In Sydney, anyway. I’m so taking Amanda from Pandagon there if she ever comes visiting Sydney. A salon in an old shop/townhouse on Enmore Road. It has one side-wall purple, the other silver, miniature disco balls and purple-glitter boa-type streamers… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Seen at Shakesville
Which is the shiny new hangout for the folks from Shakespeare’s Sister, which will remain as their archive site. Shakers, update your blogrolls! Update: The new site has been made unusable through DOS attacks, so the Shakers are back at… Read More ›
Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”.
Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”, by its very nature. Or so Andrew Riemer, Herald book critic, firmly believes, as quoted by the SMH. According to the ABC, John Hinde has bequeathed a new literary prize, one of Australia’s richest. The prize… Read More ›
Careful with that ripped-off website template, Eugene
It really pays for politicians to check what their oft-overlooked web support staff are getting up to. Especially if they have designed one’s webpage using somebody else’s template. Because there are several problems with that. Ethically, obviously, if one’s web… Read More ›
For my friends in academia
Parody student evaluations for Socrates, from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Hemlock Available in the Faculty Lounge Socrates is a real drag, I don’t know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them… Read More ›
Hugh Thompson Day
Today is the anniversary of the heroism of Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew as they saved noncombatant Vietnamese villagers of My Lai from murderous US soldiers engaged in a massacre. I posted about Thompson last year: Are you a… Read More ›
Friday Furry: Malaysian kitten and monkey pals
You may have seen these photos, or at least some of them, before, but they’re so gorgeous I’m sure you won’t mind seeing them again. I’m only posting thumbnails because the images are copyrighted to Kaz Campbell, so click on… Read More ›
She had a fondness for gardenias
A friend of a friend (FOAF) really wants to know the source for this quote. (Actually, sie only knew the first sentence as per the title above and the rest has been scoured from the Internets by other FOAFs). “She… Read More ›
I love it when my friends are extra clever
My friend Sheryl won a Image of the Month competition on Flickr ($100 to spend at amazon!) with this fab photo (check out the competition from the other finalists in the link above): (C) All rights reserved. Used with permission…. Read More ›
Setting low bars
There’s SF in blogtopia’s air lately, it seems. Whee! says my internal geek-meter. PZ Myers of Pharyngula has put up a list he found via tikistitch of the “Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years” …. Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 