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 2009 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:12:54 +1000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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 Habanera! (via Sus, on this most anxious of days, Grand Final eve).]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/me_me_me_me_me_me_me_me/ Short Eats Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:52:52 +1000 Tintin wallpapers for your iPhone.]]> http://www.philcoffman.com/blog/design/tintin-iphone-wallpapers/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/tintin_iphone_wallpapers/ Short Eats Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:27:01 +1000 Notepods - sketchbooks for your app ideas, in a neat little package reminiscent of your favourite smartphone. Buy now!.]]> http://notepod.net/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/notepods/ Short Eats Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:47:49 +1000 U900 (via Looby Lu).]]> I am totally in love with U900 (via Looby Lu).... http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/u900/ Short Eats Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:51:08 +1000 washing machine war with Maytag is such a visceral, affecting account of struggles with customer service that I could only read it in small doses. I'm pretty sure this is what Kafka was getting at.]]> http://dooce.com/2009/08/28/containing-capital-letter-or-two http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/dooces_war_with_maytag/ Short Eats Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:37:02 +1000 The Design Files came across my desk care of the ever-reliable Jeremy Wortsman at the new Jacky Winter Peter-Peter. It features behind-the-scenes, photography-laden articles about Melbourne design life. A new favourite.]]> http://www.thedesignfiles.net/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/the_design_files/ Short Eats Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:34:04 +1000 speaks out about gay marriage.]]> http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/8/4kaye.html http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/samus_aran_on_gay_marriage/ Short Eats Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:00:58 +1000 this article proves is a self-absorbed twit? The author. (Linked for posterity, really; surely everybody who thinks and writes like this about Twitter will be dead soon).]]> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/morons-with-mobiles-sour-the-tweet-life-20090808-edll.html http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/proof_positive/ Short Eats Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:17:36 +1000 long list of articles and books nominated for the John Button Prize (for political writing) looks like it would make a super reading list.]]> http://www.johnbuttonprize.org.au/about-the-prize/media/post/long-list-chosen-in-john-button-prize/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/long_list_for_john_button_priz/ Short Eats Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:05:39 +1000 Readings and Writings, an anthology Readings bookstore is putting together to celebrate 40 years in the book business.]]> http://www.readings.com.au/news/announcing-i-readings-and-writings-40-years-in-books-i-the-readings-anthology http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/readings_and_writings_forty_ye/ Short Eats Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:20:39 +1000 David Shrigley decals Third Drawer Down is making at the moment.]]> http://thirddrawerdown.com/shop/product/DAMDS001/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/david_shrigley_decals/ Short Eats Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:59 +1000 according to Volkswagen.]]> http://www.flickr.com/photos/83272689@N00/3637998385/sizes/o/ http://www.alertbutnotalarmed.com/short-eats/women_hit_things/ Short Eats Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:47:30 +1000