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  • Funny Women: Becky Pedigo

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    I just saw a Comedy Central special she did a few years ago – here’s a 5 minute spot on a late night TV show:

  • Femmostroppo Reader (Scitech Edition) – December 7, 2009

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    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. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/7nnVQ2fROOg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1 “As you’ll see, very few commentators who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon even before reading… Read More ›

  • Femmostroppo Reader – December 5, 2009

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    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. Have Yourself a Rapey Little Christmas – Yet another song where most of us just never… Read More ›

  • NSW’s first female premier

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    She may not literally be a puppet premier, but she’s well and truly boxed in by the ongoing factional dominance of the NSW Labor Right.

  • My two unfavourite memes of this week

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    People who keep harassing someone for a deleted copy of someone else’s raw data instead of going to the originator of that raw data for a copy of their own? Even when it’s been explained to them over and over that the originator is the only person who can provide another copy of that raw data? Now that’s unethical.

  • Show your vote

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    a virtual ballot box that can be embedded into any website allowing people to register their support for sealing a fair and effective climate deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, which runs for two weeks from Monday.

  • Femmostroppo Reader – December 1, 2009

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    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. An Australian double standard – Our government refuses to fund an atheist conference while blithely funding… Read More ›

  • My two cents

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    1. There is no way known that Abbott can possibly win the next election for the Libs.
    2. Joe Hockey dodged a bullet. He’ll do much better in the next leadership vote after Abbott and the Minchinoviks lose the next election.

  • Procrastination aid Of The Day: UEA CRU hyperbole

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    The emails largely had to do with dealing with an already known problem with dendrochronology. The oceans are still rising, the Arctic ice is still melting back worse in the summer, the glaciers are still withdrawing. And all of this is still exceeding IPCC models, as the modelers well know. The hockey stick has acquired another crook.

  • Aurora Borealis and Joanna Lumley

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    I enjoyed it a lot more than the TV guide reviewer did. Particularly when she finally got to see the actual Northern Lights in the far north of Norway, complete with Edvard Grieg soundtrack (Peer Gynt,? Suite No. 2 Op. 55: Solveigs´s Song). This particular clip of her watching the aurora has a sign language translator for Lumley’s voiceover.