Australian using fake passport as ID for US bars arrested as terrorist, news.com.au.

Bicycle ambulances launched

Why New Zealand is better than Australia: “Mr Goff said New Zealand would not follow Canberra’s lead in pledging support for the Bush administration.
“New Zealand would not send forces into Iraq unless there was clear evidence of links between the regime and terrorism. Despite the best intelligence work, no link has been drawn.” (via the Age).

The Age: “Former Labor frontbencher Cheryl Kernot has lodged a complaint with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) over the leaking of personal emails confirming her affair with Gareth Evans. ”

I think I need a big line of coke before calling recruiters.
“Hi! I’m great! You’re probably great too, but I’m really great!”

Traditional English menus (the kind you see outside cheap cafs and in the country) read like a list of crimes against food. Boiled bacon?
Otoh, I bought some fish from a fish and chip shop the other day, and noticed that the bag claimed, ‘Fish and Chips – the healthiest meal for all the family”. I’m not sure what their basis of comparison is – battered lard, perhaps?

A on asylum seekers in Australia claims that John Howard’s “hard-line policy” on intercepting boats “has been a huge political success for Prime Minister John Howard, delivering him a third consecutive election victory late last year”. Surely Beazley’s decision to align the Opposition with that policy (thus causing usual Labour voters to split their vote between the parties that had better policies on immigration) was a factor that can’t be ignored.

Yahoo admits mangling e-mail. I wonder if there’s anyone who didn’t get a job interview because of a mangled resume who could sue.

Walmart are selling Linux computers! Actually, they’re running Lindows.

The Age on the new Little Lonsdale St digs. See also the Museum Victoria Little Lonsdale site (horribly out-of-date but if you cut funding to museums, this is what happens).