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angrypenguin: Facebook and the face of history

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Friday, September 23, 2011. Facebook and the face of history. So Zuckerberg, Facebook supremo, proposes that his 750 million users use their Facebook pages as lifetime scrapbooks - posting childhood pictures and records of rites of passage and family moments. If I understand this rightly, as detailed in Mashable's. Report on Facebook Evolution, Facebook says it will place these things into timelines so our lives are recorded and displayed chronologically. And, of course, stored in perpetuity. We don't do...

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angrypenguin: Don't put your daughter on the stage...

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Friday, August 16, 2013. Don't put your daughter on the stage. The ire is roused by the sudden discussion on Adelaide's ABC 891 radio about a student actor turning down a semi-nude scene in a student production. The girl's mother has come onto the radio to report anonymously under the name of Mary. Not once, but twice now. This year, the student play is "Don's Party". I've seen it quite a few times and, while it is about drunks and boors and cheats, it usually features no nude roles, let alone "plum"...

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angrypenguin: The Great Chili Cook-Off.

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Monday, April 08, 2013. The Great Chili Cook-Off. Enough with cooking competitions on the television. Sage Adelaide journalist Helen Covernton (below right) whisked Masterchef off the screens and into the domestic dining room to create the last, or first, word in fine, fun dining. The dinner party Cook-Off. And so it came to pass that two of Adelaide's high-achiever Americans were pitted to showcase their mastery of their native gastronomic classics - Chili. Gale Carnes is an environmental scientist.

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angrypenguin: The Face(book) of progress

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Friday, April 25, 2014. The Face(book) of progress. Who dreams up these nonsensical questionnaires? What rock band are you? What era should you have been born in? How English are you? What flower are you? What is your spirit bird? What sort of wine are you? What superhero should you be? Are you a proper snob? What flavor of jam are you? To find out, one is presented with some quaint choice questions with pictures and - ta-da! You're very 60s, you have an owl, you're Batman, you're tart quince. And so we ...

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angrypenguin: VIT - and proud of it

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Saturday, October 26, 2013. VIT - and proud of it. Very Important Tweeps have trounced the grand old status of the Very Important Person. Now, suddenly, smart social media marketers have clued up to the fact that the Twitterati are the communicators of the moment. We are not simply as good as our follower figures in spreading the world, but have limitless exponential potential according to the powers of the ReTweet. The idea was to bring the VITs together and have them ecstatically Tweeting en masse.

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angrypenguin: Striking the union

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Monday, October 31, 2011. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has won. He played hardball with the unions and a flaccid Labor government was not there for the workers. The $5 million-a-year Irishman can now move forward and "modernise" the country's one-time flagship airline with cheap crew and service from Asia. This is profoundly sad and negative for Australia - and the sort of compromised dividend one may expect of privatisation and outsourcing. 15 million a year? With a staff dominated by students on casual hours?

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angrypenguin: Oh, to be in Scotland

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Friday, September 19, 2014. Oh, to be in Scotland. Oh to be in Scotland, now the vote is here. I used to live there. I worked among some wonderful journos, Jim Gilheany I recall and the jovial Jimmy Scott. As a footloose Australian, I was always fascinated that so many journalists had never left Scotland. I loved Scotland and the Scots - as well I may, carrying my family name of Scott as a middle name. Then again, as a newbie in Scotland, I had a bad start. On one of my first days I suffered the grea...

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angrypenguin: I only turned my back for a minute

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Saturday, April 28, 2012. I only turned my back for a minute. The original blogger password was outdated some time ago. It is all Google now? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Aussie journo with American scientist spouse on epic road trip in the USA. View my complete profile. I only turned my back for a minute. Ern Malley Official Website. On a Shoestring Recipes. Our Dave Barry - Sheryl-Lee. Skippy the bush kangaroo. Wil Wheaton - nice actor. Simple template. Template images by billnoll.

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angrypenguin: Remember when smoking was an ice-breaker?

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012. Remember when smoking was an ice-breaker? Something precious was lost when the world stopped smoking. A tradition of "offering" was stolen from the tentative processes of social overtures. The proffering of a cigarette packet, one ciggie thoughtfully pulled forth, and the single question "cigarette? Could break the ice in countless contexts. Once upon a time. It had partner contact lines in "do you have a light? Or "care for a light? Those were the days. Too few, since we fast...