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• Obligatory holiday snaps

  By tigtog on 2010-10-21 • ( 2 )

  I’ve just put Day 1 in Paris up on Flickr (the edited highlights). Here is probably the artiest shot I took all trip:

• Quicklink: Dietary Supplements in Pregnancy

  By tigtog on 2010-10-21 • ( 8 )

  Research generally shows some important health benefits related to fetal uptake of maternal dietary DHA, but increased IQ no longer appears to be one of them. At least increasing one’s intake of fish oil has few if any downsides for either mother or fetus.

• I’m not a praying woman

  By tigtog on 2010-10-20 • ( 26 )

  But the tiniest sliver of the remotest possibility of an outside chance that some kind soul on the bus where my autistic son left our laptop that he uses at school actually did pick it up and hand it in as Lost Property, has got me the closest to it that I’ve come in years.
  Update: We have it back!

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 19, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-10-19 • ( 5 )

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

• Surly Wonder Woman

  By tigtog on 2010-10-19 • ( 2 )

  I came across a link to this fabuloso comic panel while googling for something else entirely, which is just one of those glorious serendipities of the internet. I have a soft spot for surly superheroes.

• FYI: about those unsolicited guest post offers

  By tigtog on 2010-10-19 • ( 7 )

  I don’t care what that SEO manual is telling you about how offering your guest posts to other bloggers (on condition that there’s a link back to your blog) is a fine and dandy way to increase your readership and your search engine ranking. If you’ve never even left a single comment attempting to engage with our commenting community, then asking us to publish a post of yours on spec is simply downright rude.

• FFS folks: just how long does the public shaming of Kristy Fraser-Kirk for daring to speak up have to go on?

  By tigtog on 2010-10-18 • ( 10 )

  What part exactly of “any punitive damages portion of up to 37 million dollars awarded by the court will be donated to charity” and “a private settlement of less than a million dollars does not include the originally sought-after punitive damages” are so many people finding so difficult to compute?

• How to time a holiday in France

  By tigtog on 2010-10-18

  Petty personal considerations aside, the strikes in France illustrate a conflict that will be repeated across many nations who have had a raft of strong social safety net policies over many decades who are now struggling to finance those policies.

• Femmostroppo “Back from Holidays” Reader – October 17, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-10-18

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

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 5, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-10-05

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