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“This is one of the least important elections in modern Australian history” – Waleed Aly, political analyst. It’s been a thoroughly underwhelming campaign so far in the 2010 election.  As noted by Aly and other political pundits, there’s not really a lot at stake here.  We’ve seen the worst of the Global Financial Crisis, both parties have fallen over themselves ...

The other day when I decided that I wanted a new book to read, I remembered that I caught a glance at Stephen King’s novel Under The Dome at Borders and it had piqued my interest.  The story of a smalltown in America which inexplicably gets trapped underneath a magical forcefield sounded like just the right amount of gimmicky nonsense ...

I’ve just finished reading Jose Saramago’s Death At Intervals.  I don’t really know what to make of it.  It’s about the strangest thing I’ve read all year and thats including a book that has KFC’s Colonel Sanders appearing as a pimp in Japan. So in Death At Intervals, an unnamed country discovers the complete absense of death one New Years ...

Okay, so Flipboard, a free RSS reader app which came out recently is pretty freakin’ awesome.  I can easily see something like this becoming of the one most popular apps on the iPad. Its a program that can connect to your Facebook and Twitter account and convert the links, images and status updates into a magazine style format.  In essence, ...

There are a lot of ingredients that have to come together for a film to be truly great.  Sometimes a film will come along that blows you away with spectacular visual effects or striking costumes and imagery only to be let down by shoddy characterisation, poor pacing or a clunky script.  For every great ‘effects’ movie that comes along, such ...

The Wire Season 4 & 5, Tickets to the Wallabies vs Springboks (halfway line), Zombieland (BluRay), Super Mario World (1991) and the new Alan Wake book.  All up, a pretty sweet haul for my birthday.  Not to mention a champagne breakfast served up by Jen.

Rasha turned me on to this. It’s a 17 minute long promo for a festival of awesome. I smell a road-trip coming, you guys game? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xewi_Gdc8[/youtube]

Check out this sweet movie-style trailer for the upcoming election.  Fair shake of the sauce bottle indeed. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qub4lWT6GNk[/youtube]

There’s a rather nifty website here called I Write Like which does an analysis of your writing style and compares you to a famous author.  I took a sample of my own writing using some text out of a blog entry titled ‘The Dinner Party‘ (June 2009) and the result was: I write like Arthur Conan Doyle I Write Like ...

Half shark, half octopus.  All awesome. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2bBfuepKk[/youtube]