Some days, I need this handy Pain Troubleshooting Guide. Today is one of those days. In other news:
Year: 2009
Kitties!
Lots of kitties being AWESOME. A collation of some of the best cat footage on the Web.
Does Edward Cullen Taste of Cherry Chapstick?
At my local shopping centre yesterday, I noticed a shop selling faux-Twilight merchandise — T-shirts with slogans that clearly reference the Twilight books/film, but are just generic enough to avoid a lawsuit (my apologies for the crappy cameraphone images): For… Read More ›
Disgusting
Demotivator made by moi. Feel free to download and share from the Flickr page (click on the pic). Backstory in The Guardian.
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 18, 2009
Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Words Matter March 17, 2009 – more Othering of PWD Read ‘Em March 17, 2009 – Links round up on Shapely Prose It's not "sex," it's rape… Read More ›
For the benefit of those on Feed Readers
If you can’t access the blog you should still be able to read this. (If you’re seeing this on the blog, you’re not experiencing the problem this techy bugfix post is addressing, so please feel free to ignore.)
I’ve just installed Bad Behavior to combat spammers. Very occasionally it blocks legitimate users as well,
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 17, 2009
Items of feminist, political and scientific interest found recently in my RSS feed Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar pattern March 16, 2009 – depressing Rising inequality in good and bad times? March 16, 2009 – Quote: “The Institute… Read More ›
Feminists with disabilities – please come and put your two cents in
Questions of the day: 1. Is there a Feminists with Disabilities blog carnival? Where? 2. If ‘no’, should there be? 3. What else might be useful to build bonds and facilitate community conversations amongst feminists with disabilities? 4. Have you… Read More ›
Autumn, blessed autumn
This time of year makes my heart sing! It was 38* degrees yesterday (bleurgh), 30 degrees today (hmm), but it’s now cooling down with a plunge and a sigh. Not one day in the next week is going to be… Read More ›
More confected fat-baby epidemic panic? The “increasing trend” that isn’t.
This supposed ongoing upward trend in birthweight has been used as an excuse for absurd levels of inductions of labour and skyrocketing C sections, and a springboard for blaming lazy, old, fat, neglectful mothers for the “obesity epidemic”, childhood cancer,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 