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• Slutwalking

  By tigtog on 2011-05-11 • ( 19 )

  The best deconstruction I’ve read yet: Sex, lies and slutwalking by Lauren Rosewarne

• More My-Neck-Hurts pseudoblogging

  By tigtog on 2011-05-10 • ( 3 )

  Thor-vs-Green-Lantern-squee. Well played, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy.

• A selection from this morning’s Tweets

  By tigtog on 2011-05-10 • ( 1 )

  

  Neck playing up so avoiding typing, please forgive the linkfest. Greeting me when I opened my Seesmic this morning were these stories:

• Somehow we survived this

  By tigtog on 2011-05-09 • ( 4 )

  I don’t think this was the only time we played this game, either. Thanks for coping, Mum and Dad!

• ‘Reality’ shows and bullying judges

  By tigtog on 2011-05-09 • ( 6 )

  I had no idea who Brynne was, or the level of her claim to fame, this morning. Now since I googled it, I know: she married a much older, much richer man and she generally dresses to show off lots of skin. Apparently that makes her a target for the judges for more than just her unimpressive dancing, which is what they are supposed to talk about.

• Hands up who thinks these (and other) prejudices are over

  By tigtog on 2011-05-09 • ( 2 )

  “Virginity tests for immigrants ‘reflected dark age prejudices’ of 1970s Britain”

• This week in Spooks related obstreperation

  By tigtog on 2011-05-07 • ( 9 )

  In a world where women who are about to become royalty can go shopping in exclusive boutiques wearing ballet flats without upsetting the world’s incredulity meters, why the fuck do you put a woman who is supposed to be an active espionage agent in six inch fucking heels to go and strew misleading evidence around a very ordinary flat?

• Femmostroppo Reader May 7, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-07 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Ozblogistan outage

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06 • ( 2 )

  There arewere tech problems occurring in California, apparently. Investigations are occurring, but a whole swathe of oz-blogs are currently unavailable back online.

• Who’s using Dribbble?

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06 • ( 4 )

  Anybody? It looks very interesting, but I’m hesitant to sign up for yet another thing without knowing how other people are finding it usability-wise etc.