The latest on the Chauvel, from the email list. See also the discussion here. Update: Note the time change below.
Be there!
Town Hall Steps
City Hall
Monday September 12th
6:00 for a 6:30pm meeting
City Council meets this Monday night. It’s been suggested that a silent demonstration would have a big impact on our cause. The [...]
We’re all getting pretty used to arts organisations of one sort or another shrinking, drying up, and disappearing, and it’s not often that you get a chance to try to do something about it. So if you live in Sydney—or even if you don’t—it’s very important that you help lobby the local council to save [...]
To the et cetera massive.
As you will have noticed, we have moved, to grander locales, where the grass is greener and the vistas vertiginous. If you are a regular (who am I kidding, I may as well address you all by name), please update your bookmarks to reflect the domain that N and I have [...]
So far we have assumed that our game animals have been standing or moving slowly and that they have been broadside to the hunter or slightly quartering. It would be very pleasant indeed if animals always presented themselves like that.
Jack O’Connor, The Art of Hunting Big Game in North America, Outdoor Life, 1967.You can either [...]
Marco Fusinato is no minimalist.
Etcetera Records presents ETC 000-000: MARCO FUSINATO – “0_etcetera remix edition” (0LP) limited to 0 copies.
Ok, let’s face facts. What we are presenting here is zero records, zero records at once. Sold only as a set. No seperation here folks. You are either with us or not – simple. Within these [...]
Sydney boasts an utter dearth of record stores stocking anything for anyone whose brain hasn’t yet been blasted away by dancefloor four-four. So thank God for whoever is behind Sound and Fury, the new record store just off Taylor Square. I walked out the other night with Autechre’s classic Confield and the two recently pressed [...]
Two weeks ago at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited, two “Dow representatives” described a new Dow computer program that puts a precise financial value on human life.
The 70 bankers in attendance enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which described various industrial crimes, including IBM’s sale of technology to the Nazis for [...]
Do I think that it would be a great tragedy if the form of life of a Midwestern farmer disappeared? Well, I don’t want to sound un-American, but no, I don’t.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah
Laura Miller sets the record straight here.
9 professional climatologists have started up a weblog, Real Climate, where they aim to correct media reporting of climate issues. Judging by the content already there, it looks like essential reading—already one of their posts points out a recent survey of the peer-reviewed scientific literature, finding that all 928 articles picked out with the [...]
I take my title from a Nature article reporting that, contrary to various folk tales you might hear from time to time, people cannot in general postpone their deaths until important events have passed. See:
Donn C. Young and Erinn M. Hade, “Holidays, Birthdays, and Postponement of Cancer Death”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, [...]
“The enemy is a combination of global business and politics,” Jeff Robinov said. “We think that will play well to international markets.”
(The irony unintentional, it seems. From Lynn Hirschberg, “What Is an American Movie Now?”, in The New York Times, 14 November).
This quote from the NYT strikes me as rather surreal:
“Not long after [John Kerry called to concede the election], the 58-year-old president, a fitness enthusiast, worked out.”
In case you thought it was a coincidence that the stupidest president presides over the fattest country, the scientific verdict is now in: fatty foods make you stupid.
So reports the latest issue of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, as reported by Nature. The full article and editorial in PDF format are available via advance online publication here and here, respectively. The story seems to only have made the International section of the Times, elicited one letter, and has since fallen off [...]
Also from the Times.
After the soul-destroying event that was the Australian election, the US poll looms like a dead end. Tomorrow’s vote will probably be the most important of our generation. If you are an American, vote as if your life depended on it. This image from the New York Times.
Apropos the banner above, which everyone should visit and support, immediately, I am not sure that art is not terrorism after all. At least, it isn’t so clear if you adopt the language games of the Bush or Howard governments. Alexander Downer, when talking about Iraq, for instance, classes the insurgents as either Saddam loyalists [...]
Mapping nicely onto my earlier post concerning esteem-based education is a review by Noel Malcolm of Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? by Frank Furedi, over at The Telegraph. Here’s a quote:
Last year an official report on public libraries declared that “New libraries should include cafes and chill-out zones where young people can watch [...]