Nathan Lee

The AEC reaches out to the intertubes for a meme to remind people to register to vote.

Is magician and skeptic James Randi a time traveller?

This court transcript triggered memories for me of something between Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister and Monty Python. The background:a man has been stealing a LOT of those hook-less hangers that they have in hotels.

As a lot of what makes it into the public mind of science is rather loosely related to the original science, I thought I’d dig up a couple of comic strips about the decidedly unscientific process of science reporting.

Worrying to watch Tony Abbott continue to deny global warming is real and think that this man could be our PM if enough idiots vote for him. I thought a bit of xkcd retouching might be in order for this coming election.

I got an exclusive first run simulation of how Tony’s planned “Stop the boats” direct line to the navy would work. The idea is he’ll get a phone call from the navy to say yay or nay and then they turn ‘em on back. The notion’s been dubbed “boat phone” on twitter. Here it is [...]

Lodged a report with the ATO about a well known widespread scam for avoiding paying income tax in Australia. Hope it gets a chuckle from a bored ATO investigator.