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• Virtual Travelling: Barack O’ Lantern

  By tigtog on 2008-10-28 • ( 3 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Barack O’ Lantern, originally uploaded by Aidenag. My largest pumpkin carving endeavor ever. I took the… Read More ›

• Google Earth for iPhone

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-28 • ( 1 )

  I now have Google Earth on my iPhone. Bugger the flying car. This is better. *techswoon*

• Net censorship roundup: Fielding and Xenophon want filters to include legal material

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-27 • ( 40 )

  From today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Net filters may block porn and gambling sites Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be… Read More ›

• ooh, what a giveaway

  By tigtog on 2008-10-27 • ( 5 )

  When the hyperventilators about the homosexual agenda in the US describe the prospect of gays in the military as “radical social experimentation” “thereby disrupting military readiness and unit cohesion”, do they simply not realise that many other countries around the… Read More ›

• Where would your eight homes be?

  By tigtog on 2008-10-27 • ( 13 )

  Saw this meme over at Cara’s and as she doesn’t tag people, I’m just taking it. For those who have not been paying obsessive attention to the US election details, it’s a reference to how many homes the McCains own… Read More ›

• Genes for gender identity?

  By tigtog on 2008-10-27 • ( 28 )

  I find the implications of this research (Scientists find a gene for the transsexual experience) absolutely fascinating, but can also already see how it’s going to be spun by the evpsych pseudoscience brigade in their continual battle to tell women… Read More ›

• Get your submissions in by the end of the month for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-27

  The call is out for Down Under Feminist Carnival submissions at Penguin Unearthed, who is hosting this month: I’m particularly keen to have posts with a workplace focus, so all workplace submisions gratefully received. But all feminists posts are welcome,… Read More ›

• SF Sunday: success by stealth?

  By tigtog on 2008-10-26 • ( 13 )

  The best rant on io9 this week: If geek stuff is so hip, then why are two of the season’s biggest scifi hits, CBS show Eleventh Hour and bestselling Neal Stephenson novel Anathem, adamantly classified as Not Scifi? Because nerd… Read More ›

• Knickers off for Obama!: Fauxgressive douchebaggery at Fivethirtyeight

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-25 • ( 4 )

  Fivethirtyeight.com is a polling wonk’s delight. If you have a fraction of a passing interest in psephology, you can lose hours of your life there. I screenshottified this comment (image text below*) because I’m still having trouble believing my eyes:… Read More ›

• House-hunting: traps and peeves

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-25 • ( 26 )

  Via The Worst of Perth, this space-warped Shenton Park apartment, which reminds me of a certain scene from Jurassic Park. Crappy photographs are one of the biggest things that get on my wick. In this era of internet house-hunting, I… Read More ›

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