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• Femmostroppo Reader – September 25, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-25 • ( 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.

• One for the annals of classic rebuttals

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 6 )

  Lots of people in skeptical circles have linked to this, so many of you may have seen it already. Marvellous effort from Cristina in Romania, pointing out that not only is the latest attempt by American fundagelicals to demonise Darwin full of the usual ignorance of actual science, misrepresentations of science and outright falsehoods about Darwin and science, it’s full of double standards and blatant hypocrisy as well.

• If you’re one of the many who couldn’t read HaT today

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 8 )

  … instead of the handsful who could, I forgot to uncheck a box blocking most users after I finished debugging yesterday.

  Sorry about that Chief.

• Thursday Cheezburger: Virtue #4 – Courage

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 3 )

  Post your own favourite Courage-themed Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 24, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 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. Bachmann Compares Census To WWII Internment Camps – Michelle Bachman – sadly deluded or cynical demagogue?… Read More ›

• Petty Peeve OTD: Diagnosis Murder edition

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 1 )

  Furrfu, Hollywood.

• Press Release from Equality Now

  By tigtog on 2009-09-24 • ( 2 )

  Remember the RapeLay video game, written about by Melissa and Cara back in February? Equality Now has been working to persuade Japan to uphold its obligations under UN conventions with respect to material that normalises and/or promotes violence against women and girls.

• Comments weirdness

  By tigtog on 2009-09-23 • ( 4 )

  Comments were frozen for a while this morning. I’ve disabled several of the plugins that work with comments while I troubleshoot. That seems to have fixed it, but if you can’t see something that you’re used to seeing, that’s why.

• Obligatory Sydney dust storm photo

  By tigtog on 2009-09-23 • ( 6 )

  Everyone in Sydney will probably be posting photos of the sky this morning. Have never ever seen a Sydney sky like this before.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 22, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-22

  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. femininity: damned if you do, damned if you don’t – “Funny how unfeminine women are often… Read More ›