Archive for October, 2007
From Times Online [link]:
Researchers grew fruit and vegetables and reared cattle on adjacent organic and nonorganic sites on a 725-acre farm attached to Newcastle University, and at other sites in Europe. They found that levels of antioxidants in milk from organic herds were up to 90% higher than in milk from conventional herds.
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Vanity Fair has an unforgettable article about Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frédéric von Anhalt: Link. So unceasingly, mind-bogglingly bizarre that I’m going to have to read it again.
Andrew Charlton has an article in the new Monthly about the myths surrounding interest rates and government. Excerpt:
The second aspect of the government’s economic spin is that budget deficits cause high interest rates. … At the launch of his 2004 election campaign, Howard said, “Nothing is more certain than if economic policy is allowed [...]
Link. Excerpt:
While officials have yet to determine the purpose of the attack, a number of potential theories have emerged, including the sudden deregulation of the U.S. economy, the destruction of culturally significant landmarks, and maybe the fact that man, in his essence, is no more than a collection of irrational fragments, incapable of finding [...]
Peter Combe is doing a tour of concerts across Australia playing his classic children’s songs… at over-18’s venues. What a great idea.
Link to a clip of him performing ‘Juicy Juicy Green Grass’ recently in Adelaide. It made me giddy.
(Thanks Keir for bringing this to my attention.)
Andrew Bolt and Piers Ackerman, two of my least favourite writers, both have good columns this week.
Bolt’s article about the backlash against the Sudanese is mostly right on the money: Link.
And Ackerman’s personal attack on Kevin Rudd sums up a lot of what many people I know are feeling about him: Link.
I don’t really buy [...]
If you didn’t hear the news: This week the major music labels won a civil suit against Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old single mother from Minnesota. She was found to have shared 24 songs, for which she has to pay $220,000 in damages.
Just to reiterate: $220,000 for sharing 24 songs.
Under wacky US law, these penalties [...]
Two movies at the cinema right now, Superbad and Ratatouille, show that Hollywood is still capable of producing pure, perfect entertainment. I highly recommend both.
