I’m quite annoyed with myself right now. I’ve been a bit distracted these last two weeks due to personal reasons and forgot all about today. This means I’m only posting this blog well after the time of the event I wanted to pimp.
In a follow-up to this post, today is the final day of Autism Month and it hosts Autism Hour. One hour, from 9am, to help raise awareness for Autism and send a message of support to people and their families that are dealing with it.
Please, take a moment to go to the autism hour homepage and show them your support, even if you’re late it will still be collected and appreciated.
It’s amazing how people react to some things. How they get so worked up over something that is nothing, or purely in jest. Whether they lack a sense of humour, or refuse to look away from something that makes them uncomfortable, maybe even searching it out just so they can react. It’s strange, it is as though some people purposefully want to be offended.
People from all over the place are claiming there has been a distinct increase in natural disasters in the last ten years. It has set many people off looking for reasons in every nook and cranny. Some of the reasons to blame to this point are global warming, atheism, homosexuality, secularism, just plain old natural disasters with there being nothing special about them, the lowering of standards for what is and isn’t sexually explicit, etc etc.
Can you spot the odd one out there? The second last, nothing special about them. In this day and age we have instant global communication as never seen before, someone sitting on the bog can be communicating on his phone to thousands of other people in every nook and cranny around the world, and this ability is open to just about anyone.
Previously if a crackpot managed to get the attention of their local media, that’s about where it would stop as it would take a few days at the very least for this to be replicated around the world, rather than minutes as it is now.
Jennifer McCreight has come up with a brilliant idea of a scientific experiment that could help save millions of lives from natural disasters, and it’s something I would like to see each and every person reading this blog get behind. It’s an amazing idea that needs everyone’s support, but before I explain what it is, please watch the following video to at least the 1:50 (one minute fifty seconds) mark. Read more…
Congratulations to Dr Rachael Dunlop(pictured left, holding her brain in due to a nearby homeopath doing their best to melt it), whom it was announced on Twitter by @Dianne_ was proposed to tonight and she (allegedly) accepted!
We do not know who this mysterious person is yet, all that is known is that he’s from WA in the USA, though I wasn’t even aware the USA had a state or province called Western Australia?
More details will be given as they to come to hand.
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(Note: It seems some people thought I was serious and hence are congratulating Dr Rachie in earnest. For those lacking in a sense of humour, this particular blog entry is all in jest).
I am not SeanDBlogonaut. I do not protesteth too much. I do not even protest too much. I have only attended three protests in my entire life, surely that is not too much, is it? I do not know where these silly rumours started, though some say they were born in an egg on a mountain top. That would just make the rumour Monkey though, and unlike this rumour, Monkey is irrepressible. Read more…
If you’re on Twitter at all (and if you’re reading this, chances you are) it would be hard to not know that the Shorty Awards are currently taking place. These are awards for twitter users across pretty much any category possible. There’s some good news and some bad news, though.
Currently in the #health category we have more quacks and snakeoil salespeople than anything else. Fortunately we’ve managed to get @DrRachie in to first spot, but it’s a tight race between legitimate votes for her and bot votes for the second place quack @HealthRanger who runs the misinformation, antivax and anti-science-based-medicine site naturalnews.com. So jump on over now and vote for @DrRachie asap to help keep her in the clear (and legitimate) lead!
Keep in mind that only one vote (the most recent) per category counts, and you must put a reason in for your vote to make it.
Secondly, I’m putting out a personal request for self pimpage. I am not ashamed. I am also not wearing pants. Vote for me in the #nopants category, now. Please! At this point in time I only need 24 votes to get the number one spot.
It all started off, as the best things in life do, as alittlejoke. This is not how it is going to end however. We will succeed. We must. For the good of mankind, and also as a little warmup and pimpage for TAM Australia (Coming late November 2010).
I have started a petition to get Naontiotami interviewed on the SGU podcast. Please go there and sign it. Your mother will thank you.
Just a quick post to say merry christmas to everyone, and I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and friends. I know how I’ll be spending it, pretty much exactly as described in the following song.
Don’t forget you only have until the 26th to purchase this from itunes and have 50% of the payment go towards Autism research, so grab it now before it’s too late!
Last night, a TV show on the ABC called Catalyst had a special on bushfires, something that should be of great interest to anyone who is in or near an area that regularly has them (ie, anywhere at all in Australia as well as California and maybe a few other places around the world).
For those who may not know, last year there were some horrific bushfires in Victoria and South Australia earlier this year. Entire towns almost completely wiped off the map as the bushfire passed through leaving few if any properties standing. Everyone in Australia was devastated, tempers flared in the aftermath and discussions could be heard anywhere and everywhere as to what went wrong and what should be done.
Catalyst decided to actually investigate the issue and rather than parroting the usual comments, they actually looked in to the science of bushfires. Fighting them, protecting ones property from them, and the psychology of managing and fighting one. For the moment the videos can be viewed at their website here (at least for those in Australia, I am not sure about overseas), as well as some very interesting web exclusives that I shall be checking out this evening when I get home. Read more…
There’s too much animal cruelty in this world. Animals being brought in to it all the time that nobody wants, whether it is through breeders or people who don’t take adequate care of their pets by not getting them desexed. It’s a shame really, as the only results are underfunded kennels doing their utmost to care for what few they can, and more often than should be, putting the animals down simply because there’s nobody to care for them.
Most kennels and pounds struggle so much they cannot really afford the time to care for newborn or sick animals. Fortunately they came up with the brilliant idea of foster parents. Foster parents take on animals who need extra attention for a couple of weeks and nurse them back to health. To the left here you see Poppy, she is just one foster kitty a good friend of mine, @catherineLd has the recent pleasure of looking after (and teasing us on twitter with pictures/videos of her latest family).
More details on the great work and how you can help after the break. Read more…
I’m quite annoyed with myself right now. I’ve been a bit distracted these last two weeks due to personal reasons and forgot all about today. This means I’m only posting this blog well after the time of the event I wanted to pimp.
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