20:19 Indonesia hands four-month ban to #badminton duo found guilty of match-throwing at #London2012 | http://t.co/7N73knEh http://t.co/lOC3o8kH #
20:12 I still think channel 10 should have hired Yahoo Serious as a creative consultant on Young Julian Assange or whatever it is called, #
20:06 Oscar Pistorius is shortlisted for an IPC Fair Play award. Alan Oliveira is not. - http://t.co/lJgWVf1j #paralympics #
19:45 @ConorTee Rabbitohs will smash em next week *cough* #
18:45 RT @tehelkadotcom ‘We'll give out four months or a years ban to those who’ve spoken against us’ Indian #Paralympic boss http://t.co/ZrEdwmVg #
18:40 Berala has a new Woolies? Since when was it granted admission to civilisation? #
17:55 @ConorTee have not been near a television all afternoon. Did they play well? #
08:06 The match stats of the men's #wcbasketball gold medal game: RT @London2012: http://t.co/wOZ93qqe #paralympic #
07:57 Victory to @WCBballCanada winners of the mens wheelchair basketball 64-58. Great effort @AussieRollers silver medallists! #paralympics #
07:50 Canada's got this. #
07:43 thriller Canada up 55-52 with 3:10 to go #wcbasketball #paralympics #
07:35 to be fair to #abcparalympics they've done a great coverage over the past 9 days even with the odd misjudgment like that one #
07:07 #ABCparalympics played Oscar Pistorius' race on about 2 minutes delay to show interviews with Angela Ballard and Madison de Rozario. #fail #
07:03 Pistorius won that easily (and I tweet this at the moment #ABC1 is showing it) #
07:02 hmm. #ABC1 about to show the Pistorius race on delay. #abcparalympics #fail #
06:56 It's almost time for the final event in the Olympic Stadium. Pistorius versus Oliveira et anor. #mens400mT44 #paralympics #
06:53 The Observer's science editor has written an open letter to the new UK #Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson - http://t.co/2JQ1DBeo #

22:01 The big loser today appears to be the O'Farrell government's attempt to privatise the running of elections in NSW. #nswpol #nswlocal #
21:45 and that #Marrickville will have a Mayor living in either Maroubra or Earlwood #
21:44 which leave me guessing that #Marrickville will end up Labor 6 Greens 4 "independents" 2 #
21:41 #Marrickville Central and South Wards look to me like they will be unchanged. North Ward is where the swing against Greens may cost them. #
21:40 #Marrickville Labor will gain a member in West Ward from the retiring independent. That will be significant shift in balance of Council. #
21:32 farewell Petero. #nrlnqlbri #
21:14 Liberals outpolled Greens at Stanmore Baptist Church. #marrickville #
20:51 I'm no expert on the quota system but it looks to me like the Liberals will come away from #Marrickville completely empty handed #
20:44 Looks like #Newcastle is on the brink of electing a non-resident climate change denier property developer Lord Mayor http://t.co/u5fO2ean #
20:26 The might and influence of Alan Jones does it again. #cos12 #
20:21 I think it's fair to say that Mr Redegalli won't be a #Marrickville councillor. http://t.co/WaQrjGAo (he's Group E) #
20:08 I'm seeing informal votes of around 15-20% in the counts I've checked on the NSWEC website so far. #nswlocal #
19:51 Noooo. Why is Hadley calling the #nrlnqlbri game? Ch9 going on mute. #
18:21 Sutherland Shire is one of the DIY councils, they are promising live results here - http://t.co/sj9zfjCp #nswlocal #sutherland #
18:15 Ten councils handed their elections over to a private contractor. Their results *might* be posted here - http://t.co/0oNjO17n #nswlocal #
18:05 Will be interesting to see how/if councils not with the NSWEC post live/updated results tonight. #nswlocal #
18:03 @jeffrey_gabriel 2 teams should work as with QRL, but the Tigers have no commitment to the idea and won't let another club into Campbelltown #
17:24 Condolences to the Prime Minister and her family on the passing of her father. Her statement (via @latikambourke) - http://t.co/MTMnsQNL #
17:22 Re @Wests_Tigers #VBNSWCup move. I think it's right. Shame that Balmain will pass into history though. Any chance a @tigers1908 #BRC team? #
16:59 New South Wales, have you voted yet? You've got one more hour. DO IT NOW! #nswlocal #
16:43 Doggies win 38-34. #vbnswcup #
16:34 and an unconverted try to Wenty 38-34 Dogs 6 remaining #vbnswcup #

23:02 Staycation. Another word that should be prohibited as a risk to public health. #
21:49 Doggies. Tough game. #nrlcbyman #
21:41 "the #Paralympics has some amazing sport – if only people could stop patronising the athletes." http://t.co/MLDCNkzB #
20:13 #princeharrylookingatthings MT @skymarkwhite: First pic of Prince Harry in Afghanistan inspecting an Apache helicopter http://t.co/1XUwBzpF #
19:56 isn't it good that the #NRL kicked off at 7.45 as advertised? #nrlcbyman #
18:41 #nrl RT @everyword: ref #
16:26 Windy. #
15:54 Some #VBNSWCup tips for Finals Week One: Windsor, Canterbury, Newtown, Norths. I'll be at Belmore Saturday (but not at Kogarah Sunday alas) #
15:49 In the debate on prosthetic legs at the #Paralympic track, Richard Whitehead is often overlooked. RT @ConversationEDU http://t.co/IMVyDo9P #
15:28 that's if I'm not watching the #paralympics in preference. #bringthesparewheels #
15:26 umm, how is #bringthenoise relevant if I am watching the #nrl at home tonight? #
14:46 Joe Owens, former NSW BLF secretary and a leader of the Green Bans movement in the 1970s, has died - http://t.co/LupjW1gU #
14:23 Beckwith International Leadership Development program provides support to Ghana #RugbyLeague's first national manager http://t.co/SlliBajy #

It's seems like a statement of the bleeding obvious to say that London 2012 has provided the best Paralympic Games ever. Regardless of the standard of play, they have captured the imagination like never before, in no small part because they, like the Olympic Games themselves, were conducted by LOCOG. No longer are the Paralympics a forgotten afterthought to the main event.

Massive live TV coverage in the UK through Channel 4, in Australia through the ABC, and elsewhere, but what of the US? Ten hours on NBC. Ten hours over nine days. Edited highlights.

23:22 Excuse me? The #tenlate people have tweets printed out for them to read off sheets of paper? #
21:26 Not that UFO. RT @RT_com: BREAKING: UFO Strike: Lufthansa cancels 1,200 flights, over 100,000 to be affected http://t.co/UvxxTNqX #
20:37 what's this? Channel 10 have made a Young Julian Assange movie? #
19:56 "Dotty Berk" has to be one of the best names for a spammer I have ever seen. #
09:21 I was sitting next to a chap earlier who was writing. Handwriting on a notepad. With pen and paper. People don't do that on trains any more. #
08:51 Why is the train guard giving us handy advice on what to do before boarding the train that we've already boarded? #
07:51 Great win by the @aussierollers over Poland 76-53. Next stop: USA in the semis! #wcbasketball #paralympics #
07:49 ''The fat lard of something landed on top of me' The (physical) clash of two disendorsed Liberals in #Holroyd http://t.co/syIk1BzP #nswlocal #
07:46 Who is John Marlowe and what is role in the Australia First party? http://t.co/YueOHLEs #bluemountains #nswlocal #
07:34 come back Jaiku, all is forgiven! #
07:33 Twitter's Development Display Requirements document is a chilling masterpiece of corporate doublespeak - https://t.co/cSBsxa2B #
07:23 Twitter is shutting down XML, RSS and Atom feeds with its new API (but at least they give us 6 months notice) - https://t.co/PpnXZ9dS #

