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More from the Minister for Patronising Minors

By tigtog on 2007-08-15 • ( 8 )

Shorter Julie Bishop: Oh, you poor dear children, isn’t it terrible that political activists have hijacked your Rock Eisteddfod with anti-war messages when I know how much nicer everything would be if you performed something cheery?

Film: The Flying Scotsman

By tigtog on 2007-08-13 • ( 2 )

Just came back from seeing a preview with the family. We all enjoyed it. There are some great comic moments as well as the feelgood drama of an athlete on the fringe making his mark without the backing of a… Read More ›

Friday Hoyden: Nova Peris

By lauredhel on 2007-08-10 • ( 3 )

A Friday Hoyden for you: sporting legend Nova Peris, also known as Nova Peris-Kneebone, also known by her current married name, Nova Batman. Nova Peris Kneebone was born in Darwin 1971, a member of a family who are traditional owners… Read More ›

One for the Albee aficionados

By tigtog on 2007-08-10 • ( 1 )

Those who don’t already know this trivia, anyway. Just listened to Edward Albee in a radio interview, and he said that when he originally sold the movie rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to Hollywood, he asked who they… Read More ›

Note to SBS

By tigtog on 2007-08-09 • ( 6 )

A couple of old bones which cause a revision of an evolutionary timeline model (about which species coexisted with which others when) do not “cast doubt on the theory of human evolution”. All this discovery may mean is that instead… Read More ›

Wednesday Wow – photoshop edition

By tigtog on 2007-08-08 • ( 1 )

…this is just a really appealing image…

Click through for two contrasting totally natural shots of a dune in Namibia at dawn and dunes in Libya at sunset.

Soundbites on YouTube

By tigtog on 2007-08-05 • ( 4 )

Politicians around the world are gingerly using YouTube to make policy statements, or maybe just to get their soundbites out there while avoiding having to have a press conference. Now some Catholic seminarians have parodied the Mac vs PC ads… Read More ›

Heehaw of the Day

By tigtog on 2007-07-30 • ( 2 )

If you only watch one YouTube movie today featuring dancing country farmer’s daughters contortionists singing about potato salad, it should be this one.

Spoiler alert: Book Review HP7 whaddayareckon?

By tigtog on 2007-07-25 • ( 53 )

Plot spoilers will appear in this discussion for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Don’t read any further unless you already know plot twists or if you don’t care whether you learn plot twists. If you are subscribed to comments here using RSS, you should probably treat that feed most warily until you finish the book.