Archives, eh
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# Links for 2007-09-29
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# It's a Festival of the Oval Ball!
Grand finals. It’ll be a whizzer good weekend, with England losing to Tonga early Saturday morning in the World Cup, the AFL grand final on Saturday afternoon, Wallabies and All Blacks games, and then the NRL grand final on Sunday. I for one don’t give a shit if the Covenant find and invade enslave Earth, just so long as they do it quietly and without disturbing the games.
I will be going for Port Adelaide on Saturday. I used to hate Port Adelaide because they beat Brisbane in 2004 and were cockheads about it afterwards. But my natural instinct to want parochial Victorians to be sad that yet another non-Victorian team is winning “their” competition and taking the pennant away, that kind of petty and malicious glee wins out over grander ideas like tribalism and holding onto the hate.
And let it not be said that I am inconsistent; I am also semi-magnanimous. Sure, I want the Melbourne team to lose the game they care about. In return, though, I offer them a win in a game they couldn’t possibly care any less about; I want Melbourne Storm to win the NRL grand final. Mainly because their competition, Manly, are among the teams I loathe with a passion unbecoming – Manly, Parramatta, and St George – but also because I hate the NSW-centric attitude of most of the big names in rugby league and because; well, because Melbourne are practically another Queensland team anyway, with Cameron Smith, Mick Crocker, Dallas Johnson, Billy Slater, and Greg Inglis. We also get Israel Folau as well, assuming he recovers from his incipient Mormonism.
I’d really like to see some Storm player put a huge hit on that pouting fuck-knuckle Brett Stewart, because I think he’s an unmitigated wanker. That’d really make my weekend.
Meanwhile, I guess I have to shed a tear and mourn the loss of Bernie. Sounds suspiciously like he’s played his last game, with a second knee operation in a month. It’s like seeing your granddad die after a prolonged illness; Larkham’s been held together with duct tape for a long time now, so it’s not as if we didn’t see it coming, but gee, it still stings. At least Berrick Barnes shows promise.
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# Links for 2007-09-26
- Alternative Energy Sources: 4 Technologies on the Brink ✴
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# Not again
Dear Cino, who art in cafe, arabica be thy name…
Why the fuck can’t you just change my brain so that I can learn. Learn to read what these new packages are that Ubuntu wants to apply. Learn that hey! Those fucking linux header packages have a disturbingly common tendency to fuck up X. To learn that it is because of nVidia drivers so that I don’t need to spend a couple of hours re-remembering via the forums.
Also, learn to remember to set my alarm in the morning.
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# Why? Tell me why, General God in your diamond-studded US Flag suit
Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic. It’s nothing more than “childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.”
- Why are so many liberals hostile to religion?
- Why are so many liberals hostile to the troops?
- Why are so many liberals unpatriotic?
- Why are liberals so hostile to successful people who don’t happen to be celebrities, trial lawyers, or big donors to the Democratic Party?
Oh. The irony.
UPDATE: Townhall.com via a man who unintentionally makes me laugh.
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# Links for 2007-09-23
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# This I vow
From slashdot:
After thinking long and hard on this, I realized that none of the Aussie’s i’ve met sounded like they were in the middle of a two week drug binge.Australian’s have ozzie accents :)
Maybe not, but if, at any stage from now until I die, a furriner asks me to speak merely to hear my accent – of which I have none – I shall speak like Mr Osbourne
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# Australia in the New York Times
Cooler kids than I have been exploring the recently opened archives of the New York Times, going back to September 1851. For example, Jason Kottke finds a bunch of gems from teh archives and then later mentions a possible contender for first restaurant review in the NY Times
I had a look as well. I was a bit more provincial and just looked at some Australian stuff. The first mention of Australia itself was reports of gold at Bathurst.
Speaking of gold, first mention of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, and a follow up two days later, delayed by three and a half months. Unsurprisingly, the paper was full of approval for this particular insurgency – yes, they called the Eureka miners “insurgents”.
Its an interesting metaphor for the rebellion they use in the first article, casting the rebellious miner as St George, the government as the Dragon, “winding its toilsome length across (the miner’s) native land”. Thus the rebellion becomes heroic and noble in defeat. I wonder how prevalent that metaphor was?
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# Links for 2007-09-20
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# Ia! Ia! lolthulhu
gilmae’s 63rd Rule of the Internet: The likelihood of the Cthulhuification of any internet meme is equal to the time since first instance multiplied by the incompatability of the original meme and cthulhu.
