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• Shameful confession: I haven’t kept up with xkcd lately

  By tigtog on 2008-04-01 • ( 3 )

  And so failed to alert the masses to a zombie Feynman sighting.

• Creeping pinkification: “the persistent feminization of unisex commodities”

  By tigtog on 2008-03-31 • ( 24 )

  In breaking news, marketing drones continue to lack imagination, sticking to the apparently conventional wisdom that if you want women to buy things that both men and women tend to use and want, just run up a version in pink… Read More ›

• Late Night Friday Hoydens: Granny Peace Brigade

  By tigtog on 2008-03-28 • ( 7 )

  Just read about these fabulous women. Last week, I can’t remember where, I read some biological essentialist claptrap about feisty older women, that it was somehow all to do with less hormonal oestrogen in the post menopausal years. I can’t… Read More ›

• Apollo 11: a stroll around the baseball field

  By tigtog on 2008-03-27 • ( 3 )

  NASA recently published an interesting map showing a map of the lunar excursions by Aldrin and Armstrong, superimposed over a standard baseball diamond. Image source: NASA (click link for high-res image) One of my invisible friends took one look and… Read More ›

• Fetal presentations: an economist’s guide

  By tigtog on 2008-03-27 • ( 15 )

  Image Source: Dorland’s Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. Because at least one doesn’t seem prepared to acknowledge that foetal presentation makes any difference to birthing outcomes. Lauredhel has been astonishingly civil… Read More ›

• An alternative

  By tigtog on 2008-03-26 • ( 20 )

  I have issues with the common poster of the Quiverfull-practising and publicity-seeking Duggar family which uses a tag about a clown car. Inspired by a discussion about the poster in this Pandagon discussion thread (Amanda’s post is spot on, I… Read More ›

• British understatement wins the day

  By tigtog on 2008-03-22 • ( 9 )

  Only the bloke on the left was allowed into the cinema to see Expelled in Minneapolis. The other bloke got expelled. Obviously, the horns were just too much. Read all about it. Original image source: University of Minnesota (Morris). Modified… Read More ›

• Happy anniversary, cob logger!

  By tigtog on 2008-03-22 • ( 7 )

  Lauredhel has now officially been a Hoyden for a year!

• Another lap of the circuit

  By tigtog on 2008-03-21 • ( 2 )

  At 0548 GMT (or UT if you prefer) on March 20, the Sun (from a geocentric perspective) passed the celestial equator heading north, making it the autumnal equinox for us Southrons and the vernal equinox for them Northrons. APOD has… Read More ›

• How to intimidate a personal trainer

  By tigtog on 2008-03-20 • ( 9 )

  Laugh in their face when they suggest that your target weight loss in middle age should take you to 5kg below the weight you were as a superfit teenager (competitition squash, cross-country running, speed-skating, bushwalking, bodysurfing, school softball and soccer… Read More ›