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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-10 • ( 10 )

  Reminder: Hoyden About Town has moved to http://www.hoydenabouttown.com. Please update your blogrolls and bookmarks! Please also re-subscribe, to make sure you are using the new Feedburner feed. Enough of the cute and furry! Today’s otter-related snippet comes via Neatorama. “Sea… Read More ›

• Roar down the Hume

  By tigtog on 2009-10-10

  (a holiday poem)

• Hey, Hey it’s offensive in Australia too

  By hatbluemilk on 2009-10-09 • ( 76 )

  Remember when something as outrageously racist as a minstrel show was considered funny? Mainstream funny, not white supremacist funny? No, me neither. That kind of cruelty was a long, long time ago. Or so we thought. Then this week a… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The 6th Virtue, Hope

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-08 • ( 6 )

  We’re on to the penultimate of the Seven Virtues: Hope. Winner: Runners-up, again with school holiday bonus LOLs!

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 8, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-08 • ( 8 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. But Plumber Chicks Are HAWT! – “How long till someone shows up to accuse me of… Read More ›

• Open letter to Feministing – co-signed

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-07 • ( 16 )

  An Open Letter to Feministing on ableism and disability issues. (And a general rec for Meloukhia’s blog, which is a powerhouse of feministy delight.) The Open Letter has been co-signed by many, including over at the Feministing Community [Headdesk warning… Read More ›

• Nestle Aus manager calls critics irrational, biased

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-07 • ( 12 )

  Complete with the infantilising headline we’ve come to expect from Fairfax media, Asher Moses has written up the ongoing #nestlefamily incident: “Mummy bloggers spit the dummy over Nestle’s spoilt milk” First, Nestlé hung its bloggers out to dry, leaving them… Read More ›

• Why the stalling on abortion law reform?

  By hatbluemilk on 2009-10-06 • ( 14 )

  The only thing more ridiculous than a law never upheld is a law suddenly applied to an individual case. It is estimated that at least one in three women in Australia will have an abortion in their lifetime. And yet… Read More ›

• Quickhit: freebies, kickbacks and Disclosure by Bloggers

  By tigtog on 2009-10-06 • ( 2 )

  Interesting: FTC to Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments

  That’s an $11,000 fine per non-disclosing post for those bloggers coming under the US FTC’s ambit.

• School holiday blogging: Bees on lavender

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-06 • ( 6 )

  Taken yesterday.

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