Smart cars to finally make it to Australia.

SOME 200 women in Nepal who ploughed their fields naked in a desperate attempt to bring rain to their drought-stricken region were rewarded as the monsoon began shortly afterwards.

Dutch lash out at new migrants vs Dutch Elvis statue weeps

NASA fakes moon landing

From the Age, a long but interesting article on the effects global warming will have on Victoria over the next 30 and 70 years.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/ for clothing sizes would have been useful when I was buying t-shirts online. It doesn’t list Australian sizes, but after a year in Amsterdam I’m sorta used to working it out.
It’s worth it just for this line on the women’s clothing page: “The more expensive the dress, the more likely the manufacturer is to label the dress with a size or two smaller than its true size.”

Glass ceiling, Dutch style.
‘To illustrate the kinds of attitudes that women face at the top, one male executive of the Netherlands’ ABN Amro Bank said he did not have faith that women would remain committed to the company past a certain age.
“To be honest, I don’t think women want to work full time,” he said.
“I know it sounds strange to say it, but I think they are better caregivers than men.
“And I think they want to explore other priorities once they reach a certain age, be that family or whatever.” ‘

Number 10 hacks BBC websites: “The BBC has insisted its coverage is always impartial despite claims that Downing Street hacked into its computer system in efforts to influence journalists”.

I was coming home on the Tube the other day, where a bunch of classy Australians were doing their country proud by holding an impromptu competition to see who could do the best pole-dancer style spin around the pole.