The Big Brother narrative takes yet another snarky turn. As Eye on Big Brother notes, all the glee on the panel show tonight (Big Mouth or whatever) was directed at the hapless Brigitte. Read more »
The Big Brother narrative takes yet another snarky turn. As Eye on Big Brother notes, all the glee on the panel show tonight (Big Mouth or whatever) was directed at the hapless Brigitte. Read more »
This post is likely to be of interest mostly to those who are hosting a blog on Wordpress.com. Read more »
Are certain moral propositions self-evident: is it reasonable to simply assert them without further justification? Read more »
Australia’s tissue donors are a rare breed, and it appears older donors of bone marrow provide less useful tissue. The implications of the ageing list of potential donors implies drives need to be targetted to younger people. More details in Nature’s "Bone Marrow Transplantation" [doi:10.1038/sj.bmt.1705950] here). Read more »
Is someone, anyone, in the Rudd Government prepared to stand up and be counted in relation to the continued funding of Exclusive Brethren schools?The issue is a simple one. Exclusive Brethren schools receive federal government funding that should be directed towards the education of the nation's poorest children.Funding deals for Exclusive Brethren schools were set up by the Keating government. They continued and were promoted under the Howard government and still operate under the Rudd government. Read more »
This is the third in my irregular series of posts on science fiction and/or speculative fiction. Read more »
Answer: When you are a university vice-chancellor.Well, that's what Professor Ian O'Connor of Queensland's Griffith University must think. Read more »
Yesterday I woke to find that the Rudd Government had lost its tiny mind and finally lurched so far right that it was convincingly lost in a strange black ops forest. Yep, it had called up the terrorist bogey man to insist that it was fit and proper to let an employer snoop unannounced into every email passing through an office computer or a company laptop being used by a worker while out in the big bad world. Read more »
Something of a sequel to my first post of that title on the politics and poetics of science fiction. Read more »
The Northern Star published this account yesterday. "I got there half an hour later and they said 'he's right to go home'; but I persisted because I knew he was not alright," Ms Randall said. North Coast Area Health Service clinical operations executive director Denice Fletcher rejected suggestion Read more »
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