In honor of the Apple developer’s conference next week, you should watch this presentation of their new product - the iRack
(note: those who don’t like geeky stuff should also watch!)

Violence, like a multi-headed hydra, surrounds us.
In one sad week we had a mass shooting at Virginia Tech, USA that rivaled Australia’s notorious Port Arthur massacre; more suicide bombers in Baghdad, Iraq; the Palestine/Israel violence took the life of a kidnapped BBC journalist; and preparations for Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) observations of ANZAC Day […]

I thought this was a profound article on some of the political ramifications of the Iraq war. Signposts was a blog who had started just before the invasion of Iraq. If you look back into the archives, I am sure you will find some heated debated over the Iraq invasion.
I was never accused of in […]

Humanity is in the process of effecting a change in the world’s climate, that even exceeds the natural cycles that in the past have produced ice ages. The impact on the life of this planet will be monumental and it is already being felt.
Thousands of people have already become climate change refugees from Wellington, NZ […]

My friend Matt Glover has drawn it well

There has been a lot of comment over the last couple of days about the hanging of Saddam Hussein.  Some of it has even penetrated the busyness of the season to resonate a little.  I have been reflecting a little on a photo that was on the age website (which I now cannot find).  It […]

Exactly, two years after the tsunami devastated parts of South Asia, the recovery effort for people displaced by the disaster continues, as (this photo essay) by the UN childrens’ fund, Unicef shows, show.

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. …We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
Ann Coulter, “This Is War”; September 12, 2001
Bah - what more can you say than absolute disgrace and a perversion of Christianity.
(via sojourners)

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the attacks in the US on the World Trade Centre.  It happened late in the evening our time and, because we often watch DVDs in lieu of actual TV, I didn’t find out about what had happened until the next morning.  The news came in snippets at the cafe […]

(via These Infinite Spaces)