Learn Something New Everyday Department

SNCF photo of a tram in Melbourne, Australia - via

I had a visitor on the blog from a suburb of Melbourne, so I opened up Google Maps, and started to look for rail and tram lines. Intrigued, I did an image search for Melbourne Trams, and came across the image above and noticed that the photo was from an SNCF website. So I opened the site, and music started playing, French pop, not bad. Turns out SNCF has its own Internet radio channel, but the real news is that a French public/private sector company called Keolis is running Melbourne's tram system. We live in a world now where local control of our own infrastructure is becoming irrelevant as business expertise is now marketed as a commodity. People in America are so afraid of a one world government. What they really should be afraid of is one world corporation run by a handful of ruthless but efficient business school trained drones, and all of their fucking software.