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It may be expensive, but here is why we need an NBN:

1. “Big Australia” is going to happen whether we like it or not.
The concept of “Big Australia” was floated for a while by both parties (more so by Labor) but was quickly dropped when it didn’t poll well.
Even if we halt illegal immigration (which by the way, I don’t know why “stop the boats” is [...]

Why Seinfeld is incompatible with iPhones

That’s it! I’ve had it up to here people! Mobile phones have ruined Seinfeld!
None of the complications, misunderstandings or disasters that ensued during the show’s nine year run would even have happened if the show was filmed today.
Seinfeld was the funniest show of the 80s and 90s, but if it ran today for the first [...]

Look At All That Choice

‘There you are,’ I screamed dementedly at him, virtually rubbing his face in the heap of white plastic, ‘now you’ve got choice. Look at all that choice. They may all be shit, but look at the choice!’ - Stephen Fry, The BBC and the Future of Broadcasting
2009 is the beginning of the golden age of Australia [...]

Death to Emoticons!

Do you know what annoys me?
People who put music on their website.
It makes me want to hunt the company down and inflict grievous bodily harm upon the person who thought it would be “cool” to violate my eardrums with music that is not of my choosing.
Dear web developer,
You are not “hip”. Aside from your shitty [...]

Ode to my iPhone: A Love Story

Welcome back dear readers,
After a long, cold winter – I am finally back in the land of the living.
Yes, the rumors are true. After many long, arduous months of “negotiating” with insurance companies – they have finally replaced my iPhone.
It all started, one fateful night in New York, where my fellow journalist friend Sean and [...]

Telstra Next G??

In an effort to write about something positive for a change, (hi Mum), today I’m going to talk to you about why I’m happy about Rudd’s wholesale screwing over of Telstra.
The federal government is funding a brand new, high-speed, fibre-to-the-home broadband network to be laid out across Australia.
Reforming its original plan to find a private [...]

DCA Cancer Cure?

Leave it to pharmaceutical companies to prioritise profit over curing the second leading cause of death in America and third leading cause of death in Australia alone.
Dr. Evangelos Michelaksis discovered that Dichloroacetic Acid (or DCA) – an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule which was once used to cure rare inherited metabolic diseases, could [...]

Rabbit Proof Farce/Firewall: Krudd diverts child protection funds to net censorship

A few months ago, in relation to the internet censorship issue, I suggested that if the government were really interested in child protection they would reform DOCS and other child protection agencies in Australia to actually make them capable of protecting children.
As Krudd dis-empowers child protection agencies nationwide, diverting their much needed funds to internet [...]

YouTube Irony: Jewish group demands YouTube reinstate Gaza videos and remove Nazi propaganda

The same Jewish group that is lobbying YouTube to remove videos that glorify Nazi Germany, is also demanding that it reverse its decision to remove videos showing hundreds of innocent civilians being killed in the Gaza Strip. I’m sure I don’t need to point out the massive irony that exists here.
Of course any person that [...]

The Simsons are people too.

On the 8th of December 2008, the Australian legal system granted human rights to cartoon characters. On the 8th of December, a NSW Supreme Court ruled that an internet cartoon in which lookalike Simpsons child characters engage in sexual acts, is child pornography.
In a landmark finding, Justice Michael Adams upheld a decision convicting Alan [...]