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• A day in Hobart: Xmas Eve

  By tigtog on 2008-01-02 • ( 2 )

  This miscreant would turn up as soon as we opened the blinds and the door onto the balcony. mr tog and I spent the morning chasing up last minute Xmas requirements while Nana kept an eye on the kids. It… Read More ›

• Rape, lies and county debts

  By tigtog on 2008-01-02

  I don’t in principle have a problem with this woman convicted of filing a false rape report being held accountable for repaying the county the expense of investigating her unfounded allegations. However, from the tone of the reportage, it appears… Read More ›

• Caption this: Proto-feminism

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-02

  Maeve, the made-of-awesome daughter of sometime guest Hoyden baroquestar, brings us this week’s caption contest.

• Special snowflake watch

  By tigtog on 2008-01-02 • ( 17 )

  A physicist commenting on a post about how a newspaper report of a social sciences paper (speculating on why the rate of rape by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women is reportedly low) has whipped up somewhat of a rightwing frenzy… Read More ›

• Academia: Internet-Triggered Death of Civil Society Not Predicted

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 5 )

  kwoff_id = 9106; In this week of heightened Internet! Moral! Panic!, it’s worth a peek at whether the internet really is the creeping civil cancer that some believe it to be. The JCMC (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) is available in… Read More ›

• “Civil liberties advocates = paedophiles”: Internet culture wars from the ALP.

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 6 )

  kwoff_id = 9092; The ABC reports on Conroy’s internet filtering bluster. He uses exactly the same discourse strategy as used by half-wit anti civil liberties debaters everywhere: “Well if you don’t like it, YOU must be a pedo then! Eh?… Read More ›

• New Year’s Linkfest ’08 v.1.0: words and pictures, pictures and words

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 6 )

  ” “‘Fatal’ gas pumped into Qantas jet “ Qantas has been pumping nitrogen from a nitrogen cart (typically used to refill aircraft tyres) into emergency oxygen tanks (used for crew in an emergency). Nitrogen and oxygen tanks have different fittings… Read More ›

• Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007

  By tigtog on 2007-12-31

  I’m sitting here, back from the “family” fireworks display over Sydney Harbour at 9pm (just slightly less frosty than the New Year firework display in Norway that we attended last year), about to pour myself a something with Frangelico, and… Read More ›

• The Great Firewall of Australia

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-31 • ( 65 )

  [image source] So the government has, as planned back in Beazley times, decided that ISPs in Australia must now implement blocking of “pornographic and inappropriate” websites. Customers must opt out, rather than opting in, to a blocking system that is… Read More ›

• Creepy #19085: Real Estate Advertising

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-30 • ( 2 )

  Via Eric Bramlett, the Top 10 Worst Realtor Headshots. Somehow, this one* only came in at #2. Creepy creepy creepy. [Hat tip to Simon.] * Description: A preschool-age girl in full makeup, with red lipstick, platinum blonde hair, earrings, and… Read More ›

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