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  • Weblog Awards – Vote Now!

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    Update: The voting is all over. Thankyou to everyone who participated!

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    The 2008 Weblog Awards

    The polls are now open in the Weblog Awards.

    You can vote once a day for the one-week voting period, so set yourself a reminder now to go back each day.

    Vote now for Hoyden About Town in Best Midsize Blog

  • Otterday, and Open Thread

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    These Cape clawless otters were photographed on the Uitsig Peninsula in South Africa. Read more at the Zandvlei Trust, which does environmental work along the False Bay Coast wetlands, near Cape Town.

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    Tigtog and I are both going to be more family-focussed for the next week or two, so Hoyden About Town will be a bit quiet for a while. Please feel free

  • Because I are one

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    I just got an invitation to join the facebook group “I tap slow-walking people on the shoulder and say, “Excuse me please!”

    Uh – no.

    Fuck no. With cherries and sprinkles. And the sauce of your choice.

    Laying your hands on me without invitation, strangers, sure isn’t going to speed me up any, but it may well piss me right the fuck off.

  • Metaphysics, Parenting, and the Supernova.

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    We revisited the end of the Earth today.

    The Lad (aged six) and I were reading Beowulf over lunch. Not my choice; the lad is drawn to it. He suddenly stopped me, starting to look upset.

  • Thursday Cheezburger, and Delurking Day

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    Runnerup: Purrtilizer helps ur plants grow.

    It’s our monthly Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give us a shout and let us know you’re there. You’re welcome to post your favourite macro (post the link and wait for Admin Image Magic), introduce yourself, or tell us what’s impressed or disappointed you lately

  • Ask Auntie Hoyden: “she swallowed my cork”

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    It’s time for another…. Ask Auntie Hoyden! Dontcha just love these search-terms posts? Well, I do, so if you don’t, move along, nothing to see here.

    How do googlers find their way here? Most of the time they’re obviously searching for porn. Horrible, demeaning, often illegal porn. But once I’ve cut out most of that, the rest of the searchers are a source of endless amusement, diversion, curiosity, and sometimes pathos. Here are some of the search terms googlers have entered recently to end up at Hoyden About Town. Many of them didn’t find what they were looking for. And I’ve taken the liberty of answering a few googlers’ questions.

  • Linkfest

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    This is dubious. “Bronze Boy Holding a Girl Up“, at Overstock.

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  • Faves: Bad Science

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    Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones

  • “The 15 most kickass women on television”

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    This article from Cliqueclack, “The 15 most kickass women on television“, gets it pretty close to right, I reckon, in content if not in order.

  • Faves: Big Pharma

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    Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones