After my post the other day about teenage boys with non-bendy arms and butt crack on show, I got to see a whole herd of them in the wilds of Esk Street yesterday. Co-incidentally, at lunch with a couple of colleagues…
I feel like David Attenborough
Month: January 2011
Cutsie animal photo of the day
Marketing: how not to do it
I have never been a fan of Slingshot’s method of marketing but I’m even less inclined to think kindly of them after the recent news that they were regularly breaching Telecom’s security to gain an edge in the poaching of customers.…
Dear Oprah, got any holiday plans?
It looks like Oprah’s trip of Oz has been a big boost for our neighbours, with web traffic to the australia.com website up 120 percent in America after her first Down Under episode screened last week. Maybe we need to…
You might as well … Imagine?
As mashups go, this one is pretty amazing. With the addition of John Lennon’s Imagine, it manages to make a 80s classic Jump, by Van Halen, sound pretty deep and meaningful. Imagine-a-jump-john-lennon-vs.-van-halen by jackstanleywp
Do you smell something?
A criminal mastermind
Fountain attempts to drown passing woman
In my Online column this week, I linked to the infamous “stupid woman falls in fountain as she walks and texts at the same time” video (click here and scroll down). Now the news is out that the aforementioned stupid…
It’s a clown … train?
The revolution has begun
A fox in Belarus had the last laugh on a hunter: it shot him. The bloke had initially shot the fox from a distance, then caught up with it and was in the process of trying to finish it off by…