tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165664662011-12-03T05:56:45.303+11:00<b>a tigtogblog</b>tigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comBlogger3011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-89468823701054650152009-07-26T11:38:00.008+10:002009-10-18T03:17:15.551+11:00

If you can't successfully register as a commentor or manage to post a comment on the current site for Hoyden About Town, please leave a message here to tell me about it.NB October 2009: this post has been updated to reflect the new URL for the blog - http://hoydenabouttown.com/ - please update your bookmarks accordingly. We've switched all the feeds over to Feedburner as well, so please update

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All sorted out now. Original post below.-----------------------------------------------------And may be for a while yet. From my hosting service:At approx midnight Saturday (NSW time) a fire and subsequent explosion occurred in a Data Centre that houses one of ********** servers. None of the servers, including ours, housed in the data centre were damagedApparently an electrical gear shorted,

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The poor old webhost is trying to chase a gremlin that's bollixing the server for the "new" (nearly two years now) Hoydenspace - Hoyden About Town (unhyphenated).As it's raining here, I'm going to take the chance to update the blog here a bit, so that people who get sent here will see RSS of the latest posts over there, etc. The sidebar might look just a little odd until I get that sorted.

tigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-50299715560227024592007-03-10T21:21:00.000+11:002007-03-10T21:26:57.992+11:00

called Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog.Revived after a long period of neglect. It's a links round-up blog of existing articles/posts/essays on the simpler side of feminist theories, and is meant to be a general resource for the fem-blog community, with occasional announcements/activism alerts as well. Yes, I am looking for co-bloggers there if anyone is interested in coming on board.

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Jill Filipovic, who blogs at Feministe and Ms. JD, is a NYU law student who has been the subject of cyber-obsession on a discussion board allegedly populated by law students. The discussions regarding Jill Filipovic (and many other female law students) are sexist and sexual in nature, rating the women's physical attractiveness and fantasising about sexual contact, both consensual and

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Read about this paranoid whinergood sport and clueless wankergracious loser.UPDATE: Mission accomplished, I guess.

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I knew I should have installed that handy-dandy "BackUp on Demand" plugin for my new blogspace on the weekend.However, I was busy tweaking the CSS for new Oz sports blog Sidelined instead, so I didn't do it. Now my viv.id.au domain is down entirely, so I hope my webhost's backup is working OK for when they get the site back up.UPDATE: the webhosts have come through and the new Hoyden is back up

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The new digs seem to be working, so it is now officially time to update your bookmarks.http://viv.id.au/blog/ is the URL of the new Hoyden About Town (note no more hyphenating)From time to time posts may appear here if something happens to my webhost, but otherwise that's it.Seeya over there, folks.P.S. for anyone so moved, comments on all archived posts here remain open and I will still receive

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I'm testing out some new digs, so this weekend's flashback is over at a shiny new Hoyden About Town.Let me know either here or there if you run across any problems using the new site.

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New LP commenter tanja has a terrific blog - art and politics meet photoshop at Poligoths. If our muppets in Canberra confuse and infuriate you, head over for a point and a laugh.And my perennial favourite Chris Clarke at Creek Running North reminds us why we should Hang Up and Drive already.

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Seems rather attractive doesn't it? Harmless? Innocent even?Don't you believe it.A close relative of this tree has been working fiendishly for several years now to lever up one of the large concrete slabs that makes up my driveway.Today its nefarious scheme bore fruit, so to speak. As I was minding my own non-tree-related business, washing down the rear window of the togmobile before sallying

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Amanda at Pandagon takes on the myth of Hugh Hefner as a sexual revolutionary. After noting a description of the lives of Hef's "girlfriends" where they are subject to strict curfews and other oppressive "house rules", she goes on to ask:How can someone be considered a symbol of freedom when he thinks he's entitled to stifle, control, oppress and dictate the lives of adult women? Granted, his "

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From The Age:A new survey shows that one in five Victorians believe women are just as likely as men to violently assault their partner. The dramatic shift in public opinion stems from the rise in fathers' groups who say women are just as violent as men in relationships, reports Fairfax newspapers.[...]Mr Moodie said the change in attitude was disturbing given that domestic violence was

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I'm amazed at how difficult it is to find an image online of Uhura's boots.Apparently all the screen-capture nerds were much more interested in the Mirror-Uhura, but they only show her from the waist up, so I had to resort to the action figure to show you the even better boots.No wonder the bridge crew got all discombobulated.

