Delegates agreed to start work next year on a new legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases to be decided by 2015 and to come into force by 2020.
Sociology
Quicklink: maybe you have to squint to see it clearly
“Each star marks a US military base, but just so we’re all clear: Iran is threatening us; we’re not threatening them.”
Quicklink: Court orders woman to pay alimony to convicted spousal rapist
Unfuckingbelievable.
The Humbling of a Pretty Girl
To say that the outlets reporting on this think of it as a shock or a misfortune, feel really bad for Ms Scruggs, and are inappropriately sexing it up, misses the main point. There are loads of bigger stories to care about, on economies, wars, and disease. The point is that they are latching on to the most popular plot in the world: the humbling of the pretty girl.
Interested in women in open tech and culture? AdaCamp Melbourne wants you!
My non-profit organisation, the Ada Initiative, wants to go full steam ahead into 2012, and we’re holding an AdaCamp event in Melbourne to kick off the year!
AdaCamp will be a one day “unconference” (that is, it will have free-form sessions scheduled by participants) focussed on furthering women’s work in open technology and culture. It will be held on Saturday January 14 in Melbourne, some travel funding is available.
Queen Victoria and now
Have social attitudes to female criminals changed since Queen Victoria’s time?
Come one! Come all! The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival heading for Hoyden!
As foretold in the prophecy! I am hosting the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Hoyden.
Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!
Sunday Screening: The Slap – parenting, friendship, loyalty, secrets
Here There Be Spoilers
What I found particularly satisfying about the series was how the character-based narrative kept overturning my initial conceptions, each POV episode revealing new challenges, realisations, secrets and dreams as events unreel.
Click over to the 43rd Down Under Feminists Carnival!
Deborah of A Bee of a Certain Age has once more supplied us with the Down Under Feminists Carnival, with DUFC edition number 43. It is a rather lovely one, so please go on over and click some links to… Read More ›
Quicklink: China and fashion spending
Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).
Hoyden About Town 