The weather is clearing here in Sydney, just in time for the marches against Conroy’s ham-fisted plan to cripple internet access for ordinary Australians. There are marches organised for all capital cities, the earliest will be Brisbane’s starting at 11am… Read More ›
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Otterday! And Open Thread
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 a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
The Queensland Police say I’d be a crim…
…. if I so much as watched the baby-swinging video. (Please don’t post any direct links to the material here.) In a statement, Queensland Police said the term “child-abuse material” even extended to clips in which a child “appears” to… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger
Runnerup: “Do I look like the blue bird of happiness?” Post your favourite cheez-o’-t’-week here. [Use a link to the full page or the embed code, not just the image, and wait for admin image magic.]
Quick hit: New Centrelink “equality” to hit older lesbians the worst
SMH: “Gay couples to face new era of financial discrimination” Adele Horin December 6, 2008 A major achievement of the Rudd Labor Government is the recent passage of historic legislation to remove discrimination against gay and lesbian couples from dozens… Read More ›
The impossible beauty of Jessica Alba
Author: fuckpoliteness, who lives in Sydney and wants the world to make more sense So I saw Jessica Alba’s Campari Calender shots. And wow. They are gorgeous photos and she looks stunning. The next day I saw a similar shot… Read More ›
Telstra not playing with Conroy’s Web filter
I’m sick of everybody calling it an internet filter when it’s only a Web filter for a start, so my own little blow for public understanding that the Web is not all of the internet starts here. A filter that… Read More ›
Oh ffs are they serious?
Mindy, regular commentor Ralph Magazine planned to give away free inflatable boobs with their next issue. Unfortunately the shipment seems to have been lost at sea. How sad. On another topic, I really shouldn’t have let myself watch the SBS… Read More ›
Remove liquids from vicinity of keyboard before watching
You think this publicity picture is naff? Wait until you see the whole video (if your bandwidth can stand it, get the full hi-res effect by choosing the BIG option). via Helen in comments at LP.
Focus: Design
Stephen Colbert this week looked at the case of Jerilea Zempel, a fibre artist who was arrested at the US/Canadian border a couple of months ago – for having drawn an SUV. The drawing was a base sketch for a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 