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• Friday Hoyden: Natalie Dessay

  By tigtog on 2008-05-16 • ( 8 )

  Today you get a Friday Hoyden and an opera review all tied up into one!

• And a gecko up ya clacker

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-16 • ( 5 )

  ABC News: “Gecko in egg ‘must have crawled up cloaca’” The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg. Darwin doctor Peter Beaumont was cooking dinner when he cracked open the egg… Read More ›

• “I’m better because I’m whiter”: Top Model

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15 • ( 13 )

  Australia’s Next Top Model is on again. These models were put on the spot, asked to name name five things that made them a better model than the woman standing next to them. Alexandra identifies her strengths: “I’m taller, I’m… Read More ›

• Images from the mailbag

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15 • ( 8 )

  Two images from my current mail pile: The cover of the current Medicus, from the Australian Medical Association (WA branch). The President’s Column is a wholehearted rejection of the national registration plan from COAG (Council of Australian Governments). Many pages… Read More ›

• Hee!

  By tigtog on 2008-05-15

  One of my Flickrfriends, Mum49, had her camera to hand at exactly the right moment to catch a shot of some very tighty-whiteys outside Myer’s flagship store in Melbourne today. Nice boots, too.

• Pity the poor Federal Opposition

  By tigtog on 2008-05-15

  The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks… Read More ›

• Wednesday Soapblogging

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15

  Some soap pictures for you! The first is a couple of well-cured soaps from a few months ago. I like this photo because it shows the extreme ends of the range of textures achievable in handmade soaps. The purple soap… Read More ›

• Autumn in the mountains

  By tigtog on 2008-05-14 • ( 3 )

  Shots from Mother’s Day lunch in the Lower Blue Mountains. Below are close-ups of part of the view from their back verandah. [first image of the series in the Flickrstream] [slideshow] The cold snap the last week and the mellower… Read More ›

• Yesterday’s actual surfing of the Net

  By tigtog on 2008-05-14 • ( 6 )

  From a google alert I follow a link to a blog written by Malaysian student Akmal Azeman and her post Muslims In Another Word which features questions about wearing hijab asked of an Australian high school student by her fellow… Read More ›

• Librarything “most often marked unread” books meme

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-13 • ( 21 )

  Via willendorf5761 (Who knew there were already 5760 “willdendorf”s on eljay?) What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart… Read More ›

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