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Ooh, what a beauty!
I’ve never seen a fisk this neat before. Hat-tip to Crikey’s Blogwatch.
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Tip for the domestically inexact #2
When one has, due to a throbbing migraine 2 nights ago, inadvertently omitted a crucial step in making pea and ham soup such as say, sauteeing the onions/garlic before browning the bacon hocks (resulting in a soup of almost 1970s… Read More ›
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Best wishes for Barista
David Tiley of Barista is recovering from surgery. There were apparently some minor complications and his stay will be longer than expected, so his break from blogging will also be extended. Drop by his blog and say something nice, eh?… Read More ›
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Some Current Carnivals
Science Writing: Tangled Bank #54 at Get Busy Livin’ or Get Busy Bloggin’. The Carnival of Feminists: The 16th Carnival is now up on Welcome to the Nut House. Fifth Radical Women of Colour Carnival at Fabulosa Mujer Carnival of… Read More ›
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Howard’s dad: not just a battler, also a dummy
As in dummy fronting for a corporation rorting the ex-servicemen land grants in New Guinea after WW1, that is. The full story is in The Age. Two corporations, W.R. Carpenter and Burns Philp, are well documented as having given ex-servicemen… Read More ›
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Someone in Friendswood, TX, is asking the web an important question
Friendswood, Texas, is the town adjacent to which Ellington Field, the joint civil/military airport servicing Houston, is situated. Someone from there came to my blog with the Google search string “am i a prophet”.Mr President, I’m sorry to say that… Read More ›
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A Transhumanist Future?
The whole 666 Number/Mark of the Beast thing and the fact that I’m reading Peter F. Hamilton at the moment has got me thinking about biochips and the future of other technological augmentations of the human body, and how those… Read More ›
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One thing in favour of compulsory voting
is that the Powers That Be can’t put in restrictive local electoral roll practices to prevent the poor and minorities from enrolling to vote. Hat-tip: Clive the Internet Manager
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Fake “Pregnancy counselling services” deceive Aussie women
Weez at Machine Gun Keyboard tells you all you need to know about the law currently waiting to go before parliament that will stop this government-funded scam. This scam has been imported here from the US anti-abortion activists, where pregnant… Read More ›
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Rock beats scissors beats paper beats lawyers
Think of the fees that could be saved if this catches on.
Hoyden About Town 