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• Ghouls

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23 • ( 6 )

  I haven’t posted here about the Virginia Tech massacre, because I had nothing adequate to say. I got in an argument about guns over at LP, and that was one reason I didn’t write on it here either. Sadly No!… Read More ›

• Framing that Overton Window for science

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23

  This is all over the science blogs at the moment: how to present science convincingly to the public in an atmosphere of anti-science media sensationalism. It’s got a lot of scientists very agitated indeed. The debate is mostly US-centric, but… Read More ›

• cyberbullies again

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23 • ( 2 )

  DeviousDiva, a pseudonymous British expat living and blogging in Greece, has been harassed by Greek nationalist bloggers, threatening to out her, for writing a series on the maltreatment of the Roma in Athens. Thankfully the major culprit blog has now… Read More ›

• New to the Blogroll

  By tigtog on 2007-04-22 • ( 2 )

  Kate Harding – feminism, fat and more Tama Leaver dot Net – digital culture Diary of a Research Artist – journey toward a PhD with cyberfeminist Art Girls Read Comics (And They’re Pissed) Karen Healey, Kiwi using pissed in the… Read More ›

• Silencing with “attack”, the misuses of logic, and reclaiming emotion

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-22 • ( 5 )

  I’ve been contemplating the buzzword “attack”. While it is worth keeping a lid on egregious, unwarranted, off-topic ad hominem remarks, “personal attack” seems to verge on being a means to shut down dissent in some online discussions. It can function… Read More ›

• Everyday Codebreaking in Australia, vol.1

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-22 • ( 5 )

  As you know, I’ve been talking a bit about violations of the WHO Code. I’ve started collecting some examples of everyday Code-breaking in Australia. My last example was of Wyeth’s transgressions. Have you heard of Nutricia, a Dutch Numico subsidiary?… Read More ›

• Unimpressed

  By tigtog on 2007-04-21

  The Gawker has jumped the shark. “LOLGayz”, FFS. Othering, anyone?

• Weekend Wibbling: From Peri to Fraggles

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-21 • ( 9 )

  Don’t ask me why, but I’ve been contemplating fairy mythology in kidlit and TV, specifically fairy proxies like The Fraggles and The Borrowers. This idea – that there is a whole world of tiny, wise and/or mischievous creatures, that are… Read More ›

• Friday Fluffy, thoughtful bloggers, the cute factor and FOOD

  By tigtog on 2007-04-20 • ( 4 )

  image from NYT This image is for Penguin Unearthed, who kindly included me in her list of bloggers who make her think a few weeks ago.

• The Card’nal Pell eau d’ordure

  By tigtog on 2007-04-19

  From an opinion piece that I missed back in February, by Sydney’s Cardinal George Pell titled Scaremongers: “Global warming doomsdayers” are all wrong because, amongst other things, “January also was unusually cool.” Meanwhile, from people who took actual measurements (emphasis… Read More ›

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