We want peace!

– the protestors who proceeded to throw themselves at the PM’s car yesterday. I’m plenty amused to see Johnny delayed and his little flag broken off, but what on earth were those kids thinking, claiming on the TV news to have been ‘provoked’? Sheesh.

… and she said, “The Israelis need a government that will stop being so aggressive, and we need a government who stops spending money on guns and starts building schools and hospitals so Palestine can be like a proper country.” She stared at me hard and said, “By the way, who did your hair?” and I said, “The Israelis,” and she said, “See what they do?”

– The inimitable Danny Katz, in the Age last week.

Doesn’t matter if the water is safe, it’s coming from [the] toilet, and people don’t want that.

– An early voter rejecting the only sensible long-term option for water use in a referendum in Toowoomba yesterday.

Overseas is one thing, but Melbourne, for God’s sake?

– Greg Craven, one of Curtin’s politics dudes, pointing out in yesterday’s West how horribly bad Perth is at holding on to its smart young people.

Firefox is wonderful. It’s up there with chocolate and sex on the grand scale of great things about being alive.

– Kate Bevan in the Guardian. Amen!

Meanwhile, like everyone else, I’ve been watching the World Cup (but not to the exclusion of study! no, really!) — and I was as shocked as anyone by Cahill and those ten minutes.

Now the World Cup, of course, is laden with corporate sponsorship, but this is hardly unusual and generally doesn’t cause me too much concern. I didn’t even raise an eyebrow when I heard about Joga.com, Google’s social networking ‘partnership’ with Nike. But now those folks have gotten in touch with the Mozilla marketing people and produced a branded Firefox extension!

Let me just say that again. This is a commerical partnership between Nike, Google … and the Mozilla Foundation?!!