reference were drafted to…
You won’t hear this talked about on TV: The hoax of Peak Oil – namely the argument that the oil production has hit the point where more than…