June 2008
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in...”
– Winston churchill (via thresca) (via alicia) (via cowboyo)
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and...”
– George Carlin (via torrez & maniacalrage & angad)
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
“You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason...”
– Stephen Fry on people underestimating the power of depression (via paperflowers + veriloquent + didyouevernotice)
World Youth Day condom protest against Pope →
Condoms will be handed out to pilgrims en route to a papal Mass at Randwick Racecourse on World Youth Day as part of a protest against the Catholic Church’s attitude to homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
A coalition of religious, atheist, gay and lesbian groups will stage the rally in Taylor Square from midday on Saturday July 19 before marching to the main event of the week-long...
“Simplify your life.
Organize your life.
Clarify your life.”
– Productivity in Context » 3 Ways to “Hack Your Day” and Make It Great (via cowboyo)
Australia pips US as world's fattest nation →
AUSTRALIA has overtaken the United States as the world’s most obese nation, a new report says.
The report, Australia’s Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 million more than the last calculation in 1999.
The findings mean Australia is the world’s most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously super-sized...
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson
Digital copyright: it's all wrong - A draft treaty... →
The USA has circulated a draft “Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA) for the next G8 meeting, in Tokyo in July. The full text of the document has been published on Wikileaks.
The ACTA draft is a scary document. If a treaty based on its provisions were adopted, it would enable any border guard, in any treaty country, to check any electronic device...
It’s time to grow up. →
everythingontheinternetistrue:
While I wouldn’t ask any self-respecting man to give up his love for a beautiful pair of breasts, there’s something awfully creepy about grown men who can’t walk along Plage de Tahiti in Saint Tropez without gawking like pubescent boys.
Since Apple is to geeks what breasts are to men, it’s worth pointing out that all of the Apple fanboys are essentially those...
Survive 2012 →
thedaytheytriedtokillme:
4 years and 195 days until the end of the world?
Number's up for sudoku jurors →
As jurors sat day after day in a courtroom listening to testimony from 105 witnesses in a drug trial, it seemed as if some were taking their duties very seriously indeed. They were spotted assiduously taking notes, prompting the judge to compliment them on their diligence. But when one defendant saw they were writing vertically, not horizontally, the secret came out - they had been playing...
Eight ways to get exactly what you want →
1. Be a mimic
2. Look at it this way…
3. Less is more
4. Grind them down
5. The medium is the means
6. Style over substance
7. Get them angry
8. Resistance isn’t futile
“I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics,...”
– “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” - When the Anti-Choice Choose
TV and Wii Friendly Web sites
I recently installed the ‘Internet Channel’ on my Wii console. I have now started casual ‘surfing’ of the Internet from my sofa. This is a list of my favourite TV and Wii Friendly Web sites.
Portal:
OnlyWii - Showcasting sites made for the Wii
YuWii.com - TV and Wii friendly web site search
Video:
Stumble.tv - StumbleUpon Video Channels
WiiToob.com - Wii frontend...
