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• Go on, ask me about the History of Metals

  By tigtog on 2010-04-01 • ( 8 )

  I just won’t answer for another hour or so, until we’ve got this Year 11 (!) Assessment Task (!) presentation (!) which I was first told “wasn’t quite ready” (!) about at approx 11:30pm last night handed in (Period 5).

• Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Good News in Science

  By tigtog on 2010-03-31 • ( 3 )

  Brought to you by judge who finally said what we were all thinking: the idea that you can patent a human gene just because you were the first to find/identify it is not what patent law was meant for.

• Senator Conroy needs some cheese to go with that whine

  By tigtog on 2010-03-30 • ( 3 )

  That nasty Google is saying terrible things about his shiny net filter that he wants to give to all Australians, whether they want it or not.

• Politics vs Policy: how superficial gamesmanship steals our future

  By tigtog on 2010-03-29 • ( 20 )

  This should be shaping up as the real issue in the upcoming Federal election – for both the PM and the Leader of the opposition. What do either of them really offer for the future of Australia? Sadly, how would we know, when the media encourages both of them to “win the week’s news headlines” instead of pushing for bigger goals and the comprehensive plans to make them happen?

• Femmostroppo Reader – March 27, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-27 • ( 10 )

  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. On Being a Woman, Not "a Female" – “I also realized that one of the reasons… Read More ›

• Disturbing Strokes

  By tigtog on 2010-03-26 • ( 13 )

  I’ve long known theoretically how easy it is to make a scene feel totally different simply by changing the soundtrack, but that’s a really effective demonstration.

• Ann Coulter loves competition in the free market, except when it’s competition in free speech

  By tigtog on 2010-03-26 • ( 5 )

  

  Ann Coulter has been getting a lot of traction over the last couple of days with talk of being censored by having a speech cancelled. So, who was it exactly who cancelled Coulter’s speech on the campus of the University of Ottawa?

• Femmostroppo Reader – March 25, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-26 • ( 9 )

  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.

• Favourite online news comment of the day

  By tigtog on 2010-03-25 • ( 3 )

  Get out your bingo cards!

• Ada Lovelace Day Linkfest – March 24, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-24 • ( 2 )

  Ada Lovelace honours an unsung heroine of pioneering computer programming