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• Facebook not a total waste of time after all

  By tigtog on 2008-06-23

  Facebook changes luck for lonely cat Image Source: SMH – cat with RSPCA worker Jacob had been separated from his owner for three years, and when he was found and his microchip checked the contact phone number had been disconnected…. Read More ›

• The Senate’s Wild Bunch?

  By tigtog on 2008-06-22 • ( 1 )

  Wild cards I can see. Someone at The Age needs to be dosing on fewer films by Peckinpah and more British dramas about politics instead. Anyway, come August the Rudd government will need 7 out of the 8 people below… Read More ›

• Belated Friday Hoyden: Rosie Swale-Pope runs around the world

  By tigtog on 2008-06-21 • ( 2 )

  Rosie Swale-Pope, 61, will soon arrive back in Wales after running around the world to raise money for charity. This week she arrived in Scotland from Iceland.

• Two Unusual Tales

  By tigtog on 2008-06-20 • ( 23 )

  From the section of the paper actually called Unusual Tales. Court overturns father’s grounding of 12-year-old [link] “At her age, children test their limits and it’s up to their parents to set boundaries. “I started an appeal of the decision… Read More ›

• The torture-murder of the toddler twins in Queensland

  By tigtog on 2008-06-19 • ( 3 )

  Helen on the Balcony says all that needs to be said.

• Shorter Senator Guy Barnett:

  By tigtog on 2008-06-19 • ( 12 )

  You’ll have that baby and like it, missy. Image credit: bewareofthegod.com ABC Online quotes him as saying the following yesterday: * that he moved the motion (to cut Medicare funding for abortions past 21 weeks gestation) as a matter of… Read More ›

• The Gruen Transfer and comprehensive market research

  By tigtog on 2008-06-19 • ( 16 )

  Not so much. Let me digress for a while before I explain that judgement. We’ve been watching it for the last few weeks because we have teenage kids, and it’s a valuable insight into that hyperconsumerist marketing showbiz for them…. Read More ›

• Whoydensday: first Torchwood edition

  By tigtog on 2008-06-18 • ( 29 )

  For all those who were wondering why there was no Martha Jones in the trilemma last week, there was a very good reason – she was desperately needed to make up the trio for Torchwood (seeing as the whole world… Read More ›

• Visual language: evangelical outreach department

  By tigtog on 2008-06-18 • ( 19 )

  What make you of this tract’s cover image? It intrigued me enough to lay out 50c at the religious bookshop, anyway. Note how the subject is dressed in a very urban metrosexual style, with his earrings and his goatee. What… Read More ›

• Managing expectations

  By tigtog on 2008-06-17

  I’m finding the desperate spin of the Opposition Organ Op-Ed Orchestra rather amusing at the moment. Spot the difference: If Kevin07 fails to bring peace to Zimbabwe, cut world petrol prices and give all working families a pony, then he… Read More ›