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• Carnival! Submissions close on January 2 for December posts.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-31

  The Twentieth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! There are around 3 days until the close of submissions, so get your posts in as soon as possible. This edition will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Drama Class

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-31 • ( 8 )

  Today’s High-School-Class themed LOLcats are all about DRAMA. Post your own favourite Drama Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an… Read More ›

• Fairfax Feature Fail

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-30 • ( 2 )

  Fairfax never fail to disappoint. Right now WAToday is running a front-page-promoted slideshow thus: The photos of the decade A selection of amazing, spellbinding images from the past ten years. Right next to a photo of a burning World Trade… Read More ›

• Holidays are for Wibble: Aquatic Gardening

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-30 • ( 8 )

  Further to a discussion on one of the Lad’s Xmas presents (a fishtank upgrade), meloukhia from this ain’t livin’ and FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities) pointed me to this article on “aquatic gardening”: fishtanks that concentrate not so much on the… Read More ›

• Holidays Are For Wibble: Battlestar Rhapsody (spoilericious)

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-28

  Why did I not know about this at the time? It’s a songvid of several seasons of Battlestar Galactica, set to filk of Bohemian Rhapsody. The random, apparently-obligatory (WTF is with that, things-that-are-otherwise-funny?) bit of misogyny in the middle is… Read More ›

• Otterday! Open Thread, now 100% Xmas-Free

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-26 • ( 28 )

  Today’s otter comes from mikebaird at flickr. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires, apart from Christmas. This open thread is 100% Xmas Free: please take any chat along those lines to yesterday’s… Read More ›

• Xmas Day Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-25 • ( 18 )

  Note: There will be a 100% Christmas-free Otterday Open Thread tomorrow. Please keep all the Christmas chat to here. This thread is for those who celebrate Christmas and/or don’t mind chatter about it. What are you up to? How’s the… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Holiday Kittehs, Bonus Triple Edition.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-24 • ( 4 )

  Post your own favourite Holiday or Curmudgeonly Holiday-Avoidance LOLcritter here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Feel free to present LOLs about the holiday of your choice, or about your dislike of blanket holiday coverage. Is there something you’d rather be doing?

• Otterday! and Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-19 • ( 10 )

  Well, mongooseeses are honorary otters, aren’t they? Please tell me they are. This baby banded mongoose is part of a litter of six at Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. Presumably not the petting zoo. Via Zooborns. Please feel free to use… Read More ›

• Things that are not our business, Duggar edition.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-17 • ( 27 )

  I don’t suppose anyone has a cite for this? “Every time you have a pregnancy, the placenta implants in the uterus and that implantation site cannot be used again because it’s scarred,” said Dr. Diane Harper of the University of… Read More ›