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• SF Sunday: reproduction

  By tigtog on 2008-08-24 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been thinking of various books I’ve read where a pivotal part of the Strange Land aspect of the narrative has been a style of reproduction that varies from the human norm – either technologically transformed human reproduction, or else… Read More ›

• Fun with blogs and Christian Kerr, who doesn’t understand them

  By tigtog on 2008-08-22 • ( 7 )

  Christian Kerr was never my favourite Crikey! contributor back in the day, so I wasn’t especially aware of his opinion on many issues due to mostly skipping his byline (basically I avoided anything by him that was not straight political… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Germaine Greer

  By tigtog on 2008-08-22 • ( 86 )

  I found this image on this media release page at the Southern Cross University website, which uses it to illustrate promotional information for “An Evening With Germaine Greer” that took place in early 2008. I chose it because it is… Read More ›

• In other important news, you will get wet if you walk in the rain

  By tigtog on 2008-08-22 • ( 3 )

  An ad on telly for some sort of “oil candle” that uses, as its tagline, as if this is a super-duper high tech feature, “WHEN THE OIL RUNS OUT, IT STOPS BURNING”. So very unlike the home life of our… Read More ›

• Why I haven’t blogged on the Victorian abortion decriminalisation bill

  By tigtog on 2008-08-21 • ( 2 )

  Because Helen at Cast Iron Balcony covered all the issues so well that I had nothing to add – read it there.

• Question OTD: What makes for a blog that excites you?

  By tigtog on 2008-08-21 • ( 11 )

  I’ve totally nabbed this idea from this post at Feministing, although I’m putting a bit of extra spin on it, because I like a bit of analysis alongside my lists of links. For those of you who use feedreaders, which… Read More ›

• Now this is what I call a netroots base

  By tigtog on 2008-08-20 • ( 4 )

  Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner Sean Tevis’ innovative method of raising internet fundraising in his venture to oust and replace his current State Representative (basically equivalent to one of… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: Hugohugohugo! Moffmoffmoff!

  By tigtog on 2008-08-20 • ( 19 )

  Can’t believe that we didn’t mention/celebrate this news last week. Steven Moffat won his third consecutive Hugo for his work on Doctor Who, this time for the Season 3 episodeBlink (previously he won for Season 1’s The Empty Child/The Doctor… Read More ›

• Peeve OTD: Tolerance versus Acceptance

  By tigtog on 2008-08-19 • ( 5 )

  Why is it, when some poor specimen of a social conservative writes something breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful, and gets responses of “hey, that was breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful”, the response is all too often snark along the lines of “this must be the famous… Read More ›

• OMGWTFBBQ!!!

  By tigtog on 2008-08-18 • ( 11 )

  I have been made aware, through another forum, of someone who thinks that being placed into permanent moderation on a blog constitutes “defamation”! *ded frum lulz*