I keep retelling these stories about innocent Iraqis butchered in their cars, always with the same excuse. Vehicle approached checkpoint, was warned off, failed to stop..
Now the innocent Iraqi has an Australian residency visa. Kays Juma was a 72 year old agriculture professor who taught doctoral students about animal husbandry – surely a decent [...]

Knight-Ridder is still being pawed over by potential owners, including at least one saviour which is being encouraged by the Union, though it doesn’t want a part of ownership.
But this is a very familiar statement:
“Since 2000, the antitrust division has taken a pass on legitimate newspaper consolidation and restructuring,” said Stephen Calkins, who teaches [...]

Stanislaus Lem, photographed by Krzyasztof Gieraltowski
“If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently”.
Stanislaw Lem, one of the great, great individualists of science fiction, is dead at the age of 84. As a young Jew he survived the Nazi occupation, served in the Resistance, and finished his medical [...]

I have sucked someone else into blogging. She loves food.
Here.
She is also v. smart so I suspect she may branch out, as the nicotine patches do their work.
When she finds out where I have put her link, she can investigate her company.

I took a break and walked the dog around the block, contented in the velvet autumn dark. In what may be the last moment of the Commonwealth Games, a very fit young man ran past. I could tell he was fit because he was completely naked.
I know I’ve been working too hard when the [...]

This was Melbourne at midnight on Saturday, shot through my crappy digital camera. I was looking down from Federation Square across a pullulating mass of humanity, up to Princes Bridge in the distance. It was like a human version of the Christmas Island crab migration.
Time to defend the Commonwealth Games.
There’s a tram rumbling [...]

With 26 not so weeny pictures of his mate Paul Jursaszek popping in and out like maggots in a highly populated human head, Marcus Wills knocked off this year’s Archibald Prize.
The thing itself is too big to reproduce here, and there are no really good close ups to substitute. Instead, you can find a [...]

Writing our documentry about smiling is taking me to some strange places. The advertisement is by the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co, from the 1889 Journal of the American Medical Association. It shows an apparatus to pump pure oxygen up your anus.
You must admit it is nicely drawn, by some completely anonymous illustrator.

Detail of “Buffaloes In Combat” by Miskin. Circa 1590 – 1595
A small moment of privilege – Ken Parish at Troppo has asked the rest of us to pass on an idea about creating a community driven sports blog, to deal with the (gasps of amazement – how could this possibly be?) shortage of sports blogging [...]

Do you know what a “globe luxation” is?
You might have to hold your eyelids open to finish reading this pretty little piece.
Via Blogdex.