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• Femmostroppo Reader – April 1, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-01 • ( 3 )

  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. No True Scotsman – “t was not surprising that the group recently arrested and charged with… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Vampire Kittehs

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-01 • ( 14 )

  Today’s theme is… Vampires! Post your own favourite vampire (or werewolf!) LOLcat 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… Read More ›

• Go on, ask me about the History of Metals

  By tigtog on 2010-04-01 • ( 8 )

  I just won’t answer for another hour or so, until we’ve got this Year 11 (!) Assessment Task (!) presentation (!) which I was first told “wasn’t quite ready” (!) about at approx 11:30pm last night handed in (Period 5).

• Fire in the frost: Feisty Olympians defy the odds

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-01 • ( 15 )

  As the opening quarter of 2010 draws to a close, we look back on what I believe is the one of the highlights of the year: the Winter Olympics in February. In this event, a whole different kind of athletic… Read More ›

• Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Good News in Science

  By tigtog on 2010-03-31 • ( 3 )

  Brought to you by judge who finally said what we were all thinking: the idea that you can patent a human gene just because you were the first to find/identify it is not what patent law was meant for.

• Let’s Dance

  By Mindy on 2010-03-31 • ( 1 )

  A US lawyer says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance. The dance is not the school prom, that is still cancelled, it… Read More ›

• Senator Conroy needs some cheese to go with that whine

  By tigtog on 2010-03-30 • ( 3 )

  That nasty Google is saying terrible things about his shiny net filter that he wants to give to all Australians, whether they want it or not.

• Logansrogue IS Teh Feminist Cabal, sez Crazy Domains

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-30 • ( 15 )

  Remember Crazy Domains and their jizztastic cream-jaculatin’ Pamela Anderson advertisement? The one pulled by the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB)? Gavin Collins, Managing Director, is throwing a tanty. And he blames one little post on livejournal for all his problems. This… Read More ›

• The Daily Mail song

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-30 • ( 3 )

  Most of you probably know about the UK right-wing middle-class-white-grievance-pandering newspaper the Daily Mail, aka the Daily Fail and a variety of other nicknames. Dan & Dan Films made a song about it.

• Politics vs Policy: how superficial gamesmanship steals our future

  By tigtog on 2010-03-29 • ( 20 )

  This should be shaping up as the real issue in the upcoming Federal election – for both the PM and the Leader of the opposition. What do either of them really offer for the future of Australia? Sadly, how would we know, when the media encourages both of them to “win the week’s news headlines” instead of pushing for bigger goals and the comprehensive plans to make them happen?

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