Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Bugger. “Jon” (real name Al Weisel) was such a generous netizen, highlighting the work of other bloggers regularly and sending encouraging emails.
He also pioneered the parody faux-conservative schtick that Stephen Colbert epitomises today. He was already terribly missed when his blogging slowed down over recent years – to think that he’ll never write such wonderful witty words again is terribly sad.
Condolences to his family and to everyone else who knew and loved him. He was a delight to read and must have been even more of a delight to know.
Thank you for everything, Al Weisel. Read more »
Indulged myself with some books bought with the Xmas gift voucher I finally dug up to use:
Disrespected the cat:
Read more »
Today’s sea otter mother-baby pair comes via the Mail Online. The otters were snapped in Prince William Sound, off the south coast of Alaska. Thanks to all the people who pointed me to it!
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. Nick Xenophon suggested an Internet Ombudsperson, a suggestion Kevin Rudd applauded. There’ve also been numerous controversies about high school students posting racist groups, or offensive ones (for instance, effectively calling for attacks on sex workers). All this no doubt warrants condemnation – but it’s also worth observing that only a certain subsection of offensive content (usually involving children in one way or other) comes to the attention of the media and politicians. Little outrage is directed to the much larger subset of racist groups on Facebook (which don’t happen to be set up by high school kids), or the everyday misogyny that permeates much of the online space.
There’s no doubt that there are problems with Facebook’s method of dealing with offensive content. But the fundamental errors in this debate are twofold: Read more »
Quick question: you know that phenomenon when you’re in a rush and everything around you decides to take longer than usual, when every object insists on falling over or refusing to work – when physics itself has turned against you? There should be a word for that. Any ideas? Read more »
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!