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• Penny Arcade – another year, another rape joke

  By tigtog on 2011-12-20

  

  Arseholes.

• Katha Pollitt: Hitchens and his writing on Women

  By tigtog on 2011-12-20

  

  for someone who prided himself on his wide-ranging interests, he had virtually no interest in women’s writing or women’s lives or perspectives

• Cousin It goes to Carols

  By tigtog on 2011-12-19 • ( 4 )

  I tend to not realise how big my hair is until I see a shot from behind.

• Finding the traditional Nativity disappointingly low on killer metal robots from the future?

  By tigtog on 2011-12-19 • ( 5 )

  

  The Terminativity takes the Greatest Story Ever Told and adds time travel, a Terminator T-800, a police manhunt, lasers, pitched battles, a handful of catchy tunes and much, much more….

• BFTP: Obligatory Tony Abbott Said What Now? Thread

  By tigtog on 2011-12-19

  

  It’s a Summer Slowdown repost. Just reminding everybody, in the midst of all the ink being wasted over a Rudd challenge that simply will not happen, that Tony Abbott still regularly reveals a mind-boggling worldview via ill-judged attempts to be charming and/or witty.

• Quicklink: Harmful Communication Series

  By tigtog on 2011-12-15 • ( 3 )

  

  Much of this ties in with discussions here over the years; this time I recommend that you do read the comments. It’s some very useful reading to do just before those festive family gatherings.

• Whoydensday: TARDIG (not a typo)

  By tigtog on 2011-12-14 • ( 3 )

  

  That’s Time And Relative Dimensions In Gingerbread.

• Astrolink: old rocks and old skies

  By tigtog on 2011-12-12

  

  It’s too long since I’ve put up a spectaculat starry time lapse video, and I needed some astronomical comforting after cloudy skies meant that I missed the lunar eclipse on Saturday. Via Bad Astronomy, this spectacular effort has pre-Incan petroglyphs… Read More ›

• Durban: a modest agreement

  By tigtog on 2011-12-12

  Delegates agreed to start work next year on a new legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases to be decided by 2015 and to come into force by 2020.

• Quicklink: maybe you have to squint to see it clearly

  By tigtog on 2011-12-11

  

  “Each star marks a US military base, but just so we’re all clear: Iran is threatening us; we’re not threatening them.”