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• Help out Heretical

  By tigtog on 2008-10-09 • ( 18 )

  Heretical is the annual magazine of the Women’s Collective at UQ (University of Queensland). This year it might not appear unless there is some rapid assistance from the broad feminist community. They simply don’t have enough submissions, and time is… Read More ›

• Lazy school holiday blogging: neat stuff

  By tigtog on 2008-10-08 • ( 2 )

  Various links wot have caught my eye on various mailing lists, blogs and emails I have read recently: Space.com has some of the Stunning New Images of Mercury taken by the spacecraft MESSENGER. (Trivia of the day – MESSENGER —… Read More ›

• It’s nearly debate time

  By tigtog on 2008-10-08 • ( 28 )

  The second presidential debate starts in a bit over an hour (12:00pm AESummerT). Who’s planning to watch/liveblog/tweet it? Are we expecting anything new compared to last time? Addit: This debate is apparently a little different – “town hall style” –… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: what are you doing here?

  By tigtog on 2008-10-08 • ( 4 )

  The work this must have taken! Forty-five years of Doctor Who summed up by one phrase. This was a birthday present I made for my friend’s 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase “What are you… Read More ›

• Election Watch: 4 more weeks

  By tigtog on 2008-10-07 • ( 12 )

  I’m surprised that most US blogs I read are still as hung up on the VP debate as they are, but there you go. Reading Michelle Malkin’s liveblogging of the event was an eye-opener though (not linking, google if you… Read More ›

• Quickhit: another gynaecologist comes under scrutiny

  By tigtog on 2008-10-07 • ( 1 )

  This one worked at Lismore Base Hospital. There’s a lot less detail of exactly what malfeasance he’s accused of committing, but there is mention of a history of failed sterilisations due to alcohol consumption in New Zealand, and a paper-trail… Read More ›

• Virtual Travelling: baby love

  By tigtog on 2008-10-07 • ( 2 )

  This week’s photo sent me travelling back in time: How well I remember that utter fascination with those tiny limbs and their perfection, the wonder that this gorgeous new person had come from our flesh. It’s just as well that… Read More ›

• Busy

  By tigtog on 2008-10-06 • ( 3 )

  Teaching the kids to play contract bridge.

• In July I thought “make sure you don’t forget the blogiversary this year”

  By tigtog on 2008-10-05 • ( 18 )

  So what did I do? Here’s My first post (back at the original blogspot digs), and my second, which reveals what impelled me to begin blogging at all – the ineptitude and negligence surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Thank you… Read More ›

• Sunday Science links

  By tigtog on 2008-10-05 • ( 3 )

  Image Source: National Geographic: Best Science Images of 2008 Announced (Honorable Mention, Photography: “Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast” by Jessica Schiffman) Ig Nobels The Annals of Improbable Research has just had its annual big night out:… Read More ›