Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by ukelele-cello-playing sister duo the Doubleclicks. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The public service and public values
The Centre for Policy Development has released an occasional paper as part of its Public Service Program, The State of the Australian Public Service: An alternative report. The report’s key findings include: a widening gap between the anti-public servant rhetoric [...]
London Burning III: more sociology of civil disorder
The last thread has grown long and slow to load. Here’s two kick-starters for further discussion – Zygmunt Bauman on the UK Riots and this photo of Londoners coordinating to clean up their neighbourhoods after calm was restored.
Quick link: NSW power consumption dropping
ABC Local Radio Sydney reports that household power consumption has dropped by 2 percent in the last year. Price signals work in the energy sector. Who woulda thunk it?
Don’t accept the premise
SlutWalk seeks to address the idea that a woman’s behaviour in one sphere of life should have no bearing on how she is judged in other spheres
Is the AFL competition becoming less even?
There’s been a sequence of lopsided results in the AFL over the past few weeks. But is this an anomaly or part of a long-term trend?
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Climate clippings 39
Predicting tipping points Tim Lenton is now attempting to link the basic theory of climatic “tipping points” with observed early warning signals. Problem is, these tipping points may not be sudden and dramatic but involve a steady but inevitable increase. [...]
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