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The mighty Fixateur D. Perspective!image from hereAre you finding that relentless spin is making you dizzy and confused? Is the obsessive nit-picking over teeny-tiny reportage discrepancies by conspiracy theorists making you nauseous?Let Fixateur guide you through the passages of purple prose to the safe harbour of proper perspective. Check out his work in The Case of Mountains v. Molehills

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From the background section of the Senate Committee Minority Report:The aim of Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005 (to be referred to as 'the bill' from here on after) is to regulate pregnancy counselling services to prevent misleading or deceptive advertising or notification of pregnancy counselling services. On the recommendation of the

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Ricky Gervais' new series, Extras, starts tonight on ABC at 9pm in the slot where Absolute Power just ended its season. If they had to take my Stephen Fry away, at least I get Ricky in his place (talk about contrasts in brilliant biting humour styles).It follows on from our tied-for-#1-slot family favorite must-see programme, Spicks and Specks, (equal #1 is the new Dr Who). Then there's the

tigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1155559772632219132006-08-14T22:48:00.000+10:002006-08-14T22:49:32.653+10:00

This Fri night on Channel 7, Robbie Coltrane is back as Fitz after 10 years, and Jimmy McGovern is back writing it after 12 years.For some reason, Australia's getting the world premiere.Set those VCRs, everybody.

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The Poor Man Institute (for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony) spent last Friday Getting Serious About Terror.There. Now I've articulated a strategy every bit as coherent and likely to succeed as the Bush-Cheney-Sullivan strategy.Well done that man.Hat-tip to Tim Lambert.

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There's some very interesting writing on the religious-authoritarian worldview around at the moment. Authoritarian childrearing practices such as those recommended and followed by many religious groups are an ancient tradition, and in certain societies add materially to survival prospects. But is authoritarian childrearing a successful strategy for producing adults capable of achieving what they

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I was so crook yesterday I forgot all about this, so I'm glad I did my Googling for images earlier in the week.When I was about 10, in the mid-70s, there was a big old picture palace about a mile away that still did the Saturday matinee sessions where we got one movie, then a couple of serials, and then another movie. We usually got a black and white classic adventure, then an old Western serial

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Morgspace tagged me for a book meme. I don't usually do these blog memes, but Morgan knows me well enough to know I'm unlikely to resist a chance to jaw about books.1. One book you have read more than once I love rereading my favorite novels. As I read more and learn more about writing, I spot more ways that the authors have set their characters and plots up to bring about the satisfying

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I hab a cod.Sneezing, sniffling, snoring, sinus-achy misery.I can't smell anything in my garden or taste anything on my plate. I hate the world. If you come near me I'll give it to you too, just so that I don't feel so alone in my pain.Bah.

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I've a long post up at Larvatus Prodeo today, and I'm composing a response to Morgspace's 10 Questions about Books meme with which he has tagged me, so that's preoccupying me somewhat.I just have to mention how my jaw dropped to the floor when I heard on the radio that one of the men charged over a group rape is apparently of the impression that "but I thought she was a prostitute" constitutes

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A WA teenager with leukaemia has been denied the disability pension on the grounds that leukaemia is not a permanent disability.Right. A condition requiring years of treatment to get better, and which in the meantime means he needs help dressing and bathing and more, is not disability enough to access Centrelink benefits just because he's not going to have it all his life (unless of course it

tigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1154914366190726482006-08-07T11:20:00.000+10:002006-08-07T11:36:16.420+10:00

but Joe Francis, the guy who came up with "Girls Gone Wild", is revealed as a sordid, sexist jerk who gets off on harassing women who don't play along with his script. And worse.Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He's pushing himself against me, shouting: "This is what

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It's that time of the year again. Today is the anniversary of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and in 3 days time it is the anniversary of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.Hiroshima at 8.14, August 6th, 1945Later that dayApproximately 140,000 people from Hiroshima died by December 1945 either in the immediate effects of the blast, in the following days/weeks due to acute radiation poisoning

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This is a sidebar from an article published in 2002 about emergency contraception (EC), sometimes called "the morning-after pill" or "Plan B" and the debate then occurring in the USA about making it an over-the-counter medication rather than one available only on prescription. It is sad to note that the debate over this in the USA is not yet resolved, with anti-contraception activists claiming

