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• Ancients yet again smarter than thought

  By tigtog on 2006-12-06 • ( 3 )

  I love the way we keep finding that people in the ancient and prehistoric world were actually much less backward than previous generations of scholars thought. image from Wikipedia It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an… Read More ›

• Ad hoc hoyden

  By tigtog on 2006-12-04 • ( 5 )

  When I was putting the banners for this blog together, I trudged through the intertubes in search of pics of my favourite hoydens and found heaps, but obviously I couldn’t put all the pics in, or I would have had… Read More ›

• The appetite for nice things

  By tigtog on 2006-12-03 • ( 8 )

  I quoted a piece from Mary McCarthy a few days ago about the accrued labour of others (in terms of the labour theory of value) and fashion, briefly summed up in one sentence which she then explores: The toil of… Read More ›

• *That* was exhausting

  By tigtog on 2006-12-02 • ( 6 )

  Just returned from an afternoon of centenary celebrations at a local landmark building. The theme was a sampling from what was going on in 1906, with readings from newspaper clippings (from all around the world, not just locally) and musical… Read More ›

• V. tasteless but v.funny

  By tigtog on 2006-12-01 • ( 1 )

  Safe for work unless you’re terrified of fire and brimstone or surrounded by those who resent you deeply because you’re not. It’s fun to stay at the: Tiny SFW thumbnail via zuzu NB: I tried to track the blog chain… Read More ›

• Friday Furry: awww (and a bonus Flickr Fluffy)

  By tigtog on 2006-12-01 • ( 5 )

  Funny Videos Flickr Fluffy over the fold.

• Obsessive fans not just bores

  By tigtog on 2006-11-30 • ( 2 )

  They’re extinguishers of beetles, too. (via Barista) Addendum: serendipitously to the above link, I followed this link (via Bellatrys in a discussion at Pandagon) to a summary of The Poison Mushroom, Nazi pre-war propaganda against Jews. Ugh. Further addendum: The… Read More ›

• Just don’t mention the boyfriend

  By tigtog on 2006-11-29 • ( 9 )

  Hey news media: what’s wrong with being gay? asks Pam Spaulding, noting that the American news media have a double standard about discussing the domestic relationships of political figures. If the pollie is straight then family life is part of… Read More ›

• Current Cluestick Campaign

  By tigtog on 2006-11-28

  Read about this paranoid whinergood sport and clueless wankergracious loser. UPDATE: Mission accomplished, I guess.

• The accrued labour of others

  By tigtog on 2006-11-28 • ( 2 )

  “Fashion is a craft, not an industrial, conception, exemplifying to perfection the labor theory of value. The toil of many hands is the sine qua non of fashion. The hand of the weaver, the cutter, the fitter, the needleworker must… Read More ›