Eat it, Brendan Nelson!

The Nelson Ambush
Macquarie Uni students Giselle and Heidi Finnane put the boot into Satan

1. Yeah eat it, motherfucker. That’s what a public education has taught me.

2. Those who have talked to me for more than five minutes have probably heard me mention how much I hate him. Here’s a guy who got a medical degree paid for by the state but is now in favour of a user pays system, believes in Voluntary Student Unionism (despite the fact that Student Unions provide much of the services at universities — things like computer labs, cafeterias and sporting facilities), and is calling for “Intelligent Design” to be taught in high school science classes. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.

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A note to those who feel they need to tell me why they won’t be getting an iPod nano

1. The last couple of days I’ve heard much the same thing from a surprising number of people. It goes a bit like this:

…blah blah blah blah blah iPod nano blah blah blah blah blah blah so expensive blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah only 2Gb blah blah blah blah not enough songs blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but why? the 20Gb is only blah amount more blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I’m getting a 60Gb blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah lame blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…

2. And all that after just showing the thing.

3. I don’t understand the preoccupation with having to have all your music with you at the same time. I bought a 2Gb nano, I’ve filled it with a random selection of my favourite tracks, a few Podcasts, bunch of favourite photos and my calendar and contacts. All told, the music accounts for about 1.59Gb, which translates (for me) to 353 songs, or 24 hours and 0.39 seconds of music. So I have with me enough music for every minute of the day, or every minute of a flight from Sydney to London, or a bus trip from Sydney to Adelaide… you get the point. Not to mention a quick scan of my favourite albums comes to 6.5Gb — I figure if I can’t fit all my faves on the 4Gb model why spend the extra cash? And for those who are going to get a 60Gb because you have sooo much music and it only barely fits, yeah well, so you have a bigger cock than me. Whatever.

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Gasp!

iPod nano in black, for monkeys everywhere

1. Look what I got!

2. : )

The iPod and Perception

1. An excellent colmun on Gizmodo discussing the design of the iPod written by Luke Williams, Design Manager at Frog Studios (the company that, amongst other things, designed the Apple IIc):

A Designer sprang into the frog New York studio the other morning with a little more energy than usual.

“I know why everyone says the iPod looks clean!� he exclaimed.

The iPod has become—in the minds of most of our clients—the example of great product design. We found ourselves constantly trying to figure out why everybody we asked perceived the iPod as being “clean.�

Of course, we were aware of the obvious cues such as minimalist design; the simple, intuitive interface; the neutral white color. But these attributes alone inadequately explain this seemingly universal perception. It had to be referencing a deeper convention in the social consciousness… so, if a designer claimed that he had the answer—we were all ears.

2. Read the rest here.

How much help does Carmel need?

1. I found this gem in the sunday papers:

The Carmel Tebbutt Lovein, hosted by Kim Beazley
Photo from SMH by Jacky Ghossein

2. Pamphlets, flyers and stickers, $1000.

3. Getting out of bed in the morning, $10,000.

4. Getting pimped out to some random fat dude on the street by the Federal Leader of the Opposition for a Goddamn vote in front of the public and the media, PRICELESS!

iPod nano

Steve Jobs holds up the iPod nano for his worshippers
Photo from Reuters

1. It’s so…tiny! And comes in black! I could put it in my mouth! It’s like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odessey, and we’re the monkeys! Actually, that analogy works entirely too well.

2. I wonder, Apple releases an iPod that is sexier and smaller and less expensive than the Motorola ROKR iTunes phone that was released at the same time…is Apple really giving the phone project its full attention? The iPod nano is so small that you could easily carry that with your phone with no loss of mobility (especially when you can carry it on a lanyard), why on earth would anyone buy the damn phone? It’s not even one of the sexy Motorolas. A RAZR ROKR? Eich….

Secretaries fired for flamewar over lunch

Melinda Bird fired back a terse e-mail pointing out that Ms Nugent had probably left her lunch on a different floor, and that’s when the fighting words started.

The email exchange was then forwarded to colleagues at Allens who copied it to rival firms.

Soon it was sweeping Sydney’s offices, drawing comments from employees of Westpac, Deloitte, Macquarie Bank and JP Morgan.

One city high-flyer remarked: “This is magic. You can’t script this sort of stuff.”

1. Bwahahahahaha!

2. (Read about it here, and here, and even Slashdot has it! Plus, click here for a funny Slashdot moment…)

Bret Easton Ellis Interview

The way I am perceived through the press, my friends don’t recognize me when they read about me. They don’t know who that is. At 21, I died. The real Bret was gone, and this fake Bret took over. I think that happens when you become famous or a well-known person.

1. Found here.

Satellite Images of New Orleans

1. Are now available on Google Maps.

2. Click here.

Fair and what?

1. You have to see it to believe it.

2. See for yourself