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Broadcaster and co-founder of The Chaser and Giant Dwarf
This morning, some exciting news ricocheted around the nerd community. After weeks of being sold out everywhere, this Christmas' hottest gift, the NES Mini, went back on sale on Target's website. Geeks like me who grew up in the 1980s haven't been this excited since the Ghostbusters reboot.
The current regime offers no incentives for restraint. Instead, to the contrary, there's an incentive to smash bevvies before the nanny state sends you home.
Have you ever found yourself in a polling booth, pencil poised above the ballot paper, wishing there were more options?
We seem to be rejecting both mass-market fast food and upmarket fine dining, and instead compromising on upmarket fast food.
JK Rowling has a disconcerting habit of tinkering with the world she's created.
May and June packed full of culture, but there's nothing to do in July and August except hibernate under a doona.
Australia needs to start thinking about how to deal with a man who combines Jacqui Lambie's maverick unpredictability with Kanye West's love of a Twitter outburst.
There may never have been a more exciting time to be prime minister but it's probably never been this difficult to govern.
My generation was lucky, Sydney seemed as cheap as our jokes. Who can blame today's young people for choosing a nice, safe bank job in expensive, uncertain Sydney?
Ricky Gervais returned as host of the Golden Globes this week, and as sure as night follows day and regret follows the purchase of a hoverboard, his routine sparked off yet another chorus of controversy.
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