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• Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson redux

  By tigtog on 2008-07-04 • ( 11 )

  Image Source: Reuters Caption: Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik (L) and British actor and human rights activist Emma Thompson leave a container exhibit in Vienna February 11, 2008. ‘The Journey Against Sex Trafficking’ uses seven transport containers to illustrate the… Read More ›

• 350

  By tigtog on 2008-07-03

  I missed this last week, but Bernice explains why this number ought to be burnt into our brains.

• Some things make the world a better place

  By tigtog on 2008-07-03 • ( 14 )

  Image Source: Matt Harding, el bailarín trotamundos de YouTube, en Madrid This guy, Matt Harding, went travelling and shot video of himself doing a silly dance, that ended up on the internet. That ended up getting some chewing gum company’s… Read More ›

• Draconian, repugnant and unnecessary

  By tigtog on 2008-07-02 • ( 10 )

  The title is quoted from this ABC Online article with respect to the special regulations in force from yesterday until the end of this month that relate to the behaviour of onlookers and protesters to the Roman Catholic World Youth… Read More ›

• Whoydensday! Season 4 Official Trailer

  By tigtog on 2008-07-02 • ( 14 )

  Below is the official BBC teaser trailer for Season 4: This is an Open Season 4 Wishes, Speculations and Horrible Suspicions Thread. As usual, those Hoydenizens who live in countries where some of the series has already been shown, please… Read More ›

• Quicklink: Kira Cochrane in the Guardian

  By tigtog on 2008-07-01 • ( 3 )

  On the growing backlash against feminism. Today’s recommended reading.

• All time favourite

  By tigtog on 2008-07-01

  Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed! The song is “Deadly Animals”, by Australian comedy musical duo The Scared Weird Little Guys (aka the Scaredies), and it’s all over the Intertubes (my second cousin just posted it to us… Read More ›

• Disappointment

  By tigtog on 2008-07-01 • ( 6 )

  is the reaction of the neighbourhood mooch-cat to finding that the interesting pile on the kitchen floor is only locks of hair from the buzzcut I gave my son this morning instead of something delicious. “To tell of disappointment and… Read More ›

• School holidays coming, guest hoydens needed!

  By tigtog on 2008-06-30 • ( 3 )

  Lauredhel and I will both have much less time than usual to squeeze in our blogging while our respective kids are not at school for the next few weeks. Outings and trips have to happen, as do sleepovers and cinema… Read More ›

• Senate report on the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media

  By tigtog on 2008-06-30 • ( 5 )

  The full report can be found here (long). Just the recommendations are here (brief). I can’t think of anything in particular to add to Senator Bartlett’s summary, and totally agree that the best recommendation of the report is the one… Read More ›