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The sculpted plastic posing pouch makes up for the lack of boots though, I think. And doesn't that yoga-toned Sting look fine?I thought there would be gazillions of shots of this to choose from on the web, but no. A few very blurry screen captures, and this one, which is obviously a still shot taken during the film's production, as you can see the crew member off to the right.mr tog and I

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No, I'm not opening my own little shop full of simply just gorgeous things.I've long been envious of Lucy Tartan's ongoing blog-project, where she photographs the outdoor sculptures of Melbourne and discourses critically thereupon. I thought "now, there's a bit of all right" and "how can I shamelessly get myself a gig like that?". Except I didn't want it to be anything I had to think about too

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The Martians have landed and want to rule over us all.The good news is:They eat rapists, and piss a non-polluting petrol substitute.OK, Class: discuss.(With apologies to comedian Utah Phillips)

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At the level of Bush and the head honchos of the American Religious Right, anyway. From I Drew This, dated Aug 1st:Hat-tip to Paul the Spud at Shakespeare's Sister.

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Shakespeare's Sister's Shakes' Sis: "if the Almighty had a problem with women getting their tits out in public, then he would have put our nipples on our thumbs."(Reminds me of another recent breastfeeding foofaraw)Cross-dressing NZ lawyer Rob Moodie: "The deeper the cover-up, the prettier the frocks,"(His story has inspired some approving but purple-in-parts prose: [ link ] [link ]

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As my last two posts illustrate, there appears to be ever more promoting of xenophobia both domestically and abroad against opponents from all sides, whether ideological/political/territorial, particularly as what was meant to be a lightning military campaign to effect a regime change gets bogged down and transformed into a continuing occupation force. A sympathy for authoritarian conformity

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As an antidote to the bile of Michelle Malkin (see post below) it was nice to come across this story courtesy of Michael Weholt in comments over at Making Light (quoted below in full). Despite Malkin's pseudo-Christianity and bigotry, one knows in one's heart that there truly are the majority of Christians who truly believe that their faith is a shield of love, not hate. To see a megachurch

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The repellent hate-screeder Michelle Malkin, who doesn't allow comments to her blog posts (thus it's not really a blog, IMO, just a brave-brave-Sir-Robin website) has a habit of putting up posts with ambivalent titles, popping in a few blockquotes or pictures, and disingenuously asking "now what could be going on here then?".This allows her to always claim that she didn't really mean what the

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It took some doing to try and come up with a more ridiculous scifi costume than last week's effort, but then I had the inevitable eventual "oh yeah, Barbarella!" moment. The young Jane Fonda of course has an unfair advantage over a middle-aged Connery in the looking gorgeous in a flour-sack stakes, but even so!However, the picture above fails to adequately display the sine qua non of bad scifi,

tigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1154044041595256092006-07-28T09:31:00.000+10:002006-07-28T09:47:21.613+10:00

I've had a bit of a lost week - one of those achey-breaky 'flus with sore eyes meaning 'puter time is not restful but is rather ennervating, so I've just been sleeping it off and makin sure I get the kids to and from school (it's been parent-teacher nights this week as well).I think the relentless rain these past few weeks tipped me over into S.A.D. territory as well, so yesterday while the sun

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Today my darling added another digit to the figure he puts in certain boxes on certain forms.He's busy all day today with churchy stuff (he goes, I don't, yes it used to be weird, now it's no big deal), as today is one of their Winter Concerts, for which I made a crockpot of my hugely popular Fragrant Sour & Spicy Thai Soup for the after-concert supper, so yesterday we went for his birthday

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The lovely and talented Laura, over at Sarsaparilla, took a flensing scalpel to those silly sausages and their Patrick White stunt over at The Australian.She has challenged readers to show them what's what by reading and enjoying a Patrick White novel during September. The response has been gratifying, and there is now a blog devoted to the virtual White reading group.Anyone is welcome to join

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In a few weeks' time, Voyager 1 will be 100 AU from the Sun. (An AU, or Astronomical Unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun).Voyager was launched nearly 29 years ago. Voyager 1 has flown by Jupiter and Saturn, while Voyager 2 has flown by Neptune and Uranus as well.Both Voyagers are still transmitting back to Earth, sending data about their outer space environment back to NASA/JPL for

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This is a shot from the 1974 John Boorman directed film Zardoz, which is apparently an achievement in the annals of bad cinema surpassed only by such dys-masterpieces as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the Ed Wood ouvre.I have to admit, dressing the Connery in an orange nappy and fake ponytail seems likely to doom the film irredeemably - what were they thinking?Rather like the boots though.

