If only the American presidential race had been run under the ‘how do the candidates look with Ricky Martin’s hair’ rules (not) proposed in this great article.
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I discovered hidden worlds searching for evidence of Ricky Martin’s mullet-mania when he was in that boy band whose name I’ve forgotten:
Michael has come a long way from Pert Plus to Aveda. Now he is experimenting with volumizing products. Read about his hair journey.

Cute little angry Tarkan fans bitching about Holly Valance’s cover of ‘Kiss kiss’/’Simarik’.

A Jedi Shall Not Know Anger. Nor Hatred. Nor Love. Nor Bad Hair Days.

Government modifies stance on “anti-terror laws“.
The list of what they didn’t get is a scary indication of what the government wanted: “The committee has recommended against giving ministers the power to ban organisations, called for a tighter definition of terrorism and rejected a plan to reverse the onus of proof for suspected terrorists.”

Have you noticed that Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker in the new Star Wars) looks like a cross between Jamie Oliver and Tad from Neighbours?

The Age Online is getting more blase about nudity – you can see pubes in this photo of the streaker who made the Queen’s day more interesting.

Band-wagon jumping Australian government thinks trampling civil rights American-style is cool, but the Democrats will save us. According to the article ‘Dems say terror laws threaten freedom‘, “Emails, voicemail and mobile-phone text messages could be accessed by authorities without a warrant under proposed anti-terrorism laws” if the government is allowed to “amend the Telecommunications Interception Act so that authorities can gain access to anyone’s email, voicemail and SMS without having to use a warrant”.
The Attorney-General, Daryl Williams, said “‘Until the attacks of September 11, we could have been justified in thinking that our counter-terrorism regime was adequate. This is no longer the case'” to justify the proposed change, but didn’t explain if they were going to learn how to use information obtained through existing channels before reading your email.

Oh dear.

Last night was strange. It was still hard to believe that Pim Fortuyn had been killed. It’s a cliche, but it is a loss of innocence.
The reportage in the foreign press is pathetically obsessed with him being gay. From The Age: “A lone gunman walked up to the flamboyant and openly gay Fortuyn, 54, and pumped a hail of bullets into his neck, head and chest in broad daylight, witnesses said.”