Obscure Box

I’m trying to read today’s Australian newspaper and I’m getting lost. The main story on the front page is about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the ACCC fuel advice. All very interesting stuff. But the story continues on page 6 and that’s a long way through the newspaper so I started to read another front [...]

A PR company is trying to tell me the wonders of a particular spa resort facility. In Thailand, destination spas contain 9.4 treatment rooms on average What does that mean? If I go, I bet I get the 0.4 of a treatment room. The PR fluff continues to delight. Lemongrass tea is the most common [...]

Ever wondered why celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay gets away with swearing so much on TV? Well a report by the University of Queensland’s legal academic Dr Tamara Walsh to the Crime and Misconduct Commission review into the state’s Public Nuisance Offence has some interesting reading. In “NO OFFENCE: The enforcement of offensive language and offensive [...]

Very interesting article in today’s Media section of The Australian. Every journalist – including student journalists and bloggers – should take note of Tracie Winch’s article “Con artists and journalism’s not so bright future” (Thursday 22 May 2008). Shame on those who copy the work of others.

Is it me, or are keyboards and computers just determined to over-rule any attempt I make to type the word “teh”. Grrrrr… it’s done it again. Every time I try to type the word t-h-e I get “teh”. No matter what I do, or how slowly I try to type, or how convinced I am [...]