Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Epic Rap Battles of History #12 – Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a harsh, gritty look at the world of Mario Kart in real life. Red shells mean business. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Holiday reading/viewing
Anybody else got plans to lower the height of their reading pile over the next few weeks? If so, what are you going to be reading? And what about the telly box? or DVDs?
Christmas music
On Saturday 26 November the Bach Society of Queensland will be presenting Handel’s Messiah in St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane. Tickets here. If you live elsewhere you can use this thread as a roundtable to let others in your area [...]
2011 IF Awards (Sydney) dominated by Red Dog
Hot off the press release, but I’m not apologising for highlighting local film achievements: congratulations to all the winners, especially to Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton (who are a weekly staple in our house) for their Living Legend award.
Living in Paul Keating’s Australia, and loving it!
Tonight I went to Paul Keating’s book tour at the Brisbane Powerhouse. There’s a real sense, as I argued recently at The Drum, that we still live in the John Howard era. But only because the evil angels of this country are continually conjured up by [...]
Tone
I really wanted to write a good review of this book, but this was not the book to do it. Abbott is a conviction politician, no matter how angry certain commenter may be when I say that. He wants power, yes, and he is ruthless in his pursuit of it. But he wants power for a reason, not just for its own sake. I just hope that the debate this book sparked gets people talking about what those reasons are.
2011 Melbourne Cup thread
It’s that time of year again. Post whatever you like about the Melbourne Cup – tips for Tuesday, anecdotes, trivia, deconstruction, equine sock puppets, fashion advice, hangover cures, etc.
Our beautiful brain
The New Scientist traces the development of the brain from the capacity of “all living cells [to] generate an electrical potential across their membranes by pumping out ions.” Nerves developed as channels to carry signals. At first these were arranged [...]
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