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• Weekend Wibble: Your Top F/SF Battle Scenes?

  By lauredhel on 2010-05-23 • ( 5 )

  I was just enjoying Fantasy’s Top Ten Fight Scenes: The Battles at Fantasy Magazine, and was wondering what y’all think. What are your top speculative fiction (let’s include fantasy and SF) battle scenes, and why? Do any of them pass… Read More ›

• Zombie Cow’s “Privates”: sex ed or misogyny?

  By lauredhel on 2010-05-22 • ( 128 )

  [Some game graphics may be NSFW] Editor Note 2010/05/31: Welcome, new readers! Firstly, thanks to those who are engaging substantively and with attention to netiquette – it is much appreciated. Sadly, it seems a few of you aren’t reading the… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2010-05-22 • ( 38 )

  Today’s rare white Asian short claw otter pup comes via Zooborns. The leucistic otter is part of a pair born at the Blue Planet Aquarium. More photos at the link. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about… Read More ›

• My town is awesome, but it sucks

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21 • ( 11 )

  Why is Sydney awesome? Because the next time I’m in strife, I might be rescued by ninjas. Why does Sydney suck? A TV news station has taken it upon itself to out a senior politician who had broken no parliamentary… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Claudia Alexander

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21 • ( 2 )

  I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets series, talking about her time as project manager at JPL for the final stage of the Galileo space… Read More ›

• Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass

  By tigtog on 2010-05-21

  While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.

• Reminder: Sydney Hoyden and Geek Feminism picnic, Sunday 30th May

  By Mary on 2010-05-20 • ( 44 )

  Update 30th May: given the recent rain and the forecast, we’re pushing ahead with a wet weather plan. We are meeting at James Squire Brewhouse at 12:30pm for lunch. This regardless of the reasonably good weather this morning. Still James… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: All Fired Up

  By lauredhel on 2010-05-20 • ( 5 )

  Today: All Fired Up. Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only – that… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 18, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-19 • ( 1 )

  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. Abbott’s not a risk to anyone but the Liberals – “It’s perhaps understandable that when Labor… Read More ›

• 5 young white men “of good character” beat Aboriginal man to death

  By tigtog on 2010-05-18 • ( 24 )

  five young men in the Northern Territory – Scott Doody, Timothy Hird, Joshua Spears, Anton Kloeden, and Glen Swain – who after a drinking spree drove along the Todd River creek-bed deliberately terrorising sleeping aboriginals camping there, and who then beat one of those terrorised people, a young man named Kwementyaye Ryder, to death after he threw a bottle at their car

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