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26 Nov 06   Pan's Labyrinth

The three of us went to see Pan's Labyrinth last night: what a treat! A very adult fairy-tale: violent, fantastical, innocent, knowing, and altogether surprising.
17 Nov 06   A short history of The Slave Register

As part of an overhaul of TSR's help pages, I've written an account of how the Register came about in 2000, and its subsequent growth: we're now up to 100,000 TSR profiles and 88,000 registration numbers. It's been funny thinking back to the turn of the millennium and the various books, websites and exhibitions that had planted the seeds in the previous few years. If you're interested, then the TSR history page has the full story.
6 Nov 06   More on the Ownership Icons and Flag

In the last few days, I've seen a bit of an upsurge in hits on www.ownershipflag.com and incoming links to it from people's blogs. There's now even some interest in third-party jewelry featuring the icons (anyone can go off and do this, as the icons' reproduction isn't restricted.) [more...]
31 Oct 06   Happy halloween!

This year, lili did two carvings: Billy from Saw, and Mr Pumpkin! In other news, East Anglia's ambulance service was reporting five Saw-related call-outs to cinemas last Friday.
28 Oct 06   Saw III

It's been Gross-out Film Week here in the House of Tanos, with DVD showings of Hostel, Saw, Saw II and then the opening night of Saw III at the cinema yesterday. Saw III wins the prize though. [more...]
25 Oct 06   St Crispin's Day

Today is St Crispin's Day (a patron saint of leather workers, incidently.) On this day in 1415, an English army defeated a much larger French force, with losses of a few hundred at the most, compared to maybe 10,000 French dead. [more...]
24 Oct 06   "Why men rule: a theory of male dominance" by Steven Goldberg

I thought I'd write a short review of "Why men rule", since I've just finished it. It deals with the unpopular truth in sociology: as Goldberg says "this book attempts to demonstrate and explain the universality (the presence in every society that has ever existed) of three institutions: 1. patriarchy: males occupy the overwhelming numbers of upper hierarchical positions; 2. male attainment, the association of high-status roles - whichever they happen to be in any given society - with males; and 3. male dominance, the association of dominance in [more...]
12 Oct 06   Websites roundup

I've been looking round the status of some of my websites this week, and thought I'd post a summary. [more...]
11 Sep 06   OwnershipFlag.com

Today www.OwnershipFlag.com went live, to publicise the ownership flag and the ownership icons that I posted about in July. The site includes image files in a wide range of sizes, that can be freely used for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
27 Aug 06   The Pride and the Prejudice

Yesterday, lili, popi and I went to watch the annual Pride Parade through the centre of Manchester. Every year it seems to get bigger and thousands of people turn out to see it. Afterwards we went to see "The Notorious Bettie Page". Both parade and film turned out to involve themes of the celebration of sexual minorities, and other people's attempts to suppress them. [more...]

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