Dry July -
fro:
I’m just doing it because I often go sans-hooch for anything up to 6 months just for health and self-discipline reasons.
I drink when I feel like a drink, or when it’s something tasty. I actually think it’d be more of a challenge for me to drink once a month, than to not drink for 6 months.
I enjoy the taste of a good scotch, or a good beer, or a good wine. But it’s not a challenge not to drink. Maybe I’m just un-Australian?!?
The last alcohol I had was a delightful beer with Fro, months ago. And I still have four of that six-pack in the fridge.
No, wait. I had a glass of very ordinary wine at the last weeks’ “friday afternoon drinks” at work.
Livejamie, looks like our css woes aren’t over yet :(
Oh, I’m not that hopeless, am I? Also, I think we got out of sync with reblogs, I posted that before I saw your reply.
I was totally with you on your previous post, and I understand what it does. :) Now to try it out…
The Moral Panic of Car Hoons - My friend Dr Glen Fuller appeared on the Sunday show, talking about hoons.
Browsing the future - Dave Grays’s awesome view of the future of web browsing and self publishing. Click through for a great sketch. Be sure to read the comments, particularly the responses from Dave Gray.
inky:
SCIENCE! (via heather-rivers)
I have an irrational fear of grey t-shirts, but hell yes, I want to wear this.
I was saying to the missus just that other day, I was, that I needed me a t-shirt with a robot playing guitar.
“We who are about to titrate salute you!”
A Morgan, probably a Plus 4, or a Plus 8, and a Nissan Pao Figaro (aka an old Micra in a party frock).
(via bloggedbybjorn)
This jug is a design flop! Right? Well not so fast. It seems that the designers of the milk jug created it for a specific purpose: to save money. The new jugs are stackable, saving shipping costs and space. The company saves up to 70% of labour costs using these new jugs. The milk arrives at the store fresher, sometimes even the same day. (via WalMart’s milk jug: great design or flop design? « Design Research)
By default disqus wants you to throw in their code at the end, before the {/block:Posts} so every single post type gets the default treatment of the disqus comments and comment box. But if you wanted to enable it for certain types of posts you would throw in the code that disqus gives you not before the {/block:Posts} but before the blocks you wanted to enable commenting for.
But there’s two bits of code disqus wants you to include. The first bit does the comments (x) part, and the second bit does the actual comment form.
The comments (x) part can go, as you said, inside the the {regular} block, instead of after all the post type blocks. But the part that makes the actual comment form has to go inside the http://ben.kraal.name/post/40506069/dear-lazy-tumblr block, which renders on ever post-type’s permalink page. If the comment form code goes inside the {regular} block, then it’ll render a comment form on the main page as well as the permalink page.
It seems that what I’m asking for requires some CSS-fu of the sort that Paul Giacherio’s siloTheme uses, or Nostrich uses on Peacock Tail, to get different styling on the main page and the permalink page, but then goes further and has different styling on the permalink page, depending on the post type.
Hmm… I know I left my too hard basket around here somewhere.
Skinny bloke and his wife pregnant; are paid $100,000 for amazing acomplishment -
Some bloke who plays tennis and his ex-soapie star wife were paid $100,000 by a magazine for simply allowing them to announce the fact that said bloke and sheila are pregnant for the second time.
Do you think if I got a publicist I could get a mid five figure deal for pics of my kid?
“We have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they’re not.” —
Florida State Professor Robin Simon
Of course kids aren’t the key to happiness, any more than any other thing you could do, or be, or buy, or have, is the key to happiness.
(via livejamie)
Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day -
Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
“Causing annoyance” could include handing out condoms at protests, or wearing an anti-Catholic t-shirt.
Civil libertarians said they had never seen anything like the new powers and believed they are more extreme and broader in scope than those used during last year’s APEC summit and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Bigger and better, baby!
The president of the NSW Bar Association, Anna Katzmann, SC, described the regulations as “unnecessary and repugnant”.
Duh.
Surely there are already laws in the NSW Criminal Code that can account for anything that might actually be, you know, illegal, that people might do? On the other hand, sitting back confidently and saying “no, we’re pretty sure that all our existing law and order provisions are sufficient for the protection of everyone involved” isn’t being seen to be doing something. And if there’s anything that people like more than not hearing about politicians at all, it’s hearing about politicians doing something.
