2012-05-23 – Hoyden About Town

A poster appearing around Brisbane

By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-23 • ( 3 )

Text from the spoof newspaper article poster that has started anonymously appearing around Brisbane, Queensland: DEMOLITION WILL HONOUR SIR JOH BEJELKE-PETERSEN An unnamed source within the Brisbane electorate today accused Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s LNP government of secretly planning… Read More ›

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: still all about Craig Thomson?

By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 15 )

So what else is going on in Canberra? Or the state capitals? Or your local council? Are they all on the austerity bandwagon, having drunk the Austrian Kool-Aid like the Dems in the USA? Or is something progressive/constructive actually going on in your part of the world?

Macro of Sean Bean as Boromir in Lord of the Rings, the "One does not simply walk into Mordor" moment

George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 can’t get taken “off Google”, decides to go down in flames

By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 40 )

George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 on Twitter decided to call Sandra Fluke some vile misogynist names, and she retweeted his tweets. People took screencaps and blogged his tweets. Now those tweets are the top results for a search on his name on Google. George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC wanted that fixed.

Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes

By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 2 )

This week’s whimsy is via ten thousand paper planes released by Ross Coulter and volunteers in the State Library of Victoria’s Domed Reading Room in 2011. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.