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QOTD: Louis CK on his HBO nudity
When I hired Pam, I didn’t tell her she was going to be doing anything like that. It wasn’t supposed to be that kind of show. So I said, “You know what, I’ll do it.”
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Inexplicably Awesome: MacArthur Park
Love affair, schmove affair Jimmy Webb: wtf is going on with these lyrics?
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Today in petty irritations
I choose my radio station in the car for its mix of mostly music and very few ads. Which is why it was most irritating, in the short space of listening time involved in the train station run, to hear today’s host…
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Pink vs the paparazzi: photostalkers and children’s privacy
So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?
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Pottermore!
J K Rowling has announced on YouTube more details about her plans for the Pottermore website – “a unique online reading experience”
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Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July
By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.
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Femmostroppo Reader June 22, 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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Always Awesome: Never can say goodbye
By the divine Gloria Gaynor, of course.
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Happy June Solstice!
It must be time for another Stonehenge pic.
Hoyden About Town 