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• Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere

  By tigtog on 2010-04-17

  Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-17 • ( 12 )

  Today’s Asian otters, Daz and Chip, reportedly lived together for fifteen years before dying within an hour of each other. They were 19 and 16 years old. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 6 )

  But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.

• Quick Hit – Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women (NSW)

  By Mindy on 2010-04-16

  Expressions of interest are invited for membership of the Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women. The Premier’s Expert Advisory Council provides specialist advice to the NSW Government about issues affecting the status of women in NSW. It is an expert… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 16, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 4 )

  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. Gizmodo: "Baby's First Cubicle: The Most Depressing Toy Ever?" – one for the WTF file Stupid… Read More ›

• Quickhit: A forensic semanticist on ‘sex’ and ‘rape’

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-16 • ( 3 )

  Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent… Read More ›

• Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 18 )

  here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:

• Oh Why Not?

  By tigtog on 2010-04-15 • ( 2 )

  

  When someone on Facebook shares a link to The Avengers 1965 series intro, why wouldn’t I pass it on here? Although I ended up watching some variations and picking my favourite – a typical title sequence for Series 4 that also includes the closing titles.

• Sydney Hoydenizens: Anyone fancy a Sunday Afternoon at the Pub?

  By Beppie on 2010-04-15 • ( 19 )

  It so happens that my birthday’s coming up next week, and I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be great to use this as an excuse to meet up with some Hoydenizen folks?” And so, I’d like to invite all feminist… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The Doctor, and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-15 • ( 8 )

  Today’s Thursday Cheezburger follows the Doctor Who theming of this week… join in! Also – it’s Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give us a shout and let us know you’re there. You’re welcome to say hi, introduce yourself,… Read More ›

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