Rock beats scissors beats paper beats lawyers
Think of the fees that could be saved if this catches on. Related posts: Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes Whoydensday: Rock out with the WHOs Round up the lawyers! A trans person wants a correct birth certificate Beats me Little kids rock
Full Story »Found while googling something else entirely
Just had to share. Related posts: Random Googling observation This week, I shall be mostly googling ‘diabetes’
Full Story »Not a bad start, Kimbo
From The Age, at the end of an article discussing a maverick MP’s plan to draft a bill to legislate for same-sex civil unions in Victoria in the wake of the govt’s statement that they intend to block the ACT’s legislation: Mr Beazley says he does not support the federal government’s move to scuttle the [...]
Full Story »Misanthrope, much?
Initially, when one looks at the site statistics meter and sees a sharp rise in one’s pathetic hit rate, one is overjoyed: at last the peeps are listening to me! But no. They merely want to know the latest c*l*brity birthing news, or c*l*brity divorce news (especially if it involves parties with missing limbs), or [...]
Full Story »Number of the Beast = AntiChrist (but does it really?)
There is so much ink and electrons spent on the question: who is the AntiChrist revealed by the Number of the Beast? Type “antichrist” or “666″ into a search engine and watch the sponsored links to any number of sites theorising the matter appear. So who can the AntiChrist be? He snorted cocaine … He [...]
Full Story »Access to obstetric services in rural Australia as "third world" standard
Tonight there will be a Four Corners programme on shortcomings in rural medical care, particularly for obstetrics and cancer patients. “RDA federal president Dr Ross Maxwell has told Four Corners that, on the current trend, there will not be a single rural doctor trained to deliver babies in five years’ time. “It will be catastrophic [...]
Full Story »PowerPoint Is Evil
This is the title of an apparently well-known essay of which I only just became aware, from Wired magazine in 2003, by Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics, and graphic design at Yale. The subtitle is “Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.“ “Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive [...]
Full Story »Why does this woman hate everything I stand for?
Angelina prefers cheerios cereal for breakfast. I prefer Swiss muesli.Why doesn’t she like what I like? Can’t she see that muesli is good for one? That by choosing muesli I amdoing not only what is good for my body, but that which has the flavour andtexture I prefer? That I am following a family tradition [...]
Full Story »Friday Random 10 – Almost an IMS dream edition
My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) – SwitchBlade KittensI Can Make You a Man (Reprise)- The Rocky Horror Picture ShowNew Morning – Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsWild Wild West – Escape ClubRock The Casbah – The ClashJoy – PJ HarveyOK – Ani DiFrancoI Say A Little Prayer – Aretha FranklinKawaii – [...]
Full Story »Women with weapons
Well, this thread over at Larvatus Prodeo has all your Amazonian inspiration needs in stock. You have to go about halfway down the comments thread before they start appearing, but black catsuits and sharp pointy weapons are abounding. That’ll teach Liam to make bets about economic policy debating etiquette threads. Related posts: Hello Hoydenizens Condemn [...]
Full Story »Goose: Gander
In a timely fashion considering Kim’s response to Tim Blair’s baiting about whether progressives would condemn abstinence-only sex-education at a Muslim school in Australia in the same way as when it’s advocated by Christians (yes, of course we would), Zuzu at Feministe posted this: “Where is the outrage? I can guarantee the tone of Newsweek’s [...]
Full Story »Tip for the Domestically Inexact
Do not, in a moment of Wild Optimism masquerading as a Brilliant Idea, put the smelly towels you found under your son’s bed[*] in the washing machine on the heavy duty cycle instead of giving them a good soak in a disinfectant solution as recommended by my mum and yours. Especially in a brand new [...]
Full Story »Oh noes, a search terms post
I’m not that keen on “weird things people search for and end up at this blog” posts, (although my sitemeter does give me frequent quiet moments of amusement and rarer bouts of disgust) but: People who are arriving at this blog searching for blather about the new Brangelina baby (and quickly running off when what [...]
Full Story »Ruminating Erudition (swoon)
Brand spanking new group blog Sarsaparilla, writing about literature, media and culture from Aussie points of view, with contributors who are some of my favourite Ozbloggers. I love this idea – bless the good blog Sarsaparilla and all who sail in her! Oh, and Kerryn did an excellent job on reviewing Answered by Fire like [...]
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