How many links can I fit in one post?

I'm sorry if you can't get through all these links. There are heaps.

- Carrie Fisher on her autobiography, Wishful Drinking.

- The tensions within the Green Party. An interesting article. Senator Bob Brown leads the party, but doesn't approve off all its decisions.

- Santo Cilauro talks the making of Funky Squad. Not too many people remember it, but we loved it as kids.

- The Australian writes a massive massive massive piece about why Rudd was taken down.

Around midnight, Rudd called senior DFAT and military brass to the Lodge. The Prime Minister was in shirtsleeves, standing over topographical maps of the Owen Stanley Range.
Rudd had famously walked the Kokoda Track a few years before. Now he was planning the routes for the rescuers. It was, says one source, an extraordinary example of his micromanagement.
And of Rudd's belief that he was the smartest guy in the room.

-  Some of the more random collaborations with rappers. Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg?

- A former weatherman learns the patterns of the Price is Right and wins it with a perfect bid.

Terry Kniess studied prices. He saw that virtually every prize on The Price Is Right, from a pack of gum to the flashiest car, repeated. He and Linda memorized their values the way Terry had learned to count cards. When they felt they were ready, they made their way to California. They got up in the early morning hours of September 22, 2008, and waited in the dark outside the metal gates at Television City. There were only three people in line in front of them: an older couple named Norbert and Frances and a middle-aged man from Texas named Ted. At exactly six o'clock in the morning, the gates swung open, and Terry and Linda walked across the parking lot, dizzy with the numbers flashing in their heads.

- Conservative SMH columnist Gerard Henderson points inconsistencies in Julia Gillard's approach to asylum seekers. I missed the news for a week and I couldn't believe it when I found out about her policy. The only reason the left wing politeratti hasn't destroyed her is because there is an election to win.

- Left wing ABC writer Bob Ellis said an August election would be a foolish idea for Ms Gillard. And he makes a bunch of good policy suggestions.

- A good piece about ethics in journalism. A tough situation for the reporter.

- Looking for Rudd in New York.

- Interesting piece about the relationship between Gillard and Tony Abbott. I like that they like each other. I find that more Australian, somehow.

- Richard Castles asks why everyone is happy to crucify Mel Gibson, but Roman Polanski isn't copping it from the Hollywood establishment.

- Lady Gaga and Katy Perry's girl power message... what are they really selling?

- Jersey Shore cast to go on strike!

- How MasterChef sucked us in.

'Two years ago I sat here with a bunch of other media buyers watching a pilot and we all thought it was a bit of a yawn,'' says John Alderton, director of research at the Mitchell Group, which buys advertising space for clients.

''I can say pretty confidently nobody picked it, here or in any of the other media agencies. We thought for it just to survive would count as a pretty good achievement,'' he says.

- Breasts are getting bigger across the Western world - and not just because we're getting fatter. Modelling agencies are seeing more and more women come in with skinny body and large breasts. Of course, Christina Hendricks was all over this article.

- In online journalism, young reporters are burning out faster.

Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw readers their way. 

-  And, just for the record, Christina Hendricks.