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• Busy day

  By tigtog on 2007-12-10 • ( 1 )

  Today I’m doing some reorganisation of the information architecture here. Now that WordPress has incorporated tagging we are modifying how we label our posts: instead of having a gazillion proliferating categories, we will shortly have a shorter list of broad… Read More ›

• Young Women’s Feminist Activism: Medical Students For Choice

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-09 • ( 2 )

  I only just found out about Medical Students For Choice. MSFC is a Northern American network of medical students advocating for reproductive rights in general, and for medical student and resident training in particular. 97% of non-metropolitan councils in the… Read More ›

• Nominate your favourite blog posts at Club Troppo

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-09

  Club Troppo has called for nominations for the Best Blog Posts of 2007. You can nominate up to six posts on any topic, so long as they’re from Australian independent blogs. Closing date is 10th December – tomorrow – so… Read More ›

• Sunday Skeptic Link

  By tigtog on 2007-12-09 • ( 3 )

  Book Review: The Afterlife of a Skeptic How the execution of a philosopher has been reinterpreted for every era The book being reviewed is The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson, about which the reviewer has mixed feelings, but the… Read More ›

• LJ and the Scunthorpe Problem: No Spice Girls or Doo-Wop for you!

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-08 • ( 11 )

  kwoff_id = 7474; So Russian outfit SUP have taken over Livejournal. As I discussed last week, there has been much concern about their rumblings about “taste”, “decency”, and “political concerns”. elfwreck has just discovered that they have already started blocking… Read More ›

• Citizen Howard: No Comment

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-07 • ( 9 )

  John Howard is still completely missing in action. Maxine McKew declared victory in Bennelong nearly a week ago, but he is yet to publicly concede or speak to the press. It is said that he privately conceded to the returning… Read More ›

• What was that?

  By tigtog on 2007-12-07 • ( 6 )

  If I were a less skeptical blogger I would be much more excited about what I saw high in the clouds this morning. I only saw a glimpse, but it was cigar shaped and glowing, and if I were the… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: the Garden Makeover TV Brigade

  By tigtog on 2007-12-07 • ( 5 )

  Despite my misgivings about the whole lifestyle TV phenomenon and the renovation cult, as largely being driven by our good friend consumerism rather than any true aesthetic sense, I have to put in a good word for the women who… Read More ›

• Of magic and mythology: Reality-based parenting

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-07 • ( 14 )

  [image source] “Mummy, what are ‘gods’?”. I was caught a little by surprise, but I think we did ok in the end. After a moment’s thought, I explained that they were figures invented by people. That different human civilisations share… Read More ›

• Gollumbabies

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-06

  My draft posts are getting nowhere, for now. (Wiggles concert yesterday, doctor’s appointment today.). So as to not leave this space blank unintentionally: a LOLcat for you, courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger.

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