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  Somewhat Stretchy : Make Your Own Catsuit Sewing Pattern
  
  No idea if this is the best place to go for a free catsuit pattern, but it'll do me. Now, to source some fabric.
  
  (tags: crafts)
  
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  A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine/Autism Wars
  
  PLoS isn't always the best source for actual peer ( Read more... )

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  Letters to Our Daughters Project
  
  A reminder that this project exists, and is amazing.
  
  (tags: feminism science)
  
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  Boys Talk About How Girls Should Talk About Science...
  
  Not just science either. Men like to tell women how to engage in feminism discussion more than they like to engage ( Read more... )

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  Lovelace: The Origin
  
  "Only one thing can subdue poetry... MATHEMATICS."
  
  (tags: webcomics computing)
  
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  Looking Back with the Birds: A Birds of Prey Retrospective
  
  Newsarama gives a succinct and invested history of the title that hooked me on DC.
  
  (tags: comics)
  
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  Caves ( Read more... )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit? New! now with extra #loudtweet editing! So stop your whining.

• 09:30 Slumdog Millionaire star falls ill: Take a kid out of the slums. Pamper him silly. Send him back to the s.. tinyurl.com/aatccp #
• 10:00 Serious DOMA Challenge Under Way in MA: We're winning. tinyurl.com/ba7ubt #
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The following contains twittering:

• 23:31 New LJ post: Brat Twitters tinyurl.com/dy7wx3 #
• 09:26 Grah, new security at the museum hates me. #
• 09:55 Linkspam: NBS Nightly News with Ted Philips, March 11th 1970: I'll be over here, trying not to die.. tinyurl.com/7596ja #
• 10:00 Uh... that last tweet should have ended 'die of excitement over Watchmen' * ( Read more... )

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  Sam Bee on "women's health," abortion and penis babies
  
  I am so very sad that the Daily Show is no longer on Virgin on Demand. I love Sam Bee- watch her really get to grips with John McCain's airquotes.
  
  (tags: vids humour politics)
  
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  Towards an Intersectionality of Atheism and Race
  
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The bad news is that we don't have any internet at home. Or telly (OK, we have the freeview channels, and BBC News 24 is what we watch more than anything else anyway). Or a landline. And we won't until Friday.

This is all a result of the flatmate swap - all our bills, including Virgin Media, were in
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  PHD Comics: Your Life Ambition
  
  It was Tony who said that sometimes PHD comics hit too close to home, right?
  
  (tags: webcomics)
  
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  Obama Hitches his Wagon to the Radical Feminist Agenda
  
  Men's Daily News gives you many reasons to vote FOR Barack Obama.Check out his stance on reproductive freedom!
  
  (tags: choice politics feminism)
  
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  Shakesville ( Read more... )

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"All [his] actions were selfishly motivated.Everything he did, he did out of a love for a woman who could never love him back. Plus, you can tell it's not going to have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy."
- Tara, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.14 Crush
I'm re-watching Buffy and Angel at a slow-but-sureish rate, and this quote suddenly jumped ( Read more... )