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• Shameless Thank You Plug For Helping Us Dodge The Media Circus

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29 • ( 23 )

  The whole tog family will be dodging the big wedding dress revelation tonight by going to see a comedy show instead. Thank you, generous John Robertson!

• My moaning, let me show you it

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29

  Hatesss the nastiessss, yesssssss.

• Thread: US Tornados

  By tigtog on 2011-04-29

  DEADLY tornados and flash floods flattened buildings and overturned vehicles yesterday as major storms churned through the south of the US, with the death toll surpassing 220 people.

• Apparently there’s no context on Twitter

  By tigtog on 2011-04-28 • ( 12 )

  So it’s said, by nong after dreary nong around the interwebs. It’s just that one string of 140 characters, that’s it!

• Hugo Awards

  By lauredhel on 2011-04-27 • ( 5 )

  The Hugo nominations are out! The full list is below.

  Any favourites? Any surprises? Any rejoicing at the rather marvellous gender balance? (Is this the first time with this many women? Has anyone done the maths? And check out that Best Novel category!) Any unrejoicing about the lack of racial balance (I think, and project from past experience; for many of these authors, I don’t know how they identify when it comes to race.) Other comments? What category are you watching the closest?

• Whoydensday: Preparing for Season 6 DownUnder

  By tigtog on 2011-04-27 • ( 21 )

  SPOILER FREE!!! Linkfest time…No plot~points or revelations are given away. Feel free to read on in safety….

• Lessons from My Lai & The Extras

  By tigtog on 2011-04-26 • ( 12 )

  How can we raise our children to be willing to take a stand against injustice in favour of integrity? Where do we start?

• Lest We Forget

  By tigtog on 2011-04-25 • ( 3 )

  Because it’s Anzac Day, I’ve spent much of my time looking over the various diaries/letters of my greatuncles who took part in the Great War.

• I know which I’ll choose

  By lauredhel on 2011-04-24 • ( 7 )

  cheers for the fat panic, Fairfax! God forbid a day go by without a reminder of the foul spectre of the fatty fatfats that threaten to destroy our society.

• I can’t decide…

  By tigtog on 2011-04-24 • ( 3 )

  whether Alan Greenspan deserves internet immortality more for referring to a hypothetically invisible entity as “unredeemably opaque” or for the phrase which spawned this epic Crooked Timber thread. I await the inevitable memetic offspring.

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