Comments on: Sunday Spruiking

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:25:17 +0000

Rafe’s missing link, where you’ll find the book credited to “Peter Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Peter Drake with Bettina Arndt“.

Just couldn’t resist that second link, for some reason.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:50:09 +0000

“Arndt’s Story”, the life of the economist Heinz Arndt by the troika of Peter Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Peter Drake. One of our first public intellectuals and a pioneer in engaging with the Asia Pacific zone. And a great tribute to his wife Ruth as well.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:28:35 +0000

Here’s why Australia’s DoD shouldn’t become over-anxious about credibility gaps, strike potentialities, and future air-power needs, at least where the infomercialists from the United States’ defence industry are concerned:
F-22 Raptor! Call our operators in the next half-hour, and get AWACS capability thrown in free! But wait, there’s still more!
Chill, Dr. Nelson. Put the Commonwealth’s Mastercard down.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:07:14 +0000

I read this post on Media Violence by Henry Jenkins on his blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan. It says everything on this topic that I wish I had said.

By: suz

suz — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:31:21 +0000

Actually, Down and Out, the original intention of this series was for links to best blog posts, but I notice that we’ve nearly all chosen non-blog pieces this week.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:51:07 +0000

Tim Page’s piece for the Washington Post on Rostropovich, who died on Friday. Obituary as history, among other things.

By: Down and Out Of Sài Gòn

Down and Out Of Sài Gòn — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:46:10 +0000

Perdido Street Station. (Or do books count for this thread?)

By: polluted skies

polluted skies — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:47:57 +0000

http://www.feer.com/articles1/2007/0704/free/p036.html

On academics, research and political control in China.
A rare piece as it deals with matters usually politely or conveniently ignored .

By: Russell

Russell — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:30:19 +0000

I can’t remember what I read yesterday, so, the best thing I’ve read today, came on the last page of the New Statesman
I aspire to Julian’s healthy attitude “I’d be vaguely left-wing but would not concern myself with the type of heady world politics and social injustices that others lay awake at night worrying about.”

By: suz

suz — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:23:20 +0000

Light entertainment: The lesbian bride’s handbook from NY magazine.

Emmeline Pankhurst on Freedom or Death from the Guardian’s series of great speeches of the 2oth century.

By: FurGaia

FurGaia — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:33:36 +0000

My best read this week must be Justin Raimondo’s follow-up on Bill Moyers’ documentary “Buying the War”.

My best find (that I am planning to read over the weekend), which I think relates a bit to your “24 hours of Flickr”, is a recently released study on The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism.

That’s all!

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P.S. I don’t have a clue why my text is not showing properly in the “Preview” section below. Anyhow, here are the two links provided above that I am hoping will work once I press the ’submit’ button:

- Raimondo’s article is at ‘http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10881′

- The one on nonprofit journalism is at ‘http://tinyurl.com/2cpyqa’