Oh dear

Mary Cheney is pregnant and US Republicans are not happy. (She’s gay you see).
“Not only is she doing a disservice to her child, she’s voiding all the effort her father put into the Bush Administration,” said Janice Shaw Crouse, a senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, run by Concerned Women for America.
I don’t know [...]

Like that? You’ll hate this.

I love this. You all know about the goodness that is LibraryThing? Well the good folks there have come up with a take on the “if you like this, you’ll love this’ suggest-a-book thingo that Amazon runs. LibraryThing has an Unsuggester.

It analyzes the seven million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and [...]

December ALR

The new ALR is out and this month there’s an ‘online special’. Well, there’s two related articles: Sal Humphries looks at computer games and Genevieve Tucker spreads the word on litblogs.
In case you don’t know, there is a commenting facilty at ALR online.

A lack of OzLit teaching in Oz unis?

I touched on this in October at Online Opinion (reposted at LP with excellent discussion provided by commenters), Rosemary Neill took a longer, rather better-researched look at it the Weekend Australian and Laura at Sarsaparilla has posted an excellent response to Neill and why she thinks the reported death of OzLit teaching in Australian universities [...]