19:52 at least the late Senator Joe is impressed #
19:51 These corflute disappearances aren't happening everywhere but are obvious in a few places I've visited this week. #marrickville #
19:32 and all the Greens, Liberal and Socialist Alliance corflutes that have vanished in the past couple of days. #marrickville #nswlocal #
19:30 It's interesting seeing how many power poles only have Labor corflutes on them. #marrickville #nswlocal #
18:31 as a fan of BBC Radio 4's News Quiz, I will miss Charlotte Green and Harriet Cass - http://t.co/yGeKbTca #
17:31 uh oh. Catherine Deveny and Peter Jensen both on #qanda next Monday. #
17:04 Ha. RT @superfooty: Oops! AFL reveals Rising Star winner 15min before it's announced http://t.co/twHjoFlG #
17:02 (the temperature is currently in the high-20s, for the record) #
16:59 The Optus weather app has just updated to tell me it's 11 deg in Petersham North. Not only is the location way off but the temperature... #
12:35 so are there actually enough #NRL-standard coaches to go around in 2013? #
12:03 Sydney Mining Club. Is that like the Chess Club? #
11:21 @PennySharpemlc A timely reminder that not all people smugglers are "evil". #wallenberg #
11:11 Not the TV interviewer, but a champion of Big Tobacco. RT @NYTObits: Charlie Rose, U.S. Representative, Dies at 73 http://t.co/rjhdAIsy #
11:08 That be @Colvinius and @CatherineDeveny on #ABC1 as we speak. #BigIdeas #
09:16 I wonder how many newly redundant Fairfax staff will end up as political leaders in foreign countries #
09:11 Former reporter for the Cootamundra Herald and Northern Daily Leader is now leader of the UK Green Party - http://t.co/rIhFPHF0 #
08:55 @A_J_Marshall Thanks for that. I woulld have thought it easy and inexpensive to copy the paper ads to the website but maybe that's just me. #
08:14 @A_J_Marshall yes, but the council website doesn't tell voters where their booths are, whether there's prepolling, or who the candidates are #
07:56 "The community isn't 100 placard-waving smelly individuals." - Newcastle Lord Mayor aspirant Jeff McCloy http://t.co/izIAh2Cj #

23:20 Just discovered that one of my tweets was quoted in an SMH online article four months ago - http://t.co/fCGKavtZ #
22:14 Perhaps BOF could save money on the 2016 state election and get each electorate to run its own ballot. #nswpol #nswlocal #
22:12 Now this is ambitious. Sutherland Shire is running its own election *and* promising live results on its own website - http://t.co/sj9zfjCp #
22:10 Gunnedah Council is also running its own elections. Its website points to the NSW Electoral Commission which points back to the council site #
22:04 Lane Cove Council is proudly anticipating cost savings of 25% by running their council elections in-house - http://t.co/OJKrDNxa #nswlocal #
20:19 How US college football teams cope with defeat on their Facebook pages. Some just go quiet. http://t.co/fAZ62cMr #
20:13 Scottish Sun cancels book serialisation after Rangers fans jam switchboard http://t.co/hN2AszT1 via @guardian #
18:59 did I hear Leigh Sales say @abc730 is doing a pole-dancing story tonight? #
17:55 Two video refs in the #NRL finals? Two? Who has the casting vote if they disagree? #
17:24 Bing. RT @JohnJohnsonson: QUICK QUESTION: what's the best website for googling stuff? #
17:23 @Elliott1950 I actually vaguely recall his show there being telecast on ch9. Must have been *the* nightspot at the time. #
15:54 the moral of today's lesson is that I should take my own SEO more seriously #
15:39 looking at my search results of my name, I feel a little sorry for the photographer from Wisconsin and the firefighter from Staffordshire #
15:37 and there you have it. The Australian Women's Weekly is to be sold to a German publisher #
15:21 even my contributor's page on The Roar, for which I wrote three articles in 2009-10, comes way ahead of my own blog #
15:18 hmm top Google search result for "rick eyre" is my top level domain. 2nd is linkedin profile, twitter a/cs 5th 6th 7th. Blog is on 3rd page! #
13:24 #ohChris RT @CUhlmann: Technical question. Can Ed Husic be part of Labor’s Education "Crusade"? Discuss. #
12:47 @evilpandas yes I've seen the signs on the street. It's been a long time getting to this stage #
12:33 There's a lot of rubble where the Marrickville RSL used to be. #
09:38 This'll be good RT @Pollytics So the Qld government has an account @QLD_Mythbusters that Newman just encouraged you all to ask questions to. #
08:54 no thank you Google+, I will NOT be turning on Find My Face now or ever. #
07:25 How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards - @io9 http://t.co/YuniVlwE #
06:36 Another day, another "Tinkler misses payment" story - RT @newcastleherald: http://t.co/mWvQNqfJ" #