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Jill at Feministe on anti-abortion extremism and disingenuous rhetoric. Long but compelling.Barista looks at the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon situation and the Australian reaction.Echidne of the Snakes examines the partisan demonisation of secularism in the USA.Blogger on the Cast-Iron Balcony responds to criticism of the Left from fellow-leftie Flute.Paul at Two Peas, No Pod has a piece that's

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I got a bit ranty in a comments thread over at LP today, but managed to epitomise some arguments much better than I often manage to do, so I thought I'd excerpt them over here as well. The blockquotes are from the commentor to whom I'm responding: "And to the extent that women are victims of "fashion", there is a huge difference between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. In the non-Muslim

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A mondegreened earworm. From the 70s.Gee, ta ever so.All right. Sydney physio vs NYC lawyer earworm deathmatch. It may not come close to the overwhelming retrokitsch of the '06 YouTube Wars, but if you don't want to go through the next days suffering the most tenacious pop songs known to mankind, do not scroll down.Are**You**Sure**You**Want**To**Do**This?Your choice: my shot across zuzu's bows

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Amanda at Pandagon, in a comments thread about sex-positivity, strawfeminists and anti-feminists, casually mentioned that some men can be multi-orgasmic, just like many women can train themselves to be.How? With pelvic floor exercises (aka Kegel exercises).As a physio, I'd always known that Kegel exercises were not only excellent for certain incontinence problems for both men and women, but also

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Yesterday, for the last day of hols before going back to Term 3 of school, mr tog and I took the kids to see Click (the togster particularly had been very taken by the premise when he saw the trailer as we awaited Johnny Deppness the other week). I wasn't expecting greatness, but as I have noticed Adam Sandler becoming much more slick and less annoying in recent years I was prepared to be

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Picture from www.alexsolca.com

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A piece provocatively titled "Do boys need fathers? This woman says no" was published in The Observer over the weekend, a profile of the work of American psychologist Peggy Drexler on fatherless families. Drexler has engaged in a longitudinal study of about 60 fatherless families over the last 10 years, and she intends to follow the boys into adolescence and adulthood.Some excerpts:There's a

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Do you think a judge would be sympathetic to my explanation that I was trying to work out whether the hunkaspunk talking on his cellphone while standing at the lights was indeed Hugh Jackman? We weren't too far from the big theatre in Haymarket, after all.V. embarassing and shamemaking. The pedestrian was (quite rightly) very upset and very voluble, and he didn't register on the gaydar one

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Handbags? Handbags!?!Some Kiwis (I blow my nose at you) think that the traditional (your father smelt of elderberries) pre-Bedisloe Cup match taunting (we've already got one) has maybe gone a bit far this year, as Channel 7's ad for the match against the Wallabies tomorrow shows the famous All-Blacks haka being performed by the team with digitally added handbags on their shoulders.Why handbags?

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and his brainwashed subjects would undoubtedly be better off in the long term if his regime were overthrown.But I nonetheless want to applaud him giving the one-fingered salute to Washington with today's missile test launches. I wish I didn't feel that way, that I could be wholeheartedly behind any hegemonic power that was against the current North Korean regime, but I can't find it within me to

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Everybody's talking about the Big Brother incident that led to Jon and Ash getting evicted for "breaking Big Brother's Rules" - where she was held down by Jon while Ash rubbed his penis in her face. Initial claims of a clear case of sexual assault are probably overstated (though could be pressed if Camilla wished), however sexual harassment seems inarguable. From what I've been reading, it is

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Ever heard of "Disenfranchised Father Syndrome"? No? How about "Divorce Related Malicious Mother Syndrome"? Me neither, but to a lot of men, particularly in the USA, the conditions are believed to be real, including one I had heard of - Parental Alienation Syndrome.Kevin T. Keith at Sufficient Scruples examines how fathers' rights organisations attract pseudoscientists making up mental

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Thus far my blog has been a BB free zone, but WTF? John and Ashley were evicted for doing what? For any two men to do that anywhere is offensive, but how stupid do you have to be to do it where cameras are going to see? These blokes should just do the right thing and donate all organs but their brains to medical science immediately (because obviously their brains aren't worth having).

