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• Quicklink: Tansy Rayner Roberts unpacks Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy

  By tigtog on 2012-12-08 • ( 14 )

  

  history – the process of writing down and preserving of the facts, not the facts/events themselves – was looking the other way

• Whimsy: Musical Pets edition

  By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 20 )

  

  Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you! Meet Tucker the piano-playing singing Schnoodle.

• Tool of the Day

  By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 12 )

  

  Ratcheting Pruning Shears! Since it’s December, let’s use my new pruners as the kick-off for our first 2012 in retrospective thread – what’s the best tool/gadget/gizmo/hack you’ve found this year?

• SF Question of the Day: Dune and Lawrence of Arabia

  By tigtog on 2012-12-06 • ( 3 )

  

  Would Frank Herbert’s Dune have been such a wide success if its publication in 1965 had not been preceded by David Lean’s masterful cinematography of windswept dunes in 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia?

  How, more generally, does our experience of pictorial representations of landscapes and people (both still and moving pictures) influence our perceptions of other works of art, of the world and people around us, and even of our own self-awareness?

• Today in WTF is the Gillard govt thinking?

  By tigtog on 2012-12-05 • ( 6 )

  

  Handing the current Federal environmental oversight and protection powers to the State Premiers? If it weren’t for the protection of the Federal government, we would have lost places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Franklin River, the Daintree Rainforest and Fraser Island a long time ago.

• Nugget of Awesome: welcome to evo psych redux

  By tigtog on 2012-12-04 • ( 6 )

  

  [Evolutionary psychology hardly covers] the evolution of morality, the evolution of politics, of cuture, of the artistic sense, etc … There is instead an obsessive focus on gender roles.

• Media Circus: Silly Season edition

  By tigtog on 2012-12-03 • ( 21 )

  

  What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

• Feminism Friday: this week on the Feminism 101 Blog

  By tigtog on 2012-11-30

  

  It’s that time of the month again with Call for Feminism 101 Links III, and a guest post – Feminism Friday: What can I do, right now today, to help stop sexual violence

• Matt Honan on the End of the Age of the Password

  By tigtog on 2012-11-28

  

  Times have changed. We’ve entrusted everything we have to a fundamentally broken system. The first step is to acknowledge that fact. The second is to fix it.

• Horseshit of the day: War on Men, Things Girls Do That Guys Hate

  By tigtog on 2012-11-26 • ( 10 )

  

  I wonder if either of these twerps found a pony after all that shoveling?