May 2012
andwhenithappens asked: I have googled your explanation of why EFTPOS are advertising/shit-scared MORE THAN ONCE in order to educate family and friends. You're so useful.
The thing is, we’re all struggling, even the people who say they’re doing fine...
– Clem Bastow, The vulnerability hangover
(Thanks, Clem.)
City of Melbourne surveys show that in the six years to March, bicycle use...
– Baillieu slashes construction of cycling projects
PEG 2.0: On strapless dresses... →
pegobry:
Since Felix Salmon points me to this story about strapless wedding dresses…
Both of them get it wrong. Here is why most wedding dresses are strapless: it’s because most royal weddings feature strapless dresses (wedding traditions take after royalty; brides wear white because Queen of France…
What has departed is usually known as liberal society, but it goes deeper than...
– Guy Rundle in The Age, It’s not just Big Brother: even his toys are watching
I can’t be the only person who sings “Woah Fat Betty, Bam A Lam” when Betty Draper appears onscreen in Mad Men these days. Can I?
In the United States, diagonally striped ties are commonly worn with no...
– Necktie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American neckties have the stripe running the other way to the rest of us. The world is strange and wonderful.
Oprah is jokingly referred to as the “third parent” of my family. It is not...
– I am not the Babysitter — Join the Madness of My Life!
That breastfeeding lady from the cover of Time? Well, her website is just darling.
Many, however, are just fundamentally frustrated by the extent to which...
– People Just Aren’t That Into The Internet
The rational response to the HBO-owes-me-game-of-thrones-immediately mentality.
I don't care what you say, it was very brave of...
what would a major revamp be without a new app icon?
– Come iOS 6, Apple Will Reportedly Kiss Google Maps Goodbye | TechCrunch
This is a real thought that a real person willed into existence. A good person, probably.
Mitt Romney is the culmination of over a century of effort by Mormons to...
– Me, last night. Without a moment’s thought.
I’m one prejudiced motherfucker..
You realise your brakes just scratched your rims.