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On my blog the women come and bitch Reading Ivan Denisovitch. And indeed there will be time To download videos of laissez faire, Time to pull rants from my derriere, With a cowlick in the middle of my hair - [They will say: "How his schtick is growing thin!"] In The Love Song of J. Edgar Goldstein, an homage to one of my favouritest

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OK, Pavlov's Cat infected Ampersand Duck, and it's contagious.Everyone remembers the old porn name game, right?YOUR PORN NAME(First Pet's Name + Name of Street First Lived On)My porn name is Rusty Bruce, which, as I have often noted, sounds alarmingly butch.Here are the rest:YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME(grandfather/grandmother on your father's side, your favorite sweet/lolly):Nell PralineYOUR FLY GIRL/

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Grooms for life: Denise Noe has a plan to reduce abortions by recruiting godly single men to marry knocked-up whores who will thereupon resile from their baby-murd'rin' ways and fawn upon the godbothering grooms in gratitude thereafter 'til death do them part.the screaming demonstrators outside abortion clinics would soon be replaced by swains in bow ties, holding rings and serenading the

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Even cynical people have noted that by giving his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Buffet has resisted the inevitable egotistic temptation to reinvent a working wheel by aggrandising his existing charity foundation in his wife's name, but there's just no pleasing some people.Pro-Lifers Against Buffett-Gates Alliance:Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with fellow

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Rumours have been flying about the death of Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu:Police in Perth have been forced to deny that a man accused of murdering an eight-year-old schoolgirl is one of the killers of British boy James Bulger.I was living in the UK from mid-'94 to the end of '95, and I remember the effect that the Bulger murder had there. Like the rest of the Western world, the tradition of

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Right-Blogistan is all het up about an email from the founder of top-ranking blog DailyKos to other progressive bloggers asking them to not report on a story unfavourable to an associate of his. This request from Markos Moulitsas is being spun as him having a stranglehold on the talking points of Left-Blogistan. Oh yes, that man's a brilliant one for herding cats. Billmon makes a good case for

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Had a nice weekend away from the house enjoying the fine weather, so haven't blogged.On Saturday, the family and I met up with Morgspace and The Other Andrew for lunch at Coogee. It was a perfect Sydney winter's day - bright blue sky, clear air after the rain, and everybody out enjoying the sun. We had fish and chips and some wine at a picnic table in the beach reserve, then indulged in gelato,

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Relax, it's not the Twisty bj wars [warning - flameproof underwear required, and you can follow it around lots of other blogs too]No, Futurama is going back into production.Zack of Shakespeare's Sister captures my response to this news exactly.

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Every now and then, when I feel I need a good snicker and an invigorating rush of blood to the obstreperal lobe, I read the USA-based conservative punditry website Townhall.I didn't even bother with the usual wingnut fare of anti-immigration, anti-judges, anti-gay-rights and global-warming-isn't-happening stuff, because that's all just retreaded pap, and I wished for novel pap. (There was no way

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with a lyrical post about nearly dying during his recent surgery.Wow. So worth reading, and so glad he's back with us.

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because she was a transgendered woman.RIP Amanda Milan.

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Solstice at Stonehenge - picture from here.So, who does the whole Xmas in July thing, eh?

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A cabled memo signed by Zalmy Khalilzad, the US Ambassodor to Iraq, has been leaked to the Washington Post. The Memo is titled "Snapshots from the Office: Public Affairs Staff Show Strains of Social Discord" and The Independent offers a summary:"The vulnerability of the US position in Baghdad is so great that the Iraqi military units guarding the perimeter of the Green Zone, the heart of US power

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(who definitely knew how to explete) for on Wikipedia's list of fictional expletives, at least 5 are credited to the character Stingray Timmins, of Neighbours.He may possibly be responsible for more, (my eyes started to water), but I rather like "foccacia'd", and I'm pleasantly surprised that the writers gave a nod to Douglas Adams/the Pythons in having the character use "Belgium".I'm not so

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Mark Bahnisch of Larvatus Prodeo had a great idea - since one of our commentors there had issued a comments challenge that if met would net the LP collective $1000 for our running costs (and the commenters came to the party and kkkkkkk cheerfully coughed up), it was time to shamelessly run with that idea for an even better cause - the quietly efficient and ubiquitous NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres

