Maybe it’s just because I’m an Australian of A Certain Age, but I find this sign in an African grocery shop on Enmore Road rather funny. The fact that it’s “organic” is even better.
My new hero: Hideki Moronuki
[Update 15 July 2010: There is identity confusion in this post. See my update.]
Hideki Moronuki Minoru Morimoto (pictured) is the Japanese Fisheries Agency’s chief of whaling. While I’m reasonably sure I’m not in favour of whaling, and certainly not if people are fibbing about its true purpose, you’ve got to admire his ballsy, direct language.
In a lengthy opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald last Monday, Moronuki Morimoto defends Japan’s “scientific whaling” with the observation that to commercially manage forests, fisheries and other “natural living resources” but not whales makes no sense. He dismisses as a “fallacy” that there must be one commercial activity (whale watching) to the exclusion of the other (whaling).
There are enough whales for both those that want to watch them and those who want to eat them.
I fully respect the right of Australians to oppose whaling for some “cuddly” reasons, but this does not give them the right to coerce others to end a perfectly legal and culturally significant activity that poses no threat to the species concerned.
And on Wednesday, with two of Sea Shepherd‘s unruly wankers aboard his ship, he said the pair would be given an opportunity to try whale meat while aboard the ship.
Hat-tip on that last quote to The Road to Surfdom.
Corey t-shirts available, website traffic doubles
Yes, Corey t-shirts are now available from BustedTees.
While it’s a day since Alex Willemyns posted this, one still wonders what took them so long. They had hours! Will Corey demand a cut of the profits. Or are the shirts are already courtesy of his agent?
Alex also posts what I agree is one of Corey’s best quotes.
Over the past couple of days, traffic to this website has doubled thanks to people eager for Corey news.
I’d particularly like to commend the 48 people who were searching for “corey delaney naked”. Class act, folks.
There’s something about this urinal…
For some reason, I love the hexagonal tiles on the floor of the men’s toilet in the Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale, in Sydney. Could it be because I’m old enough to remember when military simulations were played out on maps with a hexagonal grid?
If fashion designers made toilets…
… they’d have to fit the kind of distorted bodies that designers imagine we have (pictured).
My friend and colleague Zern Liew made this image.
The two figures in the middle are typical of fashion design drawings. Designs are based on these oddly proportioned, fantasy, body shapes.
Click though to see what this distorted image would mean for the design of a toilet.
This was all part of a talk he gave high school students on body image as part of the Eating Disorders Foundation of NSW’s annual Youth Forum last year.
If there were only 100 people on Earth…
… it’d look like what’s depicted in this short film, The Miniature Earth.
The text is from the late Donella Meadows’ State of the Village Report from 1990 but the movie, now in its third edition, has updated statistics.
It isn’t very new. It’s already been seen by 675,828 people on YouTube since it was posted in September 2006. But I thought it’d be worth giving it a plug.
A great way to spend three and a half minutes, I reckon.