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• Virtual Travelling: Twister

  By tigtog on 2009-09-22 • ( 3 )

  I love this pic – a long exposure with image zoomed out halfway through the shot.
  It seems to sum up the bright lights and movement of the fairground experience. What’s your favourite fairground ride memory?

• Quickhit: Andrew Robb’s leave of absence to seek treatment for depression

  By tigtog on 2009-09-21 • ( 2 )

  The more stigma removed from mental illness the better.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 20, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-20 • ( 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. MUSSE » Guest Column with Dr Meredith Nash – “If becoming a mother for celebrities was… Read More ›

• Only 10 days late – happy 4th blogiversary to us!

  By tigtog on 2009-09-20 • ( 11 )

  I do this nearly every year – only realise that the blogiversary is upon us a week or two after it happened. So, today I’ve actually added the anniversary for next year to my Remember the Milk task list – l’ll get back to you next year on whether that works!

• Sunday Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris

  By tigtog on 2009-09-20

  Joshua Allen Harris’ inflatable sculptures set on gratings in New York have apparently been covered quite a bit in the USA media, but it was new to me. Gorgeous, ephemeral, playful stuff.

• Belated Friday Hoyden: Goodbye, voice of my childhood

  By tigtog on 2009-09-19 • ( 1 )

  I grew up as a folkie. Lots of people in our bushwalking club were also folkies, so we had serious singing around the campfire as well as going along to many ceilidhs and festivals. The voice of Mary Travers was one of our icons.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 18, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-18 • ( 7 )

  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. Teen birth rates highest in most religious states – “Seriously, does this surprise ANYONE?” When You… Read More ›

• Securing your WordPress blogs

  By tigtog on 2009-09-18 • ( 4 )

  As many of you may have already noticed, Feministe has been having some DDOS problems. Lauren and I have been working on them, and here’s a few suggestions for other people on self-hosted WordPress blogs (if you are on a wordpress.com free blog service you are fully protected and don’t need to know any of this):

• Marvel Fail: rape culture apologism from writer, where the hell were the editors?

  By tigtog on 2009-09-17 • ( 6 )

  Storyline summary: villain named Chameleon takes Peter Parker’s shape and has sex with his roommate Michelle Gonzalez, who thinks he is Parker. Subsequent events show that the incident is being played for laughs with the oh so hilarious misunderstandings afterwards between Parker and roommate as she morphs immediately into a super-possessive clingy and bossy girlfriend from Nightmareland.

• More language nitpicking

  By tigtog on 2009-09-17 • ( 11 )

  I’ve decided that from now on I will refer to “unauthorised immigrants” rather than be complicit in the framing of these people as “illegal”. There is a huge difference between unauthorised activities and illegal activities,