Websites’ role in copycat suicides
CHILDREN are seeking suicide instructions online, a government agency has revealed.
A phone to pick
AFTER Christopher Pyne likened dealing with Senate crossbenchers to “wading through molasses”, Day 2 hit a sticky patch.
Tolstoy story
CANBERRA Times cartoonist David Pope is to wit what the national capital is to entrepreneurship, but that didn’t stop Jacqui Lambie.
Aunty plays G20 protesters soundtrack
IT’S business as usual for the collective down at the anarcho-syndicalist national broadcaster.
Jihadi was Sharrouf Facebook fan
TEEN jihadi Abdullah Elmir had commented on a gory Facebook photo he had posted of terrorist Khaled Sharrouf hunched over an executed Iraqi.
Albo shortens it
EARLIER this week, Strewth created the mental image of Rabbitohs fan Anthony Albanese celebrating wearing nought but body paint.
The power of one
JUMPSUITS for the over-40s? Absolutely. Just don’t go strapless, ladies.
Software may detect cancer in X-rays
WHAT if software akin to the program that recognises faces in Facebook photos could detect cancer in an X-ray.
You’re giving away your metadata
WORRIED about how much of your “metadata” our security spy agencies will get their hands on? Well, Facebook, Google and others already have reams.
The face Facebook really likes
THE Facebook page of Colombian star Shakira illustrates the extent of her popularity.
Investors cheer disruptors
SUDDENLY Mark Zuckerberg and the phenomenon of Facebook are front and centre of investor sentiment again.
‘Nazi’ cop Sharia Anne still on beat
A QUEENSLAND policewoman who launched a racist internet attack against an Aboriginal activist has escaped disciplinary action.
Facebook suspends activist’s account
FACEBOOK has suspended the account of a prominent Hong Kong democracy campaigner as the movement attracts massive local support.
End of the world as we know it
ZAK Hilditch’s apocalyptic thriller taps into the zeitgeist.
Lesser-known sites for sore eyes
THE other day a friend posted on Facebook pictures he had just taken of the Taj Mahal. It took me back more than 30 years to the time I saw the Taj up close.
Sandberg: Get real on ads
FACEBOOK chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has called for advertising that more accurately reflects diversity.
Soprano blames husband for anti-gay post
OPERA Australia is under pressure to sack Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri from its production of Otello over a homophobic Facebook post.
Beijing bad boy
CHINA’S rock star director Meng Jinghui explains why he is bringing a Brechtian classic to Melbourne’s Malthouse.
No prep for reality of Manus
WITHIN days of spotting a Facebook advertisement for a tropical working “holiday”, Nicole Judge was counselling suicidal detainees.
Shorten and Swan put on Occupy protest
AFTER six years of inaction fiscal reform must happen.
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