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• ‘I’m Mrs. “Extra! Extra! This just in”‘

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 1 )

  An unofficial, more gut-wrenching songvid of Britney Spears’ “Piece of Me”. [via Cupidsbow.]

• Tagged for the weird-and-random-stuff meme

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-25 • ( 3 )

  [image source] I was tagged on the cast iron balcony. My mission: Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names, and links to… Read More ›

• Sunday Cheezburger: Clownfish edition

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-23 • ( 1 )

• A good morning.

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-23 • ( 8 )

  [image source] I was awoken with a tray: pancake, maple syrup, bacon, orange juice, coffee (roasted yesterday), and a Green & Black’s 70% chocolate egg. Life is good. Happy renewal season to you all. A March/April fertility festival makes as… Read More ›

• Why are caesarean section rates increasing so rapidly?

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-22 • ( 11 )

  [image source] I just placed this comment at Andrew Leigh’s blog, but I thought I would open up the floor here. Commenter conrad asked about the rapid increase in cesarean section and birth intervention rates in Australia: Just out of… Read More ›

• Newsflash: Toys Now Indistinguishable From Satire

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-21 • ( 5 )

  Because I couldn’t make this up. Not if I tried. Struts Runway Magic. It’s a plastic equine! It’s an unfeasibly insubstantial fashion model! It comes in clearly delineated racial types! It’s – Struts Runway Magic! Now selling at a polymer-soaked… Read More ›

• Documentary, or Fragranced Toiletry Product?

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-20 • ( 9 )

  I was inspired by Lush’s “Guantanamo Garden” Bath Ballistic. The fizzy, orange-and-jasmine-scented luxury bath product is orange to represent prisoner jumpsuits, and when it has finished dissolving in the bath, you will find a waterproof photo of a prisoner is… Read More ›

• New Hollaback Flyer!

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-19 • ( 5 )

  We have a new flyer for Hollaback Australia! Click on the screengrab to download in PDF format, and distribute far and wide. Blog buttons and printable business cards to come.

• Today’s fabricated panic: “Delayed” birth interventions causing childhood obesity?

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-18 • ( 19 )

  Srsly. The ABC News is quoting economist Andrew Leigh as saying that the “delayed” interventions around baby bonus time is causing fatter children. A Canberra economist says an increase in the baby bonus could lead to unhealthier children. Research by… Read More ›

• Holy traditional family values, Batman!

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-17 • ( 5 )

  This frame is from the 1959 Batman comic “The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman”: Via Eatliver.com. Description is in footnote 1. Lonely Gods expands on the rest of the story: Batwoman’s status as an inferior woman was most clearly stated… Read More ›