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• Cool photo

  By tigtog on 2008-01-15 • ( 1 )

  Literally. via a Terry on a private mailing list

• Refusing to be ashamed

  By tigtog on 2008-01-14 • ( 8 )

  Audrey Apple, in her non-alliterative RL persona, has written an online column for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail where she freely discusses her experience of two abortions as simple relief, and that she refuses to be shamed for not feeling guilt or… Read More ›

• But if we value it, we actually would transform what it’s like to age

  By tigtog on 2008-01-13 • ( 8 )

  Why is the number of medical specialist geriatricians in the USA declining so sharply at a time when the population is aging so rapidly?((And is the same thing happening here in Australia, and elsewhere in the affluent West?~tigtog)) Below is… Read More ›

• Emotional Manipulation

  By tigtog on 2008-01-12 • ( 7 )

  Source: Tom Toles in the Washington Post

• Universal Smartarses Cooperative

  By tigtog on 2008-01-11

  Just a bit of fun, yer ‘onor. Every now and then I feel the urge to “play the Troll card” or “play the Bored card” on certain discussion threads i.e. point out that another commentor has grown tedious in one… Read More ›

• Two cubic metres down and counting

  By tigtog on 2008-01-11 • ( 3 )

  That’s how much unneeded clutter was hauled away from my driveway this morning, courtesy of my council’s Free Booked Waste Collection. How much do I love not having to pay for a skip and then have the stress of filling… Read More ›

• Surfacing

  By tigtog on 2008-01-10

  Yes, it’s more pictures from Tasmania! This dolphin and its blowhole was part of a large pod in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island – there must have been at least 50. Unlike the usual mid-grey bottlenose I see occasionally around… Read More ›

• Perhaps I’m the last person in the world to realise this

  By tigtog on 2008-01-08 • ( 14 )

  …but I only just found out that the name of Britney’s younger sister, Jami Lynn, is a portmanteau of the names of the parents, Jamie and Lynne. How on earth Britney missed out on either parent’s name is unknown. Perhaps… Read More ›

• Adding it to the wishlist

  By tigtog on 2008-01-07 • ( 3 )

  Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction – Utopias and Dystopias Judith A. Little (Ed) Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007 411 pages, ISBN 9781591024149 This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and… Read More ›

• Rhapsody in Shoe

  By tigtog on 2008-01-06 • ( 6 )

  Who knows why? On a country road in Southern Tasmania, on the way to the Freycinet Peninsula. The title, and taking a photo in the first place, was my son’s idea. (View Large On Black)