Although MySpace is fast becoming the suburban mall of the ‘net, populated by bored kids and fruit loops (with a new set of l33ts going to Facebook), it still throws up a pleasant surprise from time to time.
Like this morning when I woke and had a friends request from “Stop Al Gore”.
A very amusing page. Some interesting theories on global warming, and also some hilarious pics of Al Gore from various users.
It’s not often I’ll quote Tim Lane. But I might here.
The Pies are good
I’m trying to keep a lid on it but I can’t – we are REALLY good. Especially some of the young kids coming through, which in turn has given new life to the older brigade. God, watching Collingwood play is just so satisfying at the moment. We have had so many wins against all odds – it’s the most enjoyable season since 2002, when we came within only 9 points of a Premiership, damn it.
Our mate Hotrod has written another pearler of a “Hot Potato” on the Collingwood site, focussing specifically on Irishman Martin Clarke’s excellent debut on Saturday night’s win over the Swines.
He has given us two lover-ly limericks about Marty:
A Handsome Young Lad Called Clarke,
Could Be The Irish Judd From Croke Park,
His Skills Are Not Poor,
And He Looks Like Heath Shaw,
But He Definitely Does Add Some SparkThere Was A Young Rogue Called Marty,
Whose Coach Mick Malthouse Chose To Start He,
Though Not Covered In Muscle,
He Played Like Scott Russell,
As The Pies Had Themselves A Party.
Again, I’m trying to be cool, so one last barb from me.
Anthony Rocca should not have been suspended for two weeks. That is beyond a joke. Two weeks for an excellent and legitimate shepherd/hip ‘n’ shoulder on Sean Dempster. What the hell is the game becoming? Bullshit.
I love Collingwood.
HOT or NOT is one of the coolest sites I’ve seen in ages. My good friend RGM at Me and Us alerted me to its presence.
So quick, so instant, a site which enables you to judge people out of 10 purely on LOOKS! This is an anthropological study in the making, some sort of perfect survey on “looks” in contemporary society. In years to come people will be using this site to judge how fashion and looks have changed over the aeons. what do people find “attractive”? What is “good looking?
Hilariously brilliant.
FUN: Music, Culture and Entertainment, FUTURE: Digital Media, Marketing, Insights and Trends
I’m putting together a playlist – trying to anticipate some ebbs and flows at a party, looking at automating or at least sorting my 12,000 encoded songs by their beats per minute, so I can pick the right ones.
I thought there had to be an online monitor of some kind which could ascertain BPMs before I sort them.
Of course there is!
Cool.
FUN: Music, Culture and Entertainment, FUTURE: Digital Media, Marketing, Insights and Trends
I was listening to Eazy-E’s “No More” just then… Such a cool song.
But the coolest part are the very first words which he utters.
Female: “We’re sitting here with Eazy E”
Eazy-E: “Believe that”
Except Eazy says it with such chutzpah – “Belie’ dat”.
From now on, every time someone says something worthy of affirmation, I’m going to say, “Belie’ dat”.
My dream is that one day, in houses of Parliament across Australia, members of Parliament will be making speeches, encouraged by choruses of “Belie’ dat”.
My friend Andrew Norton has started a fascinating conversation about respect vs tolerance, framed within the context of The Peel refusing to allow straights and women in.
For a liberal, equal respect demands too much and more than is necessary. For passionate religious believers (and liberal ideas of toleration began with the problems they cause) it is very hard to hold other faiths in equal respect without calling into question their own beliefs. But all it requires to tolerate them is to hold off from intimidation and violence.
Indeed, the shift from liberal tolerance to leftist acceptance, the logical result of equal concern and respect, takes us back to where we started before the idea of tolerance took hold. Tolerance challenged the idea that everyone must fit in with a common set of norms, and replaced it with the idea that everyone must abstain from certain behaviours.
The practical differences between these two views came out in the reaction to the decision to allow The Peel hotel to exclude women and straight men. The left blogs I read came down against that decision, because they think that everyone should be accepted equally. But tolerance means letting gay men have their own venues without lesbians who frighten them or straight men who won’t be attracted to them.
In what could only be termed a DUMB move, Cricket bible publishers Wisden have sold their highly popular CricInfo website to ESPN.
Their strategy calls for selling the golden goose, the popular CricInfo site, and instead focussing on their “Hawk-Eye sports technology business in cricket, tennis and a growing range of other sports”.
They’ve traded seven million clicks per month (and a massive future) for a couple of beeps per tournament. Sheesh.
FOOTY: Sport in general, FUTURE: Digital Media, Marketing, Insights and Trends
Apple TVs are SO COOL!
Now they’ll be able to stream YouTube straight to your TV. And soon enough, Joost and other online video services. And now in 160gb versions. Very, very cool.
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