UK Sunday tabloid News of the World is shutting down after the latest phone-hacking revelations.
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Just say no to uninformed opinions and fat phobia.
Don’t let lack of qualifications in the field get in the way of some good old fashioned fat phobia!
Bye bye Dawkins: a voice from the past
How very disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that he turned out be such a smug, patronising git about more than just religious beliefs.
Signal boost: help Skud preserve and disseminate knowledge of Australian music
Skud is launching a project to preserve the history of Australian music in as open a manner as possible. Can you help?
Signal Boost: postcard against victim-blaming
This is a terrific campaign against rape myths, and Rape Crisis Scotland have made this downloadable as a print-quality PDF:
BTW: “invasion”
I put up a post on LP about it yesterday. The discussion is mostly better than I feared.
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.”
Inexplicably Awesome: MacArthur Park
Love affair, schmove affair Jimmy Webb: wtf is going on with these lyrics?
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…
Quick Hit – Gender Free Preschool
A gender neutral pre-school in Stockholm ruffles some feathers.
Hoyden About Town 