The Daily Grind

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The front page of The Daily Grind.

The Daily Grind is a satirical website and Mac OS shareware developer based in Sydney, Australia.

Both the site's writing and software appears to conform to a libertarian political viewpoint. Frequent targets include the Australian Greens, the Australian Labor Party, Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe.

The Daily Grind claimed a readership of around 13,500 unique visitors a month in November, 2005.

The site occasionally promotes University of New South Wales Revues and Studio Four, a student comedy club.

1 Shareware
- 1.1 Software titles
2 News satire
3 External links

[edit] Shareware

The site periodically releases idiosyncratic software for Mac OS X. An example is That's Not A Picture, which converts image files into complex HTML tables. Though the software works, its questionable aims have exasperated some users. The site's authors appear to revel in negative feedback, which is sometimes posted on the site.

[edit] Software titles

Detox: Game in which government agencies dealing with drug addicts form paddles in a game of four-way Pong. Users can play as the police, social workers, doctors or psychiatrists. The addicts are the balls.
That's Not A Picture: Utility that converts images into HTML tables in which each pixel is rendered as a one-by-one cell with a background colour attribute - in the process increasing the file size of the image many hundreds of times.
Simbabwe: Game based on Monopoly (game) in which players are politicians in Zimbabwe such as Robert Mugabe, Ian Smith and Canaan Banana. Players spend political capital seizing (buying) and destroying (building) assets in different sectors (colour groups) of the economy. An interesting feature is that each $200 for passing 'Proceed' (Go) devalues the money already in play - an allusion to the republic's hyperinflation.
iPong: Version of Apple's QuickTime Player overlaid with Pong. Explaining the development of iPong, the site says that the game is intended "for those who find a timewaster with a media player attached as an afterthought too reminiscent of RealPlayer."

Stories from the Daily Grind appeared in Tharunka.

[edit] News satire

The Daily Grind publishes fake news stories based on Australian current events every 1-2 days. In the past, Daily Grind stories have been republished at youth portal Vibewire and Tharunka, the University of New South Wales student newspaper. The bulk of the writing is done by Joe Stella and Damian Prendergast, with other contributors writing less frequently.

Daily Grind material regularly featured on the front page of Tharunka in 2004: