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Step apart from Six Apart on 06/06/06 – No breastfeeding at LiveJournal.
Six Apart may have stepped on more dung than they could handle. Their stand on not allowing userpics with breastfeeding images have pissed off quite a few women. When public breastfeeding is a right, why is the image considered obcene?
(tags: feminism sociasoftware women)
Immigration and [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Random Links | 7 Comments »
Bharat of Thee By Encore has started volunteering at Global Voices Online to cover Tamil blogs across India and Sri Lanka. In his introductory post he talks of the language, the people and blogs.
Spoken Tamil is very different compared to written tamil.“Madras baashai” is a very popular variant that has an ever growing vocabulary [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices | 8 Comments »
I come across so many of them that I am thinking of having a separate category for Wtf Links. So here it is – Wtf Link for this week. One more here.
The 100 father-daughter guests — some dads brought more than one daughter, and some of the daughters were as young as 4 — came [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Gender, Random Links, Rights, wtf | 8 Comments »
Update on the earthquake in Indonesia. A message from Angelo on behalf of World Wide Help – calling out to volunteers.
In response to the Java Quake of 27th May, 2006, we have set up the Java Quake Help Wiki (http://javaquake.worldwidehelp.info) and since it was set up, in the past 24 hours we are coordinating disaster [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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EastSouthWestNorth: Bus Uncle
Wow! If only I had thought of doing something like this. God knows I come across people who have very fast tongues and words on the plate in public places!
(tags: china internet marketing media Video)
The Rest of Everest – Video Podcast
Video Podcasts. From description “Finally, through this video podcast, we’re going to be [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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Ze Carnival of Feminists is up at Self Potrait As. XV and going so strong! Go read!
Posted on May 29th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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irrepressible.info – Amnesty International Campaign
“The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression. Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is la
(tags: censorship IT internet blogs freedom campaign [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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