Best and worst bits of the week

Time for our weekly round up and our best and worst.

So what’s been happening?

We debated a Voluntary Code of Conduct around photoshopping and retouching, female quotas on boards, giving of gifts on the birth of a baby and nature versus nurture. We’ve chatted about the existence of God, the trauma of Ingrid Betancourt’s hostage ordeal and we looked at the Federal chaplaincy program in schools and the idea that pregnancy has become a competitive sport.

Some thoughts we pondered – how long you should wait before sex with a new partner, would you pay to try on clothes and how much privacy we have on Facebook. We shared our dilemmas and what was happening for us in 1997.

We laughed over this BRILLIANT book – if you haven’t seen it you should click here, it may become a firm favourite.

On the video front we shared the power of words, an interesting social experiment. and we even watched a love story about a milk carton. We also showed you some undies we wouldn’t be found wearing and we had a sneak peek at the final Oprah show

Don’t forget to look through these gorgeous frocks here and here

Phew. Now it’s time to look at our best and worst bits of the week. I’ll start.

Best: I am going to Bathurst this weekend for a friend’s 21st. I have never been to Bathurst but I’m sure I will enjoy it (even though it’s supposed to be absolutely freezing there at the moment… I plan to take every jumper I own and wear them all at once. And maybe add a sleeping bag over the top). If anyone’s got any tips for fun things to do in Bathurst I’d love to hear them..

Worst: This is a very first-world problem, but I am a total Masterchef fiend and haven’t had the chance to catch an episode this week. I’m kind of having withdrawals.

On my mind: This is also food-related. Rick and I are having a week-long debate over whether chocolate mousse cake is actually cake. He believes cake is only cake if it’s spongy. I say cake is cake and that’s that.

What were your best and worst bits of the week? And don’t forget to tell us what’s on your mind.

Plus, here are the pics we’re talking about this week…

When jeans and undies collide... introducing junderpants.

Australian androgynous model Andrej Pejic censored is by Barnes & Noble. The bookstore chain required the magazine Dossier to wrap its new issue in opaque plastic before agreeing to stock it.

Jilted bride-to-be, Miss Li tries to throw herself from a seven-storey building in China after her fiancé called off their wedding. The 22-year-old put on her wedding dress before stepping out of the window. Care worker Guo Zhongfan caught her by the neck and held her as others rushed to help pull her to safety.

A man in Wales tries to board a train with a pony to take it to a hospital accident and emergency department. He was turned away by the train’s conductor before trying to buy tickets for himself and the animal at the station.

Arnold Schwarzenegger admits to cheating on his wife of twenty years, Maria Shriver. He has allegedly fathered a child with the couples housekeeper, Mildred Patricia Baena.

Beyonce, Madonna, Dakota Fanning and Halle Berry gather onstage for Oprah Winfrey's final show

Oprah fans have been urged to grieve when her TV talk show goes off the air.

Osama bin Laden recorded a message shortly before his death, praising the Middle East protest movements and predicting that revolutions would spread across the region.

Queen Elizabeth is the first English monarch to visit Ireland in 90 years. Here she lays a wreath to all those who had suffered from centuries of conflict between Britain and Ireland.

You can now buy a commemorative Barack Obama birth certificate mug and t-shirt - available from barackobama.com

Ashton Kutcher takes over Charlie Sheen's character in Two and a Half Men, he appeared with co-stars John Cryer and Angus T Jones at the 2011 CBS Upfront event in New York.

The world's oldest panda, Ming Ming dies in China age 34.

Kermit the frog pays tribute to Muppet's creator, Jim Henson.

An Israeli couple have named their baby daughter 'Like'. Six-day-old Like has two older sisters, 10-year-old Dvash, Hebrew for honey, and five-year-old Pie.

This photograph by Frans Lanting was made in Namibia. It is real but looks photoshopped, the description on the National Geographic website: 'Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.'

Cindy Sherman's “Untitled #96,” is the most expensive art photograph ever sold. It went for $US3.9 million at auction to collector Philippe Segalot.

Lady Gaga arrives onstage in a coffin wearing a prosthetic pregnant stomach at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

'Rooftopping' is the new photography craze that pushes photographers to the limit as they hang off skyscrapers to capture the perfect image.

Travel photographer Tom Ryaboi has spent his life dangling from buildings trying to achieve what he calls the ultimate rush. He said: 'When you climb to the top of a skyscraper and open its hatch for the first time, a pure rush of adrenaline hits you as you overlook the city from above.

How awesome is this? The Volkswagen Camper Van Tent - can be all yours for $299 and is making me want to go camping.

The latest make-up trend, lip-art. The temporary tattoos come in a variety of patterns from $14.95 at violentlips.com

Brad Pitt's new movie, The Tree of Life is booed by critics at Cannes Film Festival.

Nick Cannon gives his wife, Mariah Carey diamond name necklaces of their baby twins as a 'push present'.

Jennifer Aniston's dog, Norman dies.

There is now Versace designed clothes for kids... hmmm.

Cuteness overload... yoga for puppies (you can buy the book from Amazon).

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