about 7 months ago - 1 comment
I voted in the 2009 triple j Hottest 100 here are my votes: Lily Allen – Not Fair Came in at 8 Muse – Resistance – Came in at 35 Lily Allen – 22 – Came in at 60 Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land - Came in at 65 Muse – United States Of Eurasia
about 9 months ago - No comments
Today I tried to buy an umbrella, not an onerous task I grant you, but have you tried shopping in David Jones on a Sunday lately? They have removed all the staff that had a clue and replaced them with young droids with no personality or ability to think for themselves. I browsed the umbrellas
about 1 year ago - No comments
As I reported on 28th June, Foxtel will be launching 30 new channels later this year and News Limited publication The Australian has provided confirmation of some of them. They list the following new and expanded offerings: Showtime Greats will be dropped in favour of Showtime genre channels covering action, premiere, comedy and drama. With
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Reuters Media President, Chris Ahearn has invited bloggers to link to Reuters content at will, while News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch says he wants all News Corp content monetized in the next 12 months. And today we hear that Fairfax is looking at ways to monetize their news sites here in Australia. Chris Ahearn says
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Today we see reports of the first positive drug test from this years Tour de France. It has taken 5 days since the final on the Champs Elysees. Mikel Astarloza is the culprit and he apparently tested positive to the banned blood-booster EPO in a pre race out of competition test on June 26. Asartloza
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Triple J’s Hottest 100 of all time 20th anniversary edition has been declared. The full list of 100 songs are listed below. #100 – Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out #99 – TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me #98 – Led Zeppelin – Kashmir #97 – Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning #96
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Australian Mark Webber has produced a perfectly-judged performance to grab his maiden Formula One pole position for Sunday’s German Grand Prix. The Australian clocked one minute 32.230 to finish ahead of Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button. Sebastian Vettel was fourth in the second Red Bull as the unpredictable weather made for a thrilling
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Jerry Sienfeld has appeared in an ad for the Greater Building Society, based in the Hunter region of New South Wales, The Herald reports today. Sienfeld filmed the ad in Cederhust, New York earlier this year. Read the full story in The Herald
about 1 year ago - No comments
Microsoft on Thursday announced prices for Windows 7 and offered free upgrades to buyers of personal computers before the new operating system hits the stores in October. Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows consumer marketing, said Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Window 7 to people who buy Vista-equipped PCs between Friday and the
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TEN’s new 24 hour sports channel, ONE, will be available to Foxtel cable viewers in standard definition from July 1st. The re-broadcast of ONE HD’s content will be allocated channel number 531 when it is played out to Foxtel cable subscribers. ONE SD will be grouped with the sports genre channels. ONE HD has already