Look, a butterfly!

I wish you all a wonderful Australia Day! In celebration, I hope you enjoy this classic offering from Men At Work.

I only recently found out that the flute part was based on the “Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…” song. Now it’s so obvious!

Picking up a hard drive from U-Mart this morning, where the clientele is significantly more geeky than even the average physics department, I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said:
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base are
Belong to you
I wish I didn’t think that was cool.

I recently stumbled across a fascinating 4-part BBC documentary entitled The Century of the Self. The first episode, entitled “Happiness Machines”, follows the history of public relations in the earlier part of the 20th century.
According to the documentary, it all started with Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays, who lived in the US. He was a Press […]

Here is some nostalgia for those of you who were JJJ-listening teenagers in the 90s.

Happyland was a side project for Quan Yeoman of Regurgitator and Janet English of Spiderbait. Incidentally, both Spiderbait and Regurgitator are going to be playing in Brisbane next Sunday at the Hear and Now festival.