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  • Stopping cyberbullying

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    Kathy Sierra, writing about how she has cancelled an upcoming conference speech and other engagements due to overwhelming fear following hate-speech and threats directed at her online. The threats were at a sufficiently high level that Sierra has reported them to the police and apparently the FBI is investigating them, because making death threats online, just as in “real life”, is a crime.

  • Looking for Larvatus Prodeo?

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    LP is offline at the moment UPDATE: Back online now. We’ve exceeded our bandwidth, and despite a request to the webhosts previously to roll over into the next payment plan and keep continuity of service if that happens, apparently the… Read More ›

  • Skeptical Sunday: How do you prove photography to a blind man?

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    A great post from 2005: That was the question I was asked: how would you prove to a blind man, that photography exists? I knew what he was getting at. We had been discussing psychics. He was a firm believer… Read More ›

  • Friday Furry: has to be the red panda twins

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    image from reuters.com Panda babies can even soothe the savage enpeevened breast: mr tog and I have been watching a rather moreish British drama on cable telly, starring the rather moreish Martin Shaw, wherein he plays a maverick High Court… Read More ›

  • Personal and political motherhood

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    Benazir Bhutto writes of being the first ever elected national leader to give birth while in office. Her pregnancies became political capital. And yet another female minister has stepped out of Cabinet to the back bench in order to spend… Read More ›

  • Careful with that ripped-off website template, Eugene

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    It really pays for politicians to check what their oft-overlooked web support staff are getting up to. Especially if they have designed one’s webpage using somebody else’s template. Because there are several problems with that. Ethically, obviously, if one’s web… Read More ›

  • Stuffed-head blogging

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    I’ve got a cold that’s making concentrating difficult, and I’m having a bit of a down in the dumps reaction to having concentrated so hard on fundamental feminist theory the last few weeks while getting the basic FAQs for the… Read More ›

  • Another gnaw on the Bone

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    Pamela Bone’s piece, published on International Women’s Day, on the perceived kowtowing from Western feminists towards cultural relativism certainly stirred up a few reactions. I didn’t blog on it myself as my reaction was essentially the same as the one… Read More ›

  • Was Darwin a racist?

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    Anti-evolutionists often make the claim that Darwin was racist as if, even were the accusation true (we’ll get to its falseness shortly), that a racist stance would somehow invalidate his scientific discoveries. These claims have repeatedly been shown to be… Read More ›

  • FF101 Open Thread

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    Haloscan is eating comments over at FF101. Please feel free to comment here instead, until I get it fixed. First time posters are automoderated as a spam management issue, please don’t take it personally.