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• Samantha Orobator may get out of Laos, at a price

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 22 )

  I’ve linked to a few posts about Samantha Orobator in the last week, breaking news as follows:

  A PREGNANT British woman arrested for heroin smuggling in Laos has been told she must testify she was not raped in prison in order to escape the firing squad.

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 11, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. … and the blind shall see – Phil Plait shows how nonsense causes harm (title unknown) – Quote: “the rehabilitation of… Read More ›

• P to the W to the N-E-D – Wanda Sykes Appreciation Thread

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 1 )

  Wanda Sykes destroys Rush Limbaugh @ White House Correspondents’ Dinner

  If you’ve got nothing better to do today, lurk on some wingnut blogs and watch their heads explode.

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 10, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-10

  see more Political Pictures Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Fair go nation has gone | The Australian – Quote:”Research in the book and on a supporting… Read More ›

• In which I contribute to the harshing of Apatow’s Google Buzz

  By tigtog on 2009-05-09 • ( 14 )

  Somebody posting as “Phoebus” is very concerned that a snarkfest on Shakesville (regarding the comingsoontoacinemanearyou Dudebrocalypse that is a Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen/Adam Sandler “comedy” (see the trailer)) is a display of “vitriol” and “personal animus”, two terms which are so… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 9, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-09 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments.

• Quickhit: is this one of those “life’s ironies” then?

  By tigtog on 2009-05-08 • ( 4 )

  As I move back into the income-earning world after many years of misdiagnosed and mismedicated mental illness, I no longer have the time to spare to blog extensively, yet blogging is what kept me going while I couldn’t manage anything… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 8, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-08

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Damir Dokic: Hitting Jelena Was “For Her Sake” – Quote: “Obviously Damir’s rantings are the sort of quote-fests the tabloids live… Read More ›

• Murdoch: the current days of the Internet will soon be over

  By tigtog on 2009-05-08 • ( 4 )

  From CNN:

  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch expects News Corporation-owned newspaper Web sites to start charging users for access within a year in a move which analysts say could radically shake-up the culture of freely available content.

  Speaking on a conference call as News Corporation announced a 47 percent slide in quarterly profits to $755 million, Murdoch said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed.

• OK, I give up on another spam-blocker

  By tigtog on 2009-05-07 • ( 32 )

  Too many people have reported problems getting the WP-SpamFree blocker to recognise that they are not, in fact, a spambot. So that plugin has been deleted and now I have to try and debug a 403 forbidden error that’s screwing up other stuff.

  In the meantime, because I’ve become addicted to no longer wading through hundreds of spam every day, I’m enabling comment registration.