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• For those unaccustomed to how blogging works: Wendy Harmer edition

  By tigtog on 2009-03-23 • ( 21 )

  A useful cautionary tale in general: if you use computers that other people are logged in to to leave comments on the internet then their default settings can make you look bad. Wendy Harmer: You owe an apology for this accusation that a blogger maliciously changed your name on comments you left on her blog. She did nothing of the sort. Let me explain to you what really happened, , and show you how to make sure that it doesn’t happen to you again. It was your own actions and omissions that led to than display-name showing up on the blog.

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 22, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-22 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed (too many links on the front page today – putting these after a cut)

• Secular Sunday Links – March 22, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-22 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Deluding Australia March 22, 2009 – why are there so many homeopathic “remedies” on Oz pharmacies? Kent Hovind is still in jail, and he's going to stay there for a long… Read More ›

• Catching up on too many other things to blog blogging

  By tigtog on 2009-03-22 • ( 1 )

  And it’s been way too long since I posted something from Astronomy Picture of the Day (I added the labels of the moons on Friday before I got too sick to even look at my screen): Click on the picture… Read More ›

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 21, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-21 • ( 13 )

  Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed This is Rape Culture March 20, 2009 – just read it Feminism 101: On Language and the Commodification of Sex Via Humor March 20, 2009 – a… Read More ›

• Aggravated

  By tigtog on 2009-03-20 • ( 10 )

  Bozo howling into the void of the moderation filter on another blog, how is redacting text in your comment NOT a “moderation decision”? Moderating doesn’t mean just hitting the delete button, you know. I’m not the one who is being inaccurate here.

• Reminder

  By tigtog on 2009-03-20

  Just over a week until Autumn Hoyden Drinkies!

  Comments on this post are closed – comment on Beppie’s original post if you have a RSVP to give us (or modify one you’ve given already)

• Friday Hoydens: the Redgrave women

  By tigtog on 2009-03-20 • ( 3 )

  There’s a lot of attention given to this particular death, partly because of the fame of her family, and partly because her death seems bizarre to those who don’t know much about head injuries. There’s plenty to read about both those aspects in the various MSM reports.

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 20, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-20

  Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Today's Echidne Thought March 19, 2009 – echidne muses on false equivalency

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 19, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-19

  Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Breaking the Silence: On Living Pro-Lifers' Choice for Women March 18, 2009 – must read about the regrets of a mother who took the adoption route The… Read More ›