“one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision…”

by jebni on March 28, 2006

Stanisław Lem is dead. [ tags: science-fiction, sf, stanislaw-lem ]

glass teat

by jebni on March 28, 2006

My kitten has figured out how to turn on the TV, so that he can watch cartoons in the morning. [ tags: cats, television, tv ]

teh life

by jebni on March 26, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with an old advertising colleague, who reminded me that we worked with a certain person who thought that the “average” (i.e. mean) yearly income in Australia must have been about $80,000, or (…)

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onward!

by jebni on March 25, 2006

A lot of things made my day today, but this picture of Maoist insurgents in Nepal topped the list: Finally, some Maoists after my own heart! [ tags: maoists, britney, maoism, nepal ]

church, state, plutonium

by jebni on March 25, 2006

I’m sitting here at my weekend day job, converting VHS tapes to DVD at a union. It’s been immensely satisfying today, with documentaries from the 1980s about: B.A. Santamaria and The Movement/Democratic Labour Party — the vanguard of Catholic anti-Communism (…)

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BSG’s women-of-colour super special!!!

by jebni on March 20, 2006

Ange has picked up on the Galactica season finale’s Berkeley In The ’60s vibe, but instead, I’m gonna be completely dodgy and gasp (with and without irony) about how hot all the non-white women were in the last two episodes! (…)

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names like famous people

by jebni on March 10, 2006

With the various young Sudanese, Somalian and Liberian people who come in to use the multimedia access centre I supervise, conversations like this are becoming more frequent: Me: Hey, I’m Ben. What’s your name? Dude: Daddy Boy. Me: Hey, Daddy (…)

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winna

by jebni on March 9, 2006

I’ve just discovered that I’ve won a Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Award (in the “Best Culture, Lifestyle or Arts” category) with the team from 6 Moons and SBS for the Swapping Lives website, which I designed. Hurrah — it’s (…)

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apple family

by jebni on March 9, 2006

.flickr-photo { border: 0 } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } It doesn’t get any better.

RSS burnout

by jebni on March 7, 2006

I just realised that I’ve been publishing two feeds all this time — this is the right one, and the other is hereby counting down to nothingness…