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  • Japan earthquake and tsunami

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    Authorities are projecting around 1000 deaths. I don’t think any of our regular commenters live in Japan, nor anywhere in the northern Pacific likely to be tsunami-affected, but I’m sure we must have lurkers there. I wish you all safe. Please use this as an open thread on any news.

  • The Ada Initiative: census and Q&A

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    The Ada Initiative census advertisement button

    I am in the process of co-founding a non-profit called the Ada Initiative, which is seeking funding to undertake advocacy for women. The Ada Initiative is focused on women in open technology and culture generally, which includes online activists, members of fandom, remixers, open source hackers and many others If you are interested, take our census or ask questions here.

  • SIWOTI: Sagan’s ECREE maxim is NOT nonsense

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    Please pardon the acronyms in the title (expansions forthcoming in the post), I’m attempting to keep my post titles reasonably concise. Which is exactly what the final sentence in the quote below does in relation to the rest of the paragraph preceding it: it restates the whole argument of the paragraph pithily in just five words: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  • Thursday Cheezburger – Lol cat medical advice

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    Today’s theme is: Lol cat medical advice

    Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

  • So the cutest slow loris evah

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    – enthralled by a tiny umbrella!

  • This is not madness

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    TRIGGER WARNING (violence against children).

    This is not madness – it’s a sense of entitlement.

  • Happy IWD!

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    I don’t have anything special planned except for paying a little more attention specifically to what other women are writing right now. Feel free to share links to anything you find especially relevant today.

  • How the carbon price works

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    That is the whole point: to make goods that are generated with more carbon pollution relatively more expensive than goods that are generated with less carbon pollution.

  • Dear UK, Australia does NOT use expensive voting machines

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    We don’t use them to cast our votes, and we don’t use them to count our votes either. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying.

  • Were you online in ’95-ish?

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    Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.