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• Tech tip: Instapaper

  By Mary on 2011-09-09 • ( 9 )

  

  For people who haven’t heard of it yet, Instapaper is a web application that turns web pages into an ebook for you.

• That “Feminist Whore” code in Dead Island game: nice to see a proper apology

  By tigtog on 2011-09-09 • ( 4 )

  

  Others please take note. This is how an apology is done – regret and responsibility. No “if people were offended” bullshit where the responsibility for outrage is weaselled from the perpetrator(s) to those who call it out.

• At Home With Julia: meh

  By tigtog on 2011-09-09 • ( 6 )

  

  It’s hard enough to write a sitcom when you don’t have to worry about the potential for defamation issues and being overtaken by news developments between filming and airing. I have no idea why somebody thought that it was a great idea to shackle their sitcom with such stultifying constraints.

• Femmostroppo Reader September 8, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-09-08 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Thursday Cheezburger – Waiting

  By Mindy on 2011-09-08 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s theme is Waiting. Waiting increasingly impatiently.

• Today in Awesome Squared: Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace

  By tigtog on 2011-09-07

  

  As Dee asks on void-star.net – Best Colouring book ever?

• 40th Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06

  QoT at Ideologically Impure has curated a fine collection of writing from Down Under bloggers over the month of August-

• Where are the women political bloggers? redux

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06 • ( 5 )

  None of the various proposals to ameliorate these well-documented patterns of hostility and condescension online address the basic disconnect that is rooted in persistent gender stereotypes: that what many women see as being fundamentally political issues are simply not acknowledged as part of “politics” by the mainstream – they’re supposedly just personal problems.

• Education and exams

  By tigtog on 2011-09-06 • ( 20 )

  

  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

  By tigtog on 2011-09-05 • ( 8 )

  

  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.

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