mr tog and I settled down to watch a popcorn flick on cable the other night: Mr and Mrs Smith. When we saw the trailers for its cinema release, we both thought that while it wasn’t worth cinema prices we… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Come back when you can play with the big boys
Repellent neologism of the week: minigarch (anyone worth less than $50m) I guess that makes me a nanogarch, if I’m lucky. seen and defined in today’s Crikey! email
Poverty and Peace
poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists. Let’s just repeat Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus’ words for emphasis, shall we? poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists… Read More ›
Belated Friday Furry: a confusion of cuteness
Original caption: Fudge the cat says “so which are my kittens!” originally uploaded here
In honour of Eleanor
A long time e-friend has just welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor. Congratulations! I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen… Read More ›
Control your jealousy
Next year, I will be paid to torture teenagers who want to win Australian Idol. The tigling’s high school needs tutors who are willing to supplement the instruction given in the school music curriculum. It will only be a few… Read More ›
Ancients yet again smarter than thought
I love the way we keep finding that people in the ancient and prehistoric world were actually much less backward than previous generations of scholars thought. image from Wikipedia It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an… Read More ›
Ad hoc hoyden
When I was putting the banners for this blog together, I trudged through the intertubes in search of pics of my favourite hoydens and found heaps, but obviously I couldn’t put all the pics in, or I would have had… Read More ›
*That* was exhausting
Just returned from an afternoon of centenary celebrations at a local landmark building. The theme was a sampling from what was going on in 1906, with readings from newspaper clippings (from all around the world, not just locally) and musical… Read More ›
Friday Furry: awww (and a bonus Flickr Fluffy)
Funny Videos Flickr Fluffy over the fold.
Hoyden About Town 