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• Tech tip: Did I miss the Amara memo? Easy subtitling!

  By Mary on 2012-08-23 • ( 1 )

  

  Amara (Universal Subtitles) is great stuff! You submit the URL into the Amara website and a tool opens up that lets you enter subtitles for the video, in three easy (or easier than I thought!) steps.

• The odds aren’t stacked against you, you’re just thinking wrong.

  By Mindy on 2012-08-23 • ( 19 )

  

  Are you thinking positively enough and other bullshit.

• Whimsy: London Zoo Annual Weigh-In

  By tigtog on 2012-08-23 • ( 5 )

  

  Meerkats! Penguins! Giraffes! Giant tortoise! *ded* Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of this thread as a brain-bleach repository.

• Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi

  By Mary on 2012-08-22 • ( 3 )

  

  In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.

• Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow

  By Mary on 2012-08-21 • ( 7 )

  

  In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.

• Media Circus: you will answer our disingenuous circumlocutions exactly how we frame them

  By tigtog on 2012-08-20 • ( 16 )

  

  How dare Gillard get straight to the underlying point instead of following the interviewer’s planned choreography for her anticipated flustered blustering? The nerve!

• Book Week

  By Mindy on 2012-08-20 • ( 7 )

  

  Book Week 2012 #bookweek

• Quick Hit: I’m not sexist says Bob Ellis

  By Mindy on 2012-08-20 • ( 12 )

  

  Bob Ellis says he isn’t sexist. What do you think?

• Biology Fail and #legitimaterape apologism: Todd Akin

  By tigtog on 2012-08-20 • ( 20 )

  

  Todd Akin, US congressman and senatorial nominee claimed in an interview that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-08-18 • ( 23 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

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