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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-23 • ( 9 )

  via The Daily Otter, this friendly sea otter gets a bit curious about the camera operator’s kayak. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything… Read More ›

• Missing The Point Awards, Manchester poster edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-22 • ( 25 )

  There’s a new advertising poster up in Manchester, and the country is abuzz. Here are some excerpts from the complaints: …disgusting… …The picture is shocking and it isn’t normal… …highly offensive… …exploitation… … the sort of picture that a paedophile… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Philosopher Cat

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-21 • ( 11 )

  Just one today. Post your own favourite philosophical cheez o’ t’ week here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›

• New TV show Glee does crip-drag – very, very badly

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-20 • ( 20 )

  Glee. It’s supposedly THE happening new US TV show, piloting now, and continuing next northern autumn. EW’s Popwatch calls it … the most joyous, exhilarating, fresh new series I’ve seen in a long time. TVSquad says For me, I saw… Read More ›

• Marry, shag, or throw off a cliff? Reality TV edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-17 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been agonising over whether to post this M/S/C instalment, for the same reasons that I get a bit squicky over RPS. Are reality TV hosts fictionalised enough that we can have a bit of fun with their on-screen personae?… Read More ›

• Fremantle by-election is verrrry interesting

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-16 • ( 6 )

  This Fremantle by-election is getting exciting! I wasn’t letting myself believe that Greens candidate Adele Carles could actually win, after the brief moment of false hope at the last election – but early results are very promising. Whoever would have… Read More ›

• Lazyweb: My guava is diseased!

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-16 • ( 5 )

  Help me, lazyweb, you’re my only hope. Remember we planted two pineapple guava trees last spring? One of them is diseased. I’ve poked around for information on guava diseases in Western Australia, but haven’t had too much luck. It doesn’t… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-16 • ( 20 )

  Otters juggling. I just can’t get enough of it. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading… Read More ›

• “Prehistoric pin-up”? Paleolithic fertility carving dubbed “pornography”

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 14 )

  The back-slapping homosocial bonding continues. This time, it’s over a Palaeolithic sculpture. You heard right. This Aurignacian mammoth-ivory carving has been found in Germany by Nicholas Conard, and published in a letter to Nature. It’s thought to be the oldest… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Arthur C Clarke edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-14 • ( 19 )

  “Any sufficiently advanced technology…” Runner up: