For some reason, I don’t think my unsolicited correspondent is telling me the entire truth about xir diligence in background research.
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Why I love selfies
Selfies: more than just narcissism and marketing.
ObWhoniverse: 50th Anniversary Episode Thread
Share your feelpinions, but please be spoiler-aware!
Media Circus: Shock! Horror! The ABC pays people!
@PrestonTowers lays out the latest GG attempt to stoke up animus against the ABC on AusOpinion.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Friday Hoyden: Sally Potter
Director Sally Potter is one of the great original voices in film.
Obligatory Joss Whedon Feminist Speech Post
Whedon, then, delivers a speech on the term “feminist” without any reference to feminist history, without any apparent awareness of feminist theory, and without even any demonstrated knowledge of the most important objections or conflicts around the term “feminist,” the use of which he is purportedly discussing.
Privacy, Transparency, Surveillance and Sousveillance
David Brin’s latest essay in his longoing series about our Transparent Society: I want the watchers to be watched.
Today in tigtog is pedanticer than most: gargoyle vs grotesque
Architecture: all gargoyles are grotesques, but not all grotesques are gargoyles.
Slice of Awesome: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss swinging Black Dog
From their 2008 collaboration album Belgian Chocolate, following on from their first collaboration album Raising Sand (2007).
Ada Lovelace Day Article in the Guardian
As a follow-up to Ada Lovelace Day, a series of photos in the Guardian of “Inspiring Women in Science and Technology”. Please find within it a picture of my wonderful, brilliant friend Lauren, who does remarkable things with exotic plants… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 