Victorian cycling strategy – a small step forward
To not insubstantial fanfare (though not enough to distract from the continuing annoying sideshow that is Evan Thornley) the Victorian government has released its Cycling strategy, and it looks like it’s a step forward. In essence, the plan acknowledges that [...]
Guy Pearse coming to Brisbane and Canberra
He’s already been to Melbourne and Sydney, sorry, but Guy Pearse is coming to Brisbane on Thursday, 26 March and Canberra on Wednesday, 1 April to discuss his Quarterly Essay, Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the [...]
Ada Lovelace Day
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lovelace.jpg" align=left It’s Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to blogging about women in science and technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about [...]
The Geithner plan: what is it, and will it work?
Wall Street and and the ASX have rallied hard in approval of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s bank rescue plan. In this post I am going to examine the Geithner plan, try and describe and explain what it is, and [...]
Your sudoku will not be spoiled
Oh noes! The puzzle craze of 2006 is rooned! It’s fiendish, it may even be diabolical, and it’s the solution to Sudoku. To the outrage of the puzzle’s fans, an American computer scientist will tomorrow reveal a formula for solving [...]
Gang laws dependent on mode of transport? Really?
There’s a lot about it in the news today following the fatal gang attack at the QANTAS terminal at Sydney airport, and who could object to generally tightening up laws against gang activity when not only the lawlessness but violence [...]
Gifts, value and 'futile' [State] emissions reductions
Sociologists and anthropologists have long been fascinated by the place of gift giving and reciprocity in constituting communities. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Pacific, Mauss argued against the idea that gifts are ‘free’ in the political economic sense of [...]
Festival of the 120 decibel mosquito – a technical primer
I can’t quite hear them from my house in Brunswick. But they’re quite distinctly audible from the University of Melbourne, over 5 kilometres away and the other side of the CBD. The annual festival of the 120 decibel mosquito, otherwise [...]
Cultural policy in NSW, or $1 billion to renovate the Sydney Opera House
Both Marcus Westbury and Nick Pickard lead their blogs with strongly critical posts about recent reports that the NSW government is about to commit to spending $1 billion to renovate Joern Utzon’s iconic Sydney Opera House. As Westbury writes, “this decision is one that is so [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
How Labor won in Queensland
Welcome to the Bligh heterogeneity! And living with heterogeneity is a much better prospect than assimilation into the hivemind of The Borg. I’m still thinking that whoever came up with the bright idea of applying that moniker to Lawrence perhaps [...]
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