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Stocktake Sale
clembastow:
The last week or so I’ve been trawling through the last seven years of writing that I’ve belched out, and trying to work out if any of it was even any good. For the most part, the answer has been “no”.
I can’t work out if this is because it’s actually true, or because of my own exacting standards - something that has been with me, more or less, since birth. If I couldn’t master...
November 2009
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RT @ellenforsyth #allsorts09 Powerhouse, SLQ and Bundesarchiv increased sales of images after they were free on web 2.0 sites
Is Tony Abbott speaking to the hearing-impaired? #spill
RT @earleyedition RT @dewi: I really wasn’t expecting Tony Abbott. Nobody expects the Inquisition, I suppose. #tonyabbott #spill
why is the british flag behind Abbott? Is that a dig at Turnbull’s republicanism? #spill
Who are we trying to convince that we’re not frightened of an election? #spill
Ram it through the parliament. He. Did anyone else giggle? #spill
I’m not sure that you can be unified by drawing a line, especially when there are people on BOTH SIDES OF IT. #spill
Shiny new website for @overland. Thank goodness the rolling bar at the top always made me dizzy http://web.overland.org.au/
I mean, shiny new website for @overlandjournal. Thank goodness the rolling bar at the top always made me dizzy http://web.overland.org.au/
Like Etsy for art: Print Society http://printsociety.com/
Hurrah! RT @MargaretSimons: Sophie Black new editor of Crikey. http://bit.ly/1PaEG
When I saw Abbott on #qanda at MWF, he described the Quran as the ‘Old Testament on speed.’ #spill
can I come? RT@PenguinBooksAus Penguin wedding invitation! http://bit.ly/777WpO [image]
RT @GreenJ ha! RT @unsungsongs: I for one welcome our new alien overlords. #tonyabbott #spill
Healthcare, stimulus, foreign policy. Obama’s brilliant first year http://www.slate.com/id/2236708/
RT @KarenMMiddleton Fielding wants a royal commission into the science of climate change. I heard someone laugh as l walked away.
Tony Abbott is getting some strange advice on how to project ‘leadership qualities’ - see pic http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
The Newseum: Excellently named interactive museum of journalism in Washington DC http://www.newseum.org/index.aspx
Keeping the Past where it belongs: History in...
To raise the topic of the legacy of South Sea Islander sugar workers brought to Queensland in the latter half of the 19th Century is to invite a sense of surprise that Islanders were ever here. This is not unusual considering the comprehensive deportation process that took place on Federation. In the context of recent debates over guest worker schemes from the Pacific, however, politicians have...
And here’s the website! http://wheelercentre.com/ RT @Meanjin So, it’s The Wheeler Centre: books, writing and ideas. http://yfrog.com/33qmaj
The Booker Centre for Wheels, Writing and Ideas.
I’m very enjoying this Volcano Choir album.
It used to want seccession. This sounds like compromise RT @rod3000 Blainey calls for FNQ to be separate state http://bit.ly/4tmNae
RT @Meanjin: Website of the ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ adaptation, via Matilda.
http://www.tomorrow-movies.com/
RT @Meanjin: Yet more @sophiec. How exciting is that? http://flythefalcon.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-sophie-cunningham-pt2.html
The National Geographic Photo Contest. I vote the bee, the whale, the elephant and the forest: http://bit.ly/6byclQ
Another interesting post from Melissa Gregg who was in @newmatilda today - 10 things graduate students want: http://bit.ly/6UZu9M
RT @newmatilda Why Academia Is No Longer A Smart Choice by Melissa Gregg http://bit.ly/63VGNq
Read this. RT @Colvinius: Darkness at Noon Revisited: imprisoned and tortured by the Iranian regime. http://bit.ly/8IDIzZ
Prospects for J-grads (in the US at least) basically ‘in the toilet’. But things are looking up for PhDs? http://bit.ly/7Y4pNX
More balconies: http://bit.ly/7WDmAn and http://bit.ly/7ywUpY and http://bit.ly/5eyvR9 and http://bit.ly/90Hz4y and http://bit.ly/6lnsps
This is one of my favourite balcony gardens: http://bit.ly/8j1mmN and this is also nice http://bit.ly/8hM19z. End of inspiration.
Get CJ in. DC Media insiders give Gibbs a C+: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911u/media%20insiders%20poll
More on Press Sec Gibbs (an older article): http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=741B9A03-18FE-70B2-A8D11AD7645CF5EC
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Making a balcony garden. Sourcing inspiration from Flickr: http://bit.ly/7ikvAI and http://bit.ly/7KcTpa and http://bit.ly/6UXkjN
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RT @PenguinBooksAus: The Mentalist star Simon Baker & producer Mark Johnson acquire feature rights to Tim Winton’s novel, Breath http:// …
RT @MIFF09Official: Well done BASTARDY for its selection in Sheffield International Documentary Festival in Nov and for its three AFI no …
this new twitter retweet function is absolutely riducuseless.
Journalist murders in Mexico hit new record @GlobalPost http://bit.ly/QSzed
RT @clembastow: Tube Ray Army on breaking up with your fave TV show: http://www.thevine.com.au/blog/clembastow/breaking-up-with-your-fav …