This is very funny. Unfortunately I can completely relate to the 15- and 16-year-old ones, because I was pretty much dating that guy and that's pretty much exactly what I was thinking at the time. Good grief. (Link courtesy of

Eileen is taking a poll about sweet corn butter application: Butter roll, yay or nay? I grew up in a "roll" household (where you roll the sweet corn on top of a stick of butter for maximum distribution, but which

Oh. My. God. I'm almost tempted... Almost.Edited to add: And if you haven't seen it already, behold Manbabies.My sister was way ahead of the curve with all this. I remember the summer she "helped" with the Coachmen website and spent

MINING giant BHP Billiton has formally filed with the European Commission for clearance to take over rival Rio Tinto.

CHANNEL 9 appears to have dodged an Australian Communications and Media Authority investigation by ordering Sam Newman to take an extended break from TV.

THE passenger killed when an ultralight plane crashed north-east of Melbourne yesterday was the son of former Nine Network newsreader Brian Naylor.

MELBOURNE'S nightclubs have forced the state government into a backdown on its plan to lock people out of venues after 2am, club owners have said.

A MAN has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl on an island in the Thursday Island group.

AUTHORITIES in Queensland are bracing for wild weather to continue across the weekend following flooding and power outages along the state's southern coast today.

RESIDENTS on both sides of the NSW and Queensland border are preparing for a weekend of wild weather, with torrential rainfalls already recorded on the Sunshine Coast.

TWO women are believed to be behind a string of credit-card and jewellery thefts totalling more than $35,000 on the Gold Coast, police say.

The University of Waikato is launching an annual honey research summit featuring its world-leading researchers.

Bingham has a new blog! My friend Susi lent me his book No Need for Speed earlier this year. Very motivating for us plodders...

Wow! Does this story remind anybody else of Satomi Tiger?

Driving out to remote communities really gives you a feeling for the true soul of Australia's arid heartland. It's easy to forget when you're living in Alice Springs with an airport, pubs, shopping centres, internet and all the other amenities...

What it will do is encourage the police to pull more people over who are riding Harley-Davidsons and wearing black leather.

RIO TINTO has forecast that minerals demand will double in the next 14 years, as it resumes its defence against BHP's hostile bid.

A MAJORITY of Telstra T3 shareholders are believed to have met yesterday's deadline to pay the final instalment on their securities.

FORTESCUE Metals Group may have become one of Australia's biggest companies but it failed to comply with 50 per cent of corporate governance standards deemed necessary by a new study.

WIZARD Home Loans founder and chairman Mark Bouris has finally come clean over his clandestine plan to regain control of the struggling mortage provider less than 24 hours after categorically denying on national television he had been "hatching a plan''