ifttt:

I’d like to humbly announce that the first beta invites for a project I’m incredibly excited about are out the door. The project is called ifttt, shorthand for “if this then that”. With this blog I hope to begin fleshing out some of the initial inspirations that led to the inception of ifttt…

QUT Creative Writing and Literary Studies, in association with the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, is excited to bring you a free public lecture by Jostein Gaarder next Thursday evening.

Jostein is a Norwegian philosopher and author. His best known work is the novel Sophie’s World, (subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy). This novel has been translated into fifty-three languages and has over thirty million copies in print. Jostein’s latest novel, The Castle in the Pyrenees, is about love and ideas.

Jostein will be in conversation with QUT’s Craig Bolland talking about writing, his creative process, and posing the question, ‘Where does philosophy fit in daily life?’ There will be plenty of time for questions and audience interaction.

You are welcome to invite family and friends to attend this unique opportunity to get inside the mind of one of the world’s most popular writers.

WHERE/WHEN:

The event will be held from 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm in room W201 at QUT Kelvin Grove on Thursday the 2nd of September.

BOOKING:

To secure your place, please email ci.publiclectures@qut.edu.au .

Please use the term ‘RSVP Jostein Gaarder’ as the subject line for your email.

 If you would like to rsvp for multiple places, please use the subject line ‘RSVP Jostein Gaarder X’ where X is the number of seats you would like (eg: ‘RSVP Jostein Gaarder 3’ for 3 places).

Space is, of course, limited. If QUT is unable to fit you in, they will notify you of the fact. If you hear nothing back from them – you’re in! Please advise if you can’t then make it, as they will give your seat to someone else.

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tokyolovein:

i <3 this computer keyboard jacket! i wonder how hard it would be to make one? (via wwwolfpack)

I’m all over this campaign like a female who wants a Dior handbag… wait I am a female who wants a Dior handbag. This Dior handbag.

Black, red, or blue? Oh the choices.

http://www.ladydior.com/

Piranha 3D. I’ll say it again, 3D.

I’m there. Are you? 

In an effort to understand who/what they hell I’m going to vote for, I did a bit of R&D on the interwebs. Just a few snippets that amused me RE health:

The ALP stated they are:

“Injecting $1.5 billion in public hospital emergency departments.”

Oh I see what you did there. ‘Injecting’ and it’s medical related. Good one.

“Training for 6000 more doctors, including doubling the number of GPs trained every year.”

Ok. So you need to be super smart to be a doctor right? Well at least get a top OP etc… so it’s hard to get into medicine… because doctor’s have people’s lives in their hands… so we’re just going to start letting less smart people become doctors?

I think there’s a natural cross over for those in the ad industry here. House and his team work on a range of benefits and weaknesses till they come up with a single minded proposition. So hand me that scalpel friends…

Or maybe we’re getting them from OS. Because you know, that’s worked out so well for us to date…

Then the Coalition are promising to:

“Introduce local hospital board staffed by local health experts.”

I’ve seen enough episodes of House and Greys Anatomy to know there’s a sh*t load of bureaucracy that goes in individual hospital admin departments. Can you imagine a bunch of them getting together and trying to figure out what’s ‘best practice’ and where funds should be allocated… Don’t they know it just all comes down to lupus?!

I have no more direction for my vote than when I started researching.

YAY.

My fav is the idea of putting Barbie’s head in a happy meal of an unsuspecting kid:

http://bit.ly/cyk9Uj

You are good with your instruments… haha very enjoyable. Probably could have been better, but Fey and Carell are so good together.

Decide which spectacles are needed, then make it seem like they are there for internally motivated reasons.