Plucked from the wire: blogs are dead, dancing boobies, detention debt, NSW health, and Oz net use
Blogging is dead, long live multimedia-sharing and Twitter Wired says blogs are dead. Blah blah linkbait, blah blah everyone’s on Twitter these days, blah blah. Read it if you can be bothered. Most amusing moment: the author complains that blogs attract abusive commenters, and suggests Youtube instead. Most overlooked problem with the multimedia explosion: accessibility. [...]
Whoydensday: Guess Who’s Guesting?
Update: Oops – forgot that some people might not like casting spoilers. Moving the casting rumours to the end of the post behind a cut. The title of the Christmas Episode has been revealed: The Next Doctor. RTD is mucking us about again, what do you reckon? This week’s bonus link is definitely the Procrastination [...]
Election Watch: only two weeks to go for the presidential poll!
Photo of the Week: the McCain funnyface. Video of the Week: Palin on Saturday Night Live. Canadian election: Stephen Harper is PM again New Zealand election: still got 2 and a half weeks of campaigning to go, with their polling date on Nov 8 (a Saturday, like a sensible country). Most projections have it that [...]
Virtual Travelling: Pause for Reflection, wherever we are
It’s always irresistible when travelling with a camera, isn’t it? Any gorgeous reflections that you happen upon. Of course, some of the shots below have been meticulously planned by shutterbugs who know their local area and its lighting intimately. All photos found via Flickr Explore & a search for “reflections”. So, where have you been [...]
Quick Hit: From a national on-line newspaper.
Author: the mystery guest hoyden who didn’t tag her post! These headlines appear in the sidebar, one under the other. Parenting No, it’s not big bones Parents are in denial about their obese kids, with half claiming their fat offspring are average. Cuisine Hedgehog slice Put a smile on a little face with these ever-popular [...]
Linkfest: from steampunk to flamingos
Check out Sophie’s Steampunk Suffragette costume, now at the Hoydens About! flickr pool. She wore this for the Wasteland Steampunk convention. ~~~~ I’ve a guest post up at Shakesville, reprising the Monica Dux saga and responding to her article which repudiated blogospherians in general and the Hoydens in particular as a shameless, hysterical lynch mob. [...]
Rudd’s rattling Turnbull
Kevin Rudd’s popularity has increased, with the latest Nielsen poll indicating that his handling of the global financial crisis (GFC) wins especially high approval, putting his personal approval rating at a personal best of 71%. Labor as a whole is more popular than at the last federal election. Malcolm Turnbull has responded to the voters’ [...]
SF Sunday: worst costumes evah!
Two to kick off: Sting’s metal budgie-smuggler from Dune, or Leia’s metalkini from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi? Does it surprise anybody that leiasmetalbikini.com exists? (I didn’t bother to visit, if anyone does please report) I note in passing that, judging by the evidence online, very few of the people who turn up to [...]
Calling all ozbloggers who go to live comedy shows
Write me a review for my new Australian online comedy portal – news, reviews and directory all rolled into one! It’s called Gagging For It (rimshot), and I need more coverage of shows outside Sydney. About ten years ago I used to do stand up around Sydney – I stopped because I got crook and [...]
Otterday, and open thread
This fellow looks just pooped out. [I grabbed this a while back and forgot to note where it was from - does anybody know?] Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading [...]
Thursday Cheezburger
I couldn’t split the runner-up tie today, so here are two: See no evil, Speak no evil, Understand no evil You don’t understand! He’s EVIL when you’re not watching! Related posts: Thursday Cheezburger, and Delurking Day Thursday Cheezburger Thursday Cheezburger Thursday Cheezburger Thursday Cheezburger
Third Debate Thoughts, and Video of McCain’s air-scarequotes “health of the mother”
My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed: – McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the CNN audio. “Mmmmfnator Obama”. – Obama a very obvious winner with the worm audience on [...]
Thoughts that get me out of bed to blog in the wee small hours
All these news reports recently about the Bradley Effect…it just struck me: are some media using earnest explanations of said Bradley Effect as an opportunity to remind the American VoterTM that that nice Obama they’re planning to vote for is, after all, still a Scary Black ManTM? Just in case those American VotersTM hadn’t fully [...]
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