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• Ada Lovelace Day Linkfest – March 24, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-24 • ( 2 )

  Ada Lovelace honours an unsung heroine of pioneering computer programming

• “Get on that treadmill, laydeez!”

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-24 • ( 6 )

  So tonight, Channel Ten News is all about New! Groundbreaking! Research! purporting to show that women actually need “three times more exercise than previously thought(!!1!)” in order to avoid weight gain. No longer twenty minutes per day, we all have… Read More ›

• Last post on the #npchealth debate

  By tigtog on 2010-03-24 • ( 12 )

  This time it’s over at The Drum – The Great Debate Game: winning over the worm. As policy the debate was essentially pointless, as political theatre Abbott was relentlessly upstaged by Rudd, because Rudd stayed focussed on the audience that… Read More ›

• Janet and Tony, up in a tree…

  By tigtog on 2010-03-24 • ( 2 )

  S-P-IN-N-I-N-G.

• Femmostroppo Reader – March 23, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-24

  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. The Health Debate – Kevin grins, Abbott grits and Journalists talk. – “Oh cry me a… Read More ›

• Women on trial

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-23 • ( 7 )

  The Northern Star today has an article about a man who is being tried on “five counts of having sex with a minor; and seven counts of indecent assault”. The woman laying the complaints was 15 when she was first… Read More ›

• Rudd v. Abbott at the Press Club

  By tigtog on 2010-03-23 • ( 8 )

  Knowing the opponents as we do, I’m predicting that Abbott will probably have more zinger soundbites and that Rudd will have more grasp of the figures and keep on bring it back to Abbott’s lack of any comprehensive policy at all.

• Official Perth Stormageddon Thread

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 24 )

  Further to comments in this thread, here’s a spot to talk about the storm. The storm follows over four months without rain in Perth. We have some damage here – porch roof destroyed with the huge hailstones, main roof leaking…. Read More ›

• It’s machismo time!

  By tigtog on 2010-03-22 • ( 6 )

  Regular readers know that I have a weakness for escapist action flicks, and the more absurdly preposterous the martial arts combat scenes the better. (I like to see them make an effort towards stylistic authenticity, but bring on those flywires and hidden tramps, yeah!)

  Two potentially great ones are coming up very soon (released in the US in May):

• Answering hand-waving with hand-waving: Donnelly, rape, and Lady Gaga

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 8 )

  Both tigtog and I have little more than an eyeroll in response to Harradine-mentored Catholic-right NSW Labor MP Greg Donnelly’s remarks in Parliament. While Parliament tried to debate a motion about International Women’s Day, Mr Donnelly chose to take the… Read More ›

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