Scientist Sergei Zimov studies organic matter exposed by melting permafrost in the Arctic tundra, as recorded in a Reuters photoshoot in 2007 Read more »
Scientist Sergei Zimov studies organic matter exposed by melting permafrost in the Arctic tundra, as recorded in a Reuters photoshoot in 2007 Read more »
Last Saturday, Radio National broadcast the last ever episode of John Cargher’s Singers of Renown, after 43 years and 2143 episodes. Read more »
As we sidle into Autumn, our bloggy friends in the north are moving to summer.
To see what that means, have a gander at these pictures. So sensual, in such a different way.
Meanwhile, the Australian countryside is moving through its cycles of life and death, use and ease like this.
Both great sets of photos, I reckon.
Family Home — suburban exterior 1993, by Howard Arkley.
An interesting thread about Rudd’s approach to culture and idealism on laryprod led to some remarks about rent and price control. Read more »
Looking for ANZAC images, I found this moment of history. I was surprised - the idea that Aboriginal women were allowed to join up had simply never occurred to me. Read more »
This is surely one of the great trench coat images - Bogey in Deadline USA, being the romantic hero all editors secretly dream of. Read more »
Being close to someone who has a mental illness, I pay attention to the mainstream material about this particular zone of misery. Read more »
We innocent citizens of Melbourne feel that our nodescript public life is given a kind of class by the quality of our hoodlums.
With 36 of them dead, some in front of children, a television series we are not allowed to see, and Australia’s finest crime reporters on our broadsheet, we feel a spiritual kinship with Chicago in the days of running boards and tommy guns. Read more »
Please ignore this post. We have just done an upgrade for Barista, and now testing out the posting function.
Moo.
We in Melbourne regularly convulse ourselves with self pity about our transport problems. Now we have a new report, Investing In Transportcompiled by Sir Ron Eddington, who buzzed around our system for a year, riding the rails and the white lines on the highways, all without a salary. If he pedalled around on a bike, he may even be a little fitter. Read more »
No, this is not Prince Charles moments after he has realised that the media is teh evil. It is popularly described as Japan’s first robot. Or rather, a non-functioning replica of same. Read more »
Max Mosley is the president of FIA, which runs Formula One. He is also the son of Diana Mitford and Oswald Mosley, who created and led the British Union of Fascists. Read more »
One of 30 deserters to the Mahdi army kisses a Koran. An obvious photo op, compared to the shortage of images from Basra Read more »
“Man with Cuboid - M.C. Escher, 1958
“How many Quantum physicists does it take to change a lightbulb? Read more »
Dismayed about the current collapse of the US economy? Worried it will spread here? Bemused by the apparent lack of front page interest in the nightmare? Read more »
“When you say four thousand dead, that doesn’t really mean anything. It’s just a number. You can dismiss it. But if you start getting into names and faces and you see the mom and you eat pot roast with her, and you drink beer with their friends, and you listen to the guys who carried him back talking about the blood on their uniforms — you can’t dismiss it. And that’s just one. That’s just one.” Read more »
Age journalist Steve Butcher (heh) makes a strong bid for the “the story gave me the perfect opportunity and I stepped up to the crease with nothing short of brilliance” award for this story, which starts:
“After he begged unsuccessfully for his life on a remote hill in Gippsland’s Strzelecki Ranges, Stephen John Witham made two final requests. Read more »
Heres a fine history blog I’ve only just found…
Hmm.. Victorian theatre.. hmm… ectoplasm…. hmmm Read more »
The consequences of war reach out to everyone, and reverberate down the generations. It is an obvious idea, but it gives me the shivers. This is why. Read more »
As my friends know, I have a hearing impairment, and relate pretty well to the world with the help of two Phonak hearing aids. Read more »
Jim Schembri, a Melbourne Age journalist, is used for a variety of feature/commentary/pet wordsmith roles. Some of his work is successful, but he can make a dill of himself in public. Read more »
This is an advertisement called Balance of Power!, drawn for the Dowell division of Dow Chemical in 1943, by Peter Helck. He lived from 1893 to 1988. Read more »
I am sorry but this is just so wrong…
As a membership benefit for the plucky Victorian advocacy group Bicycle Victoria, you can get nifty bicycle gifts just for test driving a new Subaru.
There is a part of my head which adores and celebrates my bicycle. There is a part of my head which rilly enjoyed owning a Subaru before certain decisions were made in our household which made poverty inevitable. Read more »
Re the Eddington report on East-West Link Needs Assessment which I kicked around in the last post -
Russell Degnan is a proper planner, who did the heavy lifting on the report and does know what he is talking about.
In 1968, people thought this was delicious. The caption reads, “Pineapple jelly starter, garnished with watercress; the dressing is served separately”. These days it looks like a bunch of leafy cartoon creatures trying to escape the Blob from Planet Symmetry. Read more »
How many of the great developers of comics, and the graphic novels which follow them, were Jewish? An awful lot, according to the London Review of Books, surveying four books which help to define the sophistication of the form. Read more »
Some stories just leave me flabbergasted that human beings can be so horrible, in ways that are possible only because we are so civilised. I’ve run a couple of stories about the attempts to integrate chimpanzees into human families to turn them into people, but this experiment really takes the biscuit. Read more »
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