Culture – Page 82 – Hoyden About Town

puppies playing with chew-toys inside a miniature football stadium

Have just discovered a thing full of puppies

By tigtog on 2012-02-06 • ( 1 )

All you North Americans who already know about this can look smug now. Puppy Bowl VIII. And Animal Planet isn’t showing it here in Oz! Not Fair!

Sunday Singalong: Pussy Riot

By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-05 • ( 1 )

So, I did have somebody else lined up for the Sunday artsy fartsy post this weekend but jumping right to the front of the queue is my newly discovered find, Pussy Riot. Russian, feminist, punk riot band with anti-Putin lyrics…. Read More ›

Weekend Womenscraft: baking for AdaCamp

By Guest Poster on 2012-02-04 • ( 4 )

The Ada Initiative, a group promoting women in open source and open culture, had their first AdaCamp in early January. In order to save some money, and because I like food to be inclusive for everyone, Brianna and I volunteered to do all the baking ourselves.

Book Review: The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer

By Mindy on 2012-02-04 • ( 4 )

Book Review of The Service of Clouds #AWWC2012

Gratuitous Tim Minchin blogging: Not Perfect

By tigtog on 2012-02-04 • ( 7 )

Because I went to see his show in Sydney last night, and it was hugely enjoyable, and he sang this song which I’d temporarily forgotten about, and it’s just lovely.

The poster for a documentary on how a devastating disease became a shiny pink marketing dream.

Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. asks who’s benefiting most?

By tigtog on 2012-02-04 • ( 16 )

Pink cancer marketing globally diverts generous people’s donations away from the organisations doing most of the work towards organisations who are just better at marketing – the filmmakers determined only 15% of monies raised in North America go to research prevention, and 5% to research environmental causes of breast cancer. Does this sound like the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?

Fleeced – short book review

By Mindy on 2012-02-03 • ( 1 )

Book review – Fleeced. AWWC2012

A cartoon of a globe with a burner at the bottom and an ostrich putting its head in the sand at the top

Reminder: 9 of the 10 hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000

By tigtog on 2012-02-03

And that’s just one of the datasets supporting the fact that the planet’s climate is warming. The Bad Astronomer provides a case study of the tactics of climate change denial: it’s a textbook case of denialist sleight of hand, of distraction, distortion, error, and misdirection.