Wednesday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a reminder of why it’s important to Mind The Gap at railway stations. What’s the most interesting/embarrassing injury you’ve ever managed to experience?
More generally, as with every weekly whimsy thread, please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Yasi – it’s big, bad, ugly and coming our way
This morning Cyclone Yasi was upgraded to category 5 with winds up to 295kph. That could go to 320kph. The projected path is here: The suggestion is that it could be still a category 2 when it’s 400km inland. Townsville [...]
The kitchen test is bunk
The wonkish end of the American political blogosphere is having a great deal of fun dissecting Tyler Cowen’s new e-book The Great Stagnation. Thanks to the wonders of the combination of intellectual property law and stupid geographic restrictions, it’s very, [...]
Another child protection inquiry in Victoria
Ted Baillieu has announced a judicial inquiry into child protection in Victoria, complete with “policy implemented” faux-stamp on the media release. So the policy was to have a review. Great. Didn’t the Rudd government get mocked mercilessly for this? More [...]
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