I’ve turned off the plugin that automatically adds a daily digest of my twitter updates to my blog. I can’t imagine anyone feeling anything but relief about that decision.
There are three reasons why I decided to do this. The first is that (I think) it was reducing the chances of me feeling inclined to write [...]
Controversy is rocking the Sydney art scene (actually I have no idea how the art scene is reacting, I just wanted to write like a news journalist for a moment - I’m over it now though).
Police shut down an exhibition by photographer Bill Henson over allegations of child pornography (text article, TV clip with more [...]
Finally, a blog that understands me. I do like shorts and t-shirts (especially Threadless) and coffee and expensive sandwiches. And all the other stuff.
I hope that people of other ethnicities will read this and come to understand my culture.
21 Accents (from kottke.org)
She’s pretty good. All of the accents sounded good to me except the Australian ones. The Sydney accent sounds slightly off but I can’t put my finger on the problem. The generic Australian one is just a caricature so you can’t really pick holes in the quality of it.
Stephanie tells me [...]
I have this theory that my accent is so mixed now with different influences, that everyone will deny that I sound like I’m from their country. My latest evidence is courtesy of a Fish and Chip shop in Port Douglas. I was buying some tomato sauce for my chips, and it came in the little [...]
I did the sample Australian Citizenship test this morning. The five questions I had to answer were pretty easy - for someone who’d lived in Australia for a long time anyway. I’m not entirely sure that knowing the national flower emblem is really the criteria we want to be using to decide who gets to [...]
I read Dana Boyd’s apophenia blog sometimes and yesterday I read the post, Technology and the World of Consumption. Really interesting, as always.
However,what struck me (around about the Alan Kay quote) was the sense of my own age. I guess I like to flatter myself that I’m in touch with modern technology and culture. But, [...]
Here’s Looking At You
A short video exploring people’s first impressions of others based on just their appearance. They then describe how they see themselves for comparison.
That’s interesting enough, but what fascinated me was the way that some people seemed to be carefully managing what they said about certain other people. It was as if they [...]
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