From a google alert I follow a link to a blog written by Malaysian student Akmal Azeman and her post Muslims In Another Word which features questions about wearing hijab asked of an Australian high school student by her fellow… Read More ›
Science
Sunday Neato: Earth-bowls
Fluidforms “Earth-bowls”. Just pinpoint your chosen location in Google Earth, choose a height scale, and these clever Austrians will make it out of wood for you, terrain and all. [Via Oohsome]
“Thus the disease may be conveyed by promiscuous kissing”
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] I don’t really expect everyone to be as interested in old medical descriptions as I am, but… Read More ›
Online inconvenience
The handy-dandy online “TM Headstart” service is broken. ’tis most annoying, because I don’t get to tell youse all about my latest business venture until I’ve protected the name.
Terrible, horrible, scary UNNATURAL chemicals
Except of course, they aren’t. Our world is chemicals, our life is chemistry. This rant is brought to you by yet another TV talking head rabbiting on about “natural remedies, not those chemical ones” Sorry Kochie, all those natural remedies… Read More ›
Ask Auntie Hoyden
Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to… Read More ›
New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog
Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored… Read More ›
Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›
WordPress.com enables another new “feature” to far from universal acclaim
Looking at Fire Fly’s blog, I noticed that she’s discovered that a new feature on her hosted-by-Wordpress.com blog. It turned up without direct notification, and is opt-out, not opt-in. … » Problem No.1 (She’s disabled it, and you should too if you blog on wordpress.com – see below for instructions)
More molecular evidence of dino-bird relationship: collagen fragments tell all
Archaeopteryx fossil, c/i Science Made Cool. If you’re into dinos and gaming, check out their game Bone Wars. National Geographic reports: “T. Rex Protein “Confirms” Bird-Dinosaur Link”. We know dino bones and bird bones are morphologically similar. The hypothesis is… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 