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Further Developments In #Boobquake (No Pun Intended)

by podblack on April 23, 2010

Just a update, from a CNN news article: Blogger: Show cleavage to test cleric’s quake theory ..She said no woman should feel pressured to participate. “It’s not supposed to be serious activism that is going to revolutionize women’s rights, but just a bit of fun juvenile humor,” she wrote. “I’m a firm believer that when [...]

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Little Kitten – Celebrate Towel Day With Labyrinth

by podblack on May 25, 2009

I’m far too busy to be on the internet at the moment – but couldn’t pass this one up. Douglas Adams meant a lot to me, as you could probably tell by the Skeptic Zone interview with Stephen Fry. Douglas Adams, back in the day, was responsible for some of the game-play (and probably all [...]

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Science doesn’t make good comedy? You must be joking . . .

by podblack on March 18, 2009

Tim Minchin on Science and Comedy: A strange thing has happened to stand-up comedy recently: it has started to find science funny… But ubiquity doesn’t equal humour. On the surface, science is either dry, stats-based and academic or vast, monumental and awe-inspiring. How to turn that into jokes? It can be done, says Australian comic [...]

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In Which The Blog Takes A Break

by podblack on February 2, 2009

The wonderful internetz will be deprived of my glorious presence for much of this month. There’s several reasons that come to mind: The temperature here has resulted in only particular room in the house to be the most comfortable for typing in – and it happens to be the room with all the academically-minded books [...]

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Little Kitten – Trailer For Julia Sweeney’s Letting Go Of God

by podblack on November 30, 2008

Letting Go of God is a one-person-monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. I enjoyed catching the show live at The Amazing Meeting 3 and got the audio version then — newly released, you can buy the DVD of Letting Go Of God here!

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Little Kitten – Whales And Scientific Research, Kind Of

by podblack on November 24, 2008

I’ve linked to ‘See Mike Draw‘ in the past (usually when I’m very busy, and whatayaknow, I’m really busy this week) – but this one got me splooping coffee down the wrong way: Thanks to Jim W W Smith (a man so cool, his middle initials are repeated!) for pointing out ‘SMD”s new site, Postcard [...]

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Evolution, Skepticism And Tony The Fish

by podblack on October 5, 2008

So, I was having a chat with Digital Cuttlefish on Skype this evening, and they said — put this on your blog! Get Pharyngula to pay attention to it! That’s not going to happen. I can’t even get the Bad Astronomer to refer to my blog. But you read me, don’t you? I love you. [...]

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Part Two Of You Only Hurt ‘The One’ You Loathe

by gazza666 on July 17, 2008

Read the first half of the second episode? Already caught up with the fun and frolics of the first episode in two parts? Now, let’s begin. As John Edward would say — ‘I’m going over here and I see someone who ate food, and drove a car…’ Yes, Australia’s Next Top want to be a [...]

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