.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } keep me grounded…, originally uploaded by ~ geisha ~. I only went once this year, and it was… Read More ›
Month: November 2008
Internet censorship in Senate Question Time today
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam writes: In the Senate question time at about 2:30PM Eastern Summer Time today I plan on asking Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his project for mandatory internet censorship, the so-called ‘clean feed’ which you’ve written to… Read More ›
Unsurprised schadenfreude
Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and… Read More ›
Zuska sees through it
A molecular biologist at the University of California is gambling with his employment by refusing to attend a state-mandated (not just a university requirement) two hour training course on sexual harassment, wanting the university “to sign a disclaimer that says… Read More ›
Quickhit: Students stay silent on sex assaults
SMH: SCHOOLS frequently dismiss sexual assault between students as part of the “rough and tumble” of high school life, a report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows. And while one in seven teenage girls has been the victim… Read More ›
Windsor wally
I dunno, give a lad a helicopter and he takes advantage. PRINCE WILLIAM failed to tell his superiors he used two helicopter training flights to attend a wedding and buck’s night, and allowed his senior officers to be “counselled” for… Read More ›
Belated SF Sunday: this week, it has to be “holograms”
So what did we all think of the CNN election-day holograms? (which weren’t really that at all, as one geek at our Votewatch pub lunch pointed out, and as the SMH technology section explains is technically known as a tomogram)… Read More ›
People with disabilities not quite yet people. Trifecta edition.
Further to the story on a doctor working in rural Victoria denied residency because he has a son with Down Syndrome, CBC News Canada has reported that a critical care doctor’s residency status has been up in the air because… Read More ›
Just one thing
Just like a gazillion others, I’ve been thinking about what Obama could/should do, in his first 100 days in office, that would be small in terms of the effort required (falling within executive powers entirely, no Congressional courting/approval required) but… Read More ›
Otterday, and Open Thread
Via cuteotters, this wee baby otter. The Oklahoma Aquarium pup is one month old and taking its first steps and swim in public. Bonus baby pygmy hippo from Taronga! Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 