Please pardon the acronyms in the title (expansions forthcoming in the post), I’m attempting to keep my post titles reasonably concise. Which is exactly what the final sentence in the quote below does in relation to the rest of the paragraph preceding it: it restates the whole argument of the paragraph pithily in just five words: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Month: March 2011
Thursday Cheezburger – Lol cat medical advice
Today’s theme is: Lol cat medical advice
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
So the cutest slow loris evah
– enthralled by a tiny umbrella!
This is not madness
TRIGGER WARNING (violence against children).
This is not madness – it’s a sense of entitlement.
Happy IWD!
I don’t have anything special planned except for paying a little more attention specifically to what other women are writing right now. Feel free to share links to anything you find especially relevant today.
How the carbon price works
That is the whole point: to make goods that are generated with more carbon pollution relatively more expensive than goods that are generated with less carbon pollution.
Dear UK, Australia does NOT use expensive voting machines
We don’t use them to cast our votes, and we don’t use them to count our votes either. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying.
Were you online in ’95-ish?
Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otters are brought to you via the Telegraph: “Guinevere and Lancelot, Asian short clawed otters at Chessington zoo, ferry their six-week-old triplets away from the water’s edge”.
DUFC time!
The latest Down Under Feminists Carnival is up – 34th edition at Spilt Milk.
Hoyden About Town 