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  • SF Sunday

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    A few things lately have got me thinking about two distinct strands of definitively “what-if?” speculative fiction which sometimes intertwine – the alternate history based narrative, and the utopian-dystopian narrative.

  • Friday Hoyden: Dame Doctor Judi Dench

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    Dame Judi has been made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Image Source: University of St Andrews Press Office “It was very embarrassing, you know. You see a photograph of yourself and that’s… Read More ›

  • Nerds and reproduction

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    From xkcd – “Babies” (as always, for added twist, mouse-over the image for extra text)

  • AP backpedaling?

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    Lauredhel posted last week about AP’s Cease and Desist posturing over a blogger using short excerpts from their articles (with attribution and links). Today? SMH: AP to hammer out deal with bloggers Jim Kennedy, the AP’s director of strategic planning,… Read More ›

  • Yes, I’m tweaking the blog again

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    And it appears that it doesn’t like the new plugins. Or so go a couple of reports from Hoydenizens. If you’re having any problems clicking on links can you tell me in comments? Or if the problem extends to the… Read More ›

  • ObWhoydensday Quick Hit: Who is back!

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    Auntie’s got her act together: this Sunday night at 7:30pm! That’s the Doctor Who 2007 Christmas Special, guest starring our own Singing Budgie, who I really liked in this part. They don’t say so incontrovertibly, but the ABC website does… Read More ›

  • Nitpickers alert: sexual health education division

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    Allison Pearson is outraged that her 12 year old daughter knows all about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, because this will apparently ruin the youthful romantic yearnings that all teenage girls should have by right, yet paradoxically this very lack… Read More ›

  • More gruesome graphics

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    Yet another forced-birther group: If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America! To hammer their point home, Survivors has… Read More ›

  • Meta-Cat-Macro: LOLOLOL

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    more cat pictures

  • I saw a great need

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    Maybe it’s only because I’m full of the flu and curmudgeonly as hell today, but the inevitable angel-washing after the latest celebrity cancer death is pissing me off. She was, apparently, brave (i.e. uncomplaining). You know, I’m sure she was,… Read More ›