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Month: August 2007
Soundbites on YouTube
Politicians around the world are gingerly using YouTube to make policy statements, or maybe just to get their soundbites out there while avoiding having to have a press conference. Now some Catholic seminarians have parodied the Mac vs PC ads… Read More ›
Travelling Blamer
That’s some great blaming by my friend baroquestar and her trusty digital camera. Check it out here.
Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does
Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then… Read More ›
Applying Bill of Ockham’s sharp thing
Carey Roberts, a withered geriatrarch of the he-man-she-haters club, is once again complaining that women are meanyheads: in Misandry in the least likely of places Roberts clutches his pearls over the lyrics of a Country song about a revenge scenario… Read More ›
Insert tinnie/tinnie joke here
The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, has announced an exemption to the alcohol bans in 70 remote indigenous communities in the NT that were announced as a core component of the government’s Indigenous Emergency Plan to combat the sexual abuse… Read More ›
More heat than light on Haneef: where’s the transcripts then?
Crossposted on Larvatus Prodeo, where each of the previous Haneef threads has generated hundreds of comments. Much was made yesterday of claims that Indian police believe that there are links between Haneef and extreme jihadists. To kick this thread off,… Read More ›
Slouching toward Bushism
And the police state lurches ever closer, with the SMH today reporting on proposed legislation for “New secret search powers”. The proposed powers would give police the right to execute search, seizure and surveillance under so-called “delayed notification warrants”, without… Read More ›
Happy birthday, horsies
Image credit: orginally uploaded by g r e n Today is the official birthday of all racehorses in the Southern Hemisphere. Asked why it was essential to have all horses celebrating their birthday on the same day, Mr McCulloch said… Read More ›
Wednesday Wow
I cheated a bit for this one – instead of my usual random trawling through the Wow! image pool I deliberately looked for one with a fox in it, because of the story I heard on the radio
Hoyden About Town 