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Category Archives: general bollocks

Benchmarking Birchs Bay

It was an excellent combination of cracking autumn day and late deadline on Monday, so we packed the tackers in the car and walked the Benchmarking Birchs Bay sculpture trail run by Fleurtys Cafe down past Woodbridge. It’s a beautiful bushwalk (if a bit steep when you’re pushing two kids in a pram) and the [...]

Will the iFridge save cartooning?

The iPad is soon to be upon us, and with any luck will save newspapers from certainish doom. It looks like a pretty damn cool device for reading a newspaper, but I suspect the good old crushed tree experience is the way to go with novels for a few years yet.

Not a big fan of apple at this point in time

I’ve been keeping an eye on Mark Fiore’s political animations for as few years. While some people think it’s the evolution of the newspaper political cartoon, I personally think it’s an entirely different beast. Nonetheless, it’s an entirely legit form of satire, as Fiore recently proved by winning a Pulitzer prize. Obviously mobile devices are [...]

The Littlest Pirate

Tom Jellett: damn fine drorer. Here is his latest book (he just drew the pictures and got someone else to write the words on account of his being quite lazy). I suggest you go and buy one right now or your children will hate you.

A clever, kind, connected Tasmania, well maybe kind… okay, probably not kind either. Forget I said anything.

Just a note about the Tasmanian election. As of 6pm today (Friday Feb 19) it’s pretty much breaking the law in Tasmania to say anything on der interweb without adding your authorisation including name and address. As I am not a complete cretin, I’m not all that keen on publishing my home address on der [...]