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Just did another LinkFrenzy. Another post here tomorrow. For now, I think I bed.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; and if the horse has four legs in the air, a horse fell on them from the sky.

Via a friend's flocked post, a letter from The Age:

Media's double standards are clear
http://www.theage.com.au/national/letters/redcard-system-badly-needed-20120501-1xx49.html

WHEN John Howard was prime minister, he haemorrhaged seven ministers in his first term alone with scandal after scandal. He had to rip up his promised ministerial code of conduct because he couldn't afford to lose any more. He also reneged on almost all his election pledges; he took us into one dubious war and one illegal one; he lied about asylum seekers throwing their children overboard to win an election; the list goes on. And yet the media didn't call for an election and nor did the opposition. The media instead judged him on the health of the economy.

Julia Gillard's government has had fewer ministerial scandals than any in living memory. Craig Thomson allegedly misused a union credit card before he was in Parliament, and Peter Slipper isn't even an ALP member. Neither has been charged with anything. But still there are almost daily calls for an election from the Opposition Leader and 70 per cent of the press.

The country survived the financial crisis better than any other country, and the IMF recently named our economy the best in the world. And yet, unlike under Mr Howard, these statistics are hardly mentioned. All we seem to read about is the incompetence of the government, constant opinion polls and calls for an early election.

Brett Elliott, Boondall, Queensland

Prominent Liberal says Gillard should be kicked to death
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/prominent-liberal-says-gillard-should-be-kicked-to-death/
Liberal urges Australians to kick Julia Gillard to death - but the media don’t think this a story. David Donovan reports on Australia’s propagandistic press.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. Lest We Forget.

Nothing further to add, nor to retract. Perhaps next year.

Sorry, I was busy linkfrenzying, so it's just the one tonight.

Have just dropped Twitch and Jag off my flist as neither has seen fit to let me know why they took me off their flists a while ago.

Ciao, guys. Take care.

( Clicky Clicky. )

Damned stupid mynah birds have their nest next to the road. I just had to rescue a chick. I won't be here next time. And the parents may even ignore it now. :{(>

This one should be shared far and wide: the House of Representatives has a very short, very simple survey about marriage equality, ie, should we have it? Word is that it's so far been spammed by naysayers, so it would be cool if that could be turned around. The survey is here: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=spla/bill%20marriage/index.htm (snarfed from lizbee)

Surprisingly, I do not feel good about that.

I do not feel good about anything right now.

Yet another day spent in bed, zonked to the eyeballs.

Sometimes, everything seems like a waste.

Missing in action. Again.

 
On The Road: Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9syXqY9p30


They don't look right. They look like modern movie stars.

 
I am inclined to agree with Andrew, and I don't even shave:

DollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI

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Yesterday was the 30^th anniversary of Philip K.Dick's passing.

As tough as it was, 1982 wasn't as tough for me as it was for Phil. But it was the year I first read VALIS and The Divine Invasion... both lent to me by the EUJ (he had a fine taste in SF) to take my mind off the surgery and the chemo treatments I was receiving at the time. They certainly made an impression on me. I was familiar with Phil's earlier work (standouts for me included Penultimate Truth, Electric Sheep, Scanner Darkly, and, of course, my all-timer, Galactic Pot-Healer) but these two books were something else.

VALIS, for me, was another visit to Chapel Perilous, in a way that his other works were not. Divine Invasion's overt Christianity was a surprise, but a fascinating and thoughtful one.

Um. Like so many others, he went too soon. We're still poorer for it. Rest in Peace, Phil.

ED: Also, NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge has a new podcast up to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of his death.

Also, BoingBoing, David Gill, and PKDFans.

Today* is St. Tibbs Day, in this, the YOLD 3178. (My goodness, is it really 3178 already? What a long strange trip this continues to have been...)

St. Tibb's Day falls between the days of Prickle-Prickle and Setting Orange, between the Seasons of Chaos and Discord, every 4 years.

You should celebrate St. Tibb's Day by only existing for one day. Mayflies are beloved of St. Tibbs.

Most pundits identify Tibbs as St. Tibba, the niece and/or daughter (folks had looser morals back then) of King Pendra of Mercia, and the sister of the legendarily more buxom Saint Kyneburga. She was supposedly from Rhal, Rutland (mmm... Rutland), and was a Benedictine nun at Dormancaster abbey, Northamptonshire, during the 7^th Century. She is widely assumed to not have existed, but possibly only existed one day every 4 years.

St. Tibb's Eve is said in tradition to be the night before Judgement Day, which would make it the evening of either August 28^th 1997, July 24^th 2004, or April 20^th 2011. How was it for you?

A Glossary of the Folklore of Maritime Canada sums up the variousities involved, thus:

Tit's Day

Tit or Tibb's Day was a pagan feast and recuperation day following Tit's Eve (which see). At one time it was the first day of the month and celebration termed Yule. In revised Christianized form Tit's Day was described as the day following the final Ressurrection and Judgement Eve, a day after time when accounts were beyond settlement. To have a Maritimer promise that he would repay money on Tit's Day meant that the loan-agent could not expect to recoup money in this or any other world.

This feast day clearly belonged to the pagan deities Thor and Frey. C.L. Apperson has guessed that this was "a day neither before nor after Christmass" and that "tibb" is synonymous with "never". Desultry attempts were perhaps made to give the day a Christian veneer by referring to it as Saint Tit's Day, but the connotations of the word made this unsuccessful. Certainly The Old English Chronicle does list a Saint Tibba, circa 963, but Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870) insists there was never a legitimate saint who bore this peculiar name.

Tit's Eve

Also known as Saint Tit's Eve, Tibb's Eve, Tip's Eve, or Tipsy Eve. The evening of the twenty-third day of December.

This holiday was known in some parts as the Mother Night and followed the shortest day of the year . In former times, the overindulgence on this night marked the beginning of Yule...

 
The secret story behind Admiral Ackbar’s "It’s a trap!" line
http://io9.com/5887444/the-secret-story-behind-admiral-ackbars-its-a-trap-line
Thirty odd years ago, radio dramatist Erik Bauersfeld recorded the voices of Admiral Ackbar and Bib Fortuna for Return of the Jedi, saw the movie, and promptly forgot about the whole experience...

Roses are crimson
Violets, azure
On Harlequin's Day
they smell like manure

I represent the bitter, the lonely, the hurt, the hate-filled, the enraged, the ugly, the too intelligent, the too nice, the like a brothers, the such good friends, and all other unwanteds, undesirables, undatables, and unfortunates littering the world who remain in a seeming perpetual state of being single. Poor souls, how we suffer this time of year, watching our friends who have this great thing, this Wonderful Emotion, this Love, deserved or otherwise... -- St. Harlequin Grimaldi

harlequin grimaldi shall for ever more be known to all malkavians, who gaze upon or hear these words, as the patron saint of bitterness and a few other things as well. discordians may also borrow saint harl for their rare moments of clarity, realising how much of a shit their significant others, past and present, really are. if you must hate, hate in his name. if you fill with bile, vent it in his honour. know that your actions have been witnessed by him and that he approves. (unless you're some dumb schmuck looking for a reason to hit someone. then you're off the list, stupidass.) -- the fiend

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Making the rounds in some circles at present. An interesting model, not without failings, but then that's the way with models. Here it is:

Breaking through the binary: Gender explained using continuums
Gender is a tough subject to tackle. There are a lot of facets to consider, a lot of pressures at play, and we have all been conditioned in such a way that our first instinct is almost unanimously wrong. But we’re going to tackle it. No, we’re going to tackle the balls out of it. Coming to our aid, I would like to present to you: The Genderbread Person!