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• Friday Hoydens: Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women

  By tigtog on 2011-07-15 • ( 6 )

  

  Saffire was an acoustic trio of uppity blues women who performed together for 25 years from 1984-2009.

• More Elevatorgate: cornering, uncongeniality and warning flags

  By tigtog on 2011-07-15 • ( 34 )

  

  Ironically, no one hates high pressure sales tactics more than skeptics. We can’t stand it when a sales associate gets in our face and uses cheap psychological tricks to try to make us buy stuff we don’t want. We take it as an insult to our intelligence. We resent it.

• Thursday Cheezburger – Bastille Day

  By Mindy on 2011-07-14 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s theme is French, in honour of Bastille Day.

• C’est Quatorze Juillet! Célébrons!

  By tigtog on 2011-07-14 • ( 3 )

  

  Stocking up on Roquefort and paté today!

• Femmostroppo Reader July 13, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-07-13 • ( 8 )

  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!

• QFT: Cleaning up is a costly business

  By tigtog on 2011-07-12 • ( 12 )

  Over the last few years, the idea of treating the atmosphere with the same level of care as we (now) treat our neighborhoods and our waterways has become an ideological football.

• Australia’s Honour killings – In the end, they’re just as dead

  By Helen on 2011-07-11 • ( 15 )

  James Ramage was released from prison last Friday, after only eight years following his conviction for strangling and bashing his wife, Julie, to death in their house and burying her in a shallow grave. The details of the case reveal… Read More ›

• Monday Morning Torchwood Thread

  By tigtog on 2011-07-11 • ( 18 )

  

  So who else caught the first episode of Miracle Day over the weekend?

• Femmostroppo Reader July 9, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-07-09 • ( 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!

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-07-09 • ( 22 )

  Today’s sea otter comes via toniluca 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? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

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