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• Thursday Cheezburger: *sniffle* *wheeze* *suffer* *persevere*

  By tigtog on 2010-07-08 • ( 1 )

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

• Whoydensday: Just one more 2010 episode to go!

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 14 )

  But in very serious news: I’m terribly, terribly jealous of the fact that the cast and crew got to hang around Stonehenge with it all to themselves. I may have to go gnaw my liver for some time.

• Quickhit: Scienceblogs’ new nutrition blog – from PepsiCo

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 9 )

  As Chris Clarke says: I don’t see how this could possibly end badly.

• Phishing scam alert: “Your tax refund is here. Very important!”

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07 • ( 4 )

  I just received an email from “support@ato.guv.au” – this is a dummy email address that resolves to the phisher’s domain.

• 2010 National NAIDOC Poster

  By tigtog on 2010-07-07

  The artwork depicts an Aboriginal mother who is an ‘unsung hero’ leading her children through example, showing that actions can speak louder than words.

• Femmostroppo Reader – July 6, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-07-06

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

• Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster

  By tigtog on 2010-07-06 • ( 10 )

  Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.

• Quote Of The Day: Julian Burnside

  By tigtog on 2010-07-05 • ( 1 )

  “at the current rate of arrivals it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with boat people”

• Strong support for decriminalising abortion

  By tigtog on 2010-07-05 • ( 10 )

  ”Our findings challenge the belief that Australians strongly oppose women accessing late abortion.”

• Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans

  By tigtog on 2010-07-04 • ( 1 )

  Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results

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