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• Nellie McKay

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 4 )

  UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. Now that’s how you do satire.

• Otterday!

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-19 • ( 2 )

  This Otterday photo comes from splityarn at flickr. Cap away!

• Take that, cephalopodophiles

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-19 • ( 3 )

  Andy sings a song of praise for the strong-stomached Melbourne Museum volunteers who braved a particularly malodorous exhibit – the dissection of a 550 pound giant squid: Members of the audience were seen covering their noses and mouths and retching… Read More ›

• A good bread day

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-17 • ( 9 )

  Sometimes you just have a good bread day. This was made with the New York Times/Sullivan Street Bakery/Jim Lahey no-knead bread recipe, or an approximation thereof. I used Lowan instant yeast and white high-gluten bread flour. (Ordinary plain flour actually… Read More ›

• Shooting crickets in a barrel

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-17 • ( 19 )

  Is there really any point criticising gender-related MSM science “journalism” anymore? It has devolved into farce. Alias-sqbr spotted this one on the ABC News site: Men need carbs, women need meat: study The wisdom of feeding the man meat has… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-17 • ( 1 )

  [This week’s runner-up.]

• “I looked into the blacks of his eyes”? Big Brother 10

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 2 )

  I’m not planning to blog as much Big Brother 10 from the USA as much as I do the Australian and UK versions, I swear. For a start, the USAn version is populated much more by fifth-rate Hollywood wannabes. In… Read More ›

• Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 17 )

  My jaw just hit the floor. Around the Catholic “World Youth Day” week in Sydney roils much discussion of Church-sanctioned child rape and sexual abuse. Bishop Anthony Fisher is rather pissed off that some people aren’t concentrating on the things… Read More ›

• Women’s bodies – pwned public space

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 27 )

  So this post by cowardly asshat voyeur Nicu Buculei[1], a 35 year old man from Romania, was on Planet Fedora the other day, and was up for a while before being pulled down. I’m not going to reproduce the image… Read More ›

• Whedon’s “Dr Horrible” fizzles for international audience

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-15 • ( 4 )

  I was a little excited when Tama Leaver mentioned the other day that Joss Whedon’s new project, a musical miniseries called “Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog“, was going to be a free internet-only premiere. “An experiment in models of distribution and… Read More ›