Culture

The milieu through which we swim

WTF is Chris Brown thinking?

By tigtog on 2012-09-12 • ( 7 )

Chris Brown Tattoos An Image that looks like a Battered Woman On His Neck – of course he’s denying that it’s Rihanna or even a battered woman at all.

The first thing we notice is what appears to be a museum exhibit showing a stegosaurus and two pterodactyls, then it registers that they're standing in a corridor next to a picture window through which we can see planet Earth and its Moon - then we notice that the Doctor is riding the stegosaurus.

Doctor Who: S7 Ep2 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

By tigtog on 2012-09-09 • ( 16 )

Now I want a t-shirt that says “Move Away From The Pterodactyls”

a silver monkey bares its fangs aggressively

The thing about intimidatory silencing tactics?

By tigtog on 2012-09-05 • ( 24 )

Sometimes they work out exactly as the malicious arseholes want them to, grinding people down until they feel the need to stop speaking out. But the technology that gives the bullies a megaphone to amplify their intimidation is a two-edged sword.

Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice

By tigtog on 2012-09-05

A poem by R.D. Laing

#dataretention is worthless #securitytheatre – how-to guides for Tor, VPN and https

By tigtog on 2012-09-04 • ( 8 )

To show how easy it is for any punk kid (or middle-aged feminist blogger) who just doesn’t want to play along with Roxon’s plans for an expanded surveillance culture, please do some googling on the search strings below.

So, what’s everybody else doing to #destroythejoint?

By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 21 )

Torey Maguire reckons feminists should just ignore Alan Jones, since he’s just a formulaic shock-jock troll, but I don’t agree. “Don’t feed the Trolls” is bad science, and we should feed the trolls if we need to. Creative mockery to underline the point that we are not “offended”, we are contemptous: that’s cathartic as well.

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: got a Gonski?

By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 1 )

There have been many leaks and many promises: how did the promised policy response to the Gonski report actually go down today?

New Who: S7 Ep1 Asylum of the Daleks

By tigtog on 2012-09-03 • ( 18 )

We watched the show on iView last night, via a recent update to our venerable PS3 which allowed us to hook our TV directly into ABC’s iView interface. Noice. It will be broadcast on Australian free-to-air next Saturday September 8th. Who else has geeked out already?