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• Virtual Travelling: Sculpture By the Sea, Tamarama Beach

  By tigtog on 2008-11-11 • ( 1 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } keep me grounded…, originally uploaded by ~ geisha ~. I only went once this year, and it was… Read More ›

• Unsurprised schadenfreude

  By tigtog on 2008-11-11 • ( 5 )

  Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and… Read More ›

• Zuska sees through it

  By tigtog on 2008-11-10 • ( 7 )

  A molecular biologist at the University of California is gambling with his employment by refusing to attend a state-mandated (not just a university requirement) two hour training course on sexual harassment, wanting the university “to sign a disclaimer that says… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Students stay silent on sex assaults

  By tigtog on 2008-11-10 • ( 5 )

  SMH: SCHOOLS frequently dismiss sexual assault between students as part of the “rough and tumble” of high school life, a report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows. And while one in seven teenage girls has been the victim… Read More ›

• Windsor wally

  By tigtog on 2008-11-10 • ( 1 )

  I dunno, give a lad a helicopter and he takes advantage. PRINCE WILLIAM failed to tell his superiors he used two helicopter training flights to attend a wedding and buck’s night, and allowed his senior officers to be “counselled” for… Read More ›

• Belated SF Sunday: this week, it has to be “holograms”

  By tigtog on 2008-11-10 • ( 8 )

  So what did we all think of the CNN election-day holograms? (which weren’t really that at all, as one geek at our Votewatch pub lunch pointed out, and as the SMH technology section explains is technically known as a tomogram)… Read More ›

• Just one thing

  By tigtog on 2008-11-08 • ( 30 )

  Just like a gazillion others, I’ve been thinking about what Obama could/should do, in his first 100 days in office, that would be small in terms of the effort required (falling within executive powers entirely, no Congressional courting/approval required) but… Read More ›

• Congratulations to Melissa and Lauren (and anyone else whose red state went blue)

  By tigtog on 2008-11-06 • ( 7 )

  Who are both elated that Indiana went blue for the first time since the 60s! Melissa as a resident just went nucking futs, while Lauren as an expat Hoosier has a great election response roundup. More election response: Kate Harding… Read More ›

• Projected Results

  By tigtog on 2008-11-05 • ( 7 )

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• Vote08 Liveblogging

  By tigtog on 2008-11-04 • ( 23 )

  Starting from 6am Wednesday here (which will be 2pm Tuesday US East Coast time). That should have given the polling counts enough time to show up some trends, but still enough voting time left for us all to be doing some nail-biting.