The Blood is The Life 17-04-2012
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miss_s_b- Charlie Brooker: Some people are gay in space. Get over it | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Mr Clegg: Who are you making policy for, exactly? « Solution Focused Politics
Brilliant analysis of why things keep going wrong for the Lib Dem leadership
- Now people don’t even want to stand for the Lib Dems in elections! What we need to do to reverse this worrying trend « Solution Focused Politics
- Marc Spindelman, “Gay Men and Sex Equality” | | Feminist Law ProfessorsFeminist Law Professors
Normally I find Feminist Law Professors to be very well-informed, but this post contains some startling examples of bi-erasure.
- “Oh, You Sexy Geek!”: “Geek Girls” and the Problem of Self-Objectification
Really, REALLY good analysis.
- Caron's Musings: Conference accreditation rears its unacceptable, illiberal and not very pretty head
- The UK government's war on internet freedom - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
- UK Polling Report
Interesting YouGov poll results on public tax returns and charity exemptions from tax liability
- Tory backed “grassroots” campaign is ‘buying Facebook likes from India’ | Political Scrapbook
- Joan Smith: I'm tired of Christian hectoring. Get over it! - Joan Smith - Commentators - The Independent
- How FPTP chooses the"wrong" winner
Ooooh look, there's Calderdale, straight in at #2...
- On the poll of Lib Dem held and marginal seats
This is something that perhaps needs to be paid attention to, and not in a siege mentality way.
- 'Postnatally depressed' dads? Give me a break | Barbara Ellen | Comment is free | The Observer
Oh dear. While I appreciate that there is a germ of a point in this, it's so muddle-headed, gender normative, and downright WRONG about so many things that it makes me want to scream.
- 'Sexist trousers' are below the belt - Telegraph
- BBC News - First Raspberry Pi computers to be delivered
YAAAAAAAAAAY!
- The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 4112: Oh Dear Federal Conference Committee
- Top 10 worst health and safety myths
- Factcheck: Are half of council homes given to migrants? | Full Fact
- Quantum flavordynamics (in which Holly gives us a primer in Quantum Physics)
My very mature response to this clear and thoughtful post? I want a bottom factory. I like bottoms.
- the widow's world: Dreams of a LIBERAL Democratic conference
- The Clicker - All 5 'Star Trek' captains will beam down to London event
Oh God I wish this was a feasible thing.
- Ideas for development: Playlists on LoveFilm / Netflix : SciencePunk
- ThinkGeek :: Celestial Serving Bowls
I want a Saturn!
- BBC News - Fracking 'should resume with checks'
Linked to purely for the BSG fan sniggering in my head: did the earth move for you when we fracked? *snerk* I know this is proper serious science news, but...
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Policemen are racist because our society is racist - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Commentators - The Independent
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Date: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 12:50 pm (UTC)WRT the "Oh You Sexy Geek" article I'd not really thought about Leia in that way- purely because I've seen the "Slave Leia sexy pose" more times than Jedi, (and never found it sexy anyway) so consequently forget the important point that its not her choice, and she kills Jabba with it.
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Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 11:52 am (UTC)