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• Great news to wake up to

  By tigtog on 2010-12-19 • ( 8 )

  The US Senate has voted to repeal the 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” bill that banned same-sex-attracted military personnel from being open and honest about their sexual orientation under penalty of dismissal.

• Maintenance Note: offline for a while

  By tigtog on 2010-12-18 • ( 4 )

  Something in the backend is going a bit off-kilter. I’ve put the blog into maintenance mode while I try and sort it out. That means only those of you on feed-readers will see this post for a while.

• Femmostroppo Reader December 16, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-12-16 • ( 5 )

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

• Lost for words: RIP asylum seekers

  By tigtog on 2010-12-16 • ( 5 )

  I simply can’t process this very well. Those poor, poor people.

• Discombobulation: How to Stop a Geek in their Tracks

  By tigtog on 2010-12-14 • ( 18 )

  After viewing that image, your geek will be frozen in place, trying to explain all that is wrong with it, while you make a clean getaway.

  UPDATE: Apologies to all folks using reader software, I only just realised that I bollixed the image alt tags earlier in the full post.

• Quickhit: How to check if your password was exposed in Gawker hack

  By tigtog on 2010-12-14 • ( 4 )

  From Computerworld:
  Researcher HD Moore spells out how to see what accounts were among 1.3M accessed by hackers

• Femmostroppo Reader December 13, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-12-13 • ( 4 )

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

• Breaking rules since 1963

  By tigtog on 2010-12-13

  Part of this month’s Blast from the Past reposting program: originally published 2006/02/28. This is just a bit of silliness.

  Apparently, even before his birth, my nickname not only broke all the rules of tig but my very existence as a tigtog supports the exploitation of Elijah Wood’s trusting nature.

• Friday Hoyden: Y.T.

  By tigtog on 2010-12-10 • ( 7 )

  This is a repost: first published April 5, 2006 as Best. Hoyden. Evah. (before I’d got into the Friday Hoyden habit). I’m not sure I’d still call her best evah, but she definitely remains a SIKAW.

  Y.T.

  Skate-Kourier thrasher teen superbus. (***Spoiler Free***)

• 31st Down Under Feminist Carnival

  By tigtog on 2010-12-08 • ( 15 )

  Welcome to the December 5, 2010 edition of down under feminists carnival, going up late because of Reasons!