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Jan. 25th, 2010 06:54 pmXKCD explains what it's like to be a former Doctor Who companion.
Bizarre Jumble #2
Jan. 2nd, 2010 09:56 pmSuperboy Comics. "Clearly, no two days in Smallville are alike."
One day I want to go to Resolute.
Much of the classic September 2001 The Onion - Attack on America issue has been preserved at the Wayback Machine. "Hugging Up 76,000 Percent". (I do wish the images had also survived, though!)
Public toilet finder for the US.
National Public Toilet Map for Australia.
Reality matches Dreaming story: traditional Aboriginal knowledge leads scientists to meteorite crater. How cool is that?!
One day I want to go to Resolute.
Much of the classic September 2001 The Onion - Attack on America issue has been preserved at the Wayback Machine. "Hugging Up 76,000 Percent". (I do wish the images had also survived, though!)
Public toilet finder for the US.
National Public Toilet Map for Australia.
Reality matches Dreaming story: traditional Aboriginal knowledge leads scientists to meteorite crater. How cool is that?!
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Oct. 29th, 2009 06:37 pmInternet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe
Letting Words Do Their Work: Why the care of language is more important than ever.
WORDCOUNT
The other writing secrets. If nothing else, read James Moran's four words of crucial advice.
Ben Aaronovitch quotes a terribly funny effort by Robert Sheckley to covercome writer's block.
No two days in Smallville are alike. :)
Letting Words Do Their Work: Why the care of language is more important than ever.
WORDCOUNT
The other writing secrets. If nothing else, read James Moran's four words of crucial advice.
Ben Aaronovitch quotes a terribly funny effort by Robert Sheckley to covercome writer's block.
No two days in Smallville are alike. :)
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fritters: cat shower. Wet head! Towel off, eh.
silverblue tweeted: Nuns on counseling condom use and AIDs prevention in PNG: "We are getting very old and hard of hearing, and Rome is a long way away."
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Rubbish attempts at feminism in 70s superhero comics. (Did anyone in the real world ever actually say "male chauvinist pig"?)
1950 anti-health care reform ad.
Sesame Street's Roscoe Orman. A lost relative?
fritters: cat shower. Wet head! Towel off, eh.silverblue tweeted: Nuns on counseling condom use and AIDs prevention in PNG: "We are getting very old and hard of hearing, and Rome is a long way away."Via
qthewetsprocket: A FREAKING ENORMOUS SPIDER and many amusing responses thereunto. Don't click if you know it'll freak you out! (Oops - you need to join whatwasthatone to see it!)Rubbish attempts at feminism in 70s superhero comics. (Did anyone in the real world ever actually say "male chauvinist pig"?)
1950 anti-health care reform ad.
Sesame Street's Roscoe Orman. A lost relative?
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May. 28th, 2009 09:27 amLiterary cat makes library visits
Cat recruited to patrol station
Tom Gauld toons for the Guardian Saturday Review letters page
It's a Small Word: newspaper corrections ("Norma Adams-Wade’s June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite.") From the same Columbia Journalism Review Column: The Wrath of Khan, some lolarious fanboy corrections. :)
Cross-cultural variation in creationism
Death Note: Fell Asleep
42 Essential Third Act Twists
Native American placename map of the US
Cookie Monster informs us about Healthy Food
Cat recruited to patrol station
Tom Gauld toons for the Guardian Saturday Review letters page
It's a Small Word: newspaper corrections ("Norma Adams-Wade’s June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite.") From the same Columbia Journalism Review Column: The Wrath of Khan, some lolarious fanboy corrections. :)
Cross-cultural variation in creationism
Death Note: Fell Asleep
42 Essential Third Act Twists
Native American placename map of the US
Cookie Monster informs us about Healthy Food
In the past week we've seen the new Trek and the Wolverine flick and I've enjoyed them both: well-made, well-acted movies with plenty of pace and laughs. And yet I find myself oddly unmoved by either of them. ( SPOILERS for both films )
5 Superpowers From the Bible That Put Marvel and DC to Shame. "Jesus told them they were faithless wusses and the disciples shut up. If that wasn't cool enough, he chewed out the storm, and it shut up, too. That has to be our favorite part, how he's just annoyed by the whole thing, as if being bothered to stop an entire weather systems was equivalent to getting woken up by your girlfriend to go kill a spider in the bathroom."
Nudibranch checking the time
rainbowjehan pwns (so no change there, then).
Review of Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea.
Handy! NSW Food Authority Register of penalty notices.
XKCD on, of all things, fanbullying. Kewl.
ryuuri_chan demonstrates how she draws chibis!
illudiumphosdex demonstrates the mighty phonofiddle!
Dark Phoenix cosplay, Blimey!
Elsie's stunning poem 64 Birds.
Nudibranch checking the time
rainbowjehan pwns (so no change there, then).Review of Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea.
Handy! NSW Food Authority Register of penalty notices.
XKCD on, of all things, fanbullying. Kewl.
ryuuri_chan demonstrates how she draws chibis!illudiumphosdex demonstrates the mighty phonofiddle!Dark Phoenix cosplay, Blimey!
