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Flemington Avoidance Thread
Pull up a comfy chair and a cup of tea and talk about something (anything) else!
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Femmostroppo Reader October 31, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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Happy 50th anniversary to The Dish
The CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope even got its own Google Doodle:
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Things I have learnt about moving while helping my parents
…because life would have been much easier these last 2 weeks if we’d thought to make sure these things were done a few months ago:
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Femmostroppo Reader October 26, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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DEAR STEELY DAN
PLEASE GET YOUR SOUND ENGINEER TO TURN THE MAIN FADERS DOWN.
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FBI updates its definition of rape
This will have a knock-on effect regarding discussions of rape online…
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Quicklink: What and How we Measure
When does quantifying something help us learn — and when does it mislead us?
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The more things change…
Thucydides, describing what happened when the Hellenes’ Great War veterans came home from the battlefields –
Quoted by commentor at Juan Cole’s blog back in January, but I didn’t end up posting it then. Just observing various blogstoushes has prompted me to post it now. -
Possibly the most Extreme act of Rugby World Cup Avoidance evah
I meant to post this last week when my friend in Auckland first linked to it on our seekrit mailing list. But I forgotted.
Hoyden About Town 