February 2009
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Pretty damned sad to hear that Richie Benaud has...
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I Punch You by The Sailors.
La Peña, North Melbourne
On Valentines Day, the little lady and I decided we’d try the food at La Peña, the swish-looking Spanish place down the street we’d had our eye on for a little while now.
My one word review: shithouse.
After ordering a tapas, waiting half an hour, then finally asking after it, we were told that they had run out.
A plate of “fried squid, calamari and two types of...
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Paul's Boutique Remastered for its 20th Birthday →
Paul’s Boutique is easily my favourite album of the 1980s, and it’s right up there with my favourite albums of all time.
They’re selling a number of different packages, most of which include lossless downloads, but can also come with 180 gram vinyl, a t-shirt and a giant 8 foot poster.
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A Serious Force →
Of course I joined, but calling the Facebook group Come on Turnbull, don’t take away my $950 bucks ! a serious force is a bit much, don’t you think?
“Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.”
– DesignAday
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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Blacken the...
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So What’cha Want (Soul Assasin Remix) by the...
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Statistics →
Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame) on the use and abuse of statistics:
There’s a particular kind of lazy writing that grates me every time I read it, and it’s when people who don’t know or care what they’re doing try to use statistics.
The writing in question:
I recently conducted an entirely non-scientific survey, which confirmed my impression that not only do...
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