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• Quicklink: Court orders woman to pay alimony to convicted spousal rapist

  By tigtog on 2011-12-08 • ( 2 )

  

  Unfuckingbelievable.

• Whoydensday: Doctor Who on Boxing Day in Oz

  By tigtog on 2011-12-07 • ( 20 )

  

  Auntie has now confirmed that once again they are fast-tracking from the UK for a screening date of December 26 at 7:30pm.

• Blogging reflexes shot

  By tigtog on 2011-12-07 • ( 13 )

  

  I didn’t grab my camera to take a photo of the zomgwtfbbq stonking huge huntsman spider that was doing a Gandalf-on-the-bridge act in my dishwasher last night.

• Summer Slowdown appears to have arrived

  By tigtog on 2011-12-06 • ( 4 )

  

  …it will be school holidays soon, regardless of the weather, and Giftocalypse follows hard on those heels.

• Sunday Screening: The Slap – parenting, friendship, loyalty, secrets

  By tigtog on 2011-12-04 • ( 33 )

  Here There Be Spoilers

  What I found particularly satisfying about the series was how the character-based narrative kept overturning my initial conceptions, each POV episode revealing new challenges, realisations, secrets and dreams as events unreel.

• Recently in privacy

  By tigtog on 2011-12-02 • ( 6 )

  Privacy concerns, location monitoring, surveillance culture – especially relevant given the recent “Privacy is for Paedos” line spun by an ex-editor of the News of the World at the UK phone-hacking inquiry.

• Quicklink: China and fashion spending

  By tigtog on 2011-12-02 • ( 1 )

  

  Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).

• Recently in WTF

  By tigtog on 2011-11-30 • ( 9 )

  

  Some of these links will elicit louder WTFs than others.

• Rotate Your Owl For Science!!

  By tigtog on 2011-11-30 • ( 2 )

  

  Ro-ro-rotate your owl!

• Burzynski Clinic, meet Streisand Effect – you’re going to be spending some time together

  By tigtog on 2011-11-29 • ( 9 )

  When skeptics start questioning the scientific basis for the Burzynski Clinic’s highly expensive “antineoplaston” cancer therapy, that’s the time that you are supposed to offer proof of therapeutic benefit. Issuing threats instead tends to make it look like the Burzynski Clinic just doesn’t have any proofs to offer.