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• Interesting

  By tigtog on 2008-03-03

  Blogging boosts your social life: research

• Scientiae carnival blogiversary

  By tigtog on 2008-03-03

  Scientiae, the carnival of women in science, engineering and maths just celebrated its first birthday at skookumchick’s place! Hip hip, hooray (and many more…)!

• About time

  By tigtog on 2008-03-03 • ( 1 )

  Today’s Australian: A NATIONAL system of registration for doctors is being finalised by federal, state and territory governments, which will help prevent cases such as that of Jayant Patel in Queensland and the “Butcher of Bega” in NSW. Federal Health… Read More ›

• A shallow exercise in self-congratulation, victim-blaming, and denial

  By tigtog on 2008-03-03 • ( 8 )

  Playing at Poverty at Resist Racism. A classic example of unexamined privilege in a “social experiment” about “starting from scratch” being held up as a morality tale against social security. This is a fantastic post: read it. *title from Kai’s… Read More ›

• A modest proposal

  By tigtog on 2008-03-02 • ( 2 )

  A woman-shaped plot hole All of the many, I say many, people who read this and failed to appreciate its genius, especially those who failed to read any of the other comments before adding their own*, should be held up… Read More ›

• Feminist analysis relegated to the Entertainment section (surprise!)

  By tigtog on 2008-03-01 • ( 5 )

  This interview may well be timed solely to coordinate with the release of a book, but it couldn’t go in one of the more “serious” sections of the paper instead? Bad form, Granny. Edited to add: But not as bad… Read More ›

• Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening

  By tigtog on 2008-03-01 • ( 11 )

  Update 2013-01-08: Welcome to you new visitors! Since comments on this post were closed long ago, I’ve reposted this post. Please comment there if you have something to say. The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women’s Issues… Read More ›

• Recent improvements in my cooking

  By tigtog on 2008-03-01 • ( 8 )

  It’s ages since I did some cooking-blogging. I really regret not taking pictures of some recent dishes, especially the Seafood pizza I made. I’ll take a pic next time, I promise. obtain premium marinara mix from the local fishmonger (never… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson

  By tigtog on 2008-02-29 • ( 5 )

  Seeing as I finally caught up with Nanny McPhee this week, I was planning to give the accolade to the ridiculously talented Emma Thompson anyway, as I was reminded anew of her streak of iconoclasm. Then I saw a post… Read More ›

• A bigot is dead

  By tigtog on 2008-02-29 • ( 1 )

  William F. Buckley, that is. I’m on the same page as most of the commentors over at Making Light, and this comment particularly summed it all up: I’m baffled by the backhanded complements of, “well, at least he was an… Read More ›