Sydney Atheists now has a website.

It has yet to include any good recipes containing babies or kittens - though that could be because of the amount vegetarians in their midst.

A brief sketch of recent activities by the Sydney Atheists group from World Youth Day to the Newtown Festival can be found at Critical Mass.

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Internet censorship.

It is beyond stupid. It will not accomplish anything.

I’m not really going to add more on the matter. Read about my government’s plans to ruin the internet at Get up!

I will use at as another excuse to add a poll:

   Tagged: censorship, clean feed, getup!, labor, oppression, poll, refugees, regime   

Forget Novel-writing. NMovember is about growing moustaches for charity.

Click here to Sponsor my Moustache: Funds will be dispersed by the Movember Foundation of Australia to assist with men’s health campaigns by Beyond Blue and the Prostate Cancer Society of Australia.

From Strange World Goats:

Moustache Fighting was invented by the Sandinistas in 1967. Guerilla cells would often be isolated in the jungle for months at a time with no way to communicate with Liberation Front leaders. Moustache Fighting was the natural way to resolve disputes amongst soldiers and establish leadership hierarchies.

The Revolucion needs funding.

Why give a stuff:

Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than females (presently 78 compared to 83).

Men access health services 30-40% less than women, thereby denying themselves the chance for prevention and early detection of common diseases.

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Photos of the final product will be produced (in full regalia!), but only if you donate.

   Tagged: charity, depression, movember, prostate cancer, sydney   

Honestly it is the only cheese I buy.

Muffin* additions:

Angry Aussie

kaydonthedinosaur

Observations of a Nerd

io9

Kitty Mow Mow

*ask Greg…

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Thank you KittyMowMow.

It is Orangutan Awareness Week this week. Sorry I’m slow at catching on (or maybe I was early?)

DID YOU KNOW?
The biggest threat to orangutans is the clearing of the rainforest to plant palm oil plantations. Check out the labels on your groceries. You will find palm oil in cookies, shampoo, and many other products. If something isn’t done soon to stop the spread of palm oil plantations, orangutans will have no where to live.

I learnt this at Taronga Zoo, but I don’t know how well I’ve actually acted on this knowledge. I’ve probably actually bought palm oil products this week. Nuts.

Image: finger lickin’ ape by neonman; orangutan at toronoto zoo; Creative Commons

   Tagged: awareness, ecology, endangered species, kittymowmow, orangutan, palm oil, primates, south east asia, taronga zoo