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Lately I’ve been doing a lot of Biblical research for the Women of Genesis project and now I keep getting Google ads for holidays to the Holy Land. The URLs are pretty hilarious. There’s goisrael.com, pilgrimtours.com, followtherabbi.com, sonoflifeclassic.com, and walkwherejesuswalked.com. I guess it’s a pretty big niche market in a religious country like the USA. […]
February 7, 2013
Whenever some misogynist-trolling-of-intelligent-woman scandal has exploded in the (anti‑)feminist webosphere over the last decade or so (ie since I started tapping into it), I’ve seen countless variations of this idea, mainly from intelligent men sympathetic to the concept that women are equal to men: “All these sexists on the internet need to ask themselves how […]
January 9, 2013
I blame globalisation and the internet. The number of appalling situations or events are brought to my attention by organisations like Change.org, SumOfUs.org and GetUp is starting to make me sick. Without them, I would be much more comfortable in my privilege as a more-or-less white, basically-middle-class woman in a safe, rich country. As it […]
July 26, 2011
Late last year when I was applying for full-time jobs, I tried once again to make my work history look like a coherent career. It looked like this: I was pretty proud of having gotten all my stuff into one 2D diagram but it still didn’t strike me as looking particularly coherent, at least not […]
April 18, 2011
One of the reasons I came to Melbourne was to work with funky, innovative businesses. One of the first ones I found (via this guy and LinkedIn) was Anecdote. I’m spending the next little while running a social media campaign to tell the world about their funky new web app, Zahmoo. Zahmoo is all about […]
February 23, 2011
In English, the only nouns that get capitalised are proper nouns. Place names like streets and countries, names of organisations, names and titles of people, trademarks and brand names, titles of books and magazines, names of TV and radio shows. The internet is none of these things. It’s not a place, it’s not a publication, […]
December 13, 2010
Wikileaks has been all over the news so I thought I’d get in on the action. Here’s a collection of links to articles and posts and sites that, I think, each add a layer to the whole issue. On New Matilda today, Ben Eltham writes about what Wikileaks reveals about the state of the world’s democracies, […]
April 4, 2013
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