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• Shameless Thank You Plug For Helping Us Dodge The Media Circus

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29 • ( 23 )

  The whole tog family will be dodging the big wedding dress revelation tonight by going to see a comedy show instead. Thank you, generous John Robertson!

• My moaning, let me show you it

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29

  Hatesss the nastiessss, yesssssss.

• Thread: US Tornados

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29

  DEADLY tornados and flash floods flattened buildings and overturned vehicles yesterday as major storms churned through the south of the US, with the death toll surpassing 220 people.

• Apparently there’s no context on Twitter

  By tigtog on 2011-04-28 • ( 12 )

  So it’s said, by nong after dreary nong around the interwebs. It’s just that one string of 140 characters, that’s it!

• Whoydensday: Preparing for Season 6 DownUnder

  By tigtog on 2011-04-27 • ( 21 )

  SPOILER FREE!!! Linkfest time…No plot~points or revelations are given away. Feel free to read on in safety….

• Lessons from My Lai & The Extras

  By tigtog on 2011-04-26 • ( 12 )

  How can we raise our children to be willing to take a stand against injustice in favour of integrity? Where do we start?

• Lest We Forget

  By tigtog on 2011-04-25 • ( 3 )

  Because it’s Anzac Day, I’ve spent much of my time looking over the various diaries/letters of my greatuncles who took part in the Great War.

• I can’t decide…

  By tigtog on 2011-04-24 • ( 3 )

  whether Alan Greenspan deserves internet immortality more for referring to a hypothetically invisible entity as “unredeemably opaque” or for the phrase which spawned this epic Crooked Timber thread. I await the inevitable memetic offspring.

• Doonesbury and The Donald

  By tigtog on 2011-04-24 • ( 6 )

  I do like the way Doonesbury illustrator GBTrudeau captures something about various public figures; remember George W as a floating asterisk?

  Here is Trudeau’s take on Donald Trump:

• Femmostroppo Reader April 23, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-04-23 • ( 4 )

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