At last, a convincing account of West’s “exploitation” of Chinese factory workers - from the New Yorker! - tinyurl.com/czxvwev
An exhibition I’d love to see “Rembrandt(ism) in America” tinyurl.com/6nmt2m2
Mind, there’re aspects of the Baillieu prob’ly coulda done but didn’t approach that I like is.gd/l9NodA
Sunlight on an old story: who gains and who loses from anti-dumping duties is.gd/dkF5LG
@ezpdf Just purchased 1.77 to play mp4/m4a/p3 audio embedded in PDF (plays in Adobe on desktop machine). Controller visible, no sound!
@SincDavidson assume you saw great Nicholson cartoon in Oz - tinyurl.com/8a3dprk ?
In Jan this year, beach south of Chennai leached yellow from the shit of fishermen, villagers: now UNICEF provides data is.gd/EolEUv
Australian pot and EU kettles connive on airline emission taxes tinyurl.com/7g6ck49
Driving south thru Chennai in Jan. vast plains forested with windmills of all designs scattered ones turning tinyurl.com/6tepj76
Obama to make wind, solar as expensive, inefficient as possible reuters.com/article/2012/0…. Next: tax sunlight to support fusion experiments!
Long options for $100 bn: Buy (a) 1/3 of Apple (b) 1/2 of Microsoft (c) 2/3 of Greece? iRobot? iEye (a retina display)?
Ergas on Climate Institute’s latest effluxion: a “mixture of the incomprehensible, the incorrect and the indescribable” bit.ly/xJjbmP
@DaintyBallerina I’m for foreign pants: “A garment of a mystical sublimity, No matter whether russet, silk, or dimity” No trade = no jobs!
TNT delivery guy had 110 more of these in the truck for delivery this morning! pic.twitter.com/6STnp6CP
@praymurray iPad version in June; PDF version a month later. News at Facebook.com/madbaddangerous (Your) favour in an author’s cap’s a feather :-)
Security as blackmail. US government finds another way to tax airline travel: a fed-up-flyer’s list. is.gd/NwEw9h
Julia’s Madam Butterfly moment in Canto 1 of Byron’s Don Juan (“Man’s love is of his life a thing alone…”) facebook.com/madbaddangerous
@praymurray @ Usherette Byron was a great publicist for the wrong cause. Castlereagh’s reputation is being revived: is.gd/juVwj2
@princeofglow @zack_kun Don Juan en epub? Absolutamente! facebook.com/madbaddangerous
@patbrusnahan Here are 170 words to get started with ;-) facebook.com/madbaddangerous
Davidson & de Sliva deliver a good antidote to productivity chatter. Productivity best understood at micro level: is.gd/iu6Gvr
@alanbeattie Bought your book and liked it a lot (is.gd/HM6EoF), tweets a bonus.
Ukraine claims violation of TRIPS and GATT in WTO challenge to Australia’s cigarette plain packaging. My money wd. be on a strong defence.
Governed by the gutless? Praise (and criticism) for Alan Beattie’s terrific little book: Who’s in Charge Here. is.gd/HM6EoF
Who used ottava rima verse better than Byron? None, probably. Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium (“That is no country for old men…”) comes close.
Dani Rodrik pulls off a trick. Allocative impacts of trade always excite the vox pop; but they’re not the main point: is.gd/bzByOP
@PetraGiselle Hi Petra, you might enjoy this: madbaddangerous.com. An illustrated audio+text e-book of Canto 1, out in a couple of months.
Finished the recording of Canto 1 in about 3 hours! Immense fun. MadCat Sound studio (http://t.co/VMEVV2cl) now editing the data file.
Recording Canto 1 of Byron’s Don Juan today. Performance lasts 3.5 hours; bit of an opera. Then two months post-productn on audio-ebook.
Recording Canto 1 of Byron’s Don Juan today. Performance lasts 3.5 hours; bit of an opera. Then two months post-productn on the audio-ebook.
Onselen makes strong case Smith (& Houston & Hurley) right to criticise Kafer. But standing hiis.gd/Ywym2s7CwXtyoo
@SincDavidson Tweetdeck is an extension for Chrome (although you can access directly on the Web, too). Slowly beating it into submission :-)
Trying to set up Tweetdeck on Chrome. Driving me nuts!
Two centuries ago this week, Lord Byron made his first (and only) speech the UK House of Lords. It caused a sensation is.gd/93VVwO
Orded an iPad 3. Making an e-pub (audio + illustrated text) of Canto 1 of Byron’s fun, sexy libertarian epic, Don Juan is.gd/h5eFm9
No surprise; a compromise on access to investor-state disputes in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations seems to be in the works.
W. Swan boasts, misleads about his/Rudd’s bungling of resource rents tax just as the likely peak of the boom passes is.gd/nKWbOE
Problem with Investor-State disputes? They enforce transparency, narrow consistency at a high (social) price & even if you win you don’t.
Windschuttle’s rather rosy account (via Lal) of the benignity of US empire is fair, but ends just where it should begin is.gd/FewEPH
Ergas du coté de chez Swan, devastating (with threadnody) is.gd/mXZXa9
What’s the bet Carr will find the baton in his knapsack pretty soon. Of course he can’t wave it from the other place…
China cuts exposure to US fiscal madness, dilutes trade surplus with debt to Aus (et al) but one cheer only.. from WSJ is.gd/OU7eiX