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• The Great Social Media Brownout

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-07 • ( 10 )

  Twitter and Livejournal completely fell over around an hour ago, and Facebook has been bouncing up and down like a yo-yo. News sites and blogs are strangely silent about it all. TechCrunchers are speculating a little. DDoS, domino effect, outlandish… Read More ›

• Violence by Numbers

  By Helen on 2009-08-06 • ( 23 )

  People who followed White Ribbon Day a few months ago will remember that WRD was bitterly resented by (a) many members of the public who saw it in impossibly crude terms – but, but, but, you mean men are all… Read More ›

• One for the WTF files: SMH cartoon on QANTAS “overbooked babies” error

  By tigtog on 2009-08-06 • ( 14 )

  Why represent women planning to engage in political action as smugglers? In their underwear? And barefoot?

  What the hell is your point?

• Thursday Cheezburger Seven Deadly Sins #4: Lust

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-06 • ( 5 )

  Runner-up:

• Because you can’t go a day without this reminder

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-06 • ( 4 )

  You know those afternoons where there’s nothing urgent to do, and you’re just tootling around Twitter and Facebook, feeling fairly comfy and content, and then misogyny just hits you abruptly in the face? Yeah. I took the What Body Part… Read More ›

• Getting angry at women who don’t fulfil your expectations

  By tigtog on 2009-08-06 • ( 9 )

  BBC: A 48-year-old US man who opened fire in a Pennsylvania gym, killing three women and himself, appeared to have written about his plans for the attack. […] Sodini appeared to have planned the attack since at least November 2008,… Read More ›

• Newsflash: Meyer didn’t invent the cheesy vampire romance genre

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-05 • ( 1 )

  So apparently (and who knows if I’ve been hoaxed) the author of The Nocturne has sent Stephenie Meyer a copyright cease-and-desist over Breaking Dawn, the last of the Twilight novels. (Spoilers for both novels, obviously.) The author, Jordan Scott, claims… Read More ›

• Fifteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival: July 2009

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-05 • ( 11 )

  Welcome to the Fifteenth Edition of down under feminists carnival! This carnival features posts made by Aussie and Kiwi feminists during July, 2009.

• Shorten’s disability shakeup – read between the lines

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-05 • ( 12 )

  Anyone care to have a go at reading between the lines with this one? Given Shorten’s form on lack of interest in people with invisible disabilities who aren’t fully dependent on a carer, I’m not as hopeful as I’d like… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: Waters of Mars Trailer

  By Beppie on 2009-08-05 • ( 11 )

  The Waters of Mars is the next Doctor Who special from Russell T Davies, due in November this year: David Tennant’s last before his big two-parter finale. But, as you can see from this trailer, there are many signs that… Read More ›

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