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• Quickhit: “a criminal organisation that hides behind its so-called religious beliefs”

  By tigtog on 2009-11-18 • ( 8 )

  Australian Independent Senator Nick Xenophon takes on Scientology.

• Hot off the Press Release: Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Enhance Competitiveness

  By tigtog on 2009-11-18 • ( 1 )

  “There simply is no negative relationship at all between decent working conditions and competitiveness or job creation. In fact, we found that a number of these guarantees are associated with increased competitiveness.”

• Sydney Opera House Accessibility Upgrade

  By tigtog on 2009-11-18 • ( 6 )

  It’s an amazing improvement from the previous wheelchair access through the kitchens and utility tunnels, and it’s good to finally see it happen since it was planned in 2003. Major architectural changes to landmark buildings aren’t built in a day, I guess.

• Yes, that is an advertisment

  By tigtog on 2009-11-17 • ( 5 )

  After much to-ing and fro-ing on the matter of accepting ads to cover the costs of this site (readers have been generous with donations, but if I can cover the costs without asking you to dip into your pockets, I’ll be happier with that).

• Alas, poor geocities: I knew it well

  By tigtog on 2009-11-17

  I know, I’m several weeks late on this. Just catching up on the news that Yahoo has pulled the plug on geocities last month does give me a pang. Although I never actually made myself a geocities page, having fallen in with net-purists at a very early stage of my online habit: they scoffed, and thus so did I. Still, those blinkenlight pages were an important stage in the evolution of electronic self-publishing.

• Quickhit: accessibletwitter.com

  By tigtog on 2009-11-17 • ( 6 )

  I just came across this website while looking for something else entirely. Anybody else tried it? Is it useful?

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 16, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-16 • ( 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. Wow Hugh Mackay, nice sermon – “Essentially Hugh Mackay’s article boils down to ‘I once had… Read More ›

• Quickhit #2: that chocolate frog

  By tigtog on 2009-11-16 • ( 6 )

  The worst thing is the racial subtext to this whole thing. Indigenous children are vastly overrepresented in gaols.

• Quickhit: more mummy wars re breastfeeding

  By tigtog on 2009-11-16 • ( 22 )

  A very heartfelt yet also very antagonistic column from one mother who was unable to breastfeed her child, and who is hugely unimpressed by the National Breastfeeding Strategy announced last week.

• I’ve just realised exactly why this obstreperates me

  By tigtog on 2009-11-15 • ( 26 )

  It’s one of the many things that people mock about Charles, the Prince of Wales. Don’t get me wrong, like all royals there are loads of things that are eminently ridiculous about him and his pursuits. I find the whole concept of royalty offensively ridiculous. But what I don’t find ridiculous about him is the fact that he chose to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, yet he is constantly mocked for it because she is unapologetically middle-aged, and thus not considered beautiful enough to be a royal wife.