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• Hottest 100 Women Countdown is ON!

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-09

  The Hottest100Women countdown is on right now! Check it out – right now they’re up to the fifties – over at the hottest 100 women blog. *sings along to Atomic* [edited 10 Aug to add: warning: the “Positions 25-27” includes… Read More ›

• Sunday Garden

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-09 • ( 3 )

  I love this Geraldton Wax. Lots more below the cut…

• Diplomacy, Kid-Style

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-08 • ( 4 )

  We were planning to start watching some Star Trek. Lad: Do they have laser guns? Me: Let me think. Yes, they do have laser guns of some sort. Blasters, I think they call them. And they’ve got communicator devices, and… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-08 • ( 27 )

  Today’s otter is brought to you by “Eric”, via Sea Otter Scoop: The Official Blog of the Otter Project. The Otter Project exists to promote the rapid recovery of the California sea otter, an indicator of near shore ocean health,… Read More ›

• A national electronic health & social record

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-08 • ( 18 )

  I’m officially creeped right the fuck out by Trevor Kerr’s article in Croakey, “Why the secrecy about data, when it could help everything from influenza to child protection“. I find any suggestion of national electronic medical records disturbing at the… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: bell hooks on parenting and feminism

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-08 • ( 2 )

  I’m reading bell hooks’ Feminist Theory; From Margin to Center. Coincidentally, I started reading Chapter Ten, “Revolutionary Parenting”, just after reading this thread at Feministe, “Sacrifice, Parenting, and Feminism“, particularly bfp’s comments (21-24, 41-42). It also serves as an important… Read More ›

• The Great Social Media Brownout

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-07 • ( 10 )

  Twitter and Livejournal completely fell over around an hour ago, and Facebook has been bouncing up and down like a yo-yo. News sites and blogs are strangely silent about it all. TechCrunchers are speculating a little. DDoS, domino effect, outlandish… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger Seven Deadly Sins #4: Lust

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-06 • ( 5 )

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• Because you can’t go a day without this reminder

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-06 • ( 4 )

  You know those afternoons where there’s nothing urgent to do, and you’re just tootling around Twitter and Facebook, feeling fairly comfy and content, and then misogyny just hits you abruptly in the face? Yeah. I took the What Body Part… Read More ›

• Newsflash: Meyer didn’t invent the cheesy vampire romance genre

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-05 • ( 1 )

  So apparently (and who knows if I’ve been hoaxed) the author of The Nocturne has sent Stephenie Meyer a copyright cease-and-desist over Breaking Dawn, the last of the Twilight novels. (Spoilers for both novels, obviously.) The author, Jordan Scott, claims… Read More ›