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• Privacy, Transparency, Surveillance and Sousveillance

  By tigtog on 2013-11-04

  

  David Brin’s latest essay in his longoing series about our Transparent Society: I want the watchers to be watched.

• Today in tigtog is pedanticer than most: gargoyle vs grotesque

  By tigtog on 2013-11-03 • ( 12 )

  

  Architecture: all gargoyles are grotesques, but not all grotesques are gargoyles.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2013-11-02 • ( 5 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2013-10-26 • ( 4 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Slice of Awesome: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss swinging Black Dog

  By tigtog on 2013-10-25

  

  From their 2008 collaboration album Belgian Chocolate, following on from their first collaboration album Raising Sand (2007).

• Ada Lovelace Day Article in the Guardian

  By Anna on 2013-10-23

  

  As a follow-up to Ada Lovelace Day, a series of photos in the Guardian of “Inspiring Women in Science and Technology”. Please find within it a picture of my wonderful, brilliant friend Lauren, who does remarkable things with exotic plants… Read More ›

• Advising women to prevent their own rapes is not brave or edgy or helpful

  By tigtog on 2013-10-22 • ( 31 )

  

  Education campaigns dispelling the traditional ignorance perpetuating rape myths that allow rapists to get away with making “commonsense” excuses work. Victim-blaming doesn’t work.

• Media Circus: It is not illegal to seek asylum edition

  By tigtog on 2013-10-21 • ( 9 )

  

  Disgusting and shameful, but hardly unexpected from this government.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Quick Hit: Men’s Rights Movement Subjected to Some Analysis

  By Anna on 2013-10-21 • ( 14 )

  

  Via Rebecca Watson’s twitter ( she was interviewed for the article), an article from R.Tod Kelly in the Daily Beast about the history and current state of the Men’s Rights Movement in North America (all the expected content notes apply).

• ObWhoniverse: 50th Anniversary Episode Trailer

  By tigtog on 2013-10-20 • ( 5 )

  The trailer features all the Doctor’s incarnations and a selection of friends and foes. It’s not giving anything much away except a sense of portent:

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