Lighten Up

It’s often a good idea to check your tag clouds and see if you might be inadvertently revealing some embarrassing obsessions… Not the first one I’ve seen either

Notes from Around

From Yahoo News: A driver who killed two people in a high-speed car crash told police he was in a time machine and could become invisible above 100kmh…. Warren, who suffered from manic depression, told police he genuinely believed he could become invisible if he went above 100kmh. Clearly he is insane – everyone knows [...]

Looks like WOBH now has an official superyacht

It’s not really big enough for all his readers, but it certainly looks the part. Seventy-six meter long “Oculus,” which is designed for 12 guests, looks like a large sea creature, with one end looking uncannily like the jaw and eye socket of a shark or a killer whale. A second design, the futuristic, 91-meter [...]

That’s gotta hurt

President’s Own Physician Is Against Obamacare Time to go back to the drawing board… or get a new doctor!

Fine for Parking Here

(This post was somehow published while I made revisions – sorry to those who saw the first version) There comes a point where political point scoring and twisting crosses the line and just becomes casual lying. Idiot/Savant has done this a lot recently with the Section 59 debate, but he’s also doing it in other [...]

Zimbabwe Looking Up

There can be fewer good signs of progress in Zimbabwe than the BBC being let back in. Even better, they’re able to film the supermarkets that are now filled with food, after the US dollar was adopted. There’s still massive problems (the food is expensive) but things are looking positive. If you’d told me that [...]

Violence will breed Violence, that’s why it’s always been illegal

Once they stopped smacking everything became better… “Once I started smacking, I noticed it would escalate – the children started hitting each other and would also react violently to discipline. So I would have to maintain the strong-arm tactics, and they also escalated until I had become a bully,” he wrote. … He said yesterday [...]

Spongebob Tarau Porowha

As I mentioned in passing the other day, Spongbob is being translated into Maori. It’s a great coup for Maori language TV if you ask me – it’s an incredibly popular children’s tv show. The Herald has a video of the translation process. Apparently translating squidword’s “Jewish New York” style accent into Maori is quite [...]

5. Eating Disorders—Services in Northern Region

Browsing through yesterday’s questions I noticed this. Hon Ruth Dyson: How is the Associate Minister’s commitment to eating disorders backed up by his decision to have pies and candyfloss in, and apples out, of schools? Since National didn’t kick apples out of schools, that’s a stupid question. Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: I am very surprised [...]

Ugly Blogging

There are some ugly things on the internet. You know, I once saw a blogger threaten suicide, in comments to a post of his. Some of you will remember the situation I’m talking about. Some of his commenters mocked him and encouraged him to do it. The next post on his blog was from a [...]