Photo from GetUp! Here’s the text of the e-mail I just sent to my MP: I just wish to offer my support for the Labor government’s decision to take the hugely symbolic and just action of apologising on behalf of… Read More ›
Month: January 2008
Greenwashing: dodgy green claims
CHOICE, the consumer activist group1, have a longstanding campaign targeting misleading “green claims” in advertising. Photo by Daveybot Organisations may mislead consumers by promoting themselves and their products as ‘eco-friendly’, ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ or ‘environmentally friendly’ and so on, when in… Read More ›
Gestation Anxiety: the othering of intentional single motherhood
“Maverick Mother” is playing on SBS tomorrow, Friday February 1, at 10 pm. (on XY Doc). [1] “Brave stuff”. “Controversial”. ABC’s Life Matters has this to say about Janet Merewether’s autodocumentary, “Maverick Mother”. Did Merewether climb Mt Everest? Take her… Read More ›
Neale Fong and Jim McGinty: the plot thickens.
Ah, Western Australian politics. Such a festering sewer. I wrote last week about Neale Fong, overpaid Health Department bigwig, being forced to resign. The trigger was the Crime and Corruption Commission report recommending disciplinary action and possible prosecution – after… Read More ›
Oh, we hatessss them
15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers addresses one of my pet peeves. Snap Shots allow a reader to view a website’s design by simply hovering over a link. The feature is annoying for several reasons: Readers have no choice in… Read More ›
Dear Tailgater
The closer you are to my rear bumper, the slower I go. This is not done merely to annoy you (that’s just a bonus). This is a safety issue. See, if you are right on my tail, and if I… Read More ›
Thoughts from a SAHD
On how differently he is treated when he’s doing exactly the same job as any full-time mum, and nothing more than women have done forever. Treating us much the same will be real equality. And it will be much harder… Read More ›
Taken in Hand: Sculpture in the Hills
We all know about the penis-spire on the cover art of the Little Mermaid. (Snopes claims that any resemblance to any phallus, living or dead, is purely accidental.) Little did I know that Perth has its very own life sculpture… Read More ›
More maths fun
It’s no Gomboc, but the boy produced this earlier today using a maths renderer. The function is f(x,y) = (πx3)×y He also thinks you all should know about Acid2, which test your browser to see if it is latest-standards compliant.
Can’t blog
Watching The Lord of The Rings. All of them.
Hoyden About Town 