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  • Feminism, blogging and privilege

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    This Guardian article is a few weeks old, but I’ve only just caught up with it. Feminist blogs are booming. But are they globalising emancipation – or just playthings for the rich and well educated? Gendergeek acknowledges that feminist bloggers… Read More ›

  • I spy a fly

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    abutilon variegatus“Flowering Maple”

  • bloodyrugbyyummyseafood blogging

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    Mr Tog is watching some Kiwis thrash some Sandgropers. I don’t watch most matches, I only watch matches that Lote plays in, because his legs and his grin are gorgeous. Rugby in my experience is greatly enhanced by superb tiger… Read More ›

  • Who knew?

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    Apparently, when some people in the USA wave this foreign flag it’s a bad bad thing: But nobody gets upset when some people in the USA wave this foreign flag every single year: Apparently, ancestors from some countries are better… Read More ›

  • *swoon* Clive Owen in tights, oh my

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    Elizabeth: The Golden Age “begins filming in April 2006 in the UK” apparently. I hope it lives up to the first film, which is an all-time fave of mine despite the glaring historical inaccuracies (does anyone know of a site… Read More ›

  • single occupancy cell…natural light….access to group areas

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    That could mean Hicks is in cells like this with other inmates nearby that he can talk to: And that he gets his 30 minutes daily exercise like this with other inmates nearby that he can talk to: Those are… Read More ›

  • Would you buy a used headline from this woman?

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    You just know there’s dwarves buried under her patio, don’t you? What was the wardrobe department at Ten thinking? Watch out for warty old ladies with apples, Sandra. And in my defence, I was only watching Ten because Ross Noble… Read More ›

  • Hicks, Dreyfus, Kafka?

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    I was listening to an interesting radio program (RN’s Law Report) which had some discussion of comparisons between the Guantanomo detainees appearances before the military tribunal and the celebrated Dreyfus Affair. This is a controversial comparison because we now know… Read More ›

  • Little kids rock

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    Seen while driving home from dropping off the togster to his school band practise: an adorably dressed preschool girl holding her nana’s hand while waiting at the pedestrian crossing signals. She couldn’t just stand there, so she was jumping and… Read More ›

  • Mad scientist at work

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    Well, that’s what the SMH article’s accompanying picture would have you believe just by looking. I’m sure this nice boffin in the white coat doesn’t always look like he’s wondering about photographers a la fava beans and a nice chianti…. Read More ›