Richard Shepherd

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From Current TV… [VIDEO DELETED. I can't work out how to display Current.tv videos in WordPress!] Description In 2005 Time magazine named Peter Singer one of the world’s 100 most influential people. The New Yorker claims: “Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive, he is certianly among the most influential.” I had the [...]

Today’s Australian Financial Review has a great feature on the business case for environmental action. I find this quote particularly interesting because of who is saying it… “If I look at what two-and-a-half thousand scientists are saying, I do find it incredible there are still naysayers. But even so, who am I going to believe? [...]

I’ve never wondered why Greenland is called Greenland. I had a gut feeling it was nothing to do with Greenland being, at some point in history, entirely green – but I didn’t know it for sure. A little research online reveals two possible explanations. Firstly, that Erik the Red (!) named it Grønland (“Greenland”) after [...]

From an old friend… “Hi Richard Just wondering if you’ve had a chance to read the comment I left on your blog the other day regarding the YouCan2 advertising campaign? If you have, I’d just like you to know that it wasn’t meant as a personal attack. It was more a criticism of whoever was [...]

A big shout out to my new friends at www.BritishIslesOnline.com!

There should be a superhero called ‘Emo-Boy’. He could bore criminals to death with his stories of adolescent depression, and how the world just doesn’t “get” him. Then he could take the criminals back to his bedroom and listen to My Chemical Romance at full volume, while pencil sketching images of his parents impaled on [...]

For some reason, traffic for my site is going through the roof. Well, “going through the roof” is a bit of an exaggeration. I’m conservatively guesstimating that it’s about 20 – 30 unique people per day. But still, this time last year that number was about 3. I have a sneaky suspicion that many people [...]

Here are some very rough and raw images from the shoot. Handle with care!

I haven’t yet seen the film ‘Happy Feet’, but I defer to a good friend of mine for his review… “Utter shit.” Other comments included… “Robin Williams was not funny. Not once.” and “Hugo Weaving puts on a Scottish accent for no reason whatsoever.” Two thumbs down, then.