2011 – Page 57 – Hoyden About Town

Gratuitous Costume Drama Blogging

By tigtog on 2011-03-14 • ( 6 )

Since I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, who else can I start with but Lizzy and Darcy?

Femmostroppo Reader March 12, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-03-12

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

You’re never too young or too over-powered to be the slutty trouble-maker

By hatbluemilk on 2011-03-12 • ( 5 )

Image credit here. The trailer where an 11 year old girl was assaulted. Victim-blaming. No-one does it better than a court reporter, it seems. In this case we’re talking about allegations involving a group of eighteen men and teenage boys… Read More ›

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2011-03-12 • ( 18 )

Today’s otter was captured on film by Yasaiman at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

Japan earthquake and tsunami

By tigtog on 2011-03-12 • ( 13 )

Authorities are projecting around 1000 deaths. I don’t think any of our regular commenters live in Japan, nor anywhere in the northern Pacific likely to be tsunami-affected, but I’m sure we must have lurkers there. I wish you all safe. Please use this as an open thread on any news.

The Ada Initiative census advertisement button

The Ada Initiative: census and Q&A

By Mary on 2011-03-10

I am in the process of co-founding a non-profit called the Ada Initiative, which is seeking funding to undertake advocacy for women. The Ada Initiative is focused on women in open technology and culture generally, which includes online activists, members of fandom, remixers, open source hackers and many others If you are interested, take our census or ask questions here.

SIWOTI: Sagan’s ECREE maxim is NOT nonsense

By tigtog on 2011-03-10 • ( 16 )

Please pardon the acronyms in the title (expansions forthcoming in the post), I’m attempting to keep my post titles reasonably concise. Which is exactly what the final sentence in the quote below does in relation to the rest of the paragraph preceding it: it restates the whole argument of the paragraph pithily in just five words: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.