( Were they, possibly, the most boring Oscars ever? )

I wonder why all my epiphanies take a really, really shallow form ( Read more... )

For any lovely friends who aren't BoingBoing enthusiasts (and if you're not, why aren't you?), they just linked to a really interesting New York Times editorial on the concept of intelligent design ( Read more... )

So here's the thing with AIM. I love chatting to people, but there are two problems ( Read more... )

All this palaver over Charles and Camilla and what will happen when/if he becomes king has achieved one thing.

I have the barbershop Scrubs version of Charles in Charge stuck in my head again.

I can't think of a group of people better qualified to help me with my current project ( Read more... )

I just got this email from my mum ( Read more... )

On or around this day 60 years ago, three women were led to the execution ground at Ravensbrück concentration camp, where each of them was shot in the back of the neck and immediately cremated. Their names were Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe, and Violette Szabo ( Read more... )

( The Answers To The Australiana Quiz! )

I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed ( Read more... )