I'm so accustomed to cordially disbelieving 'the news' - especially sensational stories - that I'm occasionally shocked to find one founded in some sort of reality ( Read more... )

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Report on a new law slated to come into force in Mali increasing women's rights, including removing the requirement that a woman must obey her husband (sic ( Read more... )

I haz a Utilikilt!! It's all kinds of awesome ( Read more... )

Fer fuck's sake world, someone finding people of the same sex as them attractive and choosing to build lives with and shag them is just fkn normal and ok, ok? Stop fkn killing and prosecuting them. Dumbasses! Homophobic fucktards.

Regina is one of those singers I'm obsessed with, but it's taken me a few months to get around to listening to her new album 'Far ( Read more... )

I finally got around to watching this - finished yesterday.

Now I know that there was lots of blogging about this on my friends list when it was first out, but I didn't read it then to avoid spoilers - can you guys pls comment with links to your posts where you've talked about it? I want to see what people thought!

Cheers xx

I'm pretty sure that it was Matt Reilly who was one of the guest speakers at Swan Con last year - and I liked him. This means that I was prejudiced towards liking his books, which are kinda techno-thriller types ( Read more... )

Nokia 'Comes with Music' service, um, comes with a number of handsets, including the 5800 which I have. It is, in fact, all it promises to be in terms of unlimited downloads from the Nokia music store, which is sufficiently huge. You can do the downloading through your computer and existing broadband connection - no special connection needed ( Read more... )

The dot points ( Read more... )