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Here be links
I took another night off. A decision I feel I may regret upon waking tomorrow but right now I'm enjoying kicking back with a beer.
So, here be links of procrastinationess. I figured I could keep spamming stalkbook or I could collate them here (where I can easily find them again).
Optogenetics: Plant genes create photosensitive neurons that allow ( Read more... ) -
Science is Awesome
While procrastinating I've been catching up on my RSS feeds and figured I'd round up a collection of awesome sciencey happenings of the past few months.
Blogging the Voyage of the Beagle: As my housemate keeps reminding me, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of the Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. In ( Read more... ) -
TV this week
The person who writes the tv show descriptions for our local community paper has either altogether too much time on his hands or is really bored with his job and has no particular fear of getting fired because noone reads the tv pages. A selection has been provided for your, uh, entertainment?
7, Wednesday, 11:30pm
It's Always Sunny in ( Read more... ) -
Mizelede
Semester 1 assessment was successfully passed this morning, so I spent the rest of the day slacking off by watching too much bad tv and noodling around with digital painting.
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National Harmonisation of Disabled Parking Schemes
The Australian government is proposing a national harmonisation of disabled parking schemes. Their aim is to unify the regulations across all states and territories and to cut down on abuse of the current system. However, their proposal as it currently stands, completely negates those with invisible disabilities - those who have restricted ( Read more... ) -
Pink Bits
Huzzah! After much toil I finally finished my newsletter assignment. I chose feminism to be the topic and after several discussions with friends ended up with too many submissions and extensive interest to make this a regular "periodical". The idea is quite enticing although I definitely don't have the time to be a regular editor of something like ( Read more... ) -
Moosey Fate
Waking Up Canadian
Oh, if only it were that easy. My mum (born in Canada, became an Australian citizen in 2005) and my sister, muukau (registered as a Canadian citizen at birth), are having to jump through some serious bureaucratic hoops in order to get their paperwork despite having valid claims before this law came to pass.
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As an antithesis to the usual "customers suck" posts I tend to make in regards to work I figured customer good wishes were worth recording. I've left his grammar as spoken. He was not a native english speaker (Eastern European I think) and I like the rhythm with which he spoke ( Read more... ) -
Mysogynist Advertising: Coke Zero Edition
I don't usually watch TV but I caught these two ads when I was in Sydney recently and all I could do was sit stunned while they played. From recollection my first words once I could speak again were "Holy shit! That's disgusting!"
Break Up
Coke Zero: Life as it should be... for cowards everywhere. What. The. Fuck?
The ex and her new boyfriendI' ( Read more... )
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