I went to the bookstore last night, and I’m not quite sure what’s going to happen to my brane over the next week. My downstairs book is Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. My upstairs book is Terry Pratchett’s Wintersmith. My car book… Read More ›
Year: 2007
So many benefits rolled into one comments challenge thread
If you join in the comments thread challenge over at Larvatus Prodeo, you can add a lustre to your day as you: 1. Mock Paris Hilton 2. Mock Senator John McCain (R, Ariz) 3. Make your doubts about the war… Read More ›
Cyberbullying watch: Duke edition
Most of you probably know about the Kathy Sierra death-threats episode that has left her fearing for her safety, her blog shut down and her life a mess. (Above link and rest-of-this-post trigger warning: disturbing content, misogynistic violent threats.) Some… Read More ›
Chuck Norris on The Chaser
Because he occasionally does talking-head stuff for Faux News. Nooooooo! Ican’thearyouIcan’thearyouIcan’thearyou. I much prefer the Chuck Norris that Google won’t search for. And the Chuck Norris who chuckles over silly lists. (Wikipedia sucks most of the fun out of the… Read More ›
The fundamental incoherence of pop-evopsych arguments in a nutshell
This is totally going to be the keynote quote for the inevitable eventual FAQ on evopsych for Feminism 101: On the subject of evo-psych: But the behaviours of men who oppress women are natural! Evolution makes men spread their seed/rape/etc!… Read More ›
Quip of the week: journalist division
crossposted from Larvatus Prodeo “[With that level of military protection] even Paris Hilton could ride a bicycle in a bikini through Anbar province.” That was NBC Iraq correspondent Tom Aspell’s summary of the PR stunt from Republican presidential candidate John… Read More ›
Discoballmouseatarians, I know where you should get your hair cut
In Sydney, anyway. I’m so taking Amanda from Pandagon there if she ever comes visiting Sydney. A salon in an old shop/townhouse on Enmore Road. It has one side-wall purple, the other silver, miniature disco balls and purple-glitter boa-type streamers… Read More ›
Seen at Shakesville
Which is the shiny new hangout for the folks from Shakespeare’s Sister, which will remain as their archive site. Shakers, update your blogrolls! Update: The new site has been made unusable through DOS attacks, so the Shakers are back at… Read More ›
Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”.
Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”, by its very nature. Or so Andrew Riemer, Herald book critic, firmly believes, as quoted by the SMH. According to the ABC, John Hinde has bequeathed a new literary prize, one of Australia’s richest. The prize… Read More ›
Stopping cyberbullying
Kathy Sierra, writing about how she has cancelled an upcoming conference speech and other engagements due to overwhelming fear following hate-speech and threats directed at her online. The threats were at a sufficiently high level that Sierra has reported them to the police and apparently the FBI is investigating them, because making death threats online, just as in “real life”, is a crime.
Hoyden About Town 