My earliest recollections of transsexuals are of men with way too much make up, clothed in trashy dresses with hints of stubble poking through their foundation. They’re the guys you can pick out miles away, the telltale bulky knees, chiseled jaws and curvy biceps always gave them away. For this reason I’ve always felt relatively [...]
A common perception is that goldfish are coldwater fish and therefore do not require a heater. Whilst this is true of the common single tail variety, fancy goldfish do better if the tank is maintained at around 22deg C (72deg F). The purpose of a heater in a goldfish tank isn’t so much as to [...]
If you even have the slightest interest in news and current events you’ll have been hard pressed not to notice the media’s emerging use of Twitter. Despite having been around since 2006 it is only in the last 6 months that the media have caught on and started featuring it prominently. I believe the event [...]
On the morning June 11th, 2008 Rebecca Morley told her husband “everything was ok” and then proceeded to smother her four week old baby. Just over two months later she asked to get her bail conditions changed so that she could visit a ski resort for a holiday inbetween court hearings. She was charged with [...]
After “several months of preparation”, Dorion Carrol from Technorati announced late last month that they would be moving two colos and that they hoped to be finished by the end of May. I had no idea what a colo was (and still might not) but from what I gather it’s short for ‘co-location’ so presumably [...]
You know it’s a slow news day when the top story around the country is about a Twitter fued between two breakfast radio hosts. Still, the news.com.au article about Dave Hughes and Kyle Sandilands echanging insults did pique my interest when they mentioned that “much of the exchange was so blue it was unpublishable.” Kinda [...]
Unless I’m mistaken, the whole reason VicUrban redeveloped Melbourne’s Docklands was to stop people from climbing the Rialto Tower and asking Melbournians what the hell that big open space with nothing much going on was to the west of the city. Well it’s 2009 now and sadly nothing much has changed. Melbourne’s Lord Mayor, Robert [...]
Tim Andrews caused a bit of a storm this week with his blog post “Why The Right Will Triumph in Australia: Hot Girls”. Former Federal Sex Discrimination Minister (try saying that ten times really fast) Pru Goward managed to stumble across it and labelled it disappointing. I’m disappointed that he’s misjudged the importance of a [...]
Pruning plants is a necessity in the Walstad tank but the need to prune does decrease in frequency as time goes on. Initially a Walstad tank contains an abundance of nutrients in the water. This happens primarily because plants take a while to establish themselves and match their rate of growth to the level of [...]
Photo by Induni I used to think the height of hardcore commuting lay in the world of the fixed speed. Often without brakes, the ability to change gears to suit the terrain and pedals that keep your feet going, even when you’re going down hills, I imagined these bikes were about as challenging as you [...]
