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  • Femmostroppo Reader November 19, 2010

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you’ve been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

  • Quicklink: Epilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle

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    Fred Vogelstein, parent of a child with epilepsy that’s been unable to be effectively controlled pharmaceutically, describes his family’s positive experience with a ketogenic diet as a treatment regime: a diet that involves a whole lot of fat in a restricted calorie regime that requires measuring food in fractions of grams. The whole story behind this increasingly accepted but horrendously complicated to manage treatment is a fascinating read.

  • Jacaranda time!

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    All over Sydney, there’s gorgeous patches of pale purpley-blue.

  • Thursday Cheezburger: …zzzzzzz

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

  • Gossip

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    Mateship is a bond so sacred we want it recognised in the Australian Constitution but female friendship is something nasty and undermining. Apparently this is because female friendships are distracted by competition for men.

    Oh, this kind of shit doth weary me.

  • Femmostroppo Reader November 17, 2010

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

  • Gratuitous Tap Dance blogging

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    Gregory Hines with Brenda Bufalino and the American Tap Dance Orchestra, 1989. Hines basically does a drum solo using just his feet.

  • UK Guantanamo detainee settlements

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    This settlement allows the government to kick the formal inquiry about government complicity in maltreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a judicial review, of which the most obvious benefit is that secret papers from the intelligence services will not be subpoenaed to be presented in an open court.

  • Media meltdown over cash cow royal wedding

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    So how about a thread where we share some fun pop culture moments about weddings (or non-weddings) that avoid the Consumerist Fantasy Wedding tropes? I’ll start off with Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling:

  • Remembering Bobbi Sykes 1944-2010

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    Dr Sykes (although she had not yet even begun her PhD) was the first woman I ever saw referred to as an activist on the TV news, when she was arrested in 1972 as the police overran the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra. There will be no picture of her here now that she is deceased.