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• It was a party night, it was the end of school

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-19 • ( 22 )

  I was thinking about the historical detail in Mad Men and Swingtown, and tripping down memory lane myself. Thinking about the props one might procure if making a period drama about my childhood and adolescence. Twinpoles. Paper one-dollar notes. Vinyl… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: The Big Picture – Electron Microscopy

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-18 • ( 1 )

  Boston.com’s The Big Picture has a piece with a variety of scanning electron micrographs today. It’s made of weevils, nanomachines, and awesome. Check it out.

• AFA selling burning-cross Christmas decoration

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-18 • ( 41 )

  White American, and proud of it? Not sure what to put out in the yard this Christmas? Want to express your lurve for the Real American Family? The American Family Association has just the decoration for you. Let Your “Light”… Read More ›

• Journalwatch: Emergency dept “frequent flyers” not hypochondriacs, says new study

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-18 • ( 7 )

  Y’all know that one of the science-reporting peeves is the media not providing enough information for readers to find the original source without detective work. There’s often a last name, and sometimes a journal name, but publication dates are uncommon,… Read More ›

• What the fuck, Germaine?

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-18 • ( 35 )

  Germaine Greer in The Guardian’s World News section: “If Michelle Obama’s such a great dresser, what was she doing in this red butcher’s apron?” The one sour note to resound through the jubilation at the election of Barack Obama was… Read More ›

• Monday Gardening: The Vegetable Patch

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-17 • ( 6 )

  I wandered out into the garden this afternoon, camera in hand. You can see the previous garden post from just two months ago here, with the seedlings all in. We’ve been feasting off snow peas and sugar snap peas for… Read More ›

• Peeve Time: “The Obese” as Walking Dead

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-17 • ( 7 )

  [cross-posted at Shapely Prose.] People with disabilities have for quite a while been promoting “people-first” language to reinforce the simple, yet radical, notion that people with disabilities are people first, PWD second. “Diabetics” are people with diabetes; “disabled people” are… Read More ›

• Amusing reporterly mis-step du jour

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-16 • ( 4 )

  ‘Health Shop’ sparks concern Australia’s first “retail health shop” staffed by nurses able to prescribe drugs and order tests will open in Perth next week amid concerns it may lead to second-grade medical care. I’m picturing a swipe of mercurochrome,… Read More ›

• “Your only chance to get inside her”: disability and that Belgian transplant porn

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-16 • ( 36 )

  There’s quite a lot of chat around the femiblogosphere about this ad for organ donation, spotted at Sociological Images. (See also The Curvature, Feministe, the F-Word.) The advertisement depicts a very young, thin white woman with long blonde hair, wearing… Read More ›

• “Gamers’ girls be warned”, says WA Today

  By lauredhel on 2008-11-15 • ( 6 )

  Yet again, women who play videogames are rare, perhaps mythical, beings. WA Today has issued an ominous warning to “Warcraft widows”: Widows of Warcraft, be warned – you may not see much of your boyfriend/partner/husband/defacto/intended in the next six months… Read More ›