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• Weekend Fun: Family Drabbles

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-20 • ( 6 )

  The lad, who has just turned five, has taken to asking for story challenges. We had a ball over dinner last night thinking of three things for a story to feature, and then listening to the result. My challenge to… Read More ›

• Difference of Opinion – on the NT recolonisation

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-20 • ( 2 )

  The ABC’s Difference of Opinion show this week (18 Oct 2007) examined the Northern Territory invasion and recolonisation of Aboriginal communities. You can read the full transcript of “A New Deal for Indigenous Australians?” here, or access partial video from… Read More ›

• Pedantry and puns

  By tigtog on 2007-10-19 • ( 5 )

  Last night, out with my family: Child: …and then you might get hit by a meteor and you’d be in real trouble! Other Child: Meteorite. Me: Well, no, a meteor is not a meteorite until it’s actually on the ground,… Read More ›

• I love the Internets

  By tigtog on 2007-10-19 • ( 1 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ouch, originally uploaded by Thundercheese. There is a Flickr group devoted entirely to pictures of Stick… Read More ›

• Extra cash won’t be enough

  By tigtog on 2007-10-19

  Wednesday saw Rudd’s first major health initiative announced, to encourage non-practising nurses to return to nursing to address the current staffing shortage.SMH: Under the policy, which would cost $81 million over five years, nurses who had not been working as… Read More ›

• Feminism and Romance – Rudman paper followup

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-19 • ( 2 )

  So I have a copy of the Rudman paper asserting that not all us feminists are fugly lonely lezzos after all. (My first post on the issue is here.) My initial response consisted mainly of a rejection of the patriarchal… Read More ›

• Short People got no reason to live

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-18 • ( 6 )

  [image from the Volgograd City Center of Orthopedics and Cosmetology.] I swear, I can no longer tell the difference between science journalism and inept satire. This study* from Clinical Endocrinology was reported on the Beeb website thus: Danish researchers examined… Read More ›

• Hands up anyone who was offended

  By tigtog on 2007-10-18 • ( 6 )

  Few Complaints over Chaser song: According to a report by News Limited this morning, irate viewers called ABC to complain about the song and talkback radio had also been inundated with comments. But Taylor said he was not aware of… Read More ›

• Wednesday Wow: Jumping free

  By tigtog on 2007-10-17

  Wheee!

• Enough

  By tigtog on 2007-10-17

  Bob Ellis on the Coalition of the Willing: For we’ve been in Iraq for longer than World War I, and in Afghanistan for longer than World War 2, and in that time we’ve killed half a million people, more than… Read More ›

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