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• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2010-07-10 • ( 12 )

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

• Quickhit: internet filter on backburner

  By tigtog on 2010-07-09 • ( 9 )

  Sen. Conroy announced today that the mandatory filter is going to be put onto the back-burner until an independent inquiry has been held.

• Threads of Doom and the lurch to the right

  By tigtog on 2010-07-09 • ( 16 )

  While my wonkish side is partly thrilled to see so many people critically engaged with public policy for once, for them to come to it from a place of disappointment, suspicion and resentment over a previous incomplete understanding of the system is far from ideal.

• Thursday Cheezburger: *sniffle* *wheeze* *suffer* *persevere*

  By tigtog on 2010-07-08 • ( 1 )

  Post your own favourite in-theme LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Whoydensday: Just one more 2010 episode to go!

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 14 )

  But in very serious news: I’m terribly, terribly jealous of the fact that the cast and crew got to hang around Stonehenge with it all to themselves. I may have to go gnaw my liver for some time.

• Quickhit: Scienceblogs’ new nutrition blog – from PepsiCo

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 9 )

  As Chris Clarke says: I don’t see how this could possibly end badly.

• Phishing scam alert: “Your tax refund is here. Very important!”

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 4 )

  I just received an email from “support@ato.guv.au” – this is a dummy email address that resolves to the phisher’s domain.

• 2010 National NAIDOC Poster

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07

  The artwork depicts an Aboriginal mother who is an ‘unsung hero’ leading her children through example, showing that actions can speak louder than words.

• Femmostroppo Reader – July 6, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-07-06

  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.

• Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster

  By tigtog on 2010-07-06 • ( 10 )

  Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.