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• How to turn off Facebook “Places”

  By tigtog on 2010-08-20 • ( 2 )

  You will need to edit your personal Privacy Settings AND your approved Application Settings to ensure that your location information can’t be inadvertently shared with FB apps your friends are using.

• Femmostroppo Reader – August 18, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-08-19 • ( 3 )

  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.

• When your advertisers leave in droves, that’s not an abridgement of your free speech rights

  By tigtog on 2010-08-18 • ( 7 )

  Something which most junior high schoolers could tell you straight out of their civics textbook, “Dr Laura”

• The latest mash note to Abbott from the Murdoch stable

  By tigtog on 2010-08-18 • ( 2 )

  Quicklink: David Flint in the Punch – The Tony Abbott I know.

• Too true

  By tigtog on 2010-08-18 • ( 23 )

  My imagination is already reeling. What are your current favourite or most detested wildly inaccurate historical films or TV series, and what future travesties do you think your descendants might see?

• Week 5 Election Reader – August 17, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-08-18 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please treat this as an Open Election Thread.

• Gratuitous Rufus Sewell blogging

  By tigtog on 2010-08-16 • ( 6 )

  thank you so much, web searchers, for alerting me to a show starring Rufus Sewell that I can now gleefully anticipate turning up here in Oz in the not too distant future

• Ouch ouch ouch ouch

  By tigtog on 2010-08-16 • ( 9 )

  My back still hurts. I’m spending the day in a Mackenzie posture on the couch, with very intermittent checking of the internets only. I don’t even have the energy to crosspost this Star Wars thing I put up earlier at… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – August 15, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-08-16 • ( 2 )

  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.

• Dear Internets: How to make Rape Jokes that won’t make Women hate You

  By tigtog on 2010-08-14 • ( 6 )

  For all those who feel that criticism of rape jokes is horrible censorship of your subversive point of view: it’s a fairly simple test, you shouldn’t even need to write it down, just reflect for a moment.