The lolcats phenomenon spreads ever wider. We’ve seen loltheorists (HAI I HAS PANOPTICON – I C U!) lolpresidents (PREZIDENCY: Yor doin it wrong.) lolbots (EYEZ HAZ A FLAVOR, NOM NOM NOM) loltrek (WHOA THEY BE ALWAYS PREGGERS) and the LOLcky… Read More ›
Life
Beef Wellington time
Oh yes, I has new computer in my old case (with a video card combo that’s fast enough to play YouTubes properly at last), and we has ‘nother new computer hooked up to telly, and the old guts of my… Read More ›
Friday Fizzicks Fun
Have you ever wondered what happens when you add an Alka Seltzer effervescent tablet to a sphere of water in microgravity? Now you know! The narrator opens with: “I hope you folks are trying to guess what’s going to happen… Read More ›
Rape Resistance more effective than Rape Prevention
Because victims can’t prevent crimes, so “prevention” strategies targeting potential victims are selling a crock. Crime prevention programs only work insofar as they persuade offenders not to commit crimes, which is a whole other story (one that is hardly ever… Read More ›
Thursday Soapblogging, May 2007 edition
Further to last month’s effort, I bring you this month’s soapblogging! Once again, rubbish camera, poor light, yadda yadda. Feel free to enthuse about the “artistic” effect. Raspberries ‘N’ Cream
Cancer genes and other factors
There’s been a lot of press this last week about the reported breakthough in genome testing that will pinpoint clusters of imperfectly-copied genes that increase the risk of inheriting breast cancer. Much of the excitement is due to the fact… Read More ›
Consumerism and children (and parents)
Lauren is guest-blogging this week at Feministe. Her review of a book about marketing to children, and her discursion about her own rules for buying toys for her son, is a cracker of a post.
Motherless birthing, and the one-way street of obstetric “choice”
In another case of the disappearing agent, Australian newspapers have been breathlessly reporting the amazing case of an intrepid Australian doctor “performing” the delivery of a healthy baby with nothing but a first aid kit and an oxygen mask –… Read More ›
Procrastinations
This is the first in an occasional series: as I find especially appealing timesinks I will share them with you all. The first: The Paper Art of David Callesen: A4 Papercuts (Callesen’s index page)
A middle-aged woman with a hammer
makes teenage boys very twitchy. All I had to do was hammer in one nail into the timber frame of a prop for the high school musical on the weekend and I had a helpful young man offering to do… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 