August 7, 2007

Can you see it? (Give it a sec, you will…) [PIC]

I recognized this immediately as I was walking through my front room… can you see what my son made? As a geek dad this made me laugh and almost made me cry.
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August 7, 2007

Bad Cops Punished By Hello Kitty – You Gotta See This!

From the article: “Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring “Hello Kitty,” the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday”. Check out the masks they have to wear!
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August 7, 2007

Japan marks Hiroshima anniversary

JAPAN vowed today never to seek atomic weapons and urged nuclear powers to give up their own arsenals 62 years after the world’s first nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
Some 45,000 people recited silent prayers at 8.15am (9.15am AEST), the exact moment in 1945 when a single US bomb instantly killed more than 140,000 people and fatally [...]

August 7, 2007

Meet the Pre-Teen Beauty Addicts

At nine, Bethany doesn’t ‘feel right’ without fake tan. 11-year-old Belle waxes her legs. Karolina, 10, won’t leave home without scent. Harmless fun? Or proof of the insidious sexualisation of our children?:
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