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• Femmostroppo Reader – January 15, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-16

  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. How Dare You Question Me – “I’m continually amazed that anyone can consider Pat Robertson a… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Haiti donation links

  By tigtog on 2010-01-15 • ( 6 )

  mr tog and I will be donating money to these two orgs today: * Médecins Sans Frontières Australia * Australian Red Cross Haiti Appeal Obviously, there are many other relief orgs doing good work in Haiti in the wake of… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Kidlit Characters

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-14 • ( 11 )

  Today’s theme is: Characters from children’s literature! Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez week 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… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 13, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-14 • ( 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. my five fav tools to dialogue about justice – “below are tools that i use in… Read More ›

• Holiday Are For Wibble: Photosynthesising Sea Slug?

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-13 • ( 3 )

  Wired reports that Florida scientists may have found a sea slug that photosynthesises. Unlike other symbiotic critters like lichens, Elysia chlorotica appears to actually manufacture chlorophyll itself, having, the team supposes, incorporated genes from the algae it eats: Some related… Read More ›

• Only one of these has been invited onto Britain’s Got Talent

  By Mindy on 2010-01-13 • ( 2 )

  Darren the Waving Goat Death Metal Rooster As far as I know anyway. Can you guess which one? BTW they declined the offer because it was too far to travel for the animal.

• Science! fluffy marsupials in treetops! with Crittercams!

  By tigtog on 2010-01-13 • ( 2 )

  The elusive tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea are revealing more about themselves to scientists thanks to a new videocam technology project.

• FeminismTM Fail?

  By tigtog on 2010-01-13

  No, not that kind of feminism. Not the theory of women’s equality or the history of suffrage or the First Wave or the Third Wave or 18 million tiny cracks in the glass ceiling.

  I’m talking about Feminism^TM, as in the largest feminist advocacy organizations in the country raising millions of dollars to fight on behalf of women.

• Quotables: Jimmy Carter on Religion and Women

  By tigtog on 2010-01-12 • ( 4 )

  “The belief that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God,” Mr. Carter continued, “gives excuses to the brutal husband who beats his wife, the soldier who rapes a woman, the employer who has a lower pay scale for women employees, or parents who decide to abort a female embryo.”

• Troubles with comments?

  By tigtog on 2010-01-12 • ( 3 )

  At least one person is having trouble commenting when using Firefox – when sie hits the “Submit” button on a current discussion sie is redirected to a post from 2007 instead. I can’t reproduce it using Firefox myself, so am… Read More ›

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