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TSA – Help you make it to your flight
It’s amazing what can enter popular culture. And how quickly. Now, because of a widely-perceived image as voyeurs (at the very least) and molesters, staff of the US Transport Safety Authority TSA are copping quite a bit of flack. Their heavy-handedness (pun) with ‘pat down’ searches of all sorts of citizens — kids, paraplegics, nuns, […]
Pike River mine disaster
My heartfelt condolences to the families slammed by this gut-wrenching event. Hopes dashed by the second explosion. Awful. And now grief, a companion for life. – Peter
Attention to details
Following up on some people’s sensitivity to Facebook comments, I understand singer Gin Wigmore is very particular about her image — and fair enough, too. That’s an important thing to keep under control. Michelle Hewitson, interviewing her for the NZ Herald, said: [Gin Wigmore] won’t be photographed without hair and make-up, her record company said, […]
Facebook’s tentacles now part of divorce settlements!
Don’t let anybody tell you Facebook doesn’t matter. It seems for a certain type of person, what’s said about them on Facebook really matters. So much so that clauses relating to Facebook are, by the look of things, finding their way into matrimonial settlement agreements, along with who gets the house, the car, the credit […]
Nicely put — Australian Values Statement
I stumbled across this Australian Values Statement and quite like what it’s saying. It seems fair enough to make this an ‘initial communication’ for people considering emigrating to Australia. It seems to me in part a fleshed-out version of the cry of the French Revolution (Liberty, equality, fraternity). I wonder what the background is, how […]
Pix from space
This is one of a series of amazing photos from the International Space Station. Awesome! A while ago I blogged about living with a mountain in your backyard and the effect on one’s psyche to live in proximity of a peak. This amazing picture shows a different influence. – P
Is this how Shaun Stenning handles a request for a refund?
A heartfelt comment recently on an earlier thread suggests a mass rebellion of dissatisfied customers in Shaun Stenning‘s Twalk ‘internet marketing business’ in Asia. (Sometimes they use the brand ‘Snipr‘, I believe.) Shades of the Geekversity train wreck which saw demand for refunds sink that um, ‘enterprise’ with a AUD $5.5million loss. This smooth-talking itinerant […]
Facebook for Business? Erm, not like this!
Apropos my ongoing gripe about Facebook privacy… A friend of mine, Marc, mentioned here now and then, has written a book called ‘Facebook for Business‘ … this story (below) might inspire another chapter in the next edition. What NOT to do…. as Click Orlando Radio reports: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida woman claims a […]
Mow-tee-vay-shuns – ‘It gets a ratings spike’
In, once again (remember the full page ad?), dismissing talk of her jumping the fence and running for office, journalist, Rhodes Scholar and doctorate in politics from Oxford, my hero Rachel Maddow gave an insight into what she called ‘opinion-driven news’, and the motivation of, let’s call it ‘erratic’ behaviour. (Think talkback radio hosts, and […]
George W Bush: plagiarist?
Oh dear me. I thought he was shallow, but a lazy plagiarist as well? George Bush Book ‘Decision Points’ Lifted From Advisers’ Books – Huffington Post. One funny example: From Decision Points, p. 143: “Later that day, Laura and I went to the Washington Hospital Center to visit victims from the Pentagon…I asked one if […]
Ooh, err…
Bleurgh! I can just hear someone saying, ‘Gosh Darnnit. Kids have to grow up so fast these days, don’t they?’
Political pressure
On the giving end… Tom Scott nails it on the relationship between the Reserve Bank Governor and the Government of the Day. On the receiving end … pressure is mounting on Mr Popularity to pay the price of his coalition … … or not. Has John Key got sufficient political capital? Or has he been […]
