AdelaideNow... Idiot Aussies: Grow up and take responsibility (Alexander Downer): I didn't have the guts to say this as foreign minister but don't you think you should take responsibility for yourself when you go overseas? ...pity he didn't say stuff like that, things might have been more interesting! Good rant. I can't believe I would ever say that about Alexander Downer.
Journalists held hostage until budget message is spun | The Australian: Cost to the nation's media for the night: well north of $1million (not counting the cost of the various human resources issues arising out of events at the Grail and beyond). Difference it would make to the coverage if they didn't go: zero.
Sugar Stacks - How Much Sugar Is in That? One of the reasons I stopped drinking soft drink with meals was the description of cola as 'sugar slurry with just enough water to keep it liquid'...
This one single 6-second sample has been used mind-bogglingly widely. Copyright law seeks to prevent this form of creativity, even though the actual creators of the Amen Break did not pursue people for using it.
The video finishes with this great quote:
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture.
