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• Damning with faint praise OTD

  By tigtog on 2009-11-24 • ( 3 )

  Actually, I await the inevitable 2012 drinking-game posts with a moderate degree of anticipation. I’m a sucker for film narrative cliché collections.

• Blegging: links for FF101 FAQ on Intersectionality

  By tigtog on 2009-11-23 • ( 3 )

  I’m finally back in an FAQ-writing headspace, and one on Intersectionality is long overdue. I have a few links, but I could do with more! Please feed the FAQ.

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 21, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-21 • ( 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. Your Scooter Means You’re Poor – “What is most interesting to me, are the ways in… Read More ›

• Belated Friday Hoydens: The Witches of Lancre

  By tigtog on 2009-11-21 • ( 12 )

  I was reminded today of the general excellence of Nanny Ogg and consœurs, Granny Weatherwax and Magrat Garlick. Ariane’s Pratchettian collection might just beat mine – I have more of Pterry’s books, but she has more figurines (I have zero).

• WTF are they thinking OTD: M$ Borgware

  By tigtog on 2009-11-20 • ( 16 )

  Why in the name of all that’s noodly does Microsoft produce, with Internet Explorer 8, a browser that is even less standards-compliant than IE7?

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 20, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-20

  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. Meet The Predators: But Which Ones? – Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual violence Not The… Read More ›

• Pinch me

  By tigtog on 2009-11-19 • ( 9 )

  Fairfax has a piece on myths about obesity that is sensible and properly science-based, and which they are promoting in the banner area of the front page? Maybe there’s something to all this approaching-2012-apocalypso after all.

• So, is a certain athletic shoe company just trolling the feminist blogs?

  By tigtog on 2009-11-19 • ( 7 )

  I think they might be, so I’m not giving them linkjuice by linking to the ads (web videos only, not shown on broadcast or cable TV) and I’m not mentioning their name for the search engines either.

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 19, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-19 • ( 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. (I’m also aiming to add more tags to individual reader posts, to provide better indexing and… Read More ›

• Ooh

  By tigtog on 2009-11-18

  I had heard nothing about this project at all. Sir Ian is playing Number 2, who apparently will wear a consistent face throughout the series, unlike the original, where Number 2 wore 17 faces.