Aperçus of Paranoid Times

Cherishing Those Probing Kodak Moments

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 27 August, 2003 - 16:00:28 - print it raw

Heightened paranoia of worldly fears have done to airports what underfunded hospitals could not implement, numerous high intensity X-ray machines. Scanning passengers for signs of terrorist materials and such these systems have also done to holiday snapshots what the humble thumb has been doing for years, ruining photos. As passengers pass through the detectors and avail themselves to the new kind of probing, their luggage will be victim to the rays, in particular, the unprocessed film.

"A growing number of airports are installing high intensity X-ray scanners to inspect check-in luggage for security reasons" said Clare Rae, Kodak's marketing manager. "These newer systems will damage unprocessed film, which will not be seen until the pictures are developed. The same holds true for single use cameras."

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Fear and Worry Pushed Door-to-Door

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 20 August, 2003 - 19:25:55 - print it raw

On recent news of a few stabbings and murders in a small suburb in Sydney's South West, a privately owned entity known at this stage as Community Safety First have started the door-to-door fear appeal.

Dressed in dark blue safety vests—much like those on building sites—stitched with large circular badges on the left breast, they've gone to homes in the nearby streets of the main strip in an attempt to talk with the community. Few residents have been at home on their initial call, and those that have are subject to an overwhelming abuse of either aftershave or perfume from the callers.

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The New Breed

Jimmy Weasel - Monday, 18 August, 2003 - 16:53:32 - print it raw

Cloned human embryos have been fused with rabbit eggs in an effort to find a new source of stem cells. The team of scientists from the Shanghai Medical University have already come under scrutiny for this "mad science" as one bystander remarked, yet this is a significant step in the search for embryonic stem cells.

At present, the stem cells are found in fertilized human embryos, which must be destroyed to make the harvest. Activists claim that this is a premature end to a potential human life; a cause for both uproar and debate over most stem cell research. Hui Zhen Sheng's work is unlikely to halt this debate, even though most of the science world seem to think that the new embryos won't develop much beyond the earliest stages of development.

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Chewing the Skies from Placards of Want

Ethan Switch - Monday, 11 August, 2003 - 19:12:07 - print it raw

High density residential areas invite one probable solution, the apartment block.

One after the other are lined up to conserve the precious space as the landfill outside the front overflows with dead bodies and bodies of people lying in wait for the hit to come along.

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Cycle of Fear of Things That Were and Will

Ethan Switch - Thursday, 7 August, 2003 - 14:47:55 - print it raw

The Depression Alliance recently posted results of one of their commissioned surveys. Naturally it was a survey into of all things, Depression.

While it wasn't about the great period of time wherein bodies routinely fell out of the sky leaving slightly soiled suits, it does delve into the state of mind of the state of minds.

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Mashed Monster Moves On

Ethan Switch - Friday, 1 August, 2003 - 17:13:23 - print it raw

Sensing an evaporation of the employment waters, recruitment shackle, Monster, have decided to bail on the Australian and New Zealand market.

The move comes in the same week that News Limited's CareerOne have been bombarding Australian television screens to announce their refocussing and realignment into a well of printed job advertisements of the offline online.

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