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• Chuck Norris on The Chaser

  By tigtog on 2007-04-05

  Because he occasionally does talking-head stuff for Faux News. Nooooooo! Ican’thearyouIcan’thearyouIcan’thearyou. I much prefer the Chuck Norris that Google won’t search for. And the Chuck Norris who chuckles over silly lists. (Wikipedia sucks most of the fun out of the… Read More ›

• The fundamental incoherence of pop-evopsych arguments in a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2007-04-04

  This is totally going to be the keynote quote for the inevitable eventual FAQ on evopsych for Feminism 101: On the subject of evo-psych: But the behaviours of men who oppress women are natural! Evolution makes men spread their seed/rape/etc!… Read More ›

• Quip of the week: journalist division

  By tigtog on 2007-04-04 • ( 2 )

  crossposted from Larvatus Prodeo “[With that level of military protection] even Paris Hilton could ride a bicycle in a bikini through Anbar province.” That was NBC Iraq correspondent Tom Aspell’s summary of the PR stunt from Republican presidential candidate John… Read More ›

• Discoballmouseatarians, I know where you should get your hair cut

  By tigtog on 2007-04-03 • ( 5 )

  In Sydney, anyway. I’m so taking Amanda from Pandagon there if she ever comes visiting Sydney. A salon in an old shop/townhouse on Enmore Road. It has one side-wall purple, the other silver, miniature disco balls and purple-glitter boa-type streamers… Read More ›

• Seen at Shakesville

  By tigtog on 2007-04-03 • ( 3 )

  Which is the shiny new hangout for the folks from Shakespeare’s Sister, which will remain as their archive site. Shakers, update your blogrolls! Update: The new site has been made unusable through DOS attacks, so the Shakers are back at… Read More ›

• Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-02 • ( 2 )

  Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”, by its very nature. Or so Andrew Riemer, Herald book critic, firmly believes, as quoted by the SMH. According to the ABC, John Hinde has bequeathed a new literary prize, one of Australia’s richest. The prize… Read More ›

• Stopping cyberbullying

  By tigtog on 2007-04-02 • ( 1 )

  Kathy Sierra, writing about how she has cancelled an upcoming conference speech and other engagements due to overwhelming fear following hate-speech and threats directed at her online. The threats were at a sufficiently high level that Sierra has reported them to the police and apparently the FBI is investigating them, because making death threats online, just as in “real life”, is a crime.

• We’re in ur land, redeemin ur children.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-02 • ( 12 )

  The United Aborigines Mission. This stuff went out of fashion years ago, didn’t it? Those missions – the ones that stole children, tortured them, and stripped them of their heritage – they’re completely gone, aren’t they? What with the Bringing… Read More ›

• Looking for Larvatus Prodeo?

  By tigtog on 2007-04-01

  LP is offline at the moment UPDATE: Back online now. We’ve exceeded our bandwidth, and despite a request to the webhosts previously to roll over into the next payment plan and keep continuity of service if that happens, apparently the… Read More ›

• Skeptical Sunday: How do you prove photography to a blind man?

  By tigtog on 2007-04-01

  A great post from 2005: That was the question I was asked: how would you prove to a blind man, that photography exists? I knew what he was getting at. We had been discussing psychics. He was a firm believer… Read More ›

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