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Edward Tufte kills a kitten

July 28, 2010 – 5:43 pm

I’m back to teaching, which is nice. I like teaching. But there’s one thing I’d forgotten about: the obligatory query as to where my Powerpoint slides can be downloaded from the web. What Powerpoint slides? Long term readers of the blog know that I have problems with Powerpoint from way back. “Powerpoint is against my [...]

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What’s wrong with me?

July 25, 2010 – 7:40 pm

Okay, don’t answer that question. But I didn’t watch either the Debate between our esteemed political leaders, or the Master Chef final. Thus I suspect I am in a minority of the Australian population. I didn’t watch the GillAbb Debate because I am so shizzed off about the direction politics is going in this country [...]

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Why didn’t I think of that?

June 22, 2010 – 7:33 pm

According to the Herald Sun yesterday: An artist has been paid $10,000 to float 10,000 paper planes in Victoria’s State Library. Ross Coulter wants to track “thought patterns” in the La Trobe (Domed) Reading Room by releasing the planes from balcony “stacks”, and will use a Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship to pay for the project. [...]

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Blue Balls Epidemic in Italy

June 21, 2010 – 12:16 am

A batch of about 70,000 mozzarella balls which turned blue upon opening has been confiscated by food authorities in Italy, officials say. The health ministry said it had activated the European “rapid alert” system to warn of possible contamination, and announced emergency control measures on the cheese. The cheese – made in Germany for an [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Law | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

You never know *who* you’ll find on Facebook these days…

May 25, 2010 – 7:53 am

I was thinking of doing a serious political post. Nah, I think we all need a good laugh instead. Any other Star Wars tragics out there? Go check out Darth Vader’s Facebook page. Also amusing in the same vein: The Facebook of Genesis.

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The House that Jack Built

May 21, 2010 – 6:45 am

My friend Jack has a kitler. That is, a cat that looks like Hitler. Such things are not the product of some internet fantasy or determined skill in photoshop. I pulled up in his driveway a few years ago to see the thing sitting on his verandah, licking its paws, toothbrush moustache well in evidence. ‘Does [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Events | Comments (25)

In which the British evince a quality sense of humour

May 9, 2010 – 6:18 am

Most ‘funny’ groups on Facebook are not, ahem, funny, but the ‘Petition to let David Dimbleby go to bed‘ group is funny. As the group admins explain: As many of you know, poor David has been up for more than 14 hours as a result of the hung parliament. During this time he has become [...]

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General Election 2010: brought to you by Blackadder

May 7, 2010 – 5:39 pm

In news that must have reached Australia by now, the General Election has resulted in a hung parliament. It was also utterly shambolic: if you wanted further evidence that Britain is becoming a third world country, there were vast queues at polling stations, doors were shut in voters’ faces and many booths ran out of [...]

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If you go down to the woods today…

May 5, 2010 – 5:37 am

You may find this piece of signage indicating a place where you may partake in what is becoming a rather popular pastime. A discussion of the activity in question is available here, while there’s more on this particular sign here.

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Stranger than fiction

April 22, 2010 – 12:01 pm

I love a vivid judgment. It makes life as a lawyer interesting. The recent decision of J W Quinn J of the Ontario Superior Court, Miller v Carley, is one of those cases. Here are the first three paragraphs: After a busy day conducting illegal drug transactions, the plaintiff, the defendant and a mutual friend [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Tagged , , , | Comments (9)