For you women on my flist, fyi!

...if you are in/near Melbourne, of course. Provided by the AFUW - Australian Federation of University Women. Open to all.

Women and Money Seminars: free, independent and informative seminars for womenIn other news, Velociraptor Awareness Day (Sat 18 April) was celebrated in style at my house on the weekend. ( Read more... )

( When night's black mantle could most darkness prove by Mary Wroth )

Brought to you by the letters A, B and C.

Spacial Segregation: - What do you do when the Russians start charging you for carrying your astronauts up to the international space station? You introduce segregation! I think the fact that this was put under 'Oddbods' or 'Funnies' is almost as tasteless as the segregation itself. See! Racism and ( Read more... )

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I decided to do a roundup of the books I read last year in an attempt to see just what genres I read - partially so I can expand my repertoire and read a bit more broadly. I know I am an impatient reviewer and I suspect my reviews don’t actually make a lot of sense. Seriously, am I encouraging anyone to read with the blather I write ( Read more... )

An eclectic mix this time. And a big list, to catch up from when I was laptopless (long story short, old laptop totally went kaplooey, had to buy new one, found out lowest end ones still cost $300 more than 2 years ago, growled, sucked it up and bought new one, now in debt again, yadda yadda)! Final roundup for 2007 - did I meet my goal of 50 new ( Read more... )

As my mind was already programmed to the nineteenth century writing style (see Woman in White in the previous review) I decided to capitalise on the trend by working my way through the other older texts in my ever growing to read pile (most of which I ignore and at least one of which I intend to never read, despite dulthar's hopes). Of course, I didn't ( Read more... )

I periodically change the icons for my desktop folders - I have one for my research, one for my research assistant work, one for stuff-to-do, etc. I change the picture according to whimsy or finding a really suitable icon.

( Iconage that in no way represents my psyche. Really. )

Several items of interest:

!) Interesting past (and perhaps modern) myths about menstruation, from the vaguely understandable to the downright obscure.

This way.

@)And here's some real wackiness in urban myths regarding pregnancy, as well as a few disturbing ones.

This way.

#)And a spooooooky story:

Cell phone haunting? A hoax or something ( Read more... )

Because I am still on a media bent as of late...

No more dumb blonde act: Hallelujah! After her jail experience, Paris Hilton has found God! She was in there for three days.

ETA: And now she's back in jail again. Meet Paris the yo-yo! But her family is planning on throwing a big party when she's released.

China in surname shortage crisis: I ( Read more... )