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  • Gift and barter systems? Open thread.

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    [image source] Further to a conversation with tigtog about “The Economy” and its meanings, I’d like to talk about “alternative” economies, if such a word can be applied: gifts and barter. In particular, I’d love to hear your thoughts and… Read More ›

  • The Unilever Effect: Bow Chicka Wah Wow Your Daughters

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    Melissa and I have both been posting crankily about the evils of Unilever, in the face of breathlessly fawning blogospheric viral-marketing over the “Onslaught” ad. Now, via Shakesville, comes this inevitable mashup of Axe/Lynx and Dove ads. If anyone out… Read More ›

  • Kid-farming for fun and profit

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    So. Childcare. There was a great comment by Jo on Larvatus Prodeo about the economic history of community-based and for-profit childcare . It’s buried in a long thread, so I thought I’d pull it out here, as it deserves more… Read More ›

  • Bionic Hymens

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    [image source] Today’s Pravda brings us: “Every woman has five reasons to recover her virginity”, a three-page promotorial for hymenoplasty surgery. No longer merely a tool for fooling hapless hubbies, revirginisation is the new sexual empowerfulment for the noughties. Excerpts:… Read More ›

  • Flounder of the week: Andrew Quah

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    [image source] The Herald reports: Mr Quah told the Herald yesterday he thought it was possible that he had posed for the compromising photographs. “I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me.”… Read More ›

  • Mondayitis cure: kid art

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    Pirate Ship Pinkus. (“because the pirate ship’s name is “Pinkus”, because it’s a very old ship. Well, that’s a crows-nest with a flag, and a sail, there’s the captain, and that blue bit down the bottom is the ocean. And… Read More ›

  • Request: epistemology for newbies?

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    I feel there’s a hole in my book-larnin’. I’ve never really read any formal epistemology, just picked bits and pieces up as I go along. Can anyone recommend any web- (or uni website-) available, chapter/article-length introduction to general principles and… Read More ›

  • “Ew” baby gear du jour.

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    Spotted on ivillage: [description: baby T-shirt sloganned “I Drink Alone”, with a feeding bottle in place of the letter “I” in “drink”.]

  • Evolutionary Psychology Bingo!

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    PunkAssBlog has seen a Great Need, and filled it. Evolutionary Psychology Bingo! This particular bingo card specifically addresses the antifeminist/sex-essentialist uses of evpsych. My splorf favourite? “Confusion over whether they’re rationalising polyamory or nuclear-family patriarchy, but whatever they’re rationalising, only… Read More ›

  • Sunday Affectations: “Book Decor”

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    Books by the foot. and Book Decor. Srsly. Choose between colour-coordinated libraries such as “Foreign Language Antique Leather”: