December 2008
54 posts
Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's... →
movie list
an updated list of movies i’m keen to see:
the curious case of benjamin button (saw it this arvo)
the wrestler
doubt
milk
revolutionary road
the class
the changeling
wendy & lucy
the international
rachel getting married
321. When it comes to opening presents, no one...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
an awesome book →
lovely book by dallas clayton. found via susannah (taker of wonderful photographs)
Media Re:public →
publications out of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society research project
bijan:
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Hot Chip &...
government's white paper on the carbon pollution... →
benjaminhilts:
Hotel California - The Gipsy...
Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors project →
found via Lisa Stone’s twitter feed
some of the movies on my list of things to see
seeing vicky cristina barcelona and slumdog millionaire this weekend reminded how much i love seeing good movies.
doubt
Frost/Nixon
the wrestler
milk
the curious case of benjamin button
i’ve loved you so long
thoughtpile, sponsored by herman miller →
“Real excitement isn’t just in whatever you happen to be doing, but in what you...”
– from a Michael Lewis article found via Ben Casnocha’s blog
WatchAmnesty Protect The Human campaign
Australian government's human rights consultation... →
the questions being asked:
Which human rights (including corresponding responsibilities) should be protected and promoted?
Are these human rights currently sufficiently protected and promoted?
How could Australia better protect and promote human rights?
Australian government's Future Directions blog →
hmmm. i like that they’re asking the question but does consultation with people online have to look like this?
the suitor
We lie back to back. Curtains
lift and fall,
like the chest of someone sleeping.
Wind moves the leaves of the box elder;
they show their light undersides,
turning all at once
like a school of fish.
Suddenly I understand that I am happy.
For months this feeling
has been coming closer, stopping
for short visits, like a timid suitor.
— by Jane Kenyon
“Of course, it was open to me to make adjustments. There was nothing, in principle, to stop me from changing my game, from taking up the cow-shots and lofted bashes in which many of my teammates specialised. But it was, I felt, different for them. They had grown up playing the game in floodlit Lahore car parks or in rough clearings in some West Indian countryside. They could, and did,...
Watchi wanted to go to this Sydney Institute talk by Don Watson but didn’t make it.
pleased to catch it on the ABC Fora website
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