Water

While I’m post­ing, go read qamar’s post here about a new device that will bring fresh water to the world. It will relieve women in third world coun­tries from the burden of spend­ing their days trav­el­ling kilo­metres to fetch it, some­thing that denies them...

Yeah, that’s what it’s all about

Angels in Amer­ica just won Best Writer of a Mini Series at the Emmy’s. Tony Kush­ner thanked a rabbi for bestow­ing a bracha on the pro­ject and then thanked his hus­band and said “soon we’ll get a legal mar­riage license and you can make an...

Weekend that was

I had a really lovely week­end during the bits I wasn’t work­ing. I planned to have a quiet week­end clean­ing the house, mark­ing assign­ments and writ­ing my tutorial and lec­ture for this week. It didn’t quite work out that way. Sat­urday...

Morganics

I first met Morgan Lewis when we were 17 in the 2JJJ studio. The show was Drum Media and we were both there because the NSW Min­is­ter for Edu­ca­tion, Terry Mether­ell, had intro­duced a stupid system that would dis­ad­vant­age stu­dents around the state....

Keel heem!!!!

From this article: Mr Howard said while Iraq was a major focus of atten­tion, the number of people dying in Sudan was far greater “and the United Nations sadly has been unable to do anything”. So exatly why aren’t you and your mate Bush spear­head­ing...