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  • Nuance for Dummies

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    The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin… Read More ›

  • Thursday Cheezburger, and Delurking Day

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    Today has turned into the Big Cat Edition. Runner-up. Second runner-up. It’s our monthly Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give us a shout and let us know you’re there. You’re welcome to post your favourite macro, introduce yourself,… Read More ›

  • If only we’d realised it was that easy

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    Yet another unpublished email from yet another concern troll over at FF101: darla (email address redacted) I think all women should embrace the fact that God made us different for a reason, stop being mad. you kind of women is… Read More ›

  • Help out Heretical

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    Heretical is the annual magazine of the Women’s Collective at UQ (University of Queensland). This year it might not appear unless there is some rapid assistance from the broad feminist community. They simply don’t have enough submissions, and time is… Read More ›

  • Lazy school holiday blogging: neat stuff

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    Various links wot have caught my eye on various mailing lists, blogs and emails I have read recently: Space.com has some of the Stunning New Images of Mercury taken by the spacecraft MESSENGER. (Trivia of the day – MESSENGER —… Read More ›

  • Google Street View: American National Parks

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    The Street View cars don’t often venture into American national parks. The coverage of the United States is fairly poor in general, and concentrates largely on urban areas. But I poked and I prodded, and I managed to find a… Read More ›

  • It’s nearly debate time

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    The second presidential debate starts in a bit over an hour (12:00pm AESummerT). Who’s planning to watch/liveblog/tweet it? Are we expecting anything new compared to last time? Addit: This debate is apparently a little different – “town hall style” –… Read More ›

  • Whoydensday: what are you doing here?

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    The work this must have taken! Forty-five years of Doctor Who summed up by one phrase. This was a birthday present I made for my friend’s 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase “What are you… Read More ›

  • “What do the gorgons represent?”

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    Today’s school holidays lazyblogging draws on our referrer logs. I’ve edited out those without both hands on the keyboard, which leaves very little, percentage-wise. Here’s a sampling of search terms used by this week’s googlers. very fantastic hairy women with… Read More ›

  • Election Watch: 4 more weeks

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    I’m surprised that most US blogs I read are still as hung up on the VP debate as they are, but there you go. Reading Michelle Malkin’s liveblogging of the event was an eye-opener though (not linking, google if you… Read More ›