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• George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 can’t get taken “off Google”, decides to go down in flames

  By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 40 )

  

  George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 on Twitter decided to call Sandra Fluke some vile misogynist names, and she retweeted his tweets. People took screencaps and blogged his tweets. Now those tweets are the top results for a search on his name on Google. George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC wanted that fixed.

• Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes

  By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 2 )

  

  This week’s whimsy is via ten thousand paper planes released by Ross Coulter and volunteers in the State Library of Victoria’s Domed Reading Room in 2011. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Just got beeped by driver behind me for giving way to a cyclist

  By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 8 )

  

  What a git.

• Refugees in indefinite detention on security grounds – secret criteria applied to secret evidence

  By tigtog on 2012-05-21 • ( 2 )

  

  Recommended reading: Ken Parish has a thorough, detailed post over at Club Troppo…

• Friday Hoyden: Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson

  By tigtog on 2012-05-18 • ( 12 )

  

  In the new Sherlock Holmes adaptation by CBS – Elementary. Johnny Lee Miller will be starring as Holmes. It’s set in Manhattan. Wheeeee! WATCH ALL THE VERSIONS!

• Lazyweb: pistachio dukkah

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 6 )

  

  A gift. How do I make the best use of it?
  While we’re at it, it’s a while since we’ve had a recipe thread. Any awesome noms to share?

• Yet another women and purchasing power list o’ facts (and omissions)

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 14 )

  

  Yet, yet again, it makes no distinction between
  *discretionary personal spending which a woman can choose not to do and nobody except herself will care
  versus
  *necessary household spending, which if the woman doesn’t do then somebody else has to get it done.

• Weekly Whimsy: would you give this hitchhiker a lift?

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 31 )

  

  This week’s whimsy is courtesy of a weirder than usual fashion photo from Queen magazine in 1960. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Media Circus: Craig Thomson cleared of electoral fraud, let’s talk about something else then

  By tigtog on 2012-05-16 • ( 6 )

  

  Let’s keep a closer eye on the impact of policy and legislation rather than buying into the moving wallpaper ethos of personality conflicts trumping the actual political process, OK?

• Quote of the Day: playing the Game of Life on the lowest difficulty setting

  By tigtog on 2012-05-16 • ( 10 )

  

  A comment from Chuck Repke about 100 comments in on a post by John Scalzi, which I really recommend reading…