Entries Categorized as 'News'

Headline comparison: Putin vs Cheney

Date September 1, 2008

Compare the headlines:
Russia’s Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger – Yahoo! News
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter – CNN
I know which one I’d want holding the gun when we’re stuck in the forest…

Does $36 million buy some common sense?

Date August 23, 2008

Recently, a couple of articles appeared in The Age about how $36 million was lost by Australians to Nigerian scams. The first article was about the high number and the details of the scams, while the second article (titled ‘Poet pays price of naivety’) presented the case of Anne Fairbairn AM, who was a ‘victim’ [...]

Earth Hour 2008

Date March 30, 2008

I can’t say that I’m much of a conservationist, but we did turn all the lights off for Earth Hour last night. There didn’t seem to be too many other people who did as there wasn’t much difference around the city. Even the pictures of the city usually showed one landmark with dimmed lights with [...]