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feminist insists she isn’t one…

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…the meaning of Brittany Murphy; why Sex and the City is a poor icon for women… Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, returning from its holiday break. Enjoy.

Online Film Critics Society 2009 awards nominees

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Now posted over the OFCS news blog. Fun! A taste: BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Up Up in the Air BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow (-) The Hurt Locker Neill Blomkamp (-) District 9 James Cameron (-) Avatar Joel & Ethan Coen (-) A Serious Man Quentin Tarantino (-) Inglourious Basterds … more…

Twitter giveaways are done

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Thanks to everyone who entered the various Twitter giveaways this week. All the goodies have now been accounted for — congrats to all the winners. Everything will go in the mail between Saturday and Monday. This was fun. Next time my pile of cool stuff gets too high, we’ll do it again.

Canadian readers having problems with the site?

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Could be a coincidence, but I’ve heard from two readers in Canada this week about site-loading issues. One is about a particular ad for Telus breaking the site formatting (though I cannot find a Telus ad in the ad rotation; I’d turn it off it I could). The other appears to be a matter of … more…

I can’t win

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UPDATE: My host isn’t going to charge me for the bandwidth overage! (Though that courtesy won’t continue if my mad-scientist plans to blow traffic through the roof actually work as designed.) My host: Fused Network. They rock. As you may have noticed if you’d tried to check in here over the last hour and a … more…

all I want for Christmas is whuffie

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If you’ve read Cory Doctorow’s awesome near-future science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.], then you know what whuffie is. If you haven’t, here’s the gist: The novel takes place in a “post-scarcity” world, where the basic needs of life and lots of its luxuries are freely available … more…

I are thoughtless moron

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By the special request of a reader, I hereby dub myself “thoughtless moron” in the “status bar” below the Bias Meter above. That’ll change, of course, at some point in the near future, but for now, that’s apparently what I am.