Elsie's stunning poem 64 Birds.
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Bric a Brac from the world of wimmins
Sep. 1st, 2008 08:42 pmTurns out boys are not better than girls at maths and science. Hooda thunkit?
Hulk vs. Valkyrie! "Every male chauvinist pig in the world will tremble!"
Down Under
Australian women still face sex bias, including high levels of outright sexual harassment. A national plan means to tackle that, plus "Boosting women's retirement savings, encouraging family-friendly work practices, [reviewing] sex discrimination laws, and promoting women in leadership roles."
This one's from June: Gender wage gap under review: with women still earning less than men, even for comparable work, the Australian guvmint plans a pay equity tribunal.
Challenge to legal boys' club: female barristers are being systematically excluded from work; state governments seek to redress this.
Designer vaginas blacklisted by gynos: Australian and NZ doctors reject the West's version of Female Genital Mutilation as unnecessary, dangerous, and exploitative.
To hell and back: appetite for life regained: Lucy Howard-Taylor's Biting Anorexia "is the only memoir written by a recovered anorexic to be endorsed by the Eating Disorders Foundation of NSW because it refuses to glamorise the disorder".
Australian women wrong on heart disease: survey: "Most women mistakenly believe that breast cancer is the leading cause of death among females, underestimating heart disease as the nation's biggest killer."
Hillsong hits schools with beauty gospel: troubled young women taught by unqualified counsellors to boost their self-esteem through nail polish?
Family violence unit incomplete: promised domestic violence police unit for NSW pretty much forgotten.
Abused wife thought: "I've got to kill him".
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world
Women working for the government or contractors in occupied Iraq under threat from their male colleagues: After rape victim used cell phone to call for help, KBR bans use of personal phones in Iraq. (See also this blog post from last December.)
In the UK: Rape victims told alcohol consumption may cost them compensation. The relevant body, CICA, admits it was wrong to reduce compensation by as much as 25%, but refuses to review such cases unless victims complain. One woman's story: 'I did my bit in reporting a rapist, the authorities didn't do theirs'.
Still in the UK: Sex assaults: Police accused of adopting 'Life on Mars' attitude. The former head of Derbyshire CID: "My advice to cops is: investigate. If someone gets their car nicked or their house broken into and their DVD player's gone, then you start an investigation, irrespective of the respectability of the victim. While some forces are embracing change, there are other individuals playing the Life on Mars stance where they allege that most cases are false allegations and not worth pursuing."
Hulk vs. Valkyrie! "Every male chauvinist pig in the world will tremble!"
Down Under
Australian women still face sex bias, including high levels of outright sexual harassment. A national plan means to tackle that, plus "Boosting women's retirement savings, encouraging family-friendly work practices, [reviewing] sex discrimination laws, and promoting women in leadership roles."
This one's from June: Gender wage gap under review: with women still earning less than men, even for comparable work, the Australian guvmint plans a pay equity tribunal.
Challenge to legal boys' club: female barristers are being systematically excluded from work; state governments seek to redress this.
Designer vaginas blacklisted by gynos: Australian and NZ doctors reject the West's version of Female Genital Mutilation as unnecessary, dangerous, and exploitative.
To hell and back: appetite for life regained: Lucy Howard-Taylor's Biting Anorexia "is the only memoir written by a recovered anorexic to be endorsed by the Eating Disorders Foundation of NSW because it refuses to glamorise the disorder".
Australian women wrong on heart disease: survey: "Most women mistakenly believe that breast cancer is the leading cause of death among females, underestimating heart disease as the nation's biggest killer."
Hillsong hits schools with beauty gospel: troubled young women taught by unqualified counsellors to boost their self-esteem through nail polish?
Family violence unit incomplete: promised domestic violence police unit for NSW pretty much forgotten.
Abused wife thought: "I've got to kill him".
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world
Women working for the government or contractors in occupied Iraq under threat from their male colleagues: After rape victim used cell phone to call for help, KBR bans use of personal phones in Iraq. (See also this blog post from last December.)
In the UK: Rape victims told alcohol consumption may cost them compensation. The relevant body, CICA, admits it was wrong to reduce compensation by as much as 25%, but refuses to review such cases unless victims complain. One woman's story: 'I did my bit in reporting a rapist, the authorities didn't do theirs'.
Still in the UK: Sex assaults: Police accused of adopting 'Life on Mars' attitude. The former head of Derbyshire CID: "My advice to cops is: investigate. If someone gets their car nicked or their house broken into and their DVD player's gone, then you start an investigation, irrespective of the respectability of the victim. While some forces are embracing change, there are other individuals playing the Life on Mars stance where they allege that most cases are false allegations and not worth pursuing."
Books Read, May 2008
May. 31st, 2008 11:59 pmPhil Drabble. A Weasel in my Meatsafe.
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note, issues 1-6.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, vol 8.
( Books bought and borrowed )
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note, issues 1-6.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, vol 8.
