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• New to the Blogroll

  By tigtog on 2007-04-22 • ( 2 )

  Kate Harding – feminism, fat and more Tama Leaver dot Net – digital culture Diary of a Research Artist – journey toward a PhD with cyberfeminist Art Girls Read Comics (And They’re Pissed) Karen Healey, Kiwi using pissed in the… Read More ›

• Unimpressed

  By tigtog on 2007-04-21

  The Gawker has jumped the shark. “LOLGayz”, FFS. Othering, anyone?

• Friday Fluffy, thoughtful bloggers, the cute factor and FOOD

  By tigtog on 2007-04-20 • ( 4 )

  image from NYT This image is for Penguin Unearthed, who kindly included me in her list of bloggers who make her think a few weeks ago.

• The Card’nal Pell eau d’ordure

  By tigtog on 2007-04-19

  From an opinion piece that I missed back in February, by Sydney’s Cardinal George Pell titled Scaremongers: “Global warming doomsdayers” are all wrong because, amongst other things, “January also was unusually cool.” Meanwhile, from people who took actual measurements (emphasis… Read More ›

• Equality, all packaged up (Open obstreperation thread)

  By tigtog on 2007-04-19 • ( 3 )

  originally uploaded by LT See the comparative superheroine art at I Read Comics: Equalism Then check out the broken-back barbies in the Oh, Just Stop It. Now. post. Longstanding readers may remember a post on my original tigtogblog linking to… Read More ›

• This is what a godbag looks like

  By tigtog on 2007-04-18 • ( 12 )

  It’s not a term I use that often, but this is the simple definition of godbag that I just added to a jargon file today: godbag – religious authoritarian, theocrat That’s always what the word has meant. There are, sadly,… Read More ›

• Feed the FAQs?

  By tigtog on 2007-04-17 • ( 4 )

  Updated to add: if Haloscan eats your comments over at FF101 or you have any other problems commenting there, please leave your FAQ suggestions in comments to this post. Further Update: apparently many workplace networks block Haloscan. [more] I’ve just… Read More ›

• Kurt is in heaven now

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16 • ( 4 )

  is what noted skeptical humanist, Kurt Vonnegut, wanted us all to say on his death, with a wry smile of unbelief. I don’t know much more to say than that, which is why I haven’t said anything for days since… Read More ›

• The jolly good, totally safe for work PG trailer for 300

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16

  Puppies! Flowers! Caketown! Video under the fold:

• Teachers and performance rates of pay

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16

  Pavlov’s Cat has an excellent post that lays out clearly and simply why attempting to shoehorn the complexity of educating children into some objective scale to grade teachers and pay them accordingly is ideology gone wild. More good posts about… Read More ›