I love it:

It’s funny because it’s true.  More champagne comedy at if movie posters were honest (thanks again to Sam for the link).

Lachie points out this rather epic list of completely weird gadgets.  I particularly like Seymour, the Goggle-Wearing Radioactive Sheep:

Dear God.  Everything I love about rock and roll has just combined into some kind of glorious post-modern singularity.
What the hell am I talking about?  Let’s see:

Art Brut, probably the funniest/smartest band going around, also loaded with cynical English attitude and more genuine punk credibility than a thousand American bands who do nothing other than [...]

Thanks to Sam, our roving feline news correspondent and long-suffering cat owner/victim:

Bush family cat dies (possibly of shame); Bush’s nickname for cat is “Kitty”.
Cats commence takeover of worldwide news media with German putsch; weatherman demonstrates excellent comprehension of cat psychology.
Nick Cave outed as fan of cat-related artwork; meanwhile artist’s cat gives him schizophrenia and causes [...]

I’ve been interested in macro photography for a while, partly inspired by one of my cameras (a Panasonic Lumix FZ10) being amazingly good for macro shots with its ordinary lens. For example, this shot was taken from about 10cm from the subject, who is carrying an ordinary housefly:

Karloskar tipped me off to the trick of [...]

Australia continues its proud tradition of protecting the practice and expression of (Christian) religious beliefs, but failing to do the same in respect of atheism: article.  Sigh. There are buses rolling around Adelaide with Christian messages on them as we speak.
And it’s the best form of discrimination too – the kind by private citizens and [...]

Commenting should be restored to some sort of functionality with the use of a name and email address for now (not displayed) while I continue my epic battle to get recaptcha working.

By Jerry Schatzberg, apparently.

As a Dylan obsessive and huge fan of the latter-day, grouchy old man Dylan, it’s good to have the occasional reminder of how straight-out fucking cool he was in the 1960s (especially so I can fire up at anyone who makes out that Dylan is for ‘old people’ – young Dylan would [...]