( Books bought and borrowed )
It's called Hyoutan-Tsugi and is based on a drawing Tezuka's kid sister made of a particular kind of mushroom. It's all over Buddha. In fact, it plays a pivotal role towards the end, making all the previous appearances actually kind of creepy.
Here's one of its random appearances:
Here's one of its random appearances:
And while I'm on the subject
May. 2nd, 2008 09:46 pmI tracked down two more comix from my adolescence: Kamandi 57 and Ghost Rider 74.
( The Last Boy On Earth! and a man without a soul... )
( The Last Boy On Earth! and a man without a soul... )
But before there was yaoi, there was Osamu Tezuka, inventor of useful things like Astroboy and Kimba. I've been reading his eight-volume life of the Buddha, which is positively Old Testament in its blood, guts, and nipples (one character loses hers mysteriously on becoming a nun). I had no idea I could enjoy a manga this much. It's a mixture of drama and serious ponderings on life and death, and huge comedy, with much mugging, anachronisms, breaking of the fourth wall, and authorial cameos, as here:
On the next page, for no reason I can discern (and standing behind Shariputra, lol) is the splendid random frog I have used as the icon for this posting.
On the next page, for no reason I can discern (and standing behind Shariputra, lol) is the splendid random frog I have used as the icon for this posting.
Books Read, April 2008
Apr. 30th, 2008 11:50 pmChristine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Diane Yapko. Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders.
( Books borrowed - ISTG I'm not buying any this month )
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Diane Yapko. Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders.
( Books borrowed - ISTG I'm not buying any this month )
Books Read, March 2008
Mar. 31st, 2008 11:59 pmDamien Keown. Buddhist Ethics: a Very Short Introduction.
Elizabeth Moon. Speed of Dark.
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 1 and 2.
( Books borrowed and bought )
Elizabeth Moon. Speed of Dark.
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 1 and 2.
( Books borrowed and bought )
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Mar. 7th, 2008 04:43 pmirritant01 just asked me how many feminist superheroes there were, and I realised I haven't the foggiest. Can anybody name some genuine, self-identified feminist superheroes?(no subject)
Jan. 13th, 2008 06:59 amYou should see what the_uther_show has done to the new Doctor Who comic. (Be sure to enjoy the comments.)
the_uther_show has done to the new Doctor Who comic. (Be sure to enjoy the comments.)Books read, 2007
Dec. 31st, 2007 09:59 pmTags:
- australia,
- book-mucking,
- books read/bought/borrowed,
- comics,
- feminist science fiction,
- homer sexuality,
- it's the mind: chess and crosswords etc,
- melanin,
- religion,
- religion: tehology,
- religion: the view from babylon,
- science fiction,
- tv: top gear apparently,
- words words words,
- writers: george orwell,
- writers: hunter s. thompson,
- writers: niall griffiths
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Dec. 17th, 2007 09:50 pmFirst some great news from the AP: Saudi king pardons rape victim: Abdullah reportedly spares woman in sex-assault case from jail and lashes. (But what about the man, who was also raped, and whose sentence was also increased? The article doesn't tell us.)
Still a long way to go for Saudi Arabia, with alleged rape victims denied forensic exams and the flogging and imprisonment of gays.
Mum saved me a charming clipping from local paper The Hills Shire Times, about a Christmas carols night hosted by a Muslim centre, an event organised by the Hills Interfaith Dialogue Group. Participants traded info on Advent and on the importance of Jesus and Mary in the Koran.
Right, well admittedly the timing on this is a bit weird, but here we are: Huge rise in Scots with racist prejudices (and they were surveyed before the nightmare at Glasgow Aiport). Scottish Muslim Osama Saeed comments at his blog, and was also interviewed by The Scotsman: "There is this idea in many people's minds that Muslims in this country sympathise with regimes like Saudi Arabia or Libya, when in fact many people are here because they fled those regimes and are here because of the freedoms we enjoy."
Viadrhoz: Comic Book Characters Grouped by Religious Affiliation. Pineapple Man!
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As I'm not firing on all cylinders, I'm going to take a break this week from blogging on these issues (unless there's some major news or I think of some fascinating point to make).
Still a long way to go for Saudi Arabia, with alleged rape victims denied forensic exams and the flogging and imprisonment of gays.
Mum saved me a charming clipping from local paper The Hills Shire Times, about a Christmas carols night hosted by a Muslim centre, an event organised by the Hills Interfaith Dialogue Group. Participants traded info on Advent and on the importance of Jesus and Mary in the Koran.
Right, well admittedly the timing on this is a bit weird, but here we are: Huge rise in Scots with racist prejudices (and they were surveyed before the nightmare at Glasgow Aiport). Scottish Muslim Osama Saeed comments at his blog, and was also interviewed by The Scotsman: "There is this idea in many people's minds that Muslims in this country sympathise with regimes like Saudi Arabia or Libya, when in fact many people are here because they fled those regimes and are here because of the freedoms we enjoy."
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drhoz: Comic Book Characters Grouped by Religious Affiliation. Pineapple Man!__
As I'm not firing on all cylinders, I'm going to take a break this week from blogging on these issues (unless there's some major news or I think of some fascinating point to make).
