Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

Rolling Stone interviews Sacha Baron Cohen Nov 2006

From Dan Krause over at Box Office Weekly: There’s this guy, Sacha Baron Cohen, who is connected to Borat in some way… I think he’s his agent. Anyway,…

Are San Pellegrino kidding me? Nov 2006

I’m back on the diet wagon again. I’ve been off of it now since August and I’ve put on a couple of kilos from where I was when…

GDAY WORLD #167 – wHooiz Cast 001 Nov 2006

About a month ago, Clarke Scott and I launched wHooiz in STEALTH mode. We were so successful at keeping it in stealth mode that most of you haven’t…

Converting to Netvibes Nov 2006

Thanks to a feed error that Caitlin is getting from the G’Day World feed, I was prompted this morning to check out Netvibes and I was immediately hooked.…

GDAY WORLD #166 – Low Fat Cooking for Dummies (yes, that means you) Nov 2006

Lynn Fischer now has over 1,000,000 healthy cookbooks in print, and her “Low Fat Cooking for Dummies” has been an amazing best seller for the past four years.…

Synching iPod games between machines Nov 2006

While I was in the US, I bought the Texas Hold Em game for my iPod from iTunes. Quick review – it rocks! Very nicely put together and…

Buy Nothing Day – November 24 Nov 2006

For those of you in Melbourne town, I’ll be taking my video camera down to the Bourke Street Mall on Nov 24 to cover “Buy Nothing Day“. Why…

Britney’s sex tape teaser now online Nov 2006

As part of my new job as part-time entertainment gossip mongerer for the showBUZZ podcast, I’ve had to learn how to find stuff like this – the recently…

Yul Brynner’s Anti-Smoking Commercial Nov 2006

Kalle Lasn talks about using TV commercials to disrupt the propaganda of corporations who are propagating dangerous memes. This famous TV commercial featuring Yul Brynner helped change the…

Last night in SF – Arrington’s Crib Nov 2006

Last night was my final night in SF and what a night it was. The Aussies, including myself, the Atlassian boys, the Touchstone boys and the Tangler boys…