By Brian on June 22, 2009
When it comes to men looking at women it seems that beyond the waist–hip ratio the experimental multivariate evidence shows that average women’s torsos are most attractive. Got that? Well that’s the scientific way of saying it according to this [...]
Posted in Culture, Life, Relationships |
By Brian on June 22, 2009
I got a bit excited by a couple of articles, unfortunately not online, about CO2 labelling of consumer products. The first, in the Queensland Country Life, talked about the implications for Australian beef and other farm products of the announcement [...]
Posted in Environment, Food | Tagged carbon footprint labelling, dairying, Eco-Beef, EQA (Eating Quality Assured) program, Fair Tracing Project, feedlots, FoodReg Technology, Meat and Livestock Australia, MSA grading system, National Livestock Identification System (NLIS), Nippon Meat Packers Australia, Sime Darby, Tesco, Teys Bros, The Carbon Trust, TraceTracker |
By Phil on June 22, 2009
The Punch doubles down on OzCar with David Penberthy claiming that the email that is/isn’t is now a ‘red herring’ and that ‘Turnbull wasn’t shopping the fake email about’. Stablemate Paul Colgan says this is no longer about an email [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Crime, Ethics, Government, Law, Media, Politics, Technology |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 21, 2009
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Posted in Life |
By Kim on June 20, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/225px-sarah_in_the_senate.jpg" align=left From today’s Crikey: Bernard Keane: Politics has to be, perhaps along with long-distance road transport, one of the least family-friendly occupations in the country. Even your average backbench Federal MP works long hours. They’re away in Canberra [...]
Posted in Feminism, Politics, Relationships, Women | Tagged Australian Greens, Barnaby Joyce, children, Sarah Hanson-Young, Senate, work family balance |
By Kim on June 20, 2009
<img src=" http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/xr8ute_blokes1.jpg" Apparently, the end of the world is at hand. Kevin Rudd borrowed a ute off a bloke. Or something. It’s a scandal! Apparently. Although, why the *fair slice of the Pineapple* PM isn’t receiving high praise for [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Catallaxy, Christian Kerr, John Grant, Kevin Rudd, Sinclair Davidson, The Punch |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 20, 2009
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Saturday Salon |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 19, 2009
At Skepticlawyer, Legal Eagle has written a fascinating post on the bizarrely named case cited above, which was heard recently in the British High Court. As she writes: “The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Crime, Law, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, future of journalism, future of media, Media, media studies, publishing, The Times, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 19, 2009
One recent-ish article I missed in Wired but had a vague awareness of from discussion elsewhere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on the new socialism and digital collectivism. It struck me as very curious that the libertarian tinged techno-utopians at Wired [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, International, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged collectivism, cultural studies, digital culture, inequality, Kevin Kelly, research, rhetoric, socialism, Sociology, techno-utopianism, utopia, web, Whole Earth Catalog, Wired |
By Brian on June 19, 2009
Oh joy, oh joy! After doing posts on solar storms wiping out the electricity grid and possible supervolcano explosions I despaired of finding similar disaster stories. Now the New Scientist has come to the rescue. The planetary orbits in our [...]
Posted in Disasters, Science | Tagged bonobos, chimpanzees, Mount St Helens, Paris Observatory of France, planetary orbits, solar system, Y-chromosome |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
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