This: There’s a blog on technologizer about how Apple products != jails I’m sick of the smug insults delivered by some people at Apple users – simply because we *choose* to use an Apple device. So we can’t hack it and play around with the source code and … Good. I’m glad. I have no desire to...
The death of Jani Lane has prompted quite a bit of thinking and talking between mrs tsuken and me, fuelled in part by an excellent, articulate and insightful post by Sebastian Bach. Fame, it seems, is a harsh mistress. There is a striking – and superficially surprising – dichotomy evident in the world of...
Fred Nile, the National President of the Christian Democrat party, is a loathsome little weasel indeed (that’s not what I’d like to have written; it’s what I have written). He is so blindly obsessed with preventing the teaching to children of philosophical discourse about ethics that he has abandoned any pretence of behaving like...
I had a nice surprise today, spying a few lorikeets having a nibble in some trees as I was walking between the emergency department and outpatients. While I didn’t have my Lumix, I have taken to carrying my wife’s Fuji FinePix compact in my jacket pocket, so I took a few photos. My favourite...
If this doesn’t make you rage-cry, we can no longer be friends
A friend on Facebook posted one of the most awful things I’ve read in ages: a report of a mother bear killing herself, then her cub – to avoid the torture and agony of bile-farming. I knew about bile-farming. I did not know that the bears try to suicide by hitting themselves in the abdomen...
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