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Sexism, metaphor, whimsy and caprice

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:17:36 +0000

It’s difficult to recall the last time I laughed out loud when reading an Ubuntu changelog entry. Please direct any questions or comments you may have to the Department of Metaphor.

hunspell-en-us (20070829-2ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/extrawords.txt: added "misandry" and "misandrist" (LP: #436145)

 -- Mackenzie Morgan   Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:38:32 -0400

Truly, CSS is awesome

Jeff Waugh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:00:06 +0000

… and apparently available on Zazzle.

Barack Obama celebrates National Andrew Bolt is a Dickhead Day

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:36:23 +0000

(This stupid joke, and the linked cartoon which inspired it, will be difficult for international readers to understand. It might make slightly more sense if you replace “Andrew Bolt” with “Rush Limbaugh” as you read it, while noting that a true analogue to Limbaugh simply doesn’t exist in the Australian commentariat. Despite having our own breed of hypocritical right-wing crazies, I think it will be a long time coming before Australians would accept someone even remotely as ignorant and offensive as Limbaugh in our public conversation.)

Music is better with robots

Jeff Waugh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:08:16 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Quantum of Landslide

Jeff Waugh — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:17:56 +0000

Fiscal Conservative vs. Tax & Spend Liberal

Jeff Waugh — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:44:27 +0000

No Twitter Sex For You

Jeff Waugh — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:41:47 +0000

“No Twitter sex for you” by ChipX86.

Fail We Can Believe In

Jeff Waugh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:15:51 +0000

Ocean’s Tax

Jeff Waugh — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:41:51 +0000

If the Ocean’s films are the culture tax I have to pay for Clooney’s other work, roll on Ocean’s Fourteen!