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From the National Geographic:June 13, 2006:- Perhaps not since the Cowardly Lion has an animal's appearance been so at odds with its attitude. On June 4 a black bear wandered into a West Milford, New Jersey, back yard, was confronted by a 15-pound (7-kilogram) tabby cat ... and fled up a neighbor's tree. Hissing at the base of the tree, Jack the clawless cat kept the bear at bay for about 15

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So, for the moment, the ACT's civil unions legislation lies in tatters on the Federal Parliament floor.The conflict between socially conservative ideals about marriage and politically conservative ideals about states' rights* to self-government led to such a tight vote on a Greens' motion to overturn the Attorney-General's veto on the ACT legislation that fourteen senators (including the

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Yesterday I spent half the day wondering whether I really needed to go to the dentist about that disturbing cracking sound and brief shooting pain I experienced when taking an inoffensive bite from a Rich Tea biscuit. When I realised that, despite the lack of further pain, I could actually hinge the back cusp away from the filling with a gingerly tongue, I decided that yes, indeed, I did need

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I've never seen a fisk this neat before.Hat-tip to Crikey's Blogwatch.

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When one has, due to a throbbing migraine 2 nights ago, inadvertently omitted a crucial step in making pea and ham soup such as say, sauteeing the onions/garlic before browning the bacon hocks (resulting in a soup of almost 1970s homecooking blandness), it is in fact possible to still rescue the rest of the soup! Hurrah!What one does is make up an onion broth separately, almost as if one were

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David Tiley of Barista is recovering from surgery. There were apparently some minor complications and his stay will be longer than expected, so his break from blogging will also be extended.Drop by his blog and say something nice, eh? And/or leave him an interesting hungry-mind link to follow when he's up to it.

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Science Writing: Tangled Bank #54 at Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Bloggin'.The Carnival of Feminists: The 16th Carnival is now up on Welcome to the Nut House.Fifth Radical Women of Colour Carnival at Fabulosa MujerCarnival of Education 70th Edition at The Education WonksThe 36th Skeptics' Circle is meeting at The Examining Room of Dr. Charles.Some good reading for a rainy long weekend.

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As in dummy fronting for a corporation rorting the ex-servicemen land grants in New Guinea after WW1, that is. The full story is in The Age.Two corporations, W.R. Carpenter and Burns Philp, are well documented as having given ex-servicemen the stake money to apply for land grants to copra plantations that were then managed by the corporations until the full price was paid off, and then usually

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Friendswood, Texas, is the town adjacent to which Ellington Field, the joint civil/military airport servicing Houston, is situated.Someone from there came to my blog with the Google search string "am i a prophet".Mr President, I'm sorry to say that no, I really don't think so. I think someone nasty might have been telling you stories to trick you, and make you do mean things. I think you should

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The whole 666 Number/Mark of the Beast thing and the fact that I'm reading Peter F. Hamilton at the moment has got me thinking about biochips and the future of other technological augmentations of the human body, and how those technological advances will be received in society at large.Hamilton's futurist novels revolve around the idea of transhumanism, which is the use of genetic engineering and

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is that the Powers That Be can't put in restrictive local electoral roll practices to prevent the poor and minorities from enrolling to vote.Hat-tip: Clive the Internet Manager

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Weez at Machine Gun Keyboard tells you all you need to know about the law currently waiting to go before parliament that will stop this government-funded scam.This scam has been imported here from the US anti-abortion activists, where pregnant women phone for advice and are told lies about the effects of abortion and the service refuses to refer them to any clinic that does give accurate abortion

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Think of the fees that could be saved if this catches on.

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Just had to share.

