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• Otterday! and Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-19 • ( 10 )

  Well, mongooseeses are honorary otters, aren’t they? Please tell me they are. This baby banded mongoose is part of a litter of six at Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. Presumably not the petting zoo. Via Zooborns. Please feel free to use… Read More ›

• The day Sydney had no buses, and I had no car

  By tigtog on 2009-12-18 • ( 10 )

  All the taxis were engaged. I walked a bit further, and saw a woman also trying to flag down taxis. She had suitcases, and looked a lot more agitated than I felt.

• Ted Alvin Klaudt wants $500,000 per infringement from people who publish his name without permission

  By tigtog on 2009-12-17 • ( 1 )

  But convicted rapist Ted Alvin Klaudt and his “Common Law Copyright Notice” can go whistle.

• Things that are not our business, Duggar edition.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-17 • ( 27 )

  I don’t suppose anyone has a cite for this? “Every time you have a pregnancy, the placenta implants in the uterus and that implantation site cannot be used again because it’s scarred,” said Dr. Diane Harper of the University of… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Biology

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-17 • ( 2 )

  Today’s Cheezburger high-school-subject theme is … Biology. Runner-up:

• Femmostroppo Reader – December 17, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-12-17 • ( 11 )

  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. OMG SHOEZ – more “women are callous bitchez” crap Security guards: 12-year-old rape victim wanted it… Read More ›

• Ah, Tim Burton does Charles Dodgson – what could be finer?

  By tigtog on 2009-12-17 • ( 15 )

  I like this idea – it allows them to revisit the iconic characters and scenes as Alice struggles to remember her previous visits, and it allows for some kickarse new developments as well. I love the CGI work on Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen.

• How not to write to a blogger

  By tigtog on 2009-12-16 • ( 7 )

  I guarantee you that your jaw did not just drop as far as mine did when I first read that. Yeah, I can totally see how he’s really loving our blog and is utterly captivated by our style of writing and the subjects we choose to write about. Yay for the females!

• Quick Hit: Go on, admit that you secretly find Tony Abbott sexy.

  By Mindy on 2009-12-16 • ( 12 )

  Well, according to Janet Albrechtsen you do.  Apparently, even his political stances that we despise can’t conquer the fact that we all really want a “Fit and50-something, the runner, cyclist and former boxer in a pair of Speedos with a… Read More ›

• A False Sense of Security

  By tigtog on 2009-12-16 • ( 4 )

  “The internet filter will not protect kids from nasty things on the net, but will instead give parents a false sense of security leading to the very outcomes that they are trying to prevent”.

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