Because I know the issue had been concerning you all too…
The in-depth Cheese & Dreams study, a first of its kind, reveals that eating cheese before bed will not only aid a good night’s sleep but different cheeses will in fact cause different types of dreams.
Two classic quotes from the Kevid Rudd strip club thing:
Greens leader Bob Brown said the issue should be kept in perspective. “Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club,” Senator Brown said. “Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm.”
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Premier John Brumby said his last visit to a strip place would have been in the 1970s when he was a student. “It was probably in Sydney, three decades ago with a group of mates, male and female,” he said. “That’s the main reason people go to Sydney, isn’t it?”
(The Age)
Damn it. I really hate that I can’t fly whenever I want to, but there’s just no way to justify it.
Two degrees of difference: the science that backs the protest
Air travel really is in the front line of the climate change debate. But instead of tackling it we’re planning new airports
It is vitally important that we stabilise global temperature rises below the danger line of 2C – and the aviation industry stands in the way.
Probably the single most polluting thing that you or I will ever do is step on to a plane. Take that tempting return flight to, say, Thailand and you immediately become responsible for about six tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere – three times more than is likely to come from any other activity that you do in the year, including driving and heating your house. This is why aviation is the most bitter and divisive issue in environmental politics today.
A cynical ha!
all software and all data are simply complements to Google’s core business – serving advertisements – and hence Google’s interest lies in destroying all barriers, whether economic, technological, or legal, to all software and all data. Almost everything the company does, from building data centers to buying optical fiber to supporting free wi-fi to fighting copyright to supporting open source to giving software and information away free, is about removing those barriers.
And yes, this probably sums it up:
Web 3.0 involves the disintegration of digital data and software into modular components that, through the use of simple tools, can be reintegrated into new applications or functions on the fly by either machines or people.
From Rough Type.
Another perspective on indigenous issues in The Age: “Can Archie Roach teach the rest of us what he taught British actor Pete Postlethwaite: how to see Australia through Aboriginal eyes?”
Too long apart
Historic changes for Northern Territory Aborigines have been signed off by federal parliament, ushering in a new wave of intervention in indigenous communities.
The laws – which are discriminatory, by the government’s own admission – were passed on an unusual Friday sitting of the Senate after a marathon 27 hours of debate.
They include the controversial commonwealth takeover of indigenous township leases, removal of the Aboriginal land permits system, quarantining of welfare payments for neglectful parents and bans on alcohol and pornography.
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NT Chief Minister Clare Martin said some aspects of the federal intervention were not about tackling child abuse, as Mr Howard has claimed.
“We support many of the measures put forward by the commonwealth, including welfare reforms to get children to school, and securing additional doctors and police,” Ms Martin said.
“We’re against measures which have no link to the protection of children, in particular the removal of permits and the compulsory acquisition of land.”
She warned the alcohol restrictions were impractical.
Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett said the government’s failure to consult with Aboriginal people about the changes had rendered the laws “fatally flawed”.
“The government’s insistence on politicising this issue and taking such an aggressively divisive approach where there is almost universal public support for helping Aboriginal people has been destructive and unhelpful,” he said.
“The approach the government has taken deliberately attempts to destroy the middle ground, dramatically increasing the likelihood that this will turn out to be yet another government failure.”
In honour of Soho Pride, and because I love that an article about the issues around lesbian weddings was published in the mainstream press, The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook (called ‘My big fat gay wedding’ in the Observer Woman magazine).
I have a new intellectual crush. It’s partly because of the way she didn’t let the interview be derailed by stupid questions, and partly just her sheer enjoyment of her area:
Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician
“The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is a self-proclaimed math advocate for girls who might otherwise shy away from a subject that Barbie once famously described as “hard.””
I also admire Beth Wilson’s personal courage:
“Health Services Commissioner Beth Wilson has revealed her own emotional experience with abortion in a bid to persuade MPs to support a push to remove abortion from the Crimes Act.”
Health chief tells of abortion experience
Ha ha ha haha ha. Melbourne vs Sydney, booze-style:
“In NSW, you get bogan-style drinking because bogan-style venues are encouraged.”
“We aren’t barbarians, but we don’t want to sit in a hole and drink chardonnay and read a book.”
Why, yes, I am easily amused.