Via The F-Word: this Pot Noodle advertisement is back. You’ll NEVER GUESS what company makes this. Unilever. Hard to believe, I know. They have no history of bigoted advertising at all, do they?
Month: October 2008
My Top 5 Scary Movie Moments
I was contemplating those burned-in movie moments. The ones from horror flicks I saw as a child or young adult, the ones which I just can’t shake. I couldn’t find video of all of them, but here are a few… Read More ›
Pick up that damn breastmilk! “Army Wives” and Masculinity
In the wake of my mildly controversial decision to like Little Mosque on the Prairie, I’m going to up the ante and say that I also don’t mind Army Wives, when I can screen out the heroic-soldiers-deploying-to-Iraq side of things…. Read More ›
Birthwatch: Coached pushing robs babies of oxygen, Brazilian C sections, and joyful birth
[from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Transcript here.] A couple of articles have been sitting in my Journalwatch pile for a goodly while now, so here they are. “Effects of Pushing Techniques in Birth on Mother and Fetus: A… Read More ›
Election Watch: only 1 more week
http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swfCindy McCain Claims She’s “Just Like Any Other Female Human” The video above is from the revamped The Onion website. Check it some of their new stuff. What is striking you about the Obama & McCain campaigns as they go… Read More ›
Virtual Travelling: Barack O’ Lantern
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Barack O’ Lantern, originally uploaded by Aidenag. My largest pumpkin carving endeavor ever. I took the… Read More ›
Google Earth for iPhone
I now have Google Earth on my iPhone. Bugger the flying car. This is better. *techswoon*
Net censorship roundup: Fielding and Xenophon want filters to include legal material
From today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Net filters may block porn and gambling sites Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be… Read More ›
ooh, what a giveaway
When the hyperventilators about the homosexual agenda in the US describe the prospect of gays in the military as “radical social experimentation” “thereby disrupting military readiness and unit cohesion”, do they simply not realise that many other countries around the… Read More ›
Where would your eight homes be?
Saw this meme over at Cara’s and as she doesn’t tag people, I’m just taking it. For those who have not been paying obsessive attention to the US election details, it’s a reference to how many homes the McCains own… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 