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• Censoring evolution (this week, the Netherlands)

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11

  An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough. When the Evangelische Omroep (Evangelical Broadcasting) network showed his flagship natural history series The Life of Mammals, it made several alterations to the script to take… Read More ›

• Still nervous

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11 • ( 2 )

  Mark at LP wrote an excellent post yesterday on how Howard is now looking so bad in the polls, pointing out in part that margins in the last two elections were closer than is generally acknowledged and Howard would have… Read More ›

• Please

  By tigtog on 2007-09-11 • ( 6 )

  Please tell me this site is a wind-up. Image source: screenshot from marryourdaughter.com H/t to commentor Zwilnik at LP.

• Another linkfest: the Headcold edition

  By tigtog on 2007-09-10

  Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay… Read More ›

• If you don’t refresh your browser

  By tigtog on 2007-09-09 • ( 4 )

  …you won’t see the spiffy yet restrained new background.

• Weekend Feminist Reading

  By tigtog on 2007-09-08 • ( 2 )

  crossposted from Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog Hard to believe, but apparently even feminists can be sexy… from AUDREY AND THE BAD APPLES by audrey *crossposted at Larvatus Prodeo…* (longer comment thread) Manly men from Firedoglake by David Neiwert On… Read More ›

• Recovery day

  By tigtog on 2007-09-07 • ( 2 )

  We had a quiet day today except for meeting up with all the togster’s chums from Rock Eisteddfod in the morning to unpack the trucks and do the communal gloat. What a night we had last night! We didn’t get… Read More ›

• ironlupins

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06

  My favourite photo so far this week.

• Belated Wednesday Wow: Go your way, I go mine

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06

  I got a good tip from the headphones guy in the hi-fi store last week (who is also a photographer, of course): when travelling, check out a city’s name in the Flickr tags and see what people like to photograph when there: you’ll get a lot more to see than just the tourist bureau picture postcards. What a brilliant idea.

• Slowing down when passing a crash does not mean one is a rubbernecking ghoul

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06 • ( 3 )

  It might just mean one has consideration for the emergency workers and tow-truckers out there on the roadway while cars are whizzing past. All of us have been well trained to slow down when there are roadworkers on the roadway… Read More ›