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 ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Greenwashing: replacing water use with plastic chips
In the “What were they thinking?” stakes, Leeds University spinout company “Xeros” claims to have invented the near-waterless washing machine. The machine uses one cup of water and some detergent to wash a whole load of clothes. (They don’t mention… Read More ›
The Gruen Transfer and comprehensive market research
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
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 ›
AP: That’ll be $2.50 a word for copy-paste, thanks
The blogosphere is starting to buzz. What’s the buzz? AP has kicked up about bloggers posting short, linked excerpts without paying. Out-law.com says that the Associated Press issued Rogers Cadenhead (of the Drudge Retort) a series of takedown notices under… Read More ›
Visual language: evangelical outreach department
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
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 ›
Chez Tog in transit: pedantry in motion
The quick run on a rainy morning to get T2 to the station. (as we exit the house) T1: I’m really very annoyed with that farmer in West Australia. T2: Why? T1: I will never again be able with a… Read More ›
Janeite’s delight: Northanger Abbey (bonus Whoverse content)
Tonight’s Jane Austen on ABC stars Carey Mulligan, AKA Sally Sparrow, in the role of Isabella Thorpe. There is no TARDIS interaction to be expected though, simply those dimples being roguish. Lucy Tartan will be having her weekly discussion of… Read More ›
Sorry about that, Chief
but I’m really not that sure about casting Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 in the new Get Smart movie. Steve Carell is a genius choice for Maxwell Smart, but can she match him as 99? I quite liked her in… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 