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• Quicklink: you just need to ask nicely for disability accommodations

  By tigtog on 2011-09-02 • ( 2 )

  

  Guess how many competent and positive responses sie received to “just asking nicely”. Go on.

• Femmostroppo Reader September 1, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-09-01 • ( 7 )

  

  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!

• Hating Optusnet with the burning fury of a thousand suns

  By tigtog on 2011-09-01 • ( 3 )

  FIX MY INTERNET YOU USELESS BASTARDS. (posted using my portable wifi from another carrier, which only works with my netbook, which I now may have to use for the whole day UNTIL YOU FIX MY BROADBAND)

• Quicklink: Gaga disappoints the dudes

  By tigtog on 2011-08-31 • ( 5 )

  

  News With Nipples shows us extracts from a few music industry dudes who found her dressing up as a man for an awards ceremony disturbingly unsexy…

• Spring = Ducklings

  By tigtog on 2011-08-30 • ( 6 )

  

  These ones were found in the middle of Sydney City, at the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour.

• Cloudwatch: Iridescence over Ethiopia

  By tigtog on 2011-08-29

  

  I’ve seen many clouds with faint iridescence before, and even a few where the play of colours was remarkably clear, but never anything quite as vivid as this!

• Katrina and Irene

  By tigtog on 2011-08-29 • ( 4 )

  

  Stories about Irene will be all over the news today, and many of them will say that the evacuation orders for low-lying areas, particularly in NYC, were an overreaction. They will say this because there have been so few deaths, so few tragic images for the news media. The people who will be saying this will be wrong.

• Femmostroppo Reader August 28, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-08-29 • ( 4 )

  It’s been a busy non-writing weekend, but I have caught up with some reading. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Femmostroppo Reader August 27, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-08-27 • ( 2 )

  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!

• Precision vs Accuracy

  By tigtog on 2011-08-26 • ( 12 )

  

  7:05am
  Me: Shouldn’t you be getting ready for school?
  Sprog The Younger: I don’t have to start getting ready until 7:21, actually.