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The Blood is The Life 24-03-2012

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:00:01 GMT

SIGNAL BOOST: Doctor Who fan production (with Sylv and Paul Darrow in it!) needs funding
(tags: DoctorWho )
Big science zooms in on a new cure for baldness
This is OBVIOUSLY the most important thing in the world...
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People with autism possess greater ability to process information, study suggests
(tags: autism )
Stella McCartney's London 2012 kit aims for aesthetics gold
OMG look at the women's running kit! That's practically a thong! So glad I am not an athlete.
(tags: epicfail )
A heartening example of the status quo being challenged
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The Shocking Truth – Who is Worse Off under the Granny Tax
"if you REALLY want to get angry, get angry at the FAUX outrage of MILLIONAIRE lefties cynically playing politics with Grannies, scaring them that they'll be taxed into the poorhouse when really they'll pay NOT A PENNY MORE. "
(tags: taxation )

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The Blood is The Life 23-03-2012

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:00:04 GMT

Former Doctor Who companions Katy Manning & Anneke Wills welcome the new girl
This is really sweet - "welcome to the family"! 3
(tags: DoctorWho )
Matthew on an interesting academic study
"The attentional system believed to have a causal role in anxiety disorders is therefore likely to be a general system that responds not to threat but to stimulus relevance; hence, nonevolutionary images, such as those from Doctor Who, captured attention as quickly as fear-relevant spider images. Where this leaves the Empress of Racnoss, we are unsure."
(tags: Science science )
Were the Liberal Democrats used to 'send a message'?
If this is even partially true, then the current FCC need to hang their heads in shame.
(tags: libdemmery )
A free clue to the record industry
I agree with this infographic
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Factcheck: Do British people pay over 40 per cent of all alcohol duties in Europe? | Full Fact
Pretty much, yeah. Another nail in the coffin of my job.
(tags: work )
Ordinary Batman Adventures
I'm not sure if I like cleaning out the cat litter or toenail clipping best but they're all awesome.
(tags: art funny comics )
Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note - e-petitions
My daughter is on the top table in the top set for maths in her year. It's called the Turing table. If my kid's school can do it, so can the Royal Mint. The tenner is the proper place for scientists. We've had Darwin, lets have Turing next time around.
(tags: government )
Met Police lose 2005 rape handling report « Complicity
Epic Fail, Met, Epic fail
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Dear Scum: An Open Letter To The Sun | The Daisy Cutter
The day after the Hillsborough disaster was the day my mum stopped getting the Yorkshire Post after they published photos of dead people crushed up against the fences. We'd never have got the Sun in our house anyway. It seems that after Hillsborough, after photoshopping black people out of photos, after everything that's coming out in Leveson... They still haven't bloody learned.
(tags: media )
Verey Bowring or Something - Budget Games and Alternative Smoking (E cigs).
Very tempted by one of these.
(tags: smoking )
BBC News - Electroconvulsive therapy: Aberdeen team says it 'turns down overactive connection'
this is fascinating.
(tags: brain )
BBC News - Would you wear a t-shirt made from melted guns?
Make clothes, not war!
(tags: cool )

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The Blood is The Life 15-03-2012

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:00:01 GMT

Womanthology: Heroic: now available on Amazon uk.
... for Twentyfive quid. Looks like it's time to start saving, or scrimping something from another bit of the budget...
(tags: comics )
BBC News - Project Barcelona to see BBC open archive for downloads
To all the other broadcasters bitcfhing about this: make better programmes and then maybe repeats of BBC stuff wuldn't be more attractive?
(tags: telly )
An A from Eton is worth less than an A from Scumbag Comprehensive, and Oxbridge admissions tutors know it
WARNING! Contains Torygraph
(tags: education )
HUD secretary says a homeless person costs taxpayers $40,000 a year
That's a lot more than it costs me to run a household. Which begs the question: why don't we just give these people houses? If having benefit scroungers is actually CHEAPER than punishing them, then what's the problem?
(tags: homelessness )
I Am The New Sheriff Of The Internet And I Say The Daily Mail Can Go Fuck Itself
Of course, those of us who are in the know have been doing this for YEARS...
(tags: media dailymail )
This week's Jesus and Mo
"Many thanks to today’s guest scriptwriter, Cardinal Keith O’Brien."
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strangecharm on why she's NOT leaving the Lib Dems
I feel so proud and humble to know someone as articulate and empathetic as Holly, and more importantly, to not have offended her enough to make her hate me (yet). And I hereby promise to never stop shouting at people in positions of authority who don't see what the problem is.
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Tardis Eternity Ring.
This is a thing which I would love to have. But I think a better use for it than sitting on my finger would be as a wedding ring for the two biggest Who geeks in the world. So we need to get equal marriage legalised so we can buy two of these - one each for Richard and Alex. Who's with me?
(tags: awesome )
Women in the Media as in Society? | | Feminist Law Professors
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Moving Target -
Empty Child is the best one, I think. All things Doctor Who should have MOAR Six and MOAR Chris Achilleos
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Of course, when it comes to Who Art, nobody will ever beat Chris Achilleos.
Not ever.
(tags: art DoctorWho )
Dave Godfrey demonstrates EXACTLY the right attitude to Weekly Food Challenge
"This is what you're supposed to do, this is what I actually did, this is how it turned out, not exactly what was expected but hey, who cares?"
(tags: food )
Oxford college offers old Etonians £4,000 to study “common people” | Political Scrapbook
They can come and study me if they like. I'll give the little buggers an edjamacation
(tags: epicfail )
Byte Me | Batman Themed Tarot Cards
Some of these are gorgeous; I especially like The Moon (less keen on Temperance)
(tags: comics )
Comparative Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the "Real" World.
Interesting stuff
(tags: feminism funny comics )

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The Blood is The Life 27-02-2012

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:00:11 GMT

On Ken Livingstone's Alleged Tax Avoidance.
This is EXACTLY how I feel.
(tags: epicfail labour )
First female ascent of The Angels' Share
Climbing Awesomeness :)
(tags: climbing )
Natalie Portman with a tache.
I miss my BeardOfEvilTM now :(
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LOL I loved this cartoon
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Teller Reveals His Secrets
Penn is louder, but Teller is cooler.
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Doncaster 'is part of Scotland' after 900-year-old administrative error comes to light - Yahoo!
(tags: awesome )
Doctor Her » Women in Doctor Who
"To my mind, the problem with Dr Who is not the women that appear in the series, it’s the necessity of using peril as a plot device to drive the stories. At its most simplistic, Dr Who is a show about a semi-omnipotent being who gets into a difficult situation and extracts himself from it using his extraordinary brilliance, resolve and courage. To illustrate the danger of the situation, the (usually female) companion gets into trouble and has to be rescued." I'm really enjoying reading Doctor Her of late; I mean, a feminist Doctor Who blog! Who came up with that idea?
(tags: DoctorWho )
Transubstantiation
Fabulous fiction
(tags: fic )

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The Blood is The Life 25-02-2012

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:00:03 GMT

On feminism
(tags: feminism )
Doctor Who - New Series: New Details!
YAY Rupert Graves! ... No lady guest stars?
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UK Polling Report on accusations thrown at pollsters
(tags: politics )
The Gendered Advertising Remixer | A Media Literacy Web Application
(tags: gender )
Construction firm aims at space elevator in 2050 : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
Awesome
(tags: awesome )
Results of The Buttermind Experiment | Quantified Self
Butter makes you smarter; coconuts make you stupider. I want to see more data.
(tags: Science )
We, the Web Kids - Pastebin.com
Fabulous, fabulous description of the difference between me and people who are the same age as me.
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FactCheck: Work experience or slave labour?
(tags: work )
DC Women Kicking Ass - First look: Womanthology
(tags: comics )
Some days I feel like this
MOST days I feel like that, and I'm ALLERGIC to coffee ;)
(tags: funny )
How to use google - v useful infographic
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Lucy Lawless—a.k.a. Xena the Warrior Princess—Occupies a Shell Oil Drilling Ship | Mother Jones
Man, Xena chaining herself to things for Greenpeace? That rocks. And brings back memories. Hurrah for activism!
(tags: activism )
Jobseekers forced to clean private homes and offices for nothing | Politics | The Guardian
I just don't get why people on Workfare can't be paid the same as their non-workfare collegues. Isn't it illegal to pay two people different amounts for equal work of equal value?
(tags: work )
DWP Rewrite History – Mandatory Work Disappears from the Work Programme Provider’s Guidance | the void
Ooops
(tags: workfare bloodytories )
The jobcentre only hinders my search for work | Joe Paxton | Comment is free | The Guardian
As usual, the comments are the terrifying thing on this article.
(tags: workfare work )
Signal Boost: Scary US politician is VERY SCARY
(tags: epicfail )
Star Trek 2 Set Photos Show Spock Giving Benedict Cumberbatch The Old Vulcan Nerve Pinch | Giant Freakin Robot
In the first photo Benedict Frumious Bandersnatch looks like Keanu Reeves to me. This is disturbing on many levels.
(tags: trek )
Grayling, Workfare and Lies. Again.
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The Blood is The Life 17-02-2012

