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• Parking near intersections in NSW

  By tigtog on 2012-09-04 • ( 9 )

  

  10 metres, you irresponsible gits.
  Yes, this is a crotchety rant while wearing my curmudgeon pants.

• So, what’s everybody else doing to #destroythejoint?

  By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 21 )

  

  Torey Maguire reckons feminists should just ignore Alan Jones, since he’s just a formulaic shock-jock troll, but I don’t agree. “Don’t feed the Trolls” is bad science, and we should feed the trolls if we need to. Creative mockery to underline the point that we are not “offended”, we are contemptous: that’s cathartic as well.

• Media Circus: got a Gonski?

  By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 1 )

  

  There have been many leaks and many promises: how did the promised policy response to the Gonski report actually go down today?

• New Who: S7 Ep1 Asylum of the Daleks

  By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 18 )

  We watched the show on iView last night, via a recent update to our venerable PS3 which allowed us to hook our TV directly into ABC’s iView interface. Noice. It will be broadcast on Australian free-to-air next Saturday September 8th. Who else has geeked out already?

• Gotta Love The Internet: Eastwooding with an Empty Chair

  By tigtog on 2012-09-01 • ( 5 )

  

  Oh Internet, my birthday was days ago now – you really shouldn’t have! So Much #emptychair, #eastwooding and #invisibleobama on my feeds this morning!

• Friday Hoydens: all the Paralympics women

  By tigtog on 2012-08-31 • ( 3 )

  

  Go you good things!

• Detroit tests 150 rape kits from backlog of 11,000: finds 21 serial rapists (one also a murderer)

  By tigtog on 2012-08-31 • ( 8 )

  

  Twenty of the 21 serial rapists were identified from the first 153 rape kits officially tested for DNA and entered into the national database known as CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System, this summer. In other words, these 20 men had been involved in at least one other rape case, according to the database.

• Update on the Skeptic/Atheist Anti-Feminism Wars

  By tigtog on 2012-08-30 • ( 16 )

  

  Greta Christina’s latest post sums up the last few months pretty well.

• Cumberwatch: Parade’s End

  By tigtog on 2012-08-27 • ( 5 )

  

  Parade’s End is Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest televisual outing, and is being described all over as “the thinking person’s Downton Abbey“.

• It’s been a sad few months for space fans

  By tigtog on 2012-08-26

  

  NASA’s astronaut corps is losing its pioneers.  First Sally Ride died in July, now Neil Armstrong has died as well. Of course the celebration for the success of the new Mars Rover mission has been a huge boost for astro… Read More ›