Category: asides

New favourite song of the week (TV is so last week week before last): Rihanna – Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)

Do Not Call register for Australia: Maybe they should have been more sensible about things and set up a “please call” register? Either way, get your number on there now! (site reportedly a little slow)

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The ALP has redesigned their logo, and I like it – here’s my amateur analysis of it :) (Ok, I’ve been reading Brand New a bit) (and don’t ask me why that blog looks better than this one)

I know it’s the 5th aside in a row, but this is an absolute gem of web 2.0 goodness: Who is Sick? The premise: get people to report where people are sick and with what, lay it out on a google map and … voila!

Hypocondriacs, start your engines!

I’ve linked to these guys before, but say what you will, these watches are sexy. Screw telling the time, someone wanna donate? :D

omgwtf catmacro blog: no pokemans yet, though

Adam Gopnik summarises nicely why the shootings happened and what needs to be done: If only there were more people who were thinking in the States

Totally :heart: this song – ‘TV’ by True Live

Aussie Hip Hop rocks my socks =)

Australia’s finalising a deal with America to swap our unwanted refugees for theirs: This is a Good Thing in the sense that the refugees aren’t held in halfway houses like Nauru and Gauantanomo Bay, but this is a Bizarre Thing from practically every other angle. (also amusing: now we’re asking for people held in Gauanantanonomo)