Today’s theme is Waiting. Waiting increasingly impatiently.
Life
Education and exams
When one particular question on an exam paper is literally incomprehensible for the whole class when they compare notes afterwards – not just one or two students, but every single one of them agreed that they had no idea what the jargon used in the question even meant – is it the students’ problem that nobody understands the question, or is it the teacher’s problem that nobody understood the question?
Quicklink: Doctor Who Season 6B Episode 1 review
SPOILERS for Let’s Kill Hitler: Very interesting review, which clarifies several points that have been bothering me about Moff-era who, although I don’t agree with all of it.
On A Woman Choosing Not To Date A Geek
[TW for violently abusive language towards a woman] For those who haven’t come across this story, it starts when a man and a woman in New York came across each other on the OKCupid dating website and went out twice, were each less than enthralled with the other, and moved on. So far, so ordinary.
Feminists are not your enemy
As an economist and a feminist I can’t tell you irritating I find articles like this one from Lucy Kippist in The Punch, “Screw equal pay; what do women really want?” Academics and feminists who continue to prioritise the closing… Read More ›
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter comes via Hilary Chambers on flickr.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Weekend Earworms
Some music for your weekend. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down “When We Swam” Gotye “Somebody That I used to know”
Art for your weekend
From Japanese-British artist, Sputniko! More here: She talks about her “Menstruation Machine” as coming out of a love of high-tech – she studied computer science before moving into the arts – coupled to a woman’s frustration with it. “Technology is… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger – Spring
The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, people are sneezing and cursing, let’s celebrate Spring.
Hating Optusnet with the burning fury of a thousand suns
FIX MY INTERNET YOU USELESS BASTARDS. (posted using my portable wifi from another carrier, which only works with my netbook, which I now may have to use for the whole day UNTIL YOU FIX MY BROADBAND)
Hoyden About Town 