Bill Bailey Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
Like a couple of thousand others I have listened to ANC Spokesperson Jesse Duarte’s interaction with Times journalist Philani Nombembe with my jaw on the floor. If you haven’t yet heard it, listen to it now. http://multimedia.timeslive.co.za/audio/2009/04/duarte-blows-her-top/ A more deeply patronising, arrogant assault on a young guy just doing his job you’re unlikely to hear [...]
So Wednesday is Election Day. Today I filed this week’s M&G Podcast, which features some great analysis from the ever-eloquent Mandy Rossouw, plus a whole bunch of soundclips from various parties stating their election positions on a range of issues. So if you don’t yet know who you’re going to be voting for, you can [...]
As much as I agree with the overall sentiments he expresses (as I usually do – I love his no-holds-barred style), I cannot help but feel that Chris Barron’s obituary for the late Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, was harsh, disrespectful and insensitive.
OK so this headline appeared in last week’s Sunday Times: This is like publishing a headline which shouts: “EXCLUSIVE: McDonalds sells hamburgers!”. Where’s the news here??? Just saying.
One of the panellists I listened to at SXSW put a slide up containing the world’s shortest sci-fi novel: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” (sidebar – this is actually pretty flawed as a novel, making the sexist assumption that the last man on [...]
(This is a piece I did for the M&G Podcast this week) I’m in Austin, Texas. Well, that’s true but not absolutely true. I’m at South by Southwest – a week long orgy of a conference that spans the triple disciplines of interactive, film and music, and all the grey areas in between that they [...]
OK so here we are in 2009. And I am painfully aware that I haven’t written a lengthy blog for some time now. That’s not about to change. I’m still on holiday – on the tail end of a relaxing two weeks in Kimberley (is there any other way to be in Kimberley?) and while [...]
Some time back I heard of a group of people on the internet who were spending their time creating graphs of songs titles and lyrics and posting them online – in fact there was a whole song chart pool on Flickr that was collecting them all. As a closet geek with a passion for music, [...]
South African blogger Donn Edwards is being sued for libel by a timeshare company called Quality Vacation Club (QVC) after he wrote of his experience with the company. I have no axe to grind with the timeshare industry. But if they bend the rules and dupe people into buying things they don’t want, then they [...]
I know I run the risk of being labelled a grumpy old man. Once this post is up, that will make two in a row that are rants and ravings about pathetic service I’ve received. I make no apologies, just the promise that I will return soon with some real blog posts. Meanwhile, I absolutely [...]
