Who on earth decided that sending online newspaper readers blind was a good idea?

 

Busy, busy, busy, is the nicest way to describe the updated website now online for The Daily Examiner.

Often violently coloured, with visually distracting animated ads and barely a space for the reader to rest their eyes.

All this serving a local demographic which indicates that the newspaper’s most faithful followers are not young IT experts.

 

 

SNAP!

 

Friday 13^th July 2012

“MY WIFE’S LOVER

My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.) I have met with him on several occasions, and he has been gracious. (I doubt if he is aware of my knowledge.) I have watched the affair intensify over the last year, and I have also benefited from his generosity. He is engaged in work that I am passionate about and is absolutely the right person for the job. I strongly feel that exposing the affair will create a major distraction that would adversely impact the success of an important effort. My issue: Should I acknowledge this affair and finally force closure? Should I suffer in silence for the next year or two for a project I feel must succeed? Should I be “true to my heart” and walk away from the entire miserable situation and put the episode behind me? NAME WITHHELD”

ABC News 10^th November 2012:

David Petraeus: FBI Probe Said to Have Revealed Affair With Biographer Paula Broadwell

 

A lesson taken from the behaviour of fellows and students of the College of St. John the Evangelist (University of Sydney)

 

One NSW North Coast resident’s view on the anarchic College of St. John the Evangelist:

 

I don't understand what all the fuss is about with the Untouchables at St John's College. The men abused someone, the impression was given that disciplinary action had taken place and then they were given positions of power. Looking at the history of the Catholic Church surely they are just carrying on long-held and upheld Catholic traditions and in that tradition nothing has nor apparently ever will change.

Phillip Anderson, Uki

 

 

Background:

 

Why the College of St. John the Evangelist at Sydney University needs to be dissolved now

Exraterrestrial life on the horizon? Don't pick up the phone to ET!

 

A little light-hearted entertainment from the BBC:

 

The BBC's star science presenter Brian Cox thought he might have a scoop on his hands when he trained his telescope at a newly discovered planet in search of alien life.

But the professor said his hopes for an exclusive were brought back down to earth after he was told by the BBC that impromptu extraterrestrial contact would break health and safety guidelines.

Cox, the former pop star turned particle physicist, wanted to use the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire to listen in to the planet, Threapleton Holmes B, on his BBC2 series Stargazing Live.

"We decided that we'd point the Jodrell Bank telescope at the planet that had been discovered by these two viewers and listen because no one had ever pointed a radio telescope at it and you never know," said Cox.

"The BBC actually said, 'But you can't do that because we need to go through the regulations and health and safety and everything in case we discover a signal from an alien civilisation'.

"You mean we would discover the first hint that there is other intelligent life in the universe beyond Earth, live on air, and you're worried about the health and safety of it?

"It was incredible. They did have guidelines. Compliance."…..

* Martian cartoon found at Google Images