This has left me stunned.
Start with Joshua Kinberg, a technically smart New York artist. Add one bicycle, and a “custom-designed printing device” mounted on the carrier. Add a mobile phone and text messages.. and it works like a printer head so..
..you can have your political message printed out on the street of a Republican [...]

The Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony is on-form at the moment, particularly with a report of Shane Maloney’s speech to the astonished students of Scotch College.
Writers can make fantastic speechifiers. You might want to read this one aloud. Or send it to anyone you know currently spending $13,000 per year to “save” their [...]

Election madness has swept across the land, and the bloggers on the links list are on their way to acts of genius, ably supported by the commenters.
Howard and Bush rush squealing like rats greasyhackled and frantic around the tumbrils. The rest of us chuck vegetables and bits of gristle, while the souls of their damned [...]

I am travelling this weekend, so posting may be light. I might be able to find a free computer and some downtime. Then again, the shock of moving from Melbourne to the tropics just for a weekend may be too much and I may collapse into a sweaty analog heap.

Pesky Australian researchers have chosen this week to come clean – this time from the University of Queensland. Inspired by the Olympics, they have put the boot into the couch potatoes slumped in front of the screen.
You are safe from the effects of this research because you are hunched, not slumped.
“Slumping in front [...]

Just in case you want the satisfaction, Fred Kaplan at Slate nails the Swift Boats Against the Truth allegations about the Cambodia allegations to the deck by both its ugly, scaley ears.
Using Kerry’s own war diary and William Shawcross’ stomach-churning 1979 book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia, Kaplan is able to put [...]

The ABS is publishing daily statistics on the Olympic medal tally which are adjusted for population.
By this criterion, the top ten countries are:
Bahamas
Australia
New Zealand
Greece
Norway
Georgia
Slovakia
Romania
Sweden
United Arab Emirates.
By taking into account all medals rather than just gold, Peterme has Australia on top, followed by Slovakia, and New Zealand banished to 16th. His commenters have pointed [...]

The “botty on notice” story in the Age – guidelines so public servants can spin the answers to questions on notice – will not crawl back into the Parliamentary walnut wainscoting. In an opinion piece today, Ken Coghill and Colleen Lewis weigh in to say that the government should just answer the damn question, rather [...]

Hunter Thompson has reflected on the state of a once-proud nation.
‘”The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far [...]

Governments are endlessly looking for ways to improve employee efficiency. Now Professor Joe Forgas at the University of NSW has been able to demonstrate why we should keep our police in a really really stinking mood. They make better witnesses, as described in Medical News Today.
“People in a negative mood provide more accurate eyewitness accounts [...]