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Monthly Archives: May 2007

sydney film festival

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

a mouthwatering line up at the sydney film festival next month – unfortunately (or fortunately!) i am (only) going to be there for the last weekend. is the glass half empty or half full? well, i am going to miss a swag of goodies including david lynch’s inland empire which i also missed in new [...]

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the stoker

Saturday, May 26, 2007

once the furnaces were kindled, the main fuel relied on was human fat so an effective burn depended on intelligent selection as well as artful stacking.
inga clendinnen – reading the holocaust 83

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warning : geek shamelessly reminiscing ahead

Monday, May 21, 2007

apple is 30 and macworld is running a feature on the 30 best mac products ever. i was relieved to find that my old friends hypercard, the powerbook 100 series and system 7 (just) made it on to the list. although the mac plus missed out. (come on guys a mac with a scsi port [...]

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88 million reasons not to be an artist

Thursday, May 17, 2007

quite frankly gentle reader i don’t give a rat’s arse how much any painting sells for and $88 million is no more or less ridiculous than the sad little $15 price tag on a painting by the local artist in the gallery where i work – it is the comments from [...]

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why does google hate me?

Saturday, May 12, 2007

why does google hate me? Originally uploaded by toycamera.
for some reason sometimes when i ask google something it thinks i am a virus, and once it is in this loop, it stays there. this precipitates a significant identity crisis. in fact it has an alarming general effect on how i feel [...]

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the most expensive film ever made

Thursday, May 3, 2007

the weirdest thing about seeing spider-man 3 was that we, the rural cousins in wagga wagga, were apparently only the third place in the world to see it. yeah we beat the americans baby. the second weirdest part was having to hand in my mobile phone and seeing it put in a plastic bag with [...]

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