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• Saturday Craft: A frog habitat

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-29 • ( 6 )

  Twitterers will know that yesterday I became rather curious about the KER-CHUNK! KER-CHUNK! noises coming for a prolonged time from the living room. I yelled “What’s happening up there?” and the Lad yelled back “I’m making a frog habitat!” In… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-29 • ( 33 )

  Kissing baby otters. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the… Read More ›

• Risk: “Man Up”

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-28 • ( 28 )

  Classic game Risk has manned up. Yes, laydeez, you’re no longer welcome. Nor are you girly-boys, either. Sociological Images has the scoop. Yes, it’s by Hasbro, home of slagpiles of Disney Princess paraphernalia, My Little Pony, Baby Alive, Littlest Pet… Read More ›

• Get your submissions in now for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-28 • ( 3 )

  The call is out for Down Under Feminist Carnival submissions at Ideologically Impure, who is hosting this month: No real theme, but I’m especially on the look-out for sassy posts by sassy people. The submission form is here. If you… Read More ›

• WARNING: “disability theme”

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-28 • ( 17 )

  A new UK film, “Special People”, has had a special warning slapped on it by the film classification board. The film, which casts actors with disabilities in a comedy about film-making, continues to carry the warning, because the Board only… Read More ›

• Thanksgiving Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-27 • ( 8 )

  This LOLcat is from last year, because the USAns haven’t woken up on Thanksgiving day yet. To all our American friends and ex-pats, Happy Thanksgiving to you. Bonus Dr Tinycat and Worshipping Baby. What do you wish to give thanks… Read More ›

• Linkulosity: Leavers’, a DV PSA, Risk, Green 404s, and ‘net censorship

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-27 • ( 12 )

  The West is running a “Leavers’ Diary” in their Blogs section: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four. It’s a tedious, poorly-written mishmash of “got pissed, got laid, spewed, fuck yeah.” As you’d pretty much expect from Schoolies’ Week…. Read More ›

• GPs: still not good enough to offer contraception and mental health advice

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-27 • ( 25 )

  Family doctors are still not permitted to prescribe isotretinoin (Roaccutane) in Australia. The drug, used only for severe cystic acne, can be dangerous to fetuses and has been linked (inconclusively) with suicidal ideation and behaviour. We’re all pre-pregnant until proven… Read More ›

• Smoking ban while driving “not road safety” and wouldn’t be enforced, says cop head

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-26 • ( 9 )

  Independent Janet Woollard, MLA for Alfred Cover, is introducing a new law to ban cigarette smoking while driving in a car with children in WA (among various other public-smoking limits). Before the Bill has been considered by Parliament, the Police… Read More ›

• Poisoning cats and babies

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-26 • ( 11 )

  WA Today: “Cat deaths linked to pet food“: Unexplained chronic illness and death among Sydney cats has been linked to a gourmet imported pet food withdrawn from stores over the past three weeks. A cat neurologist, Georgina Child, has put… Read More ›