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• Interlude: Chez Tog

  By tigtog on 2008-04-27 • ( 2 )

  mr tog is off doing a course this weekend. It will fulfil most of the remaining requirements for him to be registered as a civil marriage celebrant. He has been dressing rather more formally to attend the course than is… Read More ›

• A few adjustments

  By tigtog on 2008-04-26 • ( 12 )

  Hi y’all. Bandwidth is getting a little tight towards the end of this month (I’ve had to keep on ratcheting it up lately, hello new readers!) so I’m going to see if disabling a few of the plug-ins I have… Read More ›

• McCain prefers the injustice of the status quo to “more lawsuits”

  By tigtog on 2008-04-25 • ( 4 )

  Republican Senator John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said he opposes a Senate bill that seeks equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits.

  Senate Republicans killed the bill on Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to full debate and a vote.

• Lest We Forget: three images for ANZAC day

  By tigtog on 2008-04-25 • ( 12 )

  All over Australia and New Zealand, communities will gather around war memorials to remember those who have died in military service. We will listen to a speech, we will watch the laying of wreaths, we will recite the Ode to the Fallen, and we will listen to the Last Post. Later in the day we will watch those who survived, and those in service today, march to honour the dead. We will be reminded that such sacrifices should never be for unworthy causes.

• “My Beautiful Mummy” book: Newsweek beat-up sucks most in

  By tigtog on 2008-04-24 • ( 1 )

  A dementedly objectifying book, aimed at kids, about why “Mummy” might want to have plastic surgery was profiled in Newsweek recently, and got a lot of people hot under the collar: WhatAreWeTeachingOurChildren, ThisWillCorruptTheValuesOfOurYouth, etc etc etc. Now, the author of… Read More ›

• Comments temporarily bollixed working again

  By tigtog on 2008-04-24 • ( 3 )

  Bugger. My fault for trying to tweak something. Fixing as fast as I can. Fixed now. Sorry.

• Netiquette: pseudonyms, valid email addresses and declining to publish anonymous comments

  By tigtog on 2008-04-24 • ( 6 )

  Large parts of this post are much less relevant since we implemented registration for commentors. If you are administrators of your own blogs, you may still find it educational. The point remains to distinguish between pseudonyms as long-term net aliases… Read More ›

• Dodgy science journalism week

  By tigtog on 2008-04-23

  That old “really the earth is cooling and we’re about to have an ice age” argument gets another outing, this time in The Australian courtesy of Phil “Australia’s first astronaut” Chapman. Greensblog comprehensively debunks his arguments, which basically rest on… Read More ›

• PZ refutes four bad arguments against evolution

  By tigtog on 2008-04-23

  Read. Bookmark. Refer to this the next time you need to refute bad arguments against evolution from creationists and IDologists. Favourite bit: The Second Law of Thermodynamics argument is one of the hoariest, silliest claims in the creationist collection. It’s… Read More ›

• Pennsylvania Primary: what are the good reasons and what are the bad reasons to vote for either Dem candidate?

  By tigtog on 2008-04-23 • ( 15 )

  Just a nod to the fact that a majority of my readers are US voters, some of them are in Pennsylvania, and the polls have not yet closed. It’s still the 22nd over there. It’s a no-brainer that with all… Read More ›