Sometimes, a product isn’t photographed in an ideal colour nor an ideal presentation. Sometimes, it still makes it into the Specials email, good taste notwithstanding. And sometimes, Yr Editor must take up the Paint.NET brushes and have fun… Very little imagination was needed… PS: The slippers do look warm and comfortable – maybe in a…
(for immediate release) You know when the name’s so perfect? That you can’t get a great title out of it? “Crowd Strike causes Cashless Crash” – that’s just so twee and headline-y. But I managed an ever-so-twee headline in any case. Jump in, the trail’s still warm! You Know What I’m Talking About. Thousands, probably…
Our national telco (I guess…) Telstra has always struggled with doing its job. (Kind of like Australia Post is about to try and become the only postal service that doesn’t actually deliver post.) But hey – this is about Telstra. Who have now published full names and addresses of their customers – whether they wanted…
Another hazard of flying: “It’s just a biohazard issue,” the pilot told air traffic control. And indeed, the Delta Airlines Airbus A350 was forced to return to Atlanta after two hours in the air on Sept. 1 after a passenger suffered an “onboard medical emergency”: uncontrollable diarrhea that left the entire length of the aisle…
Every so often I get to have a little giggle. When someone with airs and foibles attempts to out-sneer everyone else. Aw hell – I don’t just have a “little giggle” I have a full-on coffee spit. Like this “Tiktok star” of etiquette with his croissant crappery. A croissant isn’t “made of butter” – it’s…
This article is a bit of an issue for me. You see, people should be throwing ALL hard plastic into recycling, not getting confused by articles like this that seem to suggest that other people are throwing plastic bottle caps into the general waste. I’m not really sure where the author of that article gets…
Michael Mosley’s recent passing from what has tentatively been attributed to heat stress highlights something that will become a deadly factor in daily life and is already tipping into being very concerning to our lives. The thing with heat stress is that it’s insidious. It sneaks up on you. You’re on a walk that starts…
A recent “Download This Show” podcast remarked on the then-recent events like the grammar school AI deepfake porn, and X’s overturn of the Australian Internet Safety officer’s request to take down a terror attack that had been carried out against a religious figure. It shows how pure greed trumps humanness, every time. There’s a lot…
Hello, this is yr Ed, with a short little note to get activated and fight for your right to cash. Not just because while they admit that they’re doing 47% less work from branches, and have closed dozens of branches, in the last four years, their fees haven’t actually moved downwards, have they? In other…
Here, have a link : If you like the 50s/60s artistic, journalistic, and cultural aesthetic, then maybe check James Lileks’ whole website. I did that once, and lost an entire week to his reportage of the era’s history, advertising, stories, and pictures. He also still writes Bleats, which is a regular opinion column, on the…