Some very interesting links to articles about Google on Dee's blog of late, always worth a look generally but these link in nicely to the whole media blah blah point of Brown Couch so are particularly of interest.

I saw Spy Kids 2 yesterday - one of the great things about working for the ANU film group is being able to pop into screenings at will for nada - and enjoyed it almosts as much as the first one. Seriously. Robert Rodriguez (Think El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk til Dawn, The Faculty) has a great touch when it comes to kids films - high energy, fantastic imagination, incredible art direction and a great fun vibe.

Of course, I shouldn't give Rodriguez all the credit for this, film making is a hugely collaborative effort however society more often than not personifies the good/bad traits of something in one figurehead so I guess it's just something we are used to. Think Osama Bin Laden for example - now the worlds image of "terrorism", a simply defined evil individual making it easier to hate someone that look deeper into the issues of the day. (Not that I agree with anything that he or his crew are responsible for, of course)

As much as I hate spam, I'm finding the different ways the subject headings are used quite interesting, particularly the way they seem to be adapting to increasing viewer resistance. Fortunately (I think) I don't need to increase the size of my member or meet the horny housewife "next door", to claim my "free pda" (I've won hundreds of these, there must be a huge warehouse somewhere chock full of these prizes unclaimed by cynics) or find out about cheap ink cartridges (by far the most prevalent of my spam - they must know my mum) or finance options (the information age is really letting these people down if they think I'm worth giving a loan to). The obvious headers are, well, obvious - it's the trickier ones that I'm enjoying. I seem to be getting a lot more ones starting with Re: - just a shame that the rest of it is so completely unlike me. More on this another time anyway.