April 2008

• Sexual harassment ‘jokes’: still not funny. Hayden Panettiere on Funny or Die
• New Governor-General: feminist Quentin Bryce
• What Shakesville said
• This week, I shall be mostly googling ‘diabetes’
• I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again
• Newbie bloggers: how’s it going?
• Free Speech Frolics
• Saturday is Bug Day
• Question of the day: Skirmishes with strawfeminism
• Friday Hoyden: Susan Butcher
• Friday Furry and Linkfest
• WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press
• Marry, Shag or Chuck off a Cliff: Regency drama edition
• Move to close WA Parliamentary sexual harassment loophole
• Ah, that immutable primate heritage
• Hospital predator’s appeal rejected: blames rape on victim, non-existent mental health disorder
• Brian McKinstry whines about women taking over medicine
• Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death
• “Death twice as likely by caesarean”?
• Carping Corner (Historical Drama Division): The Tudors
• Hurrah for librarians
• Shopping tip
• More “Teehee! Boobies!” from the breast cancer awareness industry
• Blogslump.
• Friday Hoyden: Zoe Bell
• Too depressed to post
• Misogyny hurting men
• Bloody hell
• And now for another* edition of Name That Tom Lehrer Song
• Shameful confession: I haven’t kept up with xkcd lately

March 2008

• Estrangement, entitlement, evaluation: questions arising
• Creeping pinkification: “the persistent feminization of unisex commodities”
• Nifty tip for commenters: a brief guide to the Text Formatting Toolbar Extension
• Useless baby gear #98485: Poteez. Just say no.
• Late Night Friday Hoydens: Granny Peace Brigade
• Apollo 11: a stroll around the baseball field
• Fetal presentations: an economist’s guide
• The Dog Candy doesn’t carry a warning.
• An alternative
• Cyberfeminist art: Reversing the Gaze
• The WHO on Birth: the “Fortaleza Declaration” and “Safe Motherhood: Care in Normal Birth”
• ‘I’m Mrs. “Extra! Extra! This just in”‘
• Tagged for the weird-and-random-stuff meme
• Sunday Cheezburger: Clownfish edition
• A good morning.
• Why are caesarean section rates increasing so rapidly?
• British understatement wins the day
• Happy anniversary, cob logger!
• Newsflash: Toys Now Indistinguishable From Satire
• Another lap of the circuit