Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced this week to two years in prison for singing a protest song in a Moscow cathedral.
Year: 2012
Tech tip: Did I miss the Amara memo? Easy subtitling!
Amara (Universal Subtitles) is great stuff! You submit the URL into the Amara website and a tool opens up that lets you enter subtitles for the video, in three easy (or easier than I thought!) steps.
The odds aren’t stacked against you, you’re just thinking wrong.
Are you thinking positively enough and other bullshit.
Whimsy: London Zoo Annual Weigh-In
Meerkats! Penguins! Giraffes! Giant tortoise! *ded* Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of this thread as a brain-bleach repository.
Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.
Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.
Media Circus: you will answer our disingenuous circumlocutions exactly how we frame them
How dare Gillard get straight to the underlying point instead of following the interviewer’s planned choreography for her anticipated flustered blustering? The nerve!
Book Week
Book Week 2012 #bookweek
Quick Hit: I’m not sexist says Bob Ellis
Bob Ellis says he isn’t sexist. What do you think?
Biology Fail and #legitimaterape apologism: Todd Akin
Todd Akin, US congressman and senatorial nominee claimed in an interview that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
Hoyden About Town 