The 9pm Edict

Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers the world’s most tedious Christmas Message. A motorists organisation wants the world to be more predictable, just like it used to be. And Twitter wins the hearts and minds of the world’s media, the puppets.In this episode you’ll hear what I think about the Prime Minister’s Christmas Message, which doesn’t hold a candle to my own Christmas Message from 2008, let alone the Queen’s Christmas Messages, such as Her Majesty’s 50th such message in 2007; the NRMA’s claim that petrol pricing is too hard to predict and their call for an inquiry; the fact, or supposed fact, that Twitter gets more news mentions than Facebook, even though the latter is much, much bigger; and a really, really stupid tweet from Shahira Abouellail, whose blog is called fazerofzanight.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00016/

World’s most impatient meth cook found in Oklahoma. She couldn’t even wait to get home. Australians are self-obsessed entitled wankers. And won’t someone think of the children? Senator Conroy dropped the f-bomb on national television!I think he did it deliberately. Watch the video and see for yourself.Also, Australians are a bunch of wankers with an inflated sense of entitlement.We are the richest people in the world. And, as Possum of Possum’s Pollytics explained in Crikey last Thursday, we lead the world in everything from decent minimum wages to economic growth over the past decade. Read that article. Please. And while you’re at it, see where you sit on the Global Rich List.We also hear about the world’s most impatient meth cook.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00015/

Homosexuals are special. They can vote people out of their club. Heterosexuals whine that their institutionalised racist breeder-money has been cut by, gosh, seven percent. (Hi, Sherlock!) And the three stages of Top Gun and more from the CBS Interactive Christmas Party.In this disturbing and long-overdue return of The 9pm Edict podcast, you’ll hear about the legal problems with the 2008 Gay Softball World Series, face the facts about cuts to Australia’s stupidly-named Baby Bonus, and hear a bunch of people at the CBS Interactive party talk about their childhood heroes.If you were at that party and just want to listen to yourself, fast forward to the 10 minute 40 second mark.Yes, there are bad words. And bonus hypocrisy.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00014/

Westpac forgets that banks are meant to be about trust, and just bullshits us during a major outage. Sony too. Snake-oil salesfolk tell us gamification will solve all our needs. Bugger the morals. And idiots imagine that Twitter is like CNN, somehow.Yes The 9pm Edict podcast has returned after an hiatus of nine months. Just like pregnancy. But let’s not go there. Where I do go is gamification, and I refer to the video Gamifying Education and my op-ed at Technology Spectator.

Australia’s federal election campaign kicks off in a flurry of clichés. And the instant-continuous news media battle to be relevant.Given that we’ve got a federal election campaign on our hands, I figured I’d resurrect The 9pm Edict podcast. And here it is.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00012/

A criminal is dead, and Australian media dances on his grave. Another man dies after being chucked out of the country — but he’s a criminal too, so who cares? And something about a volcano and aeroplanes.After a ridiculously long break, here is episode 11 of The 9pm Edict. Enjoy.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00011/

The media totally misrepresents the real risks to our lives. Senator Conroy totally misrepresents the facts. Again. And the government literally makes my life more painful.Here is episode 10 of The 9pm Edict.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00010/

Media make a big fuss over a racing driver. Senator Conroy stumbles through another media appearance. And some lame Victorian politician can’t cope with the word “dickhead”. The dickhead.Here is episode 9 of The 9pm Edict.Episode notes and full credits at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00009/

Google takes on China. Internet heavies and clueful people rip into Australia’s mandatory censorship plan. And Senator Conroy says he will release the NBN report… in May.Here is episode 8 of The 9pm Edict.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00008/

The world’s sole remaining super power gets a healthcare system. Channel 10 pushes the heteronormative agenda. And Barry O’Farrell invents an entirely new criminal justice system based on who knows what.Hello, possums! It’s late, but here’s an episode of The 9pm Edict.Episode notes and full credits are at:https://stilgherrian.com/edict/00007/