People ask search engines the damnedest things: what can we do except help out as best we can?
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Top Ten Australian Songs
via Peta in comments ABC radio in Canberra has been asking listeners to nominate their top ten Australian songs. This is the list they came up with. 10. It’s Because I Love You (Masters’ Apprentices) 9. And The Band Played… Read More ›
BFTP: Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?
This is a repost: originally published in December 2005 at my original tigtogblog (later imported here to HaT) – I’d only been blogging for a few months.
I had forgotten
…how tedious it is to remove all the old bits of icky ancient bluetack before one can even wash the bedroom wall, let alone paint it.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Welcome to Saturday, and may the Victorian Hoydenizens have the election result you desire today. Among notable events on this day in history, Helen Clark became the first elected female PM in New Zealand, the first human-manufactured object reached the… Read More ›
Dear young person who was possibly looking after somebody else’s dogs
Dogs and small children should enter cars from the pavement/kerb side, not the busy road side.
Thursday Cheezburger: tasty treats
Today’s LOL theme is: tasty treats.
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Dissecting the trivial
Quick fact about women in the news: apparently, women feature in only about a fifth of the world’s news headlines and just ten percent of all news stories. (My guess is that if you took celebrities out of the media monitoring survey you could probably halve that number again for how often women make the news).
And when women finally make the news in what capacity do we make it?
Video: Learning Gender from Ads for Toys
These ads not only market toys to children but it also promotes and encourages gender specific values that are very limiting to boys and girls in different ways. The values and skills promoted in these commercials can play a critical role in the socalization of youth and their development of emotional expression, conflict resolution, the confidence to pursue various careers and the ability to maintain healthy relationships as adults.
Cyclists riding safely and legally, motorists driving less so
Drivers were at fault in 87 per cent of incidents with cyclists and most did not realise they had behaved in a reckless or unsafe manner,
Hoyden About Town 