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• Clarke and Dawe on cynical bread and circuses churnalism

  By tigtog on 2012-02-07 • ( 1 )

  

  Apropos my rant yesterday about journalism standards, Mr Clarke and Mr Dawe spoke about this sort of thing last week. Play along on Twitter with #IfThePressGalleryReportedCricket

• Femmostroppo Reader, Feb 7 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-02-07 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Yawning at the press gallery

  By tigtog on 2012-02-06 • ( 7 )

  

  I didn’t read, listen to or watch a thing over the weekend about the oh so crucial Labor caucus that was supposedly set to challenge Gillard seriously on her fitness to lead the party etc etc etc etc. It all smelled of such desperate hype, recycled hype at that.

• Have just discovered a thing full of puppies

  By tigtog on 2012-02-06 • ( 1 )

  

  All you North Americans who already know about this can look smug now. Puppy Bowl VIII. And Animal Planet isn’t showing it here in Oz! Not Fair!

• Quicklink: One’s A Crowd

  By tigtog on 2012-02-06 • ( 3 )

  

  The mere thought of living alone once sparked anxiety, dread and visions of loneliness. But those images are dated. Now the most privileged people on earth use their resources to separate from one another, to buy privacy and personal space. Indeed, living alone seems to encourage more, not less, social interaction.

• Sunday Singalong: Pussy Riot

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-05 • ( 1 )

  

  So, I did have somebody else lined up for the Sunday artsy fartsy post this weekend but jumping right to the front of the queue is my newly discovered find, Pussy Riot. Russian, feminist, punk riot band with anti-Putin lyrics…. Read More ›

• Weekend Womenscraft: baking for AdaCamp

  By Guest Poster on 2012-02-04 • ( 4 )

  The Ada Initiative, a group promoting women in open source and open culture, had their first AdaCamp in early January. In order to save some money, and because I like food to be inclusive for everyone, Brianna and I volunteered to do all the baking ourselves.

• Book Review: The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer

  By Mindy on 2012-02-04 • ( 4 )

  

  Book Review of The Service of Clouds #AWWC2012

• Gratuitous Tim Minchin blogging: Not Perfect

  By tigtog on 2012-02-04 • ( 7 )

  

  Because I went to see his show in Sydney last night, and it was hugely enjoyable, and he sang this song which I’d temporarily forgotten about, and it’s just lovely.

• Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. asks who’s benefiting most?

  By tigtog on 2012-02-04 • ( 16 )

  

  Pink cancer marketing globally diverts generous people’s donations away from the organisations doing most of the work towards organisations who are just better at marketing – the filmmakers determined only 15% of monies raised in North America go to research prevention, and 5% to research environmental causes of breast cancer. Does this sound like the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?

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