20:38 @OEDonline thank you for the explanation. #
18:56 #nswlocal RT @702sydney: Don't forget to vote in the council elections this Saturday. All you need to know is here: http://t.co/QnhjlzMI #
16:15 It's 4pm on Mad Monday. Many arrested yet? #nrl #afl #
16:10 So have any of the tabloids done an "Oscar Pistoff" banner yet? #
15:48 Two words are today's word of the day. RT @OEDonline: OED Word of the Day: gung ho, n.: http://t.co/e0SdH7cj #
15:44 Put it on eBay. RT @NSWMasterPlan: Time to make your bid for Sydney Monorail! http://t.co/ssEHvgP0 #
07:49 The @AusGliders win over the Netherlands 58-49. Still top of their group. #wcbasketball #paralympics #
07:33 Weir wins. Fearnley 2nd, Fabulous race. #5000mT54 #paralympics #
07:20 All right. @kurtfearnley time. #5000mT54 #paralympics #
06:54 thinking about Richard Whitehead's win yesterday, Pistorius may have a point about blade lengths. But this is a bit late for complaining #
06:52 sometimes it's probably best not to give trackside interviews straight after you've lost a race. #pistorius #paralympics #
06:44 wow. Oliveira ran down Pistorius! #paralympics #
06:40 It's @OscarPistorius time. Mens 200m T44 final. #paralympics But I'm not going to miss the opportunity to say "Go Jim Bob" #
06:12 "We're making some improvements to our Systems - we aim to have the site back online at 10:00am on 26th August 2012." Thanks for that, Optus #

19:47 My bad. That Alan Jones event that attracted 40 people was on Thursday not today. I'm sure he could have drawn at least 45 this afternoon. #
19:37 @TachoNazi um. Yes. Thursday. #
17:46 On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Alan Jones attracts a massive crowd of 40 to a rally outside the Sydney Town Hall - http://t.co/aksc090t #
17:27 @TV_Rev Twitter's a global medium and that makes Dr Who fair game from the time it screens on the BBC. Respect your regular followers I say. #
15:50 a, er, spectacular end to the #NRL season for the Warriors, from 22-6 up to 22-42 full time against the Raiders. #
15:19 @Swearycat I think this has probably been the first measurable evidence that people don't pay attention to commercials any more #
15:15 US studies show mobile web use spikes during TV ad breaks - http://t.co/k1qT1DJq #
08:21 #Goalball is a sport I could watch forever given the chance. Today's recap from @Paralympic - http://t.co/pYO1YRRq … #paralympics #
08:14 by which I'm not implying anything untoward, rather that the race was a big mismatch between Whitehead and the rest. #paralympics #
08:13 Richard Whitehead's win in the 200metres was so comprehensive you have to start wondering whether the race was fair or not. #paralympics #
08:03 Well yes. They're monarchs. RT @sunriseon7: Some UK citizens are angry that the Royal family has an “undemocratic power” to veto laws. #sun7 #
07:04 Happy Father's Day! #
06:44 "Let's head to the final event..... In terms of the Australians competing." No, Karen, please no channel9speak at the #abcParalympics #

23:04 vale Max Bygraves. #
21:19 Canterbury @NRL_Bulldogs minor premiers in both #NRL and #VBNSWCup. Congratulations! #
15:42 Clint Eastwood, Paint Your Wagon, and a chair. The videos are on my blog - http://t.co/jWVd0Imk #
14:49 from September 2004, my bloggage of the Republican National Convention (if only I had the time to do that this year) http://t.co/yoOwPs0H #
14:36 reasons I should blog more often no.877: the joy of discovering stuff I wrote about GW Bush 8 years ago that I'd totally forgotten about #
13:02 Ugh RT @darrenrovell: Seattle's Best announces it will sell a bacon-flavored coffee in the near future http://t.co/7fWGsqss #
12:28 The #RNC as seen by @willdurst: GOP wrap up. http://t.co/nXeNK6D0 #
11:08 So are any of the Liberals who are running for #Marrickville council on Twitter? They're being very quiet if they are. #nswlocal #nswce #
08:10 Hollywood twitter reaction to Clint Eastwood's #RNC monologue. Not everyone hates it - http://t.co/7wprL0tl #
07:44 so is the Sydney Morning Herald putting out a special redundancy edition today full of valedictory columns? Would have boosted today's sales #
07:30 Great game in the #wcbasketball with the Rollers just holding out Turkey! #paralympics #
07:12 oh this #WCbasketball game on #ABC1 is on delay. I shall remain silent then. (Australia v Turkey) #
07:03 No wonder the NBC doesn't care about the #Paralympics if the USA is only 6th in the medal count. #