THANK YOU. Whoever saw a wallet nearby, thank you so much for picking it up and putting it in the letterbox.
As it happened, it belonged with next-door rather than us, but it has now been returned to its rightful owner. Great relief and gratitude ensued.
Marvel Fashion Show-10, originally uploaded by LJinto.
Taken at a comicon this last weekend, apparently this “fashion parade” was actually organised by Marvel Comics.
Image Source: Astronomy Picture of the Day (2008-08-02: Eclipse Shirt), image by Phillip Haake
The next eclipse of the sun visible from Australia will be in November 2012 (and only a partial eclipse over Sydney), so I’ve got a while to plan it
Despite recently surviving a series of leadership spills, sleazebag chair-sniffer and sexual-harasser Troy Buswell, leader of the WA Liberal Party [1], is expected to stand down today.
Buswell has the majority support of the remainder of his motley crew (resignations have been rife these past few months), but his support from the Party as a whole and the WA population is low.
Stay tuned.
ETA 12:06 pm: Live press
Facebookers have probably been following the saga of Scrabulous, the online game that looks and behaves rather like Scrabble. Scrabulous was well put together, and allowed me to play with my friends all over the globe, in group and one-on-one games.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Despite their IP claims being rather, erm, shaky, Mattel-Hasbro seems to have brought down Scrabulous; it’s now only available for people who don’t live in the USA or Canada.
“Not to worry!”, they bugled. “We’ll bring out our own authentic version for you!”
“Big Swinging Dick” is much more obscure slang than I thought it was.
Luckily the new acquaintances who thought I was just being whimsically rude about their friend also thought it was hilarious
So says the advertisement below for skin creams. While the cosmetics industry is still full of nasty beauty myth tropes, at least it’s no longer quite as condescending as this.
Image Credit: Ponds-HowToBecomeSomeMansDreamGirl originally uploaded by Wishbook
This phrase just makes me want to hurl: “wistful dreams of being some big strong man’s little dream girl”. Infantilising much?
Kyle Payne, fauxminist, predator, and sexual assaulter, is up for open sentencing on August 11, though he is asking for it to be postponed so that he can continue his “counselling” and solicitation of “letters of support”.
Kyle Payne was a rape crisis advocate, women’s studies student, and resident advisor at his university. While “looking after” an unconscious drunk student in his care, he undid her shirt and took a photograph and video of her breast.
He has now published a statement on his blog, closed comments on it, and emailed a bunch of feminist bloggers to alert them to it. Yeah – he’s soliciting letters of support from feminists, in an effort to influence his sentence. Mm, that’ll go well:
I was having a grand old discussion about space-elevators (originally called sky-hooks) with my DBH last night, in particular how Arthur C. Clarke managed to flub some of the construction-tech in Fountains of Paradise, and how Charles Sheffield’s more accurate construction-tech in his almost simultaneously published space-elevator novel was mocked for not being the same as Clarke’s even after Clarke said “hey, actually he got it right”.
Today’s Otterday shot is via “hiker” of Clubsnap. This pair of smooth otters was snapped at the Punggol River in Singapore.
Hoyden About Town 