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From The Age, at the end of an article discussing a maverick MP's plan to draft a bill to legislate for same-sex civil unions in Victoria in the wake of the govt's statement that they intend to block the ACT's legislation:Mr Beazley says he does not support the federal government's move to scuttle the ACT's homosexual union laws. Prime Minister John Howard today said the ACT's laws challenge the

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Initially, when one looks at the site statistics meter and sees a sharp rise in one's pathetic hit rate, one is overjoyed: at last the peeps are listening to me!But no.They merely want to know the latest c*l*brity birthing news, or c*l*brity divorce news (especially if it involves parties with missing limbs), or secondary s*x**l organ scandal news, or something even more perverse which you have,

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There is so much ink and electrons spent on the question: who is the AntiChrist revealed by the Number of the Beast? Type "antichrist" or "666" into a search engine and watch the sponsored links to any number of sites theorising the matter appear.So who can the AntiChrist be?He snorted cocaine ... He dodged the draft....His friends knew him as an alcoholic womanizer with a bad temper....a

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Tonight there will be a Four Corners programme on shortcomings in rural medical care, particularly for obstetrics and cancer patients. "RDA federal president Dr Ross Maxwell has told Four Corners that, on the current trend, there will not be a single rural doctor trained to deliver babies in five years' time. "It will be catastrophic for the people, the women who live in rural and remote

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This is the title of an apparently well-known essay of which I only just became aware, from Wired magazine in 2003, by Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics, and graphic design at Yale.The subtitle is "Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.""Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather

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Angelina prefers cheerios cereal for breakfast. I prefer Swiss muesli.Why doesn't she like what I like?Can't she see that muesli is good for one? That by choosing muesli I amdoing not only what is good for my body, but that which has the flavour andtexture I prefer? That I am following a family tradition that I cherish?Setting an example of values and good life habits for my

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My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) - SwitchBlade KittensI Can Make You a Man (Reprise)- The Rocky Horror Picture ShowNew Morning - Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsWild Wild West - Escape ClubRock The Casbah - The ClashJoy - PJ HarveyOK - Ani DiFrancoI Say A Little Prayer - Aretha FranklinKawaii - CodaThe Anchor Song - BjorkIf only Escape Club and Rocky Horror Picture Show hadn't snuck

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Well, this thread over at Larvatus Prodeo has all your Amazonian inspiration needs in stock. You have to go about halfway down the comments thread before they start appearing, but black catsuits and sharp pointy weapons are abounding.That'll teach Liam to make bets about economic policy debating etiquette threads.

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In a timely fashion considering Kim's response to Tim Blair's baiting about whether progressives would condemn abstinence-only sex-education at a Muslim school in Australia in the same way as when it's advocated by Christians (yes, of course we would), Zuzu at Feministe posted this:"Where is the outrage? I can guarantee the tone of Newsweek's piece would be far different if this were an Al

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Do not, in a moment of Wild Optimism masquerading as a Brilliant Idea, put the smelly towels you found under your son's bed[*] in the washing machine on the heavy duty cycle instead of giving them a good soak in a disinfectant solution as recommended by my mum and yours.Especially in a brand new machine that's still showing off just how much more powerful it is than the last one.The result is

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I'm not that keen on "weird things people search for and end up at this blog" posts, (although my sitemeter does give me frequent quiet moments of amusement and rarer bouts of disgust) but:People who are arriving at this blog searching for blather about the new Brangelina baby (and quickly running off when what you find is blather about the history of hyphenated surnames), you might have better

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Brand spanking new group blog Sarsaparilla, writing about literature, media and culture from Aussie points of view, with contributors who are some of my favourite Ozbloggers.I love this idea - bless the good blog Sarsaparilla and all who sail in her!Oh, and Kerryn did an excellent job on reviewing Answered by Fire like I was going to, and now I don't need to, so go read it.

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Daily Telegraph columnist Anita Quigley is shrill in her Saturday column about a Sydney pre-school which has introduced a curriculum which is friendly to non-traditional homosexual and transgender families. She's "a strong advocate for a factual and concise sex curriculum for students" but (we knew there was going to be a but, didn't we?):There is a time and a place for sex education but

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So Brangelina's baby has been born - Shiloh Nouvelle Jolie-Pitt. There is undoubtedly going to be a lot of sneering at the choice of personal names, but today I'm looking at the family name.Jolie and Pitt had already decided on the hyphenation when he decided to petition to co-adopt Maddox and Zahara, Jolie's two adopted children. And the order they've chosen is what is seen as usual - the

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This soup has much the same base as a Laksa, but not so much coconut cream. I tend to use low fat versions of the coconut and chicken stock, but that's an option. Fresh Asian vegetables can be used instead of tinned, or one could use tinned Asian mushrooms instead of fresh. This really is best with chicken. The lemongrass is the fragrance, the kaffir lime gives the sourness, and the red curry

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