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• Dic abuse – prescriptivists vs descriptivists rematch – ‘misogyny’ definition edition

  By tigtog on 2012-10-18 • ( 13 )

  

  When you get to my age seeing the pearl-clutchers swoon angrily over dictionaries having the temerity to change something gets old, especially when it’s yet another round of people just showing that they don’t understand what lexicographers actually do.

• Shameless plug for the Humble eBook Bundle – DRM free, proceeds direct to authors

  By tigtog on 2012-10-17 • ( 3 )

  

  Pay what you want and help charity, too.

• Media Circus: personality politics edition

  By tigtog on 2012-10-15 • ( 18 )

  

  Yeah, I know that’s generally how the MSM coverage falls out most of the time, but it’s ratcheted up a few notches in recent weeks, hasn’t it? As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes).

• ObFreeFallSpaceJump post: a little detail I was glad to discover

  By tigtog on 2012-10-15 • ( 2 )

  

  Because I obviously haven’t been paying enough attention, I hadn’t realised that Joseph Kittinger, the USAF officer who previously held the record for highest/fastest freefall parachute jump after the 1959-60 Project Excelsior research into high-altitude bailouts, was part of the team for Felix Baumgartner’s successful attempt on those records.

• Femmostroppo Reader, October 14 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-10-14 • ( 4 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Helpful Hint of The Day: being *on the internet*

  By tigtog on 2012-10-12 • ( 17 )

  

  A Handy Test for Reddit Users: Are You on the Internet Right Now?

• International Day of the Girl

  By tigtog on 2012-10-12 • ( 9 )

  

  I missed posting this yesterday, but I want to raise my bloggy hand to join the call for protecting the right of girls around the world to education. I want to honour Malala Yousufzai and her two schoolmates who were also shot while trying to shield her from assassins.

• Gratuitous Cumberwatching

  By tigtog on 2012-10-05 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s in the garden and it wants to be adopted!

• Today in nodding furiously: what do you mean when you say you’re entitled to your opinion?

  By tigtog on 2012-10-05 • ( 6 )

  

  If “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion” just means no-one has the right to stop people thinking and saying whatever they want, then the statement is true, but fairly trivial. But…

• Today in rape culture: nobody wanted to think it of funny old Jimmy

  By tigtog on 2012-10-04 • ( 16 )

  

  It was right out there, in plain view, and nobody wanted to see.