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This website is like Digg for restaurant menus

August 25th, 2007 · Comments

One of the people who commented on my post of last week about how the PR industry engages with journalists was David from Webmenu.com.au. If I don't know a commenter I like to check out their website, and I was amazed and delighted at what I found — a website that's like Digg for Australian [...]

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Why no late movie sessions in Sydney?

March 23rd, 2007 · Comments

I've been perplexed ever since getting to Sydney why it is that there are so few — if any — late night movie sessions beyond about 9.40PM. In Melbourne, almost all cinemas have a few movies starting at 10.40 – 11.00 PM, sometimes even as late as 11.50PM!
I reckon these late sessions are ideal for [...]

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Sydney's most beautiful girls?

May 27th, 2006 · Comments

I snapped this scene of ironic juxtaposition on my cameraphone on the way to work the other day. The "Sydney's most beautiful girls" truck was parked outside the strip club where they work, next to a street person clad in clothes that looked like they had survived a nuclear blast, with piles of stinking garbage [...]

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