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• Gratuitous Costume Drama Blogging

  By tigtog on 2011-03-14 • ( 6 )

  Since I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, who else can I start with but Lizzy and Darcy?

• Femmostroppo Reader March 13, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-03-13

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Today it’s a roundup of other people’s linkfests. What did we all miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Femmostroppo Reader March 12, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-03-12

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

• Japan earthquake and tsunami

  By tigtog on 2011-03-12 • ( 13 )

  Authorities are projecting around 1000 deaths. I don’t think any of our regular commenters live in Japan, nor anywhere in the northern Pacific likely to be tsunami-affected, but I’m sure we must have lurkers there. I wish you all safe. Please use this as an open thread on any news.

• SIWOTI: Sagan’s ECREE maxim is NOT nonsense

  By tigtog on 2011-03-10 • ( 16 )

  Please pardon the acronyms in the title (expansions forthcoming in the post), I’m attempting to keep my post titles reasonably concise. Which is exactly what the final sentence in the quote below does in relation to the rest of the paragraph preceding it: it restates the whole argument of the paragraph pithily in just five words: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

• So the cutest slow loris evah

  By tigtog on 2011-03-09 • ( 2 )

  – enthralled by a tiny umbrella!

• Happy IWD!

  By tigtog on 2011-03-08 • ( 8 )

  I don’t have anything special planned except for paying a little more attention specifically to what other women are writing right now. Feel free to share links to anything you find especially relevant today.

• How the carbon price works

  By tigtog on 2011-03-07 • ( 8 )

  That is the whole point: to make goods that are generated with more carbon pollution relatively more expensive than goods that are generated with less carbon pollution.

• Dear UK, Australia does NOT use expensive voting machines

  By tigtog on 2011-03-07 • ( 16 )

  We don’t use them to cast our votes, and we don’t use them to count our votes either. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying.

• Were you online in ’95-ish?

  By tigtog on 2011-03-06 • ( 5 )

  Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.