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• Lazyweb Book request: Disability activism

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-11 • ( 22 )

  Lazyweb, do my homework for me! Many of us can rattle off a list of feminist books that influenced our thinking, a list to answer the recurring feminism-101 question about reading lists. I haven’t a clue about radical disability activism… Read More ›

• Skeptic quickhit: homeopathy

  By tigtog on 2009-04-10 • ( 3 )

  Reworked (with the artist’s permission) from a poster featured on Orac’s blog.

• Ottersealionday Open Thread – Long weekend edition

  By tigtog on 2009-04-10 • ( 7 )

  Happy first-weekend-following-first-full-moon-following-vernal-equinox Celebration!

  Do baby sea lions get Eostre Eggs? This little darling was born at Taronga Zoo in Sydney recently and has just this week been able to leave the pup creche and come out into the larger sea lion habitat.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 10, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-04-10 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess : The Illegals Steal Our Jorbz!!! April 10, 2009 – Isis smacks down some stupid rhetoric yennenga: Asian Women Carnival #1 April 10, 2009… Read More ›

• Quickhit: “The wages of atheism”.

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-10 • ( 24 )

  By In A Strange Land: When our daughters chose to opt out of the god-botherers preaching about sky fairies (Miss Ten’s words, not mine) at school, just before Easter, they were sent to pick up litter in the school grounds… Read More ›

• A couple of interesting articles: whither Web Design?

  By tigtog on 2009-04-09 • ( 6 )

  These links strike me as topical given the response to the Queensland sex education website: quite a few of us hated the look of the site. But are we looking at it through old media eyes?

• Thursday Cheezburger: Sleepy Kittehs, and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-09 • ( 8 )

  Work? I iz on top of it And this runner-up, I relate to: CLEANING: it’s harder than it looks

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 9, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-04-09

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed I Write Letters April 8, 2009 – Yes – this annoys me no end as well. The Trouble with Coraline April 8, 2009 – SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS – but great post… Read More ›

• Wot I did in Melbourne (by tigtog, age 45)

  By tigtog on 2009-04-09 • ( 15 )

  It was a work trip, reviewing comedy shows, so I was out every night doing exactly that. This meant that I missed a by all accounts legendary blogmeet on the Friday night – if I’d been organised enough to get a phone number or two I could have at least joined in the portion of it that rocked on after midnight, but who knew it was going to be that huge? Nabs will have to get me nissed as a pewt another time – maybe next year.

• More outrage over sex ed for youngsters: The Hormone Factory

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-08 • ( 20 )

  Ostrich parents in Queensland are said to be up in arms today about a sex education website aimed at Grade 7 students. The site, thehormonefactory.com (warning:website sound), contains a selection of pubertal anatomy and physiology, basic sex information, talk about… Read More ›

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