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  • Thursday Cheezburger: Music

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    Today’s Subjects theme is … Music! Runner-up: Post your own favourite Musical 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 ›

  • Jetstar, AGAIN – this time they refused passage to woman with guide dog

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    Further to incidents where Jetstar expected Fearnley to cool his heels, completely dependent, in a non-self-propelled aisle chair for 90 minutes between checkin and boarding (“Let us drive the wheelchair! It’s safer!), and another incident where someone being pushed in… Read More ›

  • My two unfavourite memes of this week

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    People who keep harassing someone for a deleted copy of someone else’s raw data instead of going to the originator of that raw data for a copy of their own? Even when it’s been explained to them over and over that the originator is the only person who can provide another copy of that raw data? Now that’s unethical.

  • Show your vote

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    a virtual ballot box that can be embedded into any website allowing people to register their support for sealing a fair and effective climate deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, which runs for two weeks from Monday.

  • Carnival! Get your submissions in now.

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    The Nineteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! There are around 24 hours until the close of submissions, so get your posts in RIGHT NOW. This edition will be hosted by mynxii at The Professional Lap… Read More ›

  • Femmostroppo Reader – December 1, 2009

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    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. An Australian double standard – Our government refuses to fund an atheist conference while blithely funding… Read More ›

  • Dead because she…

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    A former Miss Argentina has died from complications after cosmetic surgery, leaving behind her husband and eight year old twins. According to newspaper reports “the woman who had it all died because she wanted a slightly firmer ass”.  Not because… Read More ›

  • My two cents

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    1. There is no way known that Abbott can possibly win the next election for the Libs.
    2. Joe Hockey dodged a bullet. He’ll do much better in the next leadership vote after Abbott and the Minchinoviks lose the next election.

  • Procrastination aid Of The Day: UEA CRU hyperbole

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    The emails largely had to do with dealing with an already known problem with dendrochronology. The oceans are still rising, the Arctic ice is still melting back worse in the summer, the glaciers are still withdrawing. And all of this is still exceeding IPCC models, as the modelers well know. The hockey stick has acquired another crook.

  • Aurora Borealis and Joanna Lumley

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    I enjoyed it a lot more than the TV guide reviewer did. Particularly when she finally got to see the actual Northern Lights in the far north of Norway, complete with Edvard Grieg soundtrack (Peer Gynt,? Suite No. 2 Op. 55: Solveigs´s Song). This particular clip of her watching the aurora has a sign language translator for Lumley’s voiceover.