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• Endangered Sundays: Manatees

  By tigtog on 2010-01-24 • ( 4 )

  A new feature for the blog: an irregular look at endangered species and how climate change is predicted to further affect them. Manatees are native to Florida, and have no native predators there. They are endangered because they are slow-moving… Read More ›

• The existence of this hat makes me absurdly cheerful

  By tigtog on 2010-01-24 • ( 4 )

  What exuberantly superfluous and dorktastic sights have brightened your day recently?

• Blogging for Choice: Trusting Women

  By tigtog on 2010-01-23

  Choice here is not just about the choice to terminate an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy. It is also about the choice to continue a pregnancy when others would rather that you did not (a situation that many disabled women in particular find themselves in). It is also about the choice to raise or relinquish the child once it has been born.

• Friday Hoyden: Nellie Donegan, roller skater, 1913

  By tigtog on 2010-01-22 • ( 2 )

  Photo comes from the State Library online gallery on Flickr (via @dogpossum on Twitter): just look at the vitality and mischief of her!

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 22, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-22 • ( 4 )

  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. Disregarding Probable Cause – “When there are grounds for suspicion that a person has committed a… Read More ›

• Gratuitous Christopher Eccleston blogging

  By tigtog on 2010-01-21 • ( 7 )

  Chris in character as John Lennon for upcoming BBC drama Lennon Naked, which will co-star Naoko Mori (Absolutely Fabulous, Torchwood) as Yoko Ono (no official pics of her in character yet, sadly). The drama should air on BBC4 in the… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 20, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-21 • ( 4 )

  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. Friday is Blog for Choice Day – that time of year again – will you write… Read More ›

• Somebody didn’t do their homework

  By tigtog on 2010-01-20 • ( 3 )

  How exactly does a journalist covering a major entertainment awards ceremony go there without having read the last week’s news on the nominees for the big awards like Best Actor in a TV series?

• At long last…

  By tigtog on 2010-01-20 • ( 6 )

  … have they not a shred of decency?

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 19, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-19 • ( 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. I Don’t Care If You’re Offended « Fineness & Accuracy – “What I care about is… Read More ›