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• Yep, very helpful

  By tigtog on 2010-03-22 • ( 6 )

  While I have been taking the pics, cropping them in Photoshop and composing this post, that paw has varied in position from pointing to 2 o’clock to pointing to 5 o’clock.

• TAS & SA Elections – March 22, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-22

  Special State Election roundup!

• Sunday Night Fontmonstery: Dogs As Fonts

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-22 • ( 2 )

  Neatorama has a link to Dogs As Typefaces, which matches photos of dogs to particular fonts. An arched dalmatian is Courier; an alert German Shepherd (older puppy?) is Helvetica; a daschund is Fraktur; a somewhat abashed-looking bull terrier is Bodoni…. Read More ›

• Happy Vernal Equinox

  By tigtog on 2010-03-21

  APOD put up a fantastic picture to mark this stage in the planet’s journey around the Sun. Recorded on March 10 from Teide National Park on the island of Tenerife, the vista is composed of 4 separate pictures spanning over 180 degrees. (Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López)

• Endangered Sunday: Bluefin Tuna

  By tigtog on 2010-03-21 • ( 1 )

  With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 per cent due to over-fishing, the European Commission said the trade ban’s rejection threatened the survival of the ocean predator. Environmental group Greenpeace also warned the vote ”sets the species on a pathway to extinction”.

• Femmostroppo Reader – March 20, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-03-21

  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. (Oops, shared more links than I thought! They’re all after the cut)

• Contraception in the media

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-20 • ( 12 )

  Media articles on contraception surveys and how silly teh wimminz are pretty much always bother me. For a whole variety of reasons. Here’s one of them. There is so much elided, left out, glossed over, ignored, probably not even known… Read More ›

• Quickhit: alpha status now assured

  By Mary on 2010-03-20 • ( 3 )

  Carol Nader reports in the SMH today that the Official Generation Code-Naming Authority?—?there is one, right? an important body that declares that Generation Z is so 2009??—?has decided that as of the 1st of January, Generation Alpha is being born…. Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-20 • ( 14 )

  Today’s otters come via Seaview Wildlife Encounter. Do you want to caption the shot? Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to… Read More ›

• Noel Pearson v. Abbott: welcomes to country and acknowledgment of traditional owners

  By tigtog on 2010-03-20 • ( 2 )

  If you can’t sit through those few minutes or few seconds it is unlikely that you are only annoyed with the occasional political correctness or silliness of it.

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