When news reports talk about the deaths of several people they give the body count, then emphasise the deaths of women, young people and especially female children as if we should be more concerned about the end of those lives than any others ( Read more... )

    Someone has finally had an idea for a reality show I would actually watch: REBUILD EVERYTHING. Far more productive than my idea to have teams engage in siege warfare.

    I have just been watching the première of the television show 'Life'. It does not seem a terribly interesting show - protagonist* suffers undeservedly and out of his suffering attains a new level of peace (in this case, zen), which also happens to be a cop show where the protagonist is expected to solve a long-standing personal crime - but few ( Read more... )

    Tonight's episode of Criminal Minds shows a post-modernist professor telling someone his interpretation of her work is mistaken in an attempt to save her life. It is probably not a coincidence that her name is Ursula and she wrote a science fiction novel either.

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Nothing says “The wedding’s off!” like concussion.

"China's media regulators have banned reality TV shows that feature plastic surgery or sex-change operations, after some viewers complained they were "horrifying and sickening," local media reported Tuesday."

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    There was an ad on television advising people to check a website before travelling overseas. This ad featured various people doing touristy things in a country which looked to me like China and warning us that one of them was doing something illegal ( Read more... )

    Something else from class. We were being shown the way some items were catalogued in the TAFE library and looking at The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. One of the copies had listed under 'other titles' The Chronicles of Narnia bk. 2, but no series title. It struck me as very odd that someone could read that on a book cover and conclude it to ( Read more... )

    I reached the 'stop point' (not quite an end) of Technical Perfection. I had to force myself to continue to a point close enough to the end to call it first draft done because that first version is really just a skeleton. It is missing so much I do not think I can call it a proper story at all ( Read more... )