Readability
Laid-back Australians find they have quite a lot to whinge about [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1014/1224305756729.html] The Irish Times - Friday, October 14, 2011 P DRAIG COLLINS SYDNEY LETTER: The chief of the Harvey Norman chain says Australians should be very happy indeed with their
Sexuality
> If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death. And that’s not me, that’s God: the all-knowing, all-loving creator who made all things, and hates some
Web
The New Google Reader [http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-in-reader-fresh-design-and-google.html] I think I like it. Certainly, sharing via Google+ feels slightly more useful than sharing with a note to the one or two people who followed me on Reader. That said, the design changes are a little more
Doctor Who
amymebberson [http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/7519690523/muppet-dr-who]: > Muppet Doctor Who. Well, this is impressive. Especially Brigadier Swedish Chef.
iPhone
This started off as an email I kept sending to people and then updating every time. Instead, I’ll try to keep this updated. General Apps * Instacast [http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/instacast/id420368235] (podcasts, far better than syncing from iTunes) * Consume [http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/consume/
Politics
> On television, [Julia Gillard] loses a dimension; her natural fluency seems to get snarled up in clunky catchphrases and rehearsed hand movements. Rather than looking like a leader forming a political argument, she tends to look like an AFL umpire reluctantly allowing a goal. — Annabel Crabb, Gillard, Rudd and
Animals
Note that they’re unfazed by the attention of the paparazzi.
Croatia
Only one Roman Emperor retired rather than sticking around until a more… terminal severance package was forced upon him. That emperor was Diocletian, a native of these parts, and his retirement home still remains in the middle of Split. A big square construction on the edge of the sea, Diocletian
Maths
Politics
> I don’t advocate gay marriage any more than I advocate eating potato salad for breakfast. I just think it makes zero sense for other people to campaign against it. What the fuck do you care? Eat your cornflakes and shut your stupid-hole. — Geoff Lemon at Heathen Scripture [http:
Croatia
After indulging in some rather potent Austrian beer the day before, I was in a somewhat hungover state as we finally arrived at Dubrovnik airport. The plane had been full of elderly Americans, but for the whole flight I remained blissfully unaware of the possibility that they were all on