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• Nerds and reproduction

  By tigtog on 2008-06-26 • ( 2 )

  From xkcd – “Babies” (as always, for added twist, mouse-over the image for extra text)

• AP backpedaling?

  By tigtog on 2008-06-26 • ( 5 )

  Lauredhel posted last week about AP’s Cease and Desist posturing over a blogger using short excerpts from their articles (with attribution and links). Today? SMH: AP to hammer out deal with bloggers Jim Kennedy, the AP’s director of strategic planning,… Read More ›

• Yes, I’m tweaking the blog again

  By tigtog on 2008-06-25 • ( 10 )

  And it appears that it doesn’t like the new plugins. Or so go a couple of reports from Hoydenizens. If you’re having any problems clicking on links can you tell me in comments? Or if the problem extends to the… Read More ›

• ObWhoydensday Quick Hit: Who is back!

  By tigtog on 2008-06-25 • ( 7 )

  Auntie’s got her act together: this Sunday night at 7:30pm! That’s the Doctor Who 2007 Christmas Special, guest starring our own Singing Budgie, who I really liked in this part. They don’t say so incontrovertibly, but the ABC website does… Read More ›

• Nitpickers alert: sexual health education division

  By tigtog on 2008-06-25 • ( 19 )

  Allison Pearson is outraged that her 12 year old daughter knows all about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, because this will apparently ruin the youthful romantic yearnings that all teenage girls should have by right, yet paradoxically this very lack… Read More ›

• Who’s the TV couple of the Noughties?

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-25 • ( 38 )

  [Images and links may include spoilers.] The turn of the century seems only moments ago to me, but it’s 2008 already. And I’ve been contemplating who is the TV romantic pairing of the decade. In the seventies, we had Joanie… Read More ›

• More gruesome graphics

  By tigtog on 2008-06-25 • ( 4 )

  Yet another forced-birther group: If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America! To hammer their point home, Survivors has… Read More ›

• Meta-Cat-Macro: LOLOLOL

  By tigtog on 2008-06-24

  more cat pictures

• Three Hits: Gender Binary Edition

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-24 • ( 6 )

  Hell On Hairy Legs shares a post-patriarchal Doctor Who ficlet: Doctor: (airily) Oh marriage is long gone, went with the gender binary. The downfall of patriarchy made sex so much less complicated. Donna: Gender binary? Whadya mean? There are men… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: LG “Secret” Stalkerphone

  By lauredhel on 2008-06-23 • ( 18 )

  And when I say “hit”, I mean “detonate with a nuclear weapon and fire into the sun, please”. LG has released a new phone, which they call “Secret”. Apparently, if you’re a peeping Tom, you can use it to control… Read More ›

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