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• Caption this: Proto-feminism

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-02

  Maeve, the made-of-awesome daughter of sometime guest Hoyden baroquestar, brings us this week’s caption contest.

• Academia: Internet-Triggered Death of Civil Society Not Predicted

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 5 )

  kwoff_id = 9106; In this week of heightened Internet! Moral! Panic!, it’s worth a peek at whether the internet really is the creeping civil cancer that some believe it to be. The JCMC (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) is available in… Read More ›

• “Civil liberties advocates = paedophiles”: Internet culture wars from the ALP.

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 6 )

  kwoff_id = 9092; The ABC reports on Conroy’s internet filtering bluster. He uses exactly the same discourse strategy as used by half-wit anti civil liberties debaters everywhere: “Well if you don’t like it, YOU must be a pedo then! Eh?… Read More ›

• New Year’s Linkfest ’08 v.1.0: words and pictures, pictures and words

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 6 )

  ” “‘Fatal’ gas pumped into Qantas jet “ Qantas has been pumping nitrogen from a nitrogen cart (typically used to refill aircraft tyres) into emergency oxygen tanks (used for crew in an emergency). Nitrogen and oxygen tanks have different fittings… Read More ›

• The Great Firewall of Australia

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-31 • ( 65 )

  [image source] So the government has, as planned back in Beazley times, decided that ISPs in Australia must now implement blocking of “pornographic and inappropriate” websites. Customers must opt out, rather than opting in, to a blocking system that is… Read More ›

• Creepy #19085: Real Estate Advertising

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-30 • ( 2 )

  Via Eric Bramlett, the Top 10 Worst Realtor Headshots. Somehow, this one* only came in at #2. Creepy creepy creepy. [Hat tip to Simon.] * Description: A preschool-age girl in full makeup, with red lipstick, platinum blonde hair, earrings, and… Read More ›

• Ninth Carnival of the Radical Feminists

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-26

  The Ninth Carnival of the Radical Feminists is up at ladoctorita. Check it out.

• Love in the Time of Cholera: A Cantankerous Boxing Day Review

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-26 • ( 5 )

  What the hell is up with all the praise lavished on “Love In The Time Of Cholera”? While the prose describing the setting and background was competent and at times evocative, the central theme is not a great romance. It… Read More ›

• A Christmas paean to Akismet

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-26 • ( 3 )

  The comment autospamulatron we use at Hoyden About Town is Akismet. As of right now, it is reporting: “Akismet has caught 99,993 spam for you since you first installed it.” I figure that we’ll hit the 100,000 mark sometime within… Read More ›

• Scoldmas: Rosanna Capolingua can bite me.

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-23 • ( 5 )

  The pres of the AMA has weighed in to lecture us all on our deficient Christmas present buying behaviour. Apparently we should be only buying gifts that encourage the recipient to Exercise! in a Morally! Upright! Manner! Computer games are… Read More ›