Christianity in Australian popular culture

A well written and pretty balanced article from The Australian looks at the role of Christian media in Australian society. I’m pleased to see such explorations that are primarily objective and informative as opposed to using this time of year as a launchpad to denigrate the focus of our faith.

Badminton match fixing

China’s Olympic badminton coach is full of pride after his admission of ordering one of his players to deliberately play poorly at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Ninemsn’s report states that the winner of the semi final, Zhang Ning, won the match because the coach thought she wouldhave a better chance of winning gold than her [...]

L for lunatic

Another street racer has been caught in Sydney – and he’s a learner driver. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that his day in court will be in a month’s time.
I don’t know how old this upstart is, but if he’s young enough to get some good discipline from his parents for behaving like a careless [...]

The Telegraph’s 100 most beautiful cars of all time

Continuing on the theme of lists, here’s a link to what the readers of Britain’s Telegraph magazine voted as the 100 most attractive looking cars ever built. Out of the list, which contains plenty of classic machines whose design traits were arguably ahead of their time by many years, what follows is my personal pick [...]

Alan Henry’s 100 greatest F1 drivers of all time

There are a couple of oddities in this list compiled by Alan Henry (a well known motor racing journalist in Great Britain). See the complete list here at the official website for Bruce McLaren, the founder of the McLaren Formula 1 team. Some of the surprises that I noted, as well as Autoblog (h/t to [...]