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• Thursday Internet Tradition: Soon! Soon? Soon…

  By tigtog on 2012-06-28 • ( 12 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, something awaits…

• Blogkeeping

  By tigtog on 2012-06-27

  

  The parent theme which powers the Hoyden theme was just updated, so a few things might look mildly different. Please let me know if you find anything important missing or malfunctioning.

• 6 Books: Dava Sobel

  By tigtog on 2012-06-27 • ( 5 )

  

  Her list of six books that ignited her passion for space, scientific exploration and adventure from Radio National’s Top Shelf segment. What books were ignition points for you? Most of mine had something to do with histories.

• Vale Nora Ephron

  By tigtog on 2012-06-27 • ( 5 )

  

  A warm and moving tribute from Melissa Silverstein at Women & Hollywood. I’m sitting here reeling from the news that Nora Ephron has died. No one even knew she was sick and now she is gone.

• Arctic Sea Ice: that 75% decline data

  By tigtog on 2012-06-25 • ( 4 )

  

  Tamino gives us a Sea Ice Update: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: one of the strongest evidences of global warming is the dramatic loss of sea ice in the Arctic.

• Feed the Blogroll

  By tigtog on 2012-06-24 • ( 8 )

  

  It’s been a while since we updated the blogroll. Please suggest any of your must-read places that we’ve somehow missed so far, so that we can share the lovely linkjuice.

• The social mosaic and how we change it

  By tigtog on 2012-06-23 • ( 3 )

  Another comment nugget of awesome found in YATOD, this one in the Penny Arcade forums, on a thread discussing sexism/misogyny in the wake of the hatefest directed against Anita Sarkeesian’s Kickstarter on Tropes vs Women in gaming.

• Actually, EC President Barroso did NOT “slap down”/”slam” Gillard

  By tigtog on 2012-06-21 • ( 3 )

  

  Maybe, if we’re being scrupulously generous, it might be only one journalist who made up the anti-Gillard spin, and all the rest just copied it instead of viewing the primary source material. Still doesn’t speak much of their ethics, does it?

• Solstice Whimsy: Giant Bouncy Stonehenge

  By tigtog on 2012-06-21 • ( 6 )

  

  Happy June Solstice all! Merry Yule/Litha to those who celebrate the circling of the seasons. This week’s whimsy features Jeremy Deller’s inflatable sculpture Sacrilege. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Rape Culture Observation: grooming victims *looks* like being “a good person”

  By tigtog on 2012-06-20 • ( 3 )

  

  Humans, even rapists, are complex entities. A rapist is capable of doing good things for some people, while doing grave harm to others. In Sandusky’s case, what appeared to be (and in some cases maybe actually was) good works was simultaneously the grooming of victims.