Like, whut.I should stop clicking on stuff that screams "I'm gonna piss you off" from miles away ( Read more... )

Oh god, you know things are going to be oh-so-balmy when at the first victory speech in 16 years they start off by taking a swipe at the other parties =__=

We withstood over the last few days the mother of all campaigns by Labor. But I think people saw through the smears, fears and scares.

That's right, it's highly sporting to start your win by ( Read more... )

The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association's vice chairman, Liu Bainian, said attendance by bishops at the ceremony would be voluntary and the ordination would go ahead because the Chengde diocese needs a bishop. He said the association had informed the Vatican about its plan as early as two years ago ( Read more... )

This was in the Sun-Herald two weeks ago (31 October) and I thought it was a nice little vignette:

The world-renowned environmentalist David Suzuki spoke at the Opera House last week, and presented a case that the planet is in the 59th minute of a suicidal path of economic growth ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm still keeping up Windows Phone 7 news *face palm*

I have come to the conclusion that the fandom for phones probably consists of the same population of fanboys as the gaming industry. I never knew people got so hung up over a phone zOMG ( Read more... )

Concerning banning of video games in California

A lot of replies scoffed at the 72% of parents and called them useless parents who didn't want to do the work themselves in controlling their own children's gaming habits.

If I were a parent I'd be in that 72% and that's not because I want the government to make that decision in deciding what my ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, this year's first year med cohort is HUGE. And I mean HUGE. I thought our cohort was big (262) but I told myself it was only to be expected since Sydney's probably one of the biggest med schools in Australia ( Read more... )

I've actually downloaded Futatsu no Spica, the horrid Koishite Akuma as well as Ninkyo Helper, but I've only watched the last one ==;

Koishite Akuma seems like a Japanese version of Twilight, except made 10 times worse by the fact that there's also a teacher/student hence adult/underage romance in there, even if you say the vampire is blah blah ( Read more... )

Crazy government policy + crazy psychos + a society that breeds on how to work their way around things, often in the least humanitarian way = a tragedy waiting to happen ( Read more... )

相信住在悉尼的各位不可能沒聽説那名四川女孩和她的韓籍男友在被挾持後從四樓跌下，僅僅18嵗的女孩就那樣慘死異鄉 ( Read more... )