There’s a blackout at her place, and the laptop batteries are now run out. No internet for her until the power comes back up. The blackout is said to have nothing to do with the big gas accident yesterday offshore… Read More ›
Life
Quick hit: China earthquake rescue stories in comics
Coco Wang has documented some horrifying, heartbreaking, touching, and even funny China earthquake rescue stories. The stories are presented in the style of a graphic novel, at Paul Gravett’s place. Bring your tissues, and time to compose yourself. My thoughts… Read More ›
Now you see us, now you don’t: Houston has a problem
Update: at the moment (midnightish) load time seems to be back up to speed. Yay! (fingers crossed) From my post over at the original HAT earlier: HAT is down And may be for a while yet. From my hosting service:… Read More ›
Journalwatch: Ethics chairs unaware of research sexism; breast cancer and HRT use fall in concert
In today’s Hoyden Journalwatch: Adelaide bioethics researchers found that human research ethics committee chairs in Australia were unaware of issues of sexism in scientific research. The research, published in today’s Medical Journal of Australia[1], consisted of interviews with 25 chairs… Read More ›
The Lord of the Living Room
What greeted us on our return from our walk. moar funny pictures That’s just on a share page at the moment. You can vote for it if you’d like to see it make the front page of ICHC. Just click… Read More ›
Graeme Reeves “Butcher of Bega” update
[image source] As the three-month-old 12-detective Strike Force Tarella continues to investigate and accumulate evidence on a multitude of cases, retired Federal Court judge Deirdre O’Connor has completed a review into the employment of abusive doctor Graeme Reeves. Reeves is… Read More ›
Bazlotto! – the evidence
Finally, after all these years! Bazlotto is mine! Just had to take a screencap. Of course, I must confess my shameful secret – I actually got Bazlotto yesterday when I visited Lucy Tartan’s blog, and I thought I’d taken a… Read More ›
Non-scandalous photography: classic farm cat shot
image source (via Lauredhel) Lauredhel sent me the link to this pic yesterday, and while it made me chuckle it also made me sniffle a little. My dearly beloved two passed pusscats, Bella and Poco, were respectively a tabby and… Read More ›
For the record
This is a photo taken of me when I was 14. It was taken at the social nudist club to which my family belonged, in a quiet area of bushland, and I was nude. It was part of a photo-shoot… Read More ›
“Women are treated better than men online”, says NerdBoobLoot-man
This post is cross-posted at Shakesville. [image source] From a CyberPsychology & Behavior issue earlier this year: “Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study” [1][fulltext PDF available free]. The goal of this small online survey was to examine… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 