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• Carnival Time!

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-28

  The lad is home today, supporting the teacher’s strike, and it’s about a zillion degrees outside. So we’ve settled in for a Scooby Doo marathon. Yoinks! Must make popcorn. Meanwhile, Deborah from In A Strange Land has the 54th Carnival… Read More ›

• One of these things is not like the other ones: Australia’s “best and brightest”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-27 • ( 4 )

  From the 2020 summit site: – Professor Glyn Davis – Chair – Dr David Morgan – Future directions for the Australian economy – Mr Warwick Smith – Economic infrastructure, the digital economy and the future of our cities – Mr… Read More ›

• “Honey, what’s five plus three?”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-26 • ( 2 )

  Via Copyranter, this ad for “Love Machine” condoms. (Extra thick? Anaesthetic-endowed? Who knows?) Their other ad has a join-the-dots bunny centred on a headless woman’s navel. What market are they going for? The chaps who are thinking, “What?! You want… Read More ›

• Congratulations Shakesville!

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-25 • ( 1 )

  Congratulations to Shakesville for winning the Best International Feminist Blog in the Canadian F-Word Blog Awards! Check out the rest of the winners, too. There is some terrific feminist writing out of Canada.

• “Revealed: the Butcher of Bega”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-25 • ( 1 )

  [image source: the Daily Telegraph. The book in his hand is, I believe, Kathy Reichs’ novel “Bones to Ashes“, the story of a forensic scientist investigating the murders of three teenage girls. Fucking creepy.] There is a followup article on… Read More ›

• Blogplug! “Oohsome”.

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-24 • ( 2 )

  Some real-life friends of mine have started a new blog project, “Ooh, I’ve got something to show you!” over at oohsome.blogspot.com. From the Welcome blurb: Oohsome has evolved out of almost daily instant message discussions between Acanthus and whoozqueen on… Read More ›

• “Older women […] are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-24 • ( 21 )

  Via Get Shouty: Danger! Women At Work! A 1943 Guide to Hiring Women, from Transportation Magazine. Scans of the original can be found at snopes [caution, pop-ups and such]. Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees There’s… Read More ›

• “For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has got a G spot or not.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-21 • ( 9 )

  Well, surprise me cunt! “We’ve hit the G spot, say scientists”. Yet another Italian science team has added to the body of “knowledge” by claiming that some women have G-spots and some don’t. Emmanuele Jannini writes about developing a “clinical… Read More ›

• “Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean it’s yours.”: the political misappropriation of personal pain

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-21 • ( 10 )

  Regular readers may have noticed that I have a tendency to start serieses that I don’t finish. Well, I’ve finally got a second installment in 52 Acts of Political Correctness. The original 52something meme is here – do feel free… Read More ›

• Thursday Quick Pic(k)s

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-21 • ( 9 )

  [Via Neatorama] Pretty rainbow cauliflowers! These were apparently selectively bred by European company Syngenta. (Are they as evil as Monsanto?) The naturally-present substances are beta carotene (orange) and anthocyanin (purple), which also happen to be rather good for you. ~~~… Read More ›