wow factor

Today, October 11, 2007, Asher Moses of the SMH rushes to press with...
Revealed: Apple's Sydney shopfront - Technology - smh.com.au

Apple's secretive plans for an official retail store in Sydney - understood to be the first in the southern hemisphere - have been revealed in council documents, which suggest it's unlikely the store will open for business before mid-2008.

Mr Moses either knows how to Google or he's very late to the story.

This was real news back in February...
Sydney and Melbourne Apple store plans thanks to Whirlpool Forums

GUILTY

The front page GUILTY headline and Image..

Robert Farquharson found guilty of murdering his three sons | Herald Sun

A FATHER has been found guilty of deliberately driving into a dam to murder his three helpless young sons.
A Supreme Court jury has just found Robert Donald William Farquharson, 38, set out to drown his children when his car plunged into freezing water and sunk near Winchelsea.
Little Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, died on Father's Day, 2005.

NOT GUILTY

Same paper, same day, same time....

Farquharson found not guilty of murdering his three sons | Herald Sun

A FATHER has been cleared of murdering his three young sons after they tragically drowned when his car plunged into a dam.
A Supreme Court jury has just found Robert Donald William Farquharson, 38, not guilty of murder in the wake of one of Victoria's most heart-wrenching trials.

Moral to the story... don't believe everything you read. The Not Guilty story has now been removed.

Can't wait to see how they mangle reporting the pending national election.

Plus a little Google verification.

Google 2007 Australian Federal Election

I question Google Australia's lightweight participation in our once every 3 year orgy of influence, bribery and bullshit.

I would far prefer to read their positions on key Australian issues like ...

• Online Censorship
• Access to and distribution of broadband
• AWA's within the IT industry
• The ACCC case against Google
• etc etc etc.

I don't want more painful political YouTube links. I want to know the position of the Australian branch of one of the worlds biggest companies and why they have decided to get cute with the Australian political process.

PS: Happy 10th birthday Google