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• Quick Wikileaks roundup

  By tigtog on 2010-12-08 • ( 20 )

  We haven't posted on this yet, but other people have!

• Reporting in

  By tigtog on 2010-12-07 • ( 4 )

  My computer is being silly, and I’m having to debug. This is going to delay the carnival even more…

• BFTP: We knew it was bad for you, see!?!

  By tigtog on 2010-12-06 • ( 4 )

  Part of this month’s Blast from the Past reposting program: originally published January 4, 2006. This post notes the ongoing pattern of research around abortion being distorted and misrepresented.

• Friday Hoyden: Katharine Hepburn

  By tigtog on 2010-12-03 • ( 4 )

  This is a repost: first published March 30, 2006 as Hepburn and Mephistopheles (before I’d got into the Friday Hoyden habit). I’ve taken this opportunity to correct my original misspelling of her given name, and I’m very happy that the website I snarked on then still exists for you to … enjoy.

• SF gets a new world-building scenario

  By tigtog on 2010-12-03

  A microbe has been discovered in a remote Californian lake that can survive without phosphorus, capable of substituting arsenic into that slot in its biochemistry instead.

• Femmostroppo Reader December 2, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-12-02

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• BFTP: Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?

  By tigtog on 2010-12-01 • ( 7 )

  This is a repost: originally published in December 2005 at my original tigtogblog (later imported here to HaT) – I’d only been blogging for a few months.

• Blast from the past alert

  By tigtog on 2010-11-30 • ( 3 )

  Over the next few weeks, starting tomorrow (December 1st), we shall be padding out our normal blogging during the xmasolstichanukkwanzaa etc increased-social-obligations period with some reposts of older articles from the first years of this blog.

• Femmostroppo Reader November 30, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-30 • ( 8 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you’ve been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Cardinal George Pell, humbug

  By tigtog on 2010-11-30 • ( 9 )

  He’s at it again: Faithless are coarse, uncaring and without purpose, says Cardinal Pell. Most of it’s typical tosh. We’re all utterly miserable hedonists, apparently. He even goes Godwin on us: