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• Five Things That Caught My Eye This Week

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-22 • ( 4 )

  1. Jesus chair. 2. A cat is nursing an adopted red panda cub at a zoo in Amsterdam. National Geographic has video. 3. Coolest dinosaur suit EVER. Video was taken of the suit terrorising toddlers at the Natural History Museum… Read More ›

• A better future

  By tigtog on 2008-07-22 • ( 4 )

  My daughter found this on one of her fanfic communities, and mentioned it to me the other day. I’m rather excited by the notion that ideas like this are circulating amongst teens in what might appear to outsiders to be… Read More ›

• The privilege in your pocket: a manifesto

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-22 • ( 25 )

  Today we welcome Stephanie in her first Guest Hoyden post! Stephanie is a loud person of Chinese-Anglo descent, who tries to navigate being an Australian by way of Malaysia. Growing up in Australia meant never seeing any people who looked… Read More ›

• Kristen Schaal is brilliant

  By tigtog on 2008-07-22 • ( 4 )

  Kristen Schaal, as seen on Flight of the Conchords, is now the “senior women’s issues commentor” for Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml H/T Unapolegetically Female via RH Reality Check

• Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-22 • ( 32 )

  “Use my picture if it will help” said the woman in this photograph. The babies are twins: the child with the bottle is a girl – she died the next day – but her brother was breastfed and is thriving…. Read More ›

• “we can’t take American assurances that they do not torture detainees at face value”

  By tigtog on 2008-07-21 • ( 1 )

  Story: British MP’s raise torture concerns So some politicians have finally noticed that when one group of people define torture so that it includes waterboarding and another group defines torture so that it excludes waterboarding, then the word torture itself… Read More ›

• Hey “Girls”! Unilever’s “Go Fresh” spam

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 26 )

  The Hoydens got spammed by Unilever’s minions today. You remember Unilever: the company doing the pornulated “Bom Chicka Wow Wow” Axe and Lynx ads; Unilever, the company whose marketing officer Simon Clift whined that women just can’t take a joke;… Read More ›

• What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 9 )

  I think I just had an epiphany about the Big Giant Head phenomenon in bad photoshopping of glamour photos of women. The missing ribs and wasp waists are bad enough, but the BGH lollipop-look appears again and again and again…. Read More ›

• Nellie McKay

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 4 )

  UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. Now that’s how you do satire.

• LOLpology

  By tigtog on 2008-07-20 • ( 7 )

  I may regret this. I am venting at a bullying hierarchy, not the body of believers. I don’t find religious beliefs persuasive, but see no need to insult believers in general. The Vatican hierarchy is another matter entirely – I… Read More ›

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