This excellent Canberra Times article, tells the story. I believe this is an example of what the Bubblegeneration crew define as “strategy decay”.

Wishing all visitors to Perceptric Forum a happy and prosperous new year! I will be taking off for two weeks…. so no postings from me until January 15th.

With Hugo Chavez re-elected, he can now move to execute on his major promise – build out the oil pipeline infrastructure within South America. This will enable him to create true independance from the USA, where the bulk of Venezuela's exports currently go. That in turn is made possible by the current high price of [...]

A heard a story just before Christmas…. A friend of mine's business partner had a request from her daughter for the big present: All 12 of the Barbie dancing princesses. Apparently there are 12 different dolls, some of whom are Caucasian in appearance, some Chinese and some African…. At the local store where she went [...]

Here is the new Nissan campaign, as rendered by the visitors to the outdoor cinema at Centennial Park, in Sydney…. Shit campaign?

This fascinating article, published by the Economist, discusses possible implications for notions of free will of recent research in neuroscience. Certain human behaviours appear to be pre-determined by particular brain pathologies. These behaviours are often sexually deviant, violent or anti-social in other ways. There are obvious implications for law enforcement, justice and social order, particularly [...]

I was sitting having lunch with one of my colleagues in Sydney today at a restaurant in O'Connell Street. Suddenly out of the window I saw John Howard, our PM, striding by. A couple of bodyguards discretely behind him, and no doubt a couple ahead, though I didn't see them… One thing it shows: We [...]

I was talking to a lady today who works in the oldest gold bullion store in Sydney – a coin dealer that has been around since the 1800's. She was telling me that there seem to be an unusually large number of people around who must think the price of gold is going up…. Apparently [...]

Sean Penn is one of my favourite actors. And I love the fact that his politics are so pure and worn so publicly. Here, in full, is the text of the speech he gave when accepting the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award on December 18th in New York. (reprinted from the CounterPunch website). The [...]