robb trade phonics

1. robb
"I think Australians don't necessarily expect us to wait for the rest of the world but they certainly expect us not to get too far ahead of the rest of the world," said andy robb. although this is in relation to the opposition's internal scratchings about climate change policy, if that's the view that a shadow minister has about the people of this country: fuck. no wonder we're so behind in countless ways.

2. trade
hooley dooley. in one my my rare outings to the real world, i found fairtrade coffee as part of aldi's in-house organic food range. first coles, now aldi: someone must be campaigning their pants off (not literally, i hope) to make this happen. someone else also told me that mccafe is now serving rainforest alliance coffee. more pants-off campaigning? given that some maccas outlets in the us sell fairtrade coffee, the decisions would not appear to be from the very top down. and, starbucks seems to be on the way out! to the fair trade campaigners who wanted to keep the movement out of the mainstream, what say you?

3. (ambio)phonics
i knew there had to be a more mathematically and compositionally sound method for multichannel reproduction other than stereo diffusion (which makes me so very cranky): ambiophonics! but, no amount of equations and psychoacoustic theory can dispute listening tests, so to the chamber i go...