O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (William Blake, The Sick Rose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794) plate here There is a canker eating at the heart [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Politics, Society
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, belief, fear, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, opinion polls, politics of fear, reason, the worm, Tony Abbott
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Okay, don’t answer that question. But I didn’t watch either the Debate between our esteemed political leaders, or the Master Chef final. Thus I suspect I am in a minority of the Australian population. I didn’t watch the GillAbb Debate because I am so shizzed off about the direction politics is going in this country [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Fark!, Law, Politics, Popular culture
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Tagged Australian politics, churn, crazy stuff, general grumpiness, Julia Gillard, law firms, lawyers, Master Chef, Tony Abbott
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There are a few interesting posts around the place today, so I thought I’d just do a round up: HeathG at Minimal State wonders if GetUp! will get into trouble with copyright law as a result of its political satire video (which lends from various Hollywood blockbusters). I hope not, the video is rather funny, [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, Intellectual property, Law, Politics, Society
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Tagged copyright, copyright law, Immigration, Law, lawyers, link round-up, people smugglers, psychic octopus
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Yesterday we were approached by a door-to-door salesman. As far as I could work out, the salesman’s pitch was highly misleading. He claimed that he was not there to sell anything, he was just there to check we got a rebate from the government. I was immediately suspicious, and told him I didn’t want to [...]
March 11, 2010 – 12:19 am
… Many thanks to the people who were kind enough to tell us it was busted, as we would never have found out otherwise. We’re not in the habit of checking. With any sort of luck it is now clever enough to spot whether you are in Australia or the UK (where most of our [...]
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion. From Robert Burns, To a Louse The course Burns commends has, of late, become unfashionable. Instead of observing others unlike ourselves and reporting back, we have been enjoined to [...]
February 23, 2010 – 9:34 am
It is likely impossible to say anything new about New York so I am not going to try. This post is a placeholder and an apology for not being around the blog very much, something likely to continue for the rest of this week while I see the sights. Briefly, I attended a conference in [...]
February 22, 2010 – 2:30 am
Iran’s supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any fears were “baseless” as Iranians’ beliefs “bar us from using such weapons”. The blunt report raised concerns Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Russia said [...]
December 17, 2009 – 2:31 am
An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics have surprised scientists. Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team says it is the first example of tool use in octopuses. One of the [...]
December 13, 2009 – 10:11 pm
This is a fairly blatant exercise in tourism blegging, so if you don’t live on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, then feel free to ignore it. I will be attending a conference in Washington DC from 19-21 February, 2010, and (having done this once before) would like to avoid flying across the pond, staying [...]
