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• Australovenator!

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-13

  I love it that dinosaur paleontology makes the six o’clock news! The remains of ‘Banjo’, Australovenator wintonensis, were found near Winton in Queensland. Sie was a half-tonne carnivorous theropod, bigger (and “more terrifying”, says a paleontologist) than the velociraptor. Two… Read More ›

• Otterday and Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2009-09-12 • ( 20 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Monsters vs Aliens – Feminist Win, Feminist Fail?

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-11 • ( 2 )

  I had read that Monsters vs Aliens, the latest Dreamworks animated feature and homage to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, is a feminist flick. And so it is, in a way; the central storyline has a definite feminist bent… Read More ›

• SUCCESS! On Disabled Parking “Harmonisation” Activism

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-11 • ( 11 )

  Read the background here: “CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme” I’m pleased to report that I have a piece of paper signed by Bill Shorten in my hot little… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: the Eleventh Doctor’s new companion

  By tigtog on 2009-09-11 • ( 25 )

  No spoilers apart from long announced casting decisions. I link at the end to an article with more spoilers, so don’t click on that if you wish to remain surprised next year. Anyway, allons-y! I like the look actress Amy… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 11, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-11 • ( 1 )

  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. You Probably Think this War is About You – how US policy in Afghanistan and Pakisan… Read More ›

• Cygnets!

  By tigtog on 2009-09-11 • ( 3 )

  Hatched over last weekend, yesterday was the first time I saw them out on the pond.

• Links for the Day – non-plastic toys, Rally for BFing rights in WA, and more

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 6 )

  Emma-in-oz has a listing of Australian toy stores selling wooden, non-toxic, fair trade, and/or Australian-made toys. Check it out. The issue of whether breastfeeding discrimination will be banned in Western Australia remains up in the air, but things don’t look… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Virtue #2, Temperance

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 6 )

  We’re continuing the post-deadly-sins Virtues series, with virtue number two: Temperance. Runner-up:

• Hutton’s Ontario Homebirth/Hospital Birth Study

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 5 )

  The latest homebirth study is out. The last was from British Columbia; this one’s from Ontario. “Outcomes Associated with Planned Home and Planned Hospital Births in Low-Risk Women Attended by Midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003–2006: A Retrospective Cohort Study” Eileen… Read More ›

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