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• Better than (foo), reminds me of (bar)

  By tigtog on 2009-02-27 • ( 10 )

  A new meme! Using one of the tips from this handy Lifehacker post (Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – it’s recommended as a way to find music/movies etc that you might like based on a musician/film you already like) I plugged in a few different search terms to Google to see what came up (although as I am a poliblogger with a shriveled husk of a heart, I tweaked the search in order to more likely find the pol-abuse) .

• *waves*

  By tigtog on 2009-02-25 • ( 7 )

  Sorry all – supervising and exhorting a teen feeling horribly overwhelmed by Year 10 homework is currently consuming most of the time I would otherwise use for blogging. Just put a post up at FF101 though in response to a… Read More ›

• Best op-ed title evah

  By tigtog on 2009-02-22 • ( 2 )

  Turnbull in a china shop

  He’s right – the Libs at the moment are just a total farce.

• Therapeutic Photoshoppery

  By tigtog on 2009-02-19 • ( 10 )

  Feel free to copy and use for troll-quelling as required.

• A soupçon of good, a whole mess of lazy “advice”

  By tigtog on 2009-02-19 • ( 15 )

  For once here’s some relationship advice which talks about the way the men and women are TRAINED from an early age to act differently in response to life’s annoyances and pains. That’s a refreshing change from all those articles which try and paint gender-differences in emotional responses as being due to innate genetic XX vs XY differences.

• Project Steve hits #1000

  By tigtog on 2009-02-18 • ( 7 )

  Enter one of my favourite creationist-countering initiatives: the USA-based National Centre for Science Education (NCSE) created Project Steve many years ago now, as a response to the people who asked them for a list of actual scientists who do support evolution.

• All those social networking website widgets may as well remove the Facebook button now

  By tigtog on 2009-02-17 • ( 7 )

  Seeing as Facebook has decided to claim that they own rights to any content on a website that has a “click to share on Facebook” style button, nearly everybody will be removing that particular button ASAP

• What the media isn’t asking about that private hospital birth study (or, Bayes’ Theorem for Dummies)

  By tigtog on 2009-02-17 • ( 26 )

  Have peer review committees just given up on actually including a statistician these days? or do the statisticians need to do more sociology classes?

• SUNDAY FEMINIST LINK-AROUND (now with crunchy Monday topping)

  By tigtog on 2009-02-16 • ( 6 )

  OK, a selection from the last week of memorable and topical posts. There’s quite a few links, so I’m putting them behind a cut so as not to clutter up the front page of the blog. Add your own links to posts you recommend in comments:

• Happy Darwin Day!

  By tigtog on 2009-02-12 • ( 1 )

  Check out the official Darwin Day website for a list of events etc. In case you haven’t been paying attention, this year is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of… Read More ›