We spoke here last month about issues with the new Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) public service announcement campaign, spearheaded by their “Wedding” TV ad, which is below the cut in this post. * Hoyden About Town: “If only”? New… Read More ›
media
old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
Need for Less Patronising Sexist Crap
Today’s Guest Hoyden is whoozqueen. Whoozqueen blogs at “Oohsome: Ooh, I’ve Got Something to Show You!”. Whoozqueen is a 39 year old crafter, gamer and rampant netizen, with a keen eye for the handmade and unusual. If she’s not roaming… Read More ›
So who knew it was the International Year of Astronomy?
I didn’t, until the news about the little asteroid 2009 DD45 that just missed our planet yesterday popped into my milieu.
Quickhit: Harding on Greer and women in comedy
Kate Harding dissects Germaine’s latest blithering (Germs doesn’t always blither, but I cannot think of a better description for this particular effort) in Salon. Great job.
The writer and the cartoonist
Helen writes at the Cast Iron Balcony. She’s a blogger, she’s a grinner, she’s a mother, she’s a sinner. She plays her music in the sun. Last year, some cartoons which appeared with two of Miranda Devine‘s articles caught my… Read More ›
Better than (foo), reminds me of (bar)
A new meme! Using one of the tips from this handy Lifehacker post (Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – it’s recommended as a way to find music/movies etc that you might like based on a musician/film you already like) I plugged in a few different search terms to Google to see what came up (although as I am a poliblogger with a shriveled husk of a heart, I tweaked the search in order to more likely find the pol-abuse) .
I should have known better
but I clicked onto Sam de Brito’s blog anyway because I was bored. I skipped the whole ‘fat bottom’ thing and went to look at the post with the piccy of Julia Gillard (our deputy PM for our OS readers)…. Read More ›
Quick Hit: She’s a WOMAN
[Everything is under the fold; trigger warnings apply]
What the media isn’t asking about that private hospital birth study (or, Bayes’ Theorem for Dummies)
Have peer review committees just given up on actually including a statistician these days? or do the statisticians need to do more sociology classes?
“Newsflash: Man kills dozens; woman, naturally, to blame”
Once, just once, can we have a story about the suspect for a high-profile violent crime without the lede being “OMG JILTED LOVER”? “Victoria fires: Brendan Sokaluk, Gippsland arson accused, fails to appear in court” I guess the Court of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 