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• Femmostroppo Reader – April 14, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-14 • ( 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. Welcome Home – “by Shaker bekitty, a New Zealand citizen who, until recently, was living with… Read More ›

• Vatican tells bishops to report abuse cases to police

  By tigtog on 2010-04-13 • ( 8 )

  Just posted this over at LP, but I’d like to have this discussion here as well. The Guardian: Vatican issues detailed instructions to all bishops after criticism of Catholic church’s handling of paedophile priests Yep. Not actually that hard to… Read More ›

• Private messaging exists on social networking sites for a reason

  By tigtog on 2010-04-12 • ( 8 )

  The media seem to be asking whether it’s “fair” that people’s behaviour online should be scrutinised by their employers. Why not, when customers/clients might find an employee’s comment through a search engine that could be a potential liability for the employer?

• Endangered Sunday: Aussie natives need to be pets to survive?

  By tigtog on 2010-04-11 • ( 17 )

  ABC Online: Pet market tipped to save endangered wildlife Our native animals are so vulnerable to feral species in the wild that a major rethink of long-standing policy (that many native animals are illegal to keep as pets) is in… Read More ›

• Heads-up: new Facebook T&C for Fan Pages

  By tigtog on 2010-04-09 • ( 3 )

  Fan pages with millions of fans have been locked and/or deleted, and perhaps yours could be next if your page is no longer in compliance with FB’s new terms and conditions.

• Friday Hoydens: Jazzy Women

  By tigtog on 2010-04-09 • ( 1 )

  This post was inspired by this great gallery on Slate: Jazzy Women. (I only just discovered Slate’s Today’s Pictures feature – fascinating photos every day.) The gallery has 30 photos of fierce, passionate musical women – highly recommended. Here’s just… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 8, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-08 • ( 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. Astrologers jump on Cox – “In one episode of the show, he said, “…astrology is a… Read More ›

• Monbiot mistakes the specific for the general

  By tigtog on 2010-04-08

  This strikes me as totally the wrong end of the stick, as if it reveals an attitude towards FoI in principle rather than these vexatious FoI requests in particular.

• Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Fully Epic Rapsody

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07

  It has now been 102 long days that Ive been here in the hospital all up, isolated with a case of Multi-Drug Resistant TB…. Yep… Still going… Is it normal if you want to eat your own leg?

• My Easter Post on The Drum

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07 • ( 17 )

  Little did I know that leading churchmen around the nation were going to dedicate their Easter messages this year to painting atheism as mad, bad and dangerous to know.