http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/ I Am Alert is the weblog of Virginia Murdoch, designer, of Melbourne. It mostly concerns design and the internets, but occasionally touches on the plight of the Geelong Football Club. Copyright 2012 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:55:42 +1000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Synaptic Stimuli.]]> http://synapticstimuli.com/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/synaptic_stimuli/ Short Eats Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:55:42 +1000 this video - unless, of course, the words "jazz fusion" give you chills down your spine. Jazz people sure love a short-sleeved shirt.]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpILDF0480 http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/pyramid_at_montreux/ Short Eats Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:01:27 +1000 This tickled me.]]> http://juststuffifind.com/2009/12/04/preposterous-patents/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/preposterous_patent/ Short Eats Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:39:45 +1000 brand new Muppet version of Bohemian Rhapsody.]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY&feature=player_embedded http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/muppet_bohemian_rhapsody/ Short Eats Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:33:04 +1000 Ode to Neutraface is a wonderful font-nerdy parody of Lady Gaga's Pokerface. Dying laughing.]]> http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu28bfxSI&feature=player_embedded http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/ode_to_neutraface/ Short Eats Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:13:18 +1000 Homage to the Turkey includes an inordinate number of photographs of hot women with axes. Jesus.]]> http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/happy-thanksgiving-homage-to-the-turkey/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/homage_to_the_turkey/ Short Eats Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:30:15 +1000 Cousins is the first single off the next Vampire Weekend album. I've got a total teenage crush on these guys, and if this single is anything to go on, their second album isn't going to let me down. Nice film clip, too.]]> http://www.vampireweekend.com/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/cousins/ Short Eats Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:48:11 +1000 Limone.]]> http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/jul/28/weekend.jonronson http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/limone/ Short Eats Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:55:58 +1000 FontFont and Typekit, together at last. Really good news.]]> http://fontfeed.com/archives/fontfonts-on-the-web-starting-today/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/fontfont_catalogue_on_typekit/ Short Eats Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:17 +1000 this photograph (from a longer post about Farrah Fawcett vs. Cheryl Tiegs).]]> http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-1970s-puberty-pinup-wars-farrah-fawcett-vs-cheryl-tiegs/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/1970s_puberty_pinup_wars/ Short Eats Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:02 +1000 this, on Christoph Neimann's NYT blog.]]> http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/bio-diversity/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/biodiversity/ Short Eats Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:32 +1000 montage of quotes from The Wire. I miss The Wire, and I'm really looking forward to Treme.]]> http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sgj78QG9Bg&feature=player_embedded http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/100_greatest_quotes_from_the_w/ Short Eats Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:57:07 +1000 photographs of the carcasses of albatross chicks, who've been fed discarded plastic that their parents have picked up from the polluted oceans. Ugh.]]> http://chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11 http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/albatross/ Short Eats Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:12:54 +1000 short article about Freo footy player Heath Black's struggle with anxiety and grog really moving - maybe because he's so frank and clear about the whole thing.]]> http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/depression-drove-me-to-drink-black/2009/10/15/1255195866599.html http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/heath_black_on_depression_anxi/ Short Eats Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:35:20 +1000 Really good and uncomfortably clear article about, among other things, the baffling sympathy being shown to Roman Polanski, who raped - and admitted to raping - a minor in 1977. [Via]]]> http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/index.html http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/roman_polanski_is_not_the_vict/ Short Eats Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:06:27 +1000