Month: November 2006

  • Litvinenko

    I’m utterly fascinated by the Alexander Litvinenko murder. This former Russian spy was murdered with polonium-210, which is apparently highly radioactive and really hard to come by. On his death bed, Litvinenko blamed Russian President Putin for the poison. Now they’re discovering that the poor guy left traces of radioactivity all over London before he…

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  • Geek Socks

    Geek Socks, including Super Breakout and Apple intarsia patterns. Nice.

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  • Kevin Smith

    I was just reading Kevin Smith’s Celebrity Playlist and I got to his paragraph about James’s “Laid”, and HEY! He got married in the Little White Wedding Chapel too! All the cool kids get hitched there.

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  • Repeal Day

    The Snook and I are already planning our celebration for Repeal Day. Only one week to go!

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  • Croc Mary Janes!

    My love for ugly shoes knows no bounds. Thanks to a tip from Lissa at work, I discovered that Rebel Sport in the Mid City Centre carries the new Crocs Mary Janes. They even have a few more colours than the official website lists, including moss green and candy pink. I actually wanted the black,…

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  • Cinematic Music Videos

    What music videos “rip off” famous movies? I am embarrassed to admit that I, too, immediately thought of Paula Abdul’s “Rush, Rush.”

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  • Japanese Mac Ads

    Fascinating. I just found an analysis of the Japanese “Mac vs. PC” ads and it turns out that they’re actually really different from the “Western” version. The discussion of the body language and different cultural norms is really interesting. The Mac guy is cool because he’s reserved and he doesn’t acknowledge how dorky the PC…

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  • Art

    crumpet has finally added her awesome Alice prints to her Etsy shop. Now I’m just trying to choose which one I like the best. (Unless one of you wants to pony up $800 for the whole set for me…)

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  • Me and Bill!

    Me and Bill!We’re at the launch of Bill Granger’s new cookbook. He’s so nice, and the food is wonderful! More when we get home… Later: What a lovely evening! We were at the Hickson Road Bistro at the Sydney Theatre for this gleebooks event. Bill gave a great talk about his non-standard culinary career, and…

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  • Go Irish

    Speaking of Irish victories… we lost today. Yeah, pretty much everybody saw that coming. (I still found Ron’s map a little depressing though.) Eh, I’m just glad I didn’t bother trekking to North Sydney to watch it live.

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