So anyway…

Democrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without letting the facts get in the way, a new study shows.   And they get quite a rush from ignoring information that’s contrary to their point of view. (Clearly brought to by Professor Obvious of the Faculty of Well Duh)

Highly analytical couples, such as scientists, may be more likely to produce children with autism, an expert has argued. [...] Other research has found both mothers and fathers of children with autism score highly on a questionnaire measuring autistic traits.

Well, I hd to go and mention the Bangles in my previous entry, and now I’m listening to a variety of music, much of it from the 80s. And I’ve come to a startling realization… I actually like 80s music. I always thought I just sort of knew a lot of it and liked some Continue reading →

I have written previously about Melbourne’s infamously changing weather. The joke is “four seasons in one day” (although, really, Melbourne only has three seasons, as there’s nothing I’d personally refer to as winter, although Melburnians seem to think that there is). We also sometimes get patches of some other season in the middle of the Continue reading →

When I was a kid, I wanted my name to be Veronica. No reason, really, other than I thought it was a cool name and I was a fan of Archie comics (I still read them from time to time, as a matter of fact). I think most little girls have a “fantasy name”. When Continue reading →

A small ISP in the town of Clinton, Iowa, has just won one of the largest payouts ever extracted from a spammer.   The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP’s Continue reading →