Odie the five month old North American River Otter was rescued from his dead mother and grew up at the Texas State Aquarium. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything… Read More ›
Year: 2008
Quick Hit: Australian Democrats dead in WA.
Western Australian branch of the Australian Democrats, which failed to field a single candidate in the last election, has decided not to contest the electoral commission’s challenge to prove that they have 500 paid-up members. I wonder how membership numbers… Read More ›
If you can’t beat ’em, then get your own YouTube channel
Monty Python and Led Zeppelin have decided to make high definition recordings of their most popular material available on YouTube. Python seem to be reaping the rewards in a boost to their DVD sales, because as their introductory clip below… Read More ›
“A change in attitude led to my CFS cure!” – a rant
I don’t share Made in Melbourne’s optimism about this piece in the Age, Layne Beachley’s “Beating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. (Yes, she’s selling something – her book and her sports clothing brand.) Beachley writes: Relief finally came when I sought treatment… Read More ›
CFK Childcare collapsing: How many women will lose jobs?
Another for-profit childcare corporation, CFK Childcare Centres Limited, has joined Eddy Groves’ ABC Learning in collapse. CFK has (had?) 43 childcare centres across New South Wales. 4000 children and 500 staff join the 1200 staff and 120 000 children whose… Read More ›
Linkfest.
via Sylvia P, these, erm, C-string “undies”. Twenty nine euros apiece. Speculation abounds on Twitter about how they work – like 80s snap bracelets, we’re thinking, though there are other theories. Nezua suggest that they stay on adhered by pure… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger
Bonus LOLWho!
Whoydensday: teasers!
Yes, the promised Children in Need trailer for the Christmas special (titled The Next Doctor with a trademark Rusty tease) aired this week.
Backpedalling and finger pointing while spinning like a top
It’s finally sunk in, apparently, that the long-claimed link between having an abortion and breast cancer simply doesn’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny. Forced-birthers are backing away from the claim that there is a direct link BUT don’t cheer too… Read More ›
It was a party night, it was the end of school
I was thinking about the historical detail in Mad Men and Swingtown, and tripping down memory lane myself. Thinking about the props one might procure if making a period drama about my childhood and adolescence. Twinpoles. Paper one-dollar notes. Vinyl… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 