December 2012 – Page 4 – Hoyden About Town

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-12-08 • ( 19 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Whimsy: Musical Pets edition

By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 20 )

Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you! Meet Tucker the piano-playing singing Schnoodle.

Tool of the Day

By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 12 )

Ratcheting Pruning Shears! Since it’s December, let’s use my new pruners as the kick-off for our first 2012 in retrospective thread – what’s the best tool/gadget/gizmo/hack you’ve found this year?

SF Question of the Day: Dune and Lawrence of Arabia

By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 3 )

Would Frank Herbert’s Dune have been such a wide success if its publication in 1965 had not been preceded by David Lean’s masterful cinematography of windswept dunes in 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia?

How, more generally, does our experience of pictorial representations of landscapes and people (both still and moving pictures) influence our perceptions of other works of art, of the world and people around us, and even of our own self-awareness?

Today in WTF is the Gillard govt thinking?

By tigtog on 2012-12-05 • ( 6 )

Handing the current Federal environmental oversight and protection powers to the State Premiers? If it weren’t for the protection of the Federal government, we would have lost places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Franklin River, the Daintree Rainforest and Fraser Island a long time ago.