So the news topic of today is that our State Police Commissioner (whom I'm oddly fond of even though I don't know anything about him as a person LOL He just seems incredibly sensible when placed next to the politicians who employ him) has made a few comments about binge drinking in young people. Amongst the advice he dealt out today was a message ( Read more... )

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

So I spent the last few hours reading reviews and watching videos of the new windows OS for mobile, Windows Phone 7. I've been saying since last year that I want a Windows phone (if only because I hate Apple and I'm not madly keen on Google either), but clearly I wasn't paying any attention to the brand I'm supposedly supporting since I totally ( Read more... )

The title of this article is "Zhejiang 'temporary rape case' to be reopened" and I went...wtf?? Temporary rape? As opposed to permanent rape?

And when I read it, it was even more wtf...so I decided to share with you the wtfness of the Chinese legal system. (My legalese is terrible so I'm sorry if I got some of the legal terms wrong.)

Due to ( Read more... )

It's heartening to read stories like these, considering we have so many diseases in which there is no magic pill.

I wonder if they've found what its side effects are (cardinal rule of medication: there are no such thing as no side effects). It would be nice if it had even less complications than insulin.

What use is a sinologist if s/he can't speak the language? LOL

But thanks to whoever it was that "vetted" this, we have one of the most (unintentionally) humourous cover to ever grace a scientific magazine:
studying physics for hot girls!Now I'm not really good at reading squiggly emboss-type font like that, especially when they're that small, but ( 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... )

We've started on our second "block", kind of like a new topic, and the first two weeks have been filled with lectures and tutorials and case studies and otherwise on illicit and licit drugs ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett, delivering even bad news with cheerful practicality.

Nooooo.....

Brain chemistry? =/

Oops, one baby too many

A lesbian woman felt violated and devastated when she learned she was pregnant with twins, after she had told a Canberra obstetrician she wanted only one child through IVF, a court heard yesterday ( Read more... )