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• Femmostroppo Reader – May 25, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-25

  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. MU graduate copes with effects of sexual assault – Columbia Missourian – “About that person, she… Read More ›

• i sa! chiz chiz

  By tigtog on 2010-05-24 • ( 8 )

  nigel molesworth is now tweeting

• Daum on Palin on Feminism

  By tigtog on 2010-05-24 • ( 3 )

  While Palin remains a libertarian she’s not helping the fight against sexist or any other sort of oppression, so whether she calls herself a feminist or not, she’s not on my side.

• Facebook privacy: they’re gonna fix it?

  By tigtog on 2010-05-24 • ( 2 )

  So they say. I bet they’re only going to go so far. They still want to profit from that info. FACEBOOK has caved in to pressure from critics and said it would simplify controls over the degree of privacy given… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 23, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-23 • ( 1 )

  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. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Anyone Who Has Experienced One of My Son's Meltdowns…. Read More ›

• My town is awesome, but it sucks

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21 • ( 11 )

  Why is Sydney awesome? Because the next time I’m in strife, I might be rescued by ninjas. Why does Sydney suck? A TV news station has taken it upon itself to out a senior politician who had broken no parliamentary… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Claudia Alexander

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21 • ( 2 )

  I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets series, talking about her time as project manager at JPL for the final stage of the Galileo space… Read More ›

• Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21

  While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 18, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-19 • ( 1 )

  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. Abbott’s not a risk to anyone but the Liberals – “It’s perhaps understandable that when Labor… Read More ›

• 5 young white men “of good character” beat Aboriginal man to death

  By tigtog on 2010-05-18 • ( 24 )

  five young men in the Northern Territory – Scott Doody, Timothy Hird, Joshua Spears, Anton Kloeden, and Glen Swain – who after a drinking spree drove along the Todd River creek-bed deliberately terrorising sleeping aboriginals camping there, and who then beat one of those terrorised people, a young man named Kwementyaye Ryder, to death after he threw a bottle at their car