The Street View cars don’t often venture into American national parks. The coverage of the United States is fairly poor in general, and concentrates largely on urban areas. But I poked and I prodded, and I managed to find a… Read More ›
Month: October 2008
It’s nearly debate time
The second presidential debate starts in a bit over an hour (12:00pm AESummerT). Who’s planning to watch/liveblog/tweet it? Are we expecting anything new compared to last time? Addit: This debate is apparently a little different – “town hall style” –… Read More ›
Whoydensday: what are you doing here?
The work this must have taken! Forty-five years of Doctor Who summed up by one phrase. This was a birthday present I made for my friend’s 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase “What are you… Read More ›
“What do the gorgons represent?”
Today’s school holidays lazyblogging draws on our referrer logs. I’ve edited out those without both hands on the keyboard, which leaves very little, percentage-wise. Here’s a sampling of search terms used by this week’s googlers. very fantastic hairy women with… Read More ›
Election Watch: 4 more weeks
I’m surprised that most US blogs I read are still as hung up on the VP debate as they are, but there you go. Reading Michelle Malkin’s liveblogging of the event was an eye-opener though (not linking, google if you… Read More ›
Quickhit: another gynaecologist comes under scrutiny
This one worked at Lismore Base Hospital. There’s a lot less detail of exactly what malfeasance he’s accused of committing, but there is mention of a history of failed sterilisations due to alcohol consumption in New Zealand, and a paper-trail… Read More ›
Virtual Travelling: baby love
This week’s photo sent me travelling back in time: How well I remember that utter fascination with those tiny limbs and their perfection, the wonder that this gorgeous new person had come from our flesh. It’s just as well that… Read More ›
Busy
Teaching the kids to play contract bridge.
In July I thought “make sure you don’t forget the blogiversary this year”
So what did I do? Here’s My first post (back at the original blogspot digs), and my second, which reveals what impelled me to begin blogging at all – the ineptitude and negligence surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Thank you… Read More ›
Quick Hit: New Yorker covers and Strange Maps
This Quick Hit is via the enthralling Strange Maps: “Les extrèmes se touchent: Palinworld“: SM explains the geography: “Big Diomede and Little Diomede, are where les extrèmes se touchent, as the French say. These two islands in the middle of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 