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• In a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2009-11-01 • ( 16 )

  zuzu sums up, because some people are still playing the “but isn’t feminism all about choice? Support my choice!” card

• Quandary

  By tigtog on 2009-10-30 • ( 15 )

  Do I tell the rest of the family* about the big box of chocolate I just got in the post, or do I squirrel it away as a stash to be raided at will for the next few months?

• Quickhit: “40 years of the Internet” summed up in one post

  By tigtog on 2009-10-30 • ( 5 )

  No, not this one. This post, over at PC World …

• Roads are only for cars, opines ridiculous columnist

  By tigtog on 2009-10-29 • ( 11 )

  his cartoon accompanying Miranda Devine’s typical exhibition of frothing at the mouth over cyclists! Using roads that by rights should only have cars on them! is way OTT offensively topsy-turvy from reality, where it is motorists who regularly turn to the thuggish side against cyclists.

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 28, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-28 • ( 8 )

  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. The Name Game – “Apparently 70 percent of Americans believe that a woman should change her… Read More ›

• Quote for the day: sexual favouritism creates a hostile work environment

  By tigtog on 2009-10-28 • ( 1 )

  There’s a subset of sexual harassment called sexual favoritism that, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, can lead to a “hostile work environment,” often “creating an atmosphere that is demeaning to women.”

  And that pretty much sums up my experience at Late Night with David Letterman.

• Virtual Travelling – Ceci n’est pas cinq parasols

  By tigtog on 2009-10-27 • ( 5 )

  This photo is actually untitled by the artist, but I feel this piece of conceptual art photography has more than a touch of the spirit of Magritte.

• Maintenance time again!

  By tigtog on 2009-10-27

  The theme that runs this site, Thesis, has been updated, so it’s time to do a bit of fiddling in the background to get it installed and take advantage of its new features. So I’m putting the blog into Maintenance Mode for an hour or so.

• Quickhit: Women have ‘same heart symptoms’

  By tigtog on 2009-10-26 • ( 1 )

  Don’t believe what you may have heard about women not having chest pain when they are having a heart attack

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 26, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-26 • ( 1 )

  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.