If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these. Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
Brought to you by what Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow described as “the best TED Talk you’ll watch all year” – Copyright Math:
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The rest of the links:
- FFS, no grace at all MT @sspencer_63 @TonyAbbottMHR in tribute to Margaret Whitlam “There was a lot wrong with the Whitlam Government”.
- Cat -> pigeons. MT @wikileaks: Discovered it’s possible for Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate while detained. Julian will run.
- BBC News – Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell in hospital “found semi-naked and screaming at traffic” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news…
- RT @Shakestweetz: CNN: “Fat is the new ugly on playgrounds.” Well, fat-bullying in childhood being new is certainly news to me! http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2012…
- RT @ametistametist: Here you have it. #Wikileaks cable fr 2009 shows Invisible Children funded by,and working closely w US Government http://cablesearch.org/cable… #KONY
- MT @ALeighMP: Friday March 16th is the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. New website: http://www.bullyingnoway.gov.au. Kudos to @PGarrettMP #AusPol
- RT @mellygoround: Sorry, thought you’d have heard already. Sir David Attenborough is appearing in Sydney & Melbourne only, in August. Ticketmaster, March 26.
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RT @marcuschown: Sunrise as no human has ever seen it – on Mars http://twitpic.com/8wj2cz
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RT @denofgeek: Has Sky become the unlikely saviour of the British sitcom? http://www.denofgeek.com/televis…
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RT @OctaviaSpitfire: Boo hiss to bad science! (re: recent red meat BS) RT @fatnutritionist: The moar you know – http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index…
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“a menace to Ugandans, and an insult to our intelligence” Stop Invisible Children before they do more harm #abcthedrum http://www.abc.net.au/unleash…
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RT @Swancon: A reminder that Swancon is now on Tumblr. Lots of pretty things to look at instead of working/studying http://swancon.tumblr.com
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RT @wheelercentre: Dailies: @cristyclark shares her journey through ethical eating, which began with a chicken and ended with an egg. http://wheelercentre.com/dailies…
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RT @ABCthedrum: A few more drops in an ocean of evidence. @ABCenvironment‘s Sara Phillips on the BoM/CSIRO #stateoftheclimate report http://www.abc.net.au/news…
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Thanks for the heads up on the David Attenborough thing, I will have one very happy 10 year old if I get tickets to that.
Assange is running for the Senate and Manning is waiting to hear if the death sentence is awaiting. What is wrong with this picture?
The article about the egg-eating vegan was very interesting, so thank you for including it. I’d eat omelettes all day if I knew anyone who had backyard chickens, as it’s hard to tell if supermarket eggs are really free-range. I remember Choice magazine had a thing ages ago about how there are more eggs marked “free-range” for sale than could ever be produced by free-range suppliers, so I’m suspicious of commercial ones.
TAK, since you’re in Melbourne, CERES Community Environment Park in Brunswick has free-range chooks you can inspect before you buy the eggs! They looked fantastically contented to me when I saw them on the AdaCamp weekend in January.