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• Life at 7: discussion thread

  By Mary on 2012-10-16 • ( 26 )

  

  The fourth pair of Life documentaries about Australian children is here: Life at 7. What do you think?

• Media Circus: personality politics edition

  By tigtog on 2012-10-15 • ( 18 )

  

  Yeah, I know that’s generally how the MSM coverage falls out most of the time, but it’s ratcheted up a few notches in recent weeks, hasn’t it? As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes).

• ObFreeFallSpaceJump post: a little detail I was glad to discover

  By tigtog on 2012-10-15 • ( 2 )

  

  Because I obviously haven’t been paying enough attention, I hadn’t realised that Joseph Kittinger, the USAF officer who previously held the record for highest/fastest freefall parachute jump after the 1959-60 Project Excelsior research into high-altitude bailouts, was part of the team for Felix Baumgartner’s successful attempt on those records.

• Femmostroppo Reader, October 14 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-10-14 • ( 4 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-10-13 • ( 21 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Helpful Hint of The Day: being *on the internet*

  By tigtog on 2012-10-12 • ( 17 )

  

  A Handy Test for Reddit Users: Are You on the Internet Right Now?

• International Day of the Girl

  By tigtog on 2012-10-12 • ( 9 )

  

  I missed posting this yesterday, but I want to raise my bloggy hand to join the call for protecting the right of girls around the world to education. I want to honour Malala Yousufzai and her two schoolmates who were also shot while trying to shield her from assassins.

• When is anger allowed?

  By Mindy on 2012-10-11 • ( 28 )

  

  If you raise these issues when Gillard is riding high, you are accused of trying to bring her down. If you raise the issue when Gillard is trailing in the polls you are accused of trying to destroy her chances. If you raise these issues when everything is going smoothly then you are accused of rocking the boat.

• Whimsy

  By Mindy on 2012-10-10 • ( 6 )

  Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you. Self promotion encouraged.

• Update on “We Will Not Go Quietly” zine: now fundraising for printed copies

  By Mary on 2012-10-10

  

  The editors of We Will Not Go Quietly, a zine by survivors of sexual assault, have prepared a PDF version, but cannot afford to print as many copies as they’d like. They have set up a Pozible campaign.

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