A little worker’s cottage in Coppin Street, Richmond, just sold for $1 million. It’s a pretty good indication that there is a massive bubble in the Australian residential market at the moment. Ponder this:
The house sold for $1 million at auction on Saturday, almost double the $533,000 its owners paid just five years ago and [...]
Since when is punching a random stranger for $10 a thoughtless prank? It’s thoughtless, yes, but where’s the prank bit? Answers.com defines the noun prank as “a mischievous trick or practical joke”. Well, randomly punching someone isn’t really a mischievous trick — it’s bewildering yes — but not mischievous. Nor is it a practical joke, [...]
If Banks have the capacity to check your account balance for sufficient funds prior to letting you withdraw money from an ATM, why don’t they use the same technology to check your account balance for sufficient funds prior to accepting an automated debit request? Technically speaking, it wouldn’t be that difficult — it just requires [...]
I got into podcasts in a big way in 2008. I find them a great way of ensuring that I go outside for an hour+ long walk or run everyday — even when it’s -11 and snowing as it was today.
Bill Moyers Journal — mostly politics
Bloggingheads.tv – mostly politics
Stack Overflow – programming
Herding Code – programming
Late Night Live – a little bit of [...]
Russian academic Igor Panarin thinks that the U.S., as we currently know it, will cease to exist in 2010 — torn apart by civil war:
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June [...]
I know Bolt doesn’t like to let facts or reason get in the way of his daily diatribes — and as a general rule, I leave most of his nonsense alone. But this bizarre referral to the below graph as evidence that we — silly global warming alarmists — shouldn’t worry about rising sea levels [...]
Yglesias appears to be upset that he doesn’t get to see Nicole Kidman play an Australian in the latest Baz Luhrmann blockbuster, Australia.
When I saw that she was going to be starring in a movie called Australia, however, I just took it for granted that she’d be playing an Australian. But no!
…and if you’re going to make a film [...]