Little Australia

For no special reason, here's a new blog post, inspired by this tweet, posted yesterday by noted American news person Howard Fineman: ...

Second volume of posthumous Oliver Sacks, Everything in It's Place: First Loves and Last Tales , reviewed at NY Review of Books . His ...

The Nib

Maggie Smith Found here:  @TomTomorrow

I can't stand sappy do-gooder posts that purport to offer an injection of hope to people feeling like they've been kicked in the gut...

Oy. This is happening right now, and it's quite convoluted. Quick intro: Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald has a story up saying - we...

This is a crazy story : it came about because a British woman working for the Australian company heard the voice of an ex-boyfriend in one o...

Julian Assange and Wikileaks are getting shit from several quarters today for promoting an email from Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to ...

The secret to successful blogging is to only post rippingly good stuff that immediately grabs people and makes them want to see more. And ...

Wow. This is something to see on any day, but it's spectacular right now - with Cyclone Pam churning over the South Pacific: Go h...

I've made a video showing a trick I came up with (although I'm very sure it's been done before) to remove a stubborn screwtop. N...