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2006/1/5

Things I didn't know until today: apparently, David McClymont, the bass player from the seminal early-1980s Scottish indie band Orange Juice, wrote the Lonely Planet book on Melbourne. (Or so someone claims on last.fm)

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2016/8/20

The world moves one step closer to gender equality, with the announcement of a washing detergent specially formulated for fragile-masculinity sufferers . Named Frey , and packed in a tactical-black bottle reminiscent of engine oils, it

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2015/8/18

There is an article in The Quietus (written by Pipettes svengali turned avant-garde impresario Bobby Barry, no less) about the recent revival of analogue modular synthesizers . You know; the room-sized hulking behemoths, last seen on

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2012/8/19

An argument that the Australian ideal of the “larrikin”—the unruly, mischievous underdog thumbing his nose at authority and propriety— has devolved into a US-style anti-intellectual right-wing populism , and a fig-leaf for mining oligarchs to claim