• NEWS.com.au | Bali bomb-maker suspected (September 10, 2004) / NEWS.com.au | Campaign halts amid outrage (September 10, 2004). Howard must be jumping up and down in glee - this couldn't come at a better time for him. It's another Tampa, right on cue.
• Pop culture's need for speed - Entertainment - www.smh.com.au: Artists who featured in the Australian top 10 in the final week of August had recorded a total of 40 albums among them, or an average of four each. That number drops to 28 albums (an average of three each) if you discount a dozen albums by the Finn brothers in various other bands. An interesting article discussing the effect that the current nownowNOW attitude is having on pop culture. For example, everything is getting short-lived and superficial. Artists don't make it to six or seven albums, since the market will move on to the next artist much sooner than they can get the material out there. Although the article observes that the new market makes room for a variety of genres, it doesn't also observe that the industry doesn't act that way. Smaller genres are fucked for airplay since they don't make big money, really fast. So they don't get a decent run.
• Officer told to give Bush good review - World - www.smh.com.au: George Bush ignored a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to have a medical examination that was necessary if he was to remain a qualified pilot. See, Dubya is a spoiled rich brat who expects everything to go his way. If he "doesn't wanna" he just gets Daddy to fix it. We let this fucker control the largest military force in the world. I wonder how he'd take it if someone ignore one of HIS orders.
• Working at Google isn't easy - News - www.smh.com.au. Google has a series of calculus questions you have to answer to find its job ad site. Now, here's what I find unfortunate about Google: the page you ultimately get taken to makes one of the most elementary web development mistakes - it uses font tags (that's, like, soooo 1994 man) and doesn't set its white background (well, actually, to be fair they don't set any colours at all). That's amateur stuff. They can hire as many alpha geeks as they want, they can be world leaders in search technology, but they still don't know how to make a web page. Feh. You see, they need to hire me on an enormous wage :)
• Dog shoots man - Unusual Tales - www.smh.com.au: A puppy reportedly saved its own life when its paw slipped and tripped the trigger of a gun that its US owner planned to shoot it with. You can identify the puppy by checking out its food bowl, which has "Bad Motherfucker" on it.

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