Obscure Box
Out of the iron lung and into the furnace
Those Google ads need a close watch. Look at this highly inappropriate ad that appeared on on a story posted on the Brisbane Times website, originally from the Sydney Morning Herald. The story “Dead after 60 years in iron lung” (Saturday October 31, 2009) told how June Middleton had died at a Melbourne nursing home [...]
Queenslander hits Twitter
Whatever the result in tonight’s State of Origin clash, the Maroons have already won the battle online. 612 ABC Brisbane’s breakfast host Spencer Howson started the ball rolling with a post on the online social gossip website Twitter. The post simply read: “Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander!” Howson then encouraged [...]
Not the drumming gorilla we're used to
When the drumming gorilla first hit the web he was a big hit. I recall sitting in one office where the e-mail went from desk to desk, on each occasion the tune was the same. Phil Collins – he of Genesis and solo career fame – was heard singing the opening lines of his classic [...]
She's back!
After a few days of Twittering silence from Queensland Premier Anna Bligh … she’s back. No longer anna4queensland she’s now only known as Premier_Bligh. Not sure about the background image though. Works on a really really big screen, but on the normal size screen the face of Anna Bligh disappears.
Pollies stop Twittering
During the election campaign in Queensland you could hardly hear the policies for all the Twittering from the two leaders battling it out for the state’s top job. Both Labor’s Anna Bligh and the Soda Pop Party’s Lawrence Springborg were using the Twitter website for all sorts of … well twitter. But the votes have [...]