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• A Metal to Drag Transformation

  30 August 2008 in Arts

  Q: What do these two people have in common? A: They’re the same person!
  The wonderful musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch is about to embark on an Australian tour. Melbourne metal performer Ezekiel Ox is performing the title role and, as this sequence of photos shows, the transformation was amazing.
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch plays [...]

• Links for 26 August 2008 through 30 August 2008

  30 August 2008 in Daily Links

  Stilgherrian’s links for 26 August 2008 through 30 August 2008, collected using a fine-meshed net and a spoon:

  Interpreting Privacy Principles | Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre: The Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre is holding a 1-day Symposium o 2 October to discuss the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Report on Privacy (August 2008), and to take [...]

• Twitter changed my life

  29 August 2008 in Internet, Media, Notes

  Wow. Twitter really has changed the way I use the Internet. I now post well over 1000 tweets a month. Some of them are trivial or silly, but many are the quick observations or links to interesting things which I used to post as a “note” like this. If you’re not following my Twitter stream [...]

• Parking, by Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology

  25 August 2008 in Human Nature

  Dear Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, the signs on Newtown Square saying “NO ENTRY” and “COUNCIL POLICE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES EXCEPTED” do not mean you can park on the lawn. They mean the exact opposite.
  There is legal parking only metres from where I took this photo last Tuesday 19 August. Please tell your driver that walking [...]

• Links for 23 August 2008 through 24 August 2008

  25 August 2008 in Daily Links

  Stilgherrian’s links for 23 August 2008 through 24 August 2008, with shaved parmesan:

  Medals per mil. Population by Country | Swivel: Sean Carmody continues his data mining on the Beijing Olympics that discover that the Bahamas is the highest medal winner per capita, followed by Jamaica, Slovenia, Australia and New Zealand.
  Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error [...]