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• Weekend Wotcha

  By tigtog on 2007-10-06 • ( 8 )

  I love this photo. What’s everyone up to this weekend? Apart from the usual weekend family stuff, I’m meeting up with some friends for late arvo/early evening drinks on Saturday, and our street is having a champagne brunch gathering on… Read More ›

• Anti-choice propaganda: following the source and the money

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 7 )

  Some of you may have stumbled across a news article citing a fancy-sounding “study” by Peter Carroll of London’s Pension and Population Research Institute: “The Breast Cancer Epidemic: Modeling and Forecasts Based on Abortion and Other Risk Factors”. From the… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Miriam Margolyes

  By tigtog on 2007-10-05 • ( 11 )

  “I am rather an opinionated person I suppose,” Nothing I could write could do justice to Margolyes the way this transcript from the interview she did on Enough Rope does, although the simple transcript doesn’t give you the sense of… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Like a puke party in the Barbie factory

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 12 )

  We’ve long known that there are regular games and toys, and there are girls’ games and toys. Here’s a pile of the latest puce spew, mostly via Yehuda. Pink Playstation 2. Comes bundled with Singstar Pop, of course. As well… Read More ›

• Capacity, utilisation and peak demand

  By tigtog on 2007-10-05 • ( 5 )

  In our last big discussion at LP on problems in the public health system (regarding the Coalition plan to initiate a revamped hospital training program for new nurses) a lot of us pointed fingers at the bean counters as the… Read More ›

• “The Random Lunchtime SMS Romance”

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 6 )

  Cheers to whoozqueen, who has agreed to let me copy this SMS conversation here. I have edited it to change the names only. Apparently, you can’t even take a wrong number SMS these days without getting hit on. I can’t… Read More ›

• Ennervening the spouse

  By tigtog on 2007-10-04 • ( 1 )

  We test-drove small turbodiesel cars yesterday and today. Yesterday, the car we drove was an easy-driving car with decent performance. Today, we drove a car that took me back to my youth of hanging around with Rally Car Clubs, and… Read More ›

• I See A Great Need.

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-04 • ( 3 )

  [Image from here. Cap by me.]

• Always suspected it

  By tigtog on 2007-10-03 • ( 4 )

  Stephen Fry is a geek, and now he’s blogging. The first post is an (exhaustively) comprehensive review of the iPhone and its competitors, and his second post is on the nature of fame. They are long, which is why he… Read More ›

• Anathema on lazy cafes

  By tigtog on 2007-10-03 • ( 13 )

  Ugly, ain’t they? When I am paying damn good money for something hot and wet, in a cafe which has 15 different ways that one can have one’s coffee, you better believe that I expect you to make up a… Read More ›

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