June 2008

• All Fun and Games: Bullying and assault in the Big Brother house

May 2008

• The Lord of the Living Room
• Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
• Everyday Codebreaking: Aptamil advertising
• Privacy rights in Child Protection investigations: the need for the mass media to disguise identifying features on the minors in the Henson images
• Graeme Reeves “Butcher of Bega” update
• Feminist bookmark alert: street harassment
• Retired police superintendent’s view on the politicisation of complaints against Henson’s work
• Wednesday quick picks
• Bazlotto! – the evidence
• Mary Sues & Doctor Who
• Reminder: Submit Posts for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• Non-scandalous photography: classic farm cat shot
• For the record
• Beijing Olympics “Volunteers’ Guide” lays into people with disabilities
• The Poison Dwarf scrapes the barrel: now a comedy act is a “sex storm”
• “Women are treated better than men online”, says NerdBoobLoot-man
• Auntie ABC passes the “biased reporting” test
• The Henson photo scandal: so many knees jerking, so little real debate
• So, how’s your Sunday?
• “Any tendency to self-handling at its earliest manifestation will lead the wise mother to at once adopt means for its suppression.”
• Otterday!
• Friday Hoyden: Michelle Atkins completes 10 marathons in 10 days
• Supernova observations
• I’ve got the mindless action movie blues
• There’s a new dating service around, and it smells rather strongly of woo-woo
• Strewth, that’s what this country needs, the word “gormless” as a political slur
• Visceral image-jolt
• Eye troubles? Photoshop Disasters fun
• I met this guy in Hyde Park today: big bubbles, no trouble (as they say in the classics)
• Tightly focussed snark blog of the day
• Announcing: the Down Under Feminists Carnival! Submit now.
• News from the ACT
• Journalwatch: Indigenous people with lung cancer receive less treatment, die sooner
• Lazy journalism: cutting and pasting and blaming
• Femmostroppo Awards for 2007: A Retrospective
• Face of rescue: Women’s work
• Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff: Boots of Revenge & High Adventure edition
• Otterday
• Arsehats of the week
• Friday Hoyden: Natalie Dessay
• And a gecko up ya clacker
• “I’m better because I’m whiter”: Top Model
• Images from the mailbag
• Hee!
• Pity the poor Federal Opposition
• Wednesday Soapblogging
• Autumn in the mountains
• Yesterday’s actual surfing of the Net
• Librarything “most often marked unread” books meme