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  • Free Feminist Papal Protest Art

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    As the artist says, just in time for WYD! Probably guaranteed to annoy someone, so beware (alternatively, bonus!). From eggbenedict.com eggbenedict.org – free to download etc.

  • Whoydensday: Villainess edition

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    Anyway, now that the first episode of Doctor Who’s Season 4 has aired here in Oz, it’s time again for: Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff? As usual, you may match one and only one of the characters below to each fate.

  • Tuesday Serendipity

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    Lacking inspiration while scheduling posts to be published this week while I’m on hols, I did a search on videos for “Tuesday”. I’d forgotten all about new wave band ‘Til Tuesday and Voices Carry, with that electrifying lyric “he wants… Read More ›

  • My brane is weird part eleventy thousand and three

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    Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this Iambic, originally uploaded by dumbeast. into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this:

  • SF Sunday: cult SF films

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    This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›

  • You wouldn’t want to have actually seen this

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    A superior example of an artist’s reconstruction of a historical event. Image Source: Sky and Telescope, Tunguska: 100 Years and Counting Caption: Here’s how the Tunguska blast might have looked from the windows of a nearby airliner. The expanding shock… Read More ›

  • Kate Harding is such a bitch

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    And proud of it. With good reason. It’s a while since I talked about how the principles of moderating comments work on this blog. We don’t have as high a volume of comments to deal with as Shapely Prose does,… Read More ›

  • OK, I’m off (shortly)

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    I will be getting up very early in the morning to head off for holidays in accommodation with no net access. I Will Not Be Turning The Computer On Before I Go. There is net access at internet cafs and… Read More ›

  • Waterboarding Hitchens

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    Christopher Hitchens actually had himself waterboarded by the US Military to see whether it felt like torture to him. It did. via Pharyngula, who has links to video.

  • oops

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    Briefly, there was a post here that I meant to forward schedule to be published next week. Apologies to all on feed-readers who may have seen it and come to comment. It will return in due course.