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• Friday Head-Asplode: Guinness ad

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-25 • ( 32 )

  Somebody please tell me this is not a real Guinness ad. Because I’d really hate to have to start boycotting it. NSFW. Not safe for anyone. Triggers. [via Sociological Images.]

• Woman “brain-damaged” by Amazing Hydration Diet detox

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 8 )

  Image: Culpable “nutritionist” Barbara Nash. Source: Daily Mail. BBC: “Woman left brain damaged by detox”: A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet. The High Court heard Dawn Page,… Read More ›

• Quick hit: Barnev’s “Birthtrack” continuous labour monitoring system

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 28 )

  Holy crap. Rixa writes: Well, the BirthTrack is here and being actively marketed to both doctors and mothers-to-be. It consists of an internal electrode that is screwed into the baby’s head and two ultrasound clips that attach to the cervix…. Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 3 )

  [Runners-up are below the cut. ]

• Matthew Garrett on ally work and the Linux community

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-23 • ( 6 )

  Matthew Garrett gave this brief talk encouraging geeks to be vocal feminists/feminist allies, at LUGradio Live UK 2008 (LRLUK 2008). One reference in his “Community Hate Time” talk is to the “upskirt” photo published by Nicu Buculei at Planet Fedora… Read More ›

• White privilege and the centring of white people in discussions of race and racism: a spinoff thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-23 • ( 13 )

  This is a spinoff thread from our terrific guest post by Stephanie, “The privilege in your pocket: a manifesto”. I’m starting it from the first point where I requested that the rudeness (which involved centring of white people and scolding… Read More ›

• Five Things That Caught My Eye This Week

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-22 • ( 4 )

  1. Jesus chair. 2. A cat is nursing an adopted red panda cub at a zoo in Amsterdam. National Geographic has video. 3. Coolest dinosaur suit EVER. Video was taken of the suit terrorising toddlers at the Natural History Museum… Read More ›

• Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-22 • ( 32 )

  “Use my picture if it will help” said the woman in this photograph. The babies are twins: the child with the bottle is a girl – she died the next day – but her brother was breastfed and is thriving…. Read More ›

• Hey “Girls”! Unilever’s “Go Fresh” spam

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 26 )

  The Hoydens got spammed by Unilever’s minions today. You remember Unilever: the company doing the pornulated “Bom Chicka Wow Wow” Axe and Lynx ads; Unilever, the company whose marketing officer Simon Clift whined that women just can’t take a joke;… Read More ›

• What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 9 )

  I think I just had an epiphany about the Big Giant Head phenomenon in bad photoshopping of glamour photos of women. The missing ribs and wasp waists are bad enough, but the BGH lollipop-look appears again and again and again…. Read More ›