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Dean Jones 1961–2020
Toots Hibbert
Zipper-mouth face
Hutt River Province, 1970–2020
After 50 years of secession, the Principality of Hutt River will rejoin Australia.
Galaksija
Diverted Traffic
'A new newsletter and online collection from the [London Review of Books], featuring just one piece from our archive per day, chosen for its compulsive, immersive and escapist qualities, and also for its total lack of references to plague, pandemics or quarantine.'
Old Soap
'In many ways, the soap I seek could be described as mundane. I seek the brands which were once very commonplace, but which are now really very difficult to find.'Matthew Brooks's instagram account is a collection of old bars of packaged soap.
When Carbon Copies Fade
A blog post suggests that the photos in Fading Flamingos, a project by Maximilian Mann nominated for the 2020 World Press Photo competition, are substantially similar to those of another photographer, Solmaz Daryani. Mann has responded to the allegations, to photography website PetaPixel.
Weeds of Melbourne
'Within Melbourne’s gardens, reserves, infrastructure and wasted lands sprout all of the traumas and dislocations of the past, and so these will do from now to the end of recorded time, no matter the investment of labour and personal or collective suffering devoted to revegetation. The weeds, a thousand strong, are the newest layer atop the bay sludge and basalt spills that form the Melbourne geology, a seedbank that has made itself a permanent stratigraphic marker of the arrival. Just add light and water.'
Boda Boda Madness
'boda boda madness by dutch photographer jan hoek and ugandan-kenyan fashion designer bobbin case is a project capturing nairobi’s motortaxi drivers, known as boda boda, who, in their effort to strengthen their appeal to customers, add striking features to their motorclycles, turning them into artworks on wheels.'
The Edison of the Slot Machines
‘But in the slot cheat business, triumph is always short-lived. Less than two years after The Monkey Paw’s invention, fresh innovations in security rendered it obsolete. Indeed, the legacy of The Monkey Paw wasn’t so much in its lasting efficacy, but in the confidence it instilled in Tommy. Archimedes once said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.” At the end of the nineties, Tommy Carmichael declared, “Give me a slot machine and I’ll beat it.”’
Red Panda Finder
Red Panda Finder is a database and genealogical reference for red pandas in zoos throughout the world.
The Cash Railway Website
Weaponised Boomer Memes
Native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads
Australia’s water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia’s beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. And these intelligent, semi-aquatic rats have revealed another talent: they are one of the only Australian mammals to safely eat toxic cane toads... The rats, which can grow to over 1kg, are the only mammal found to specifically target large toads, neatly dissecting the toads to eat their hearts and livers while avoiding the poisonous skin and glands.
Just take a walk down lonely street / to Haegumgang Hotel
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has visited the Mt Kumgang resort, ordering the project promoted by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Trump to be razed, denouncing the buildings as 'just a hotchpotch with no national character at all'. Mt Kumgang's Haegumgang Hotel was the brainchild of a Queensland property developer in 1987, and originally floated on the Great Barrier Reef. It is commemorated in model form in the Townsville Maritime Museum.
It's Time For This American Life To Grow Up
Jonathan Keith Idema
Adventurers in Short Shorts
Before Steve Irwin brought short shorts in Australian television documentarism to the world, there were the earworming Leyland Brothers, Malcolm Douglas, the original and literal "Crocodile Hunter" who combined conservationism with cooking, and the dry humourist Alby Mangels, who had his own personal filming curse, interviewed Caribbean drug lords, posed nude (SFW) for Cleo, filmed through minefields and warzones, and filmed more than 80 documentaries.
Five people cover Somebody That I Used To Know on one guitar
Panama Priti Bikes
Did McDonalds cause the decline of violence in America?
Inside the Favelas
Melbourne Childrens Hospital Meerkats
Bogan Ipsum
Australia's High Court Rules The "Malaysian Solution" Unconstitutional
Australia's High Court has handed down a 6-1 judgement against (PDF) the Commonwealth Government's deal with the Malaysian Government, to replace the so-called Pacific Solution, under which the two countries would have "swapped" asylum seekers.
Mark Twain's Advice To Little Girls
[Mark Twain] did not squat down to be heard and understood by children, but asked them to stand on their tiptoes—to absorb the kind of language and humor suitable for adults.
Tweeting Operations in Odyssey Dawn
Printer Centipede
Trade Union Poster Design: A Very Mini History
The Mexican Suitcase
The International Center of Photography is exhibiting photographs online from the Mexican Suitcase, a cache of photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War, hidden, and rediscovered in 2008.
Let's Play Cars
American Worker Cooperatives
American Worker Cooperatives: a library, resource centre, startup guide, and map of over 200 industrial cooperatives. [via mefi projects]
Oonce Oonce
Blogging The War, Seventy Years Later
Bob's On The Job
Cardon Copy
Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed flyers and tear-offs... redesigning them, overpowering their message with a new visual language. [via]
Babakiueria
Julio Dives In Mexico City's Sewers
So Where The Bloody Hell Are Ya?
After suspending all asylum applications from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, the Australian Government has made a series of confronting youtube videos showing the dangers of the sea, and the arrest and detention of asylum seekers.
Oscar Wilde's Voice
The Worst Of Perth
The Worst Of Perth showcases the worst in public art, architecture, design, fashion, car culture, graffiti and suburban landscape in and around Perth in Western Australia, with the occasional public victory over bad art. Substantially NSFW.
Encyclopedia Dramatica vs. the Commonwealth of Australia
In January, Google Australia agreed to take down links to the Encyclopedia Dramatica. The Australian Human Rights Commission has now written to the owner of the ED threatening legal action.
Vintage German Illustration
Ruby Hunter
We were supposed to really actually forget about that lifestyle. But it'd come back to me in song.Ruby Hunter, award winning songwriter, has died.
Crystal Lee Sutton
Crystal Lee Sutton was fired for trying to organise a union. The incident was made into the 1979 film Norma Rae.
Last week she died at the age of 68.
George Julius' Mechanical Totalisator
Sir George Julius's Automatic Totalisator, first used by the public in New Zealand, and quickly taken up by racetracks throughout Australasia and North America (warning hideous HTML), automates parimutuel betting.
Papercraft Keyboard Cat
Eve-Anke Goldmann
Exploring and trespassing
Assuming bullets sell in Somalia for USD 0.75
The Adventures Of A Would Be Arms Dealer (PDF) is an eight-page comic illustrating how an illegal arms deal works in practice. Via.