July 2008

• Sunday Links: Images and Imaginings
• Quick hit: Bitch Slap Movie
• Sunday inspiration: simple, effective action
• John Barrowman gives Smooching Lessons to Maria Contestants
• Otterday!
• Failing to Suspend My Disbelief
• Big Brother Friday: Are they doing it deliberately?
• Friday Hoyden: Joy Nash
• Dramatic kitteh.
• Friday Head-Asplode: Guinness ad
• On women “competing for male attention”
• Woman “brain-damaged” by Amazing Hydration Diet detox
• Quick hit: Barnev’s “Birthtrack” continuous labour monitoring system
• Thursday Cheezburger
• Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week
• Michael Savage is a drongo
• APOD goes dancing
• Matthew Garrett on ally work and the Linux community
• White privilege and the centring of white people in discussions of race and racism: a spinoff thread
• Can’t blog
• Five Things That Caught My Eye This Week
• A better future
• The privilege in your pocket: a manifesto
• Kristen Schaal is brilliant
• Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities
• “we can’t take American assurances that they do not torture detainees at face value”
• Hey “Girls”! Unilever’s “Go Fresh” spam
• What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about
• Nellie McKay
• LOLpology
• The Papal apology for clerical abuse in Australia
• Oh, the hilarity
• Beats me
• Otterday!
• Take that, cephalopodophiles
• So, the hols are nearly over
• Friday Hoyden: Elphaba
• Friday News Links Dump
• A good bread day
• Shooting crickets in a barrel
• Thursday Cheezburger
• Highlights from the Hierarchy for WYD
• “I looked into the blacks of his eyes”? Big Brother 10
• Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop
• Women’s bodies – pwned public space
• Spoiler thread: DWS4 finale
• Whoydensday: Aware of all Internet Traditions
• Whedon’s “Dr Horrible” fizzles for international audience
• Ben had a Bad Day: Schadenfreude and the Big Brother Australia “Big Sting” farce
• The difference between satire and “satire” in political humour