Weekend Wibble: Fragments of IM
[following a conversation about soccer teams, in which it was established that Arsenal is the only team for which is it unacceptable to barrack] lauredhel: I watch other TV crap lauredhel: (though rather more deprecated TVcrap than sports, interestingly) tigtog: Now I watch rugby sometimes, tennis – I still like gymnastics and skating lauredhel: (probably [...]
Saturday Stuff.
What I’m reading: Canada’s Chronicle Herald reports that Jenny Dionne paid a cover charge at her regular bar the Dome, had one drink, then nipped out for a smoke. She was refused re-entry under the “No Fat Chicks” rule. Trendwatching.com reports on “Female Fever”, the phenomenon whereby corporations have only just now discovered, to their [...]
Friday Hoyden: Dagmar Berne
[image from National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame] As a teenager, Dagmar Berne, of Sydney, was sent by her widowed mother for a “good education” in a private school, Springfield Ladies’ College. The curriculum included such traditional “ladies’ accomplishments” as deportment and needlework. Discontented, she eventually convinced her mother to allow her to leave school [...]
Passive backlash.
Well, this “Girls Love Pink Cos They Pick Fruit, Fuck, and Have Babies!” study would be a prime example of Why We Need Blogs. I see a lot of whining about bloggers being mere parasites on the underbelly of the mainstream media, whose journalists do real research dontcha know. Yet, the MSM has taken the [...]
“No one deserves to go to jail just for being a massive dickhead”
Comedian Dave Hughes’ latest press release, issued in response to Kyle Sandilands threatening to punch him in the throat in revenge for Hughsie calling him a dickhead on air, even if it means Sandilands going to jail, quoted in full below. “Mr Dave Hughes has issued a public apology to Mr Kyle Sandilands, who has [...]
The colours of the rainbow…
Enough of bad news and snark for this week. Have a smile on me. Or rather, on Raymond Crowe and Louis Armstrong. If the embedded video isn’t working for you – go straight to the video at Metacafe. Related posts: QOTD: Louis CK on his HBO nudity Rainbow Kittehs Wednesday Rainbow Blogging TIGERS LEOPARDS Vs [...]
PinkSquee EvPsych Asshattery du jour
[image yoinked from jZepp] Would someone just erase gender-evpsychs from the planet, please? This Beeb-reported British “study” published in Current Biology has declared that women really do prefer pink – it’s in their genes. Apparently by including Chinese volunteers as well as Brits in the colour-preference study, the researchers believe they have eliminated socialisation and [...]
Budget forecasts from our Treasurer: incompetent or just irrelevant?
Ken L has a post up at Surfdom well worth reading: Headlines you’ll never read Costello budget hopelessly wrong Last May, the government forecast a surplus for 2006/07 of $13.6 billion. Today, it announced that the figure was actually $17.3 billion. My simple maths suggests that the government was therefore wrong by a margin of [...]
The consideration of active consent and decriminalisation
Two Victorian stories: Rape laws strengthened. VICTORIA’s rape laws will be strengthened to ensure defendants cannot avoid being found guilty by arguing they had not considered whether a victim had consented to sex. Attorney-General Rob Hulls said several new changes to rape laws were aimed at reducing the number of appeals and retrials in rape [...]
Wednesday morning soapblogging
I have a few pretties to share with you. Tie Dye Trance. This is my first five-colour swirl: purple, red, pink, orange, and blue. Making these was a whirl of arms and jugs and spoons, mixing and colouring and scenting and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling before the soap [...]
Bob Brown: the Rudd scandal in perspective and in a nutshell
Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm. [Source] Senator Brown also thinks that a far more important electoral issue is the proposed Federal Government [...]
Another Mike Adams column, another day where the rest of the world wonders WTF he’s smoking
Mike Adams is a professional American conservative – he writes columns on Townhall.com and writes books about being oh so lonely as a conservative college professor fighting the Evil Liberal Agenda (TM). I have regularly read his name mentioned in stunned disbelief by American progressive bloggers – this man’s perception of the culture wars has [...]
Duh du jour: A cautionary tale.
[scene: a very quiet room.] Me: [thinks] Gosh, that’s a lot of drive noise. And it’s constant, not fluctuating. Whatever could be hammering the hard drive? * checks Activity Monitor, nothing unusual Me: [thinks] Is it the new external drive? * unmounts it * Me: [thinks] Nope, not that. * quits out of a pile [...]
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