Monthly Archives: December 2010

For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing

Posted on December 22, 2010 by ret56fe

SHOPPING online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Google’s search bar. In moments, she found the perfect frames — made by a French company called Lafont — on a Web site that … Continue reading →

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The Cognitive Cost Of Expertise | Wired Science 

Posted on December 22, 2010 by ret56fe

via wired.com Fascinating. Well worth a read… Who knew all my mad Scrabble and Othello skillz were costing me so much other cognitive ability?

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Step-by-step lunar eclipse – ABC

Posted on December 22, 2010 by ret56fe

via abc.net.au It didn’t look like that from our place. Pretty spectacular in this image.

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Mick Without Moss – The New York Times

Posted on December 17, 2010 by ret56fe

via nytimes.com Lest I be accused of being “All Keith, all the time” around these parts, here is a good interview with Sir Mick.

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Family, rollercoasters and type 1 diabetes

Posted on December 15, 2010 by ret56fe

Family, rollercoasters and type 1 diabetes Finally my desperate sister took her son to the Emergency Room, and the triage nurse saw it straight away. A quick blood sugar test, the first of countless thousands, and Fletcher was diagnosed with … Continue reading →

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Portable account numbers would ‘increase instability’ – ABC News

Posted on December 15, 2010 by ret56fe

Portable account numbers would ‘increase instability’   A banking analyst says it is inevitable that a financial institution in Australia will fail in the future. Jonathan Mott from UBS Securities Australia has told a Senate inquiry that introducing account portability … Continue reading →

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How he Keefs on Keefing on: Life by Keith Richards reviewed by @JohnBirmingham

Posted on December 13, 2010 by ret56fe

LifeBy Keith RichardsHachette Australia, 564pp, $49.99 (HB) BECAUSE it’s Keith, the infamous “Keef”, this book will be scorned by many, and even professionally, if gently, mocked by some. But Keith Richards’s autobiography does not deserve mockery, it deserves due consideration … Continue reading →

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Researchers dressed as pandas introduce cubs to wild – Telegraph

Posted on December 11, 2010 by ret56fe

via telegraph.co.uk That’s awesome. Years of tertiary study and training to become a panda researcher, and you get to dress up like a Wilderness Society panhandler.

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Tsiolkas’ “The Slap” to be an 8-part ABC-TV series

Posted on December 6, 2010 by ret56fe

The award-winning novel by Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, is being developed into a television series by ABC TV and Matchbox Pictures. Development of the eight-part series will begin next month in Melbourne, with production to start in 2010. The novel … Continue reading →

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Via @stilgherrian – Twitter is not a newspaper. #twitdef

Posted on December 2, 2010 by ret56fe

Stilgherrian has absolutely nailed the #twitdef story with this piece on Crikey, Note to The Australian: Twitter is not a newspaper. A newspaper’s daily production workflow produces final, fixed news stories, frozen into ink on paper forever and ever amen. Twitter is a real-time … Continue reading →

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