I think that the only gay God has ever hated was the Enola Gay.
Reflections from the chaplain to the men who dropped the bomb

Colr Pickr harvests photos from photo sharing site Flickr to give you a selection of photos that match the colour you’ve picked. This is fun to just play with, a different way to randomly browse some of the great stuff on Flickr.
You can choose from different photo pools, like flowers, graffitti, urban decay or [...]

The Carlton Football Club finished last this year for the second time in its long history. I mentioned the issue of draft picks for teams finishing low a few months ago. Last time we finished last, a couple of years ago, we were stripped of draft picks because of breaching the salary cap.
Anyway came across [...]

I’ve mentioned before, when I renamed this site I googled to make sure the word Neuromesh didn’t already exist anywhere. Pretty soon afterwards though, in what I assume is convergent thinking, the word turned up on a Neuroscience website, to describe “the idea of a network of low power, in vivo biosensors used for [...]

The next poll was inspired by a conversation on the Bugarup University mailing list the other day. Try saying lightning out loud a couple of times. Go on. I’ll wait…
OK Now you’ve done that (you did do it right?) Does it have three syllables, making it more or less homophonal to [...]

In other hysterical news, a mock anti-terrorist operation went on in Bendigo in the last few days. The simulation was hostages were taken en route to commonwealth games venue.
Amongst the people practicing were : hostage negotiators…? The funniest part of the report was even though the entire exercise is scripted, they were talking on [...]

In the wonderful thing that is the English language, grammatical rules are often barely guidelines. The basics of grammar that you are taught in expensive private schools sometimes turn out to be ‘rules’ only in that they apply 51% of the time. Eventualy you find out that far from being rules of English, [...]

Now I want to know, assuming you ever read a newspaper at all, do you prefer broadsheet or tabloid? For some unknown reason, the big broadsheet newspaper is associated with the more highbrow reader of newspaper, arts and business, and the tabloid with scandal and shoddy reporting. Why is that? Is intelligence [...]

Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s just terrible!”
His staff sit stunned at this uncharacteristic display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a [...]