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• LOLcats and flying things

  By tigtog on 2008-01-18

  Summer in Sydney – I can relate.

• Well, there goes Facebook then

  By tigtog on 2008-01-17 • ( 2 )

  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 ›

• PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-17 • ( 13 )

  Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›

• Scrotes Oot F’t’ Lads!

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-16 • ( 7 )

  [image source] Latest message from the pink corporate machine: Go hairless and wave your breasts for booby cancer! Booby Wall Canada is a project in which women can upload pictures of their breasts for the cause. No, I can’t figure… Read More ›

• Parenting while atheist: Discovering the questions, and religious education in schools

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-16 • ( 11 )

  [image source] Recently, my kid asked “Who MADE the seeds?” The vexed issue of spirituality and parenting is discussed in all parenting forums. Which religion, if any, do you “teach” a child? Do you teach religion as doctrine, or comparative… Read More ›

• Can’t stand his blog commentors

  By tigtog on 2008-01-15 • ( 6 )

  (at least not the ones with the flying monkey attitude) but I don’t wish the man himself any personal harm. Good luck with the surgery, Tim.

• Which way? I didn’t quite catch that, Boys-Club Buswell. Repeat, please? Which way should we go?

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-15 • ( 10 )

  When’s the earliest the WA Labor Party can call an election? I doubt the Libs are likely to have their act together any time soon. Troy Buswell, former candidate for the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, has touched… Read More ›

• Cool photo

  By tigtog on 2008-01-15 • ( 1 )

  Literally. via a Terry on a private mailing list

• The speciallest snowflake in all Australia

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-15 • ( 12 )

  Party-thrower and all-round knob Corey Delaney speaks out on Current Affair. The full ACA report is available here, but here’s the key interview with Corey himself. Before watching, read “But it’s OK – they’re white!” at Road to Surfdom. Transcript… Read More ›

• Skyrocketing caesarian section rate means placenta accreta is no longer just the fine print

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-15 • ( 6 )

  Finally, the mainstream media has come out with the beginnings of a critical investigation into birthing in Australia. The Herald today published “Fatal flaws in steady rise of caesareans”. Apparently some Sydney obstetricians have opened a bleary eye and started… Read More ›

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