[image source] Has anyone noticed a particular pattern in the speech of Troy Buswell, Leader of the WA Liberal Party? ABC News: “Walker-Buswell meeting set for today” quotes Buswell as saying: “I always have and will continue to respect Sue’s… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
2008 State of the Union tag cloud: addressing priorities and themes
This tag cloud was generated from the 2008 State of the Union address. The words which come up in the very largest font are no surprise. Saddening to see “liberty, freedom, progress, peace” quite so much smaller than “terrorist, security,… Read More ›
Taken in Hand: Sculpture in the Hills
We all know about the penis-spire on the cover art of the Little Mermaid. (Snopes claims that any resemblance to any phallus, living or dead, is purely accidental.) Little did I know that Perth has its very own life sculpture… Read More ›
Can’t blog
Watching The Lord of The Rings. All of them.
Going straight into the quotes file
Presumably a few of you have noticed the random quote block towards the bottom of the sidebar? I’ve been having a bit of fun with that. Via fillyjonk: Speaking of stages, I think there are stages of perception: 1. When… Read More ›
It just won’t seem like a real Australian Open
Roger Federer will not be playing in the final. He got done in straight sets, too. Where are the comets, the pillars of fire? (The wailing and gnashing of teeth I’m pretty sure I can hear in the background.)
One man’s persistence
is probably a large part of the reason why the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to send all its documents investigating reported UFO sightings to the National Archive where they may be readily examined by the interested public…. Read More ›
Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment
A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.
Mondayitis
School holidays continue to fog my brain. Methinks I have a touch of the writers’ block. There’s been a lot of stuff about 1968 around, seeing as apparently many journalists laboriously counted their fingers and toes twice and realised that… Read More ›
Well, there goes Facebook then
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous. In other news, the fossilised remains of a R.O.U.S. have been discovered in Uruguay. Image Source: CNN In other other news, CNN seems to have sacked all employees with a smidgen of grammatical nous. H/T… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 