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:00:06 GMT

UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims | Techdirt
More on the RnBXclusive thing
(tags: censorship )
The curse of Grace Hopper
This is fabulous. If you're even slightly geeky you should take the 30 seconds out of your day to read it.
(tags: Feminism comics )
Cooking for Geeks - O'Reilly Media
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant
(tags: food )
The Girls' Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse
3
(tags: zombies Feminism )
David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice
WARNING: contains Torygraph
(tags: politics )
More attempts by the music and film industries to rage against the dying of the light...
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There. are. Batgirl. Converse. Sneakers.
... and it'd cost me ab out a squillion pounds to obtain them with Journeys' ridiculous international postage policies
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Comments on Unilad from some of their readers.
Profoundly depressing and very triggery.
(tags: epicfail )
Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
"If you’re offended, Get over it. Realize that being offended is much better than being oppressed." - good advice for life, there.
(tags: isms )
The 2012 Oscars and The Bechdel Test
This ten minute video has the best explanation of the Bechdel Test I have seen in a long time; it also has assessments of this year's best picture nominees. Also featuring BONUS GEORGE TAKEI!
(tags: Feminism )

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The Blood is The Life 17-01-2012

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:01 GMT

Labour MP Tom Harris forced to resign as Twitter tsar - WARNING! Contains Torygraph
Oh dear. Labour MP foundered by using passe joke shocker...
(tags: epicfail labour )
Heresy Corner: No end in sight to unfair extradition rules
More on the extradition of the British student for crimes commited on British soil to the US...
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"People think Guantanamo is closed"
See, Obama said he would close it, and politicians ALWAYS do what they say they'll do, don't they? * headdesk headdesk headdesk *
(tags: usa )
The Walking Dead season 3 extended, new poster released
YAY! :D
(tags: telly )
Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits
A discussion of armour from a practical perspective, by an armourer
(tags: gender )
Computer Hacking at The Times?
Jack of Kent spots an interesting snippet
(tags: media )
Hope [sevenhelz]
Sevenhelz tells the story of her first tattoo in a strikingly emotional way. The story reminds me a lot of how I got Wile E....
(tags: tattoo )
The new Royal Yacht – has this been thought through?
Paul Walter delves deeper into Govey's plan for a new royal yacht
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Doctor Who Spinoff Announced Focusing on Amy & Rory
(tags: doctorwho )
Lego For Girls
... I always thought Lego was unisex. Apparently EVERYTHING must be divided on gender lines now :(
(tags: toys )
Press regulation 'needs state support'
Ken Clarke is clearly upset about coming a mere third in Liberal Voice of the Year: Asked by Lords Dobbs whether he wrote a blog, Ken Clarke declared: "I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists – with the honourable exception of the hulture secretary."
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Tory MPs go to war over gay marriage - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
How can anyone even vaguely intelligent think that more people getting married weakens marriage? I just can't get my head around some things. :(
(tags: equality )

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The Blood is The Life 16-01-2012

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:02 GMT

Goths up trees
Must submit Mat to this...
(tags: silly goths )
WTF is with empowered women in video games now?
This is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks :)
(tags: gender )
Memory Myths
Quite proud that there's only one of these I didn't already know - combination of biology teacher dad and training in evidence law ;)
(tags: memory )
Signal boost: women write about comics
I need to remind myself to do something about this.
(tags: comics feminism )
nanila takes lovely photos of Kensal Green Cemetery
(tags: photos )
The Potter Blogger: What the fuck has happened to us?
My insistence that the Lib Dems are a democratic party gets more and more feeble every time shit like this happens. There are names of people I KNOW on that list. They voted FOR the one year time limit even in a FREE VOTE? Ugh.
(tags: epicfail libdemmery )
Hands on With the WiMM One Android Watch
Didn't Douglas Adams say something disparaging about people who think digital watches are cool? ;)
(tags: technology )
'Piracy' student loses US extradition battle over copyright infringement
OFFS
(tags: epicfail )
To opt in or not to opt in | The Economist
“The British have become toxic. Nobody wants to be too closely associated with them,” - Will nobody Danish stand up for us plucky Brits? Ms Toksvig? Nah, don't blame you.
(tags: Europe )
Give Queen a new royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says Michael Gove | UK news | The Guardian
To quote Stephen Sumpter on Google+: "Gove wants to buy the queen a £60 million yacht, at the same time as government are claiming that we have no money left and ruthlessly cutting everything. This man is in our government. How can anyone take him seriously?"
(tags: epicfail gove )

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The Blood is The Life 15-01-2012

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:00:06 GMT

A recent experience with PayPal Customer Service.
This truly beggars belief.
(tags: epicfail )
How Copyright Industries Con Congress
This is US specific, but applies to how the creative industries are creative with their figures in the UK too.
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