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• You wouldn’t want to have actually seen this

  By tigtog on 2008-07-05 • ( 5 )

  A superior example of an artist’s reconstruction of a historical event. Image Source: Sky and Telescope, Tunguska: 100 Years and Counting Caption: Here’s how the Tunguska blast might have looked from the windows of a nearby airliner. The expanding shock… Read More ›

• Big Brother UK: Darnell says blind housemate Mikey not a “performing monkey”

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-04 • ( 4 )

  There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Mikey and Darnell are not being presented by the production team purely as “The Disabled Housemates”, with their disability as the only facet of stereotyped caricatures. They don’t… Read More ›

• Kate Harding is such a bitch

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04

  And proud of it. With good reason. It’s a while since I talked about how the principles of moderating comments work on this blog. We don’t have as high a volume of comments to deal with as Shapely Prose does,… Read More ›

• OK, I’m off (shortly)

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04 • ( 5 )

  I will be getting up very early in the morning to head off for holidays in accommodation with no net access. I Will Not Be Turning The Computer On Before I Go. There is net access at internet cafs and… Read More ›

• Thomas Beatie gives birth to healthy baby daughter

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-04 • ( 2 )

  Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man who had everyone chattering about his challenge to their notions of gender fixedness, has given birth to a healthy daughter. Thomas, a transman, decided to become pregnant by artificial insemination. His wife Nancy was unable… Read More ›

• Waterboarding Hitchens

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04 • ( 5 )

  Christopher Hitchens actually had himself waterboarded by the US Military to see whether it felt like torture to him. It did. via Pharyngula, who has links to video.

• oops

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04

  Briefly, there was a post here that I meant to forward schedule to be published next week. Apologies to all on feed-readers who may have seen it and come to comment. It will return in due course.

• Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson redux

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04 • ( 11 )

  Image Source: Reuters Caption: Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik (L) and British actor and human rights activist Emma Thompson leave a container exhibit in Vienna February 11, 2008. ‘The Journey Against Sex Trafficking’ uses seven transport containers to illustrate the… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-03 • ( 2 )

• 350

  By tigtog on 2008-07-03

  I missed this last week, but Bernice explains why this number ought to be burnt into our brains.

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