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• Target, and Lauredhel’s Toy-Catalogue Annex of the Bechdel Test

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-15 • ( 19 )

  I finally got around to reading the bumper Target Toy Sale catalogue.

  And it’s just as pinkly sickening as you’d expect.

• Scary hands

  By tigtog on 2008-07-15 • ( 4 )

  I just watched a bunch of kids at a school holidays kids’ club playing a tipping/tagging game – the one where originally there’s only a single “it”, but as they tag others to become “it” they all have to hold… Read More ›

• The whatever-happened-to dept: actor division

  By tigtog on 2008-07-14 • ( 5 )

  Fred Thompson is not the only former Law and Order cast member to attempt a run for President of the USA in ’08. Michael Moriarty, who once had the part of prosecutor Ben Stone in the series (1990-94) is also… Read More ›

• Sunset by Turner

  By tigtog on 2008-07-14 • ( 3 )

  This was taken on a sunset whale-watching cruise last Friday evening, off Port Macquarie. It had been overcast all day, but the sky cleared just before we went out except for leaving enough clouds in the west to produce this… Read More ›

• Office kitchen biohazards: in pictures

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-14 • ( 13 )

  [Inspired by the comments on Etiquette maven misfire: breastmilk is “seriously inappropriate”] Biohazard Not a biohazard

• Vale Olive Riley, the world oldest blogger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-14 • ( 3 )

  The SMH farewells Olive Riley of Woy Woy, who at 108 was the world’s oldest blogger. Riley was born in Broken Hill before Federation, saw the entire twentieth century, and has lasted a good few years into the twenty-first. She… Read More ›

• Big Brother gets the boot

  By tigtog on 2008-07-14 • ( 3 )

  Channel Ten’s dropped the show. Endemol thinks they can sell it to someone else. Really?

• White babies saving the world, one nappy at a time

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-13 • ( 4 )

  This Guest Hoyden post is cross-posted at blue milk. Who knew there was so much to say about feminist motherhood? No wonder I’m so tuckered out all the time. It is very difficult being white. We have a lot of… Read More ›

• Etiquette maven misfire: breastmilk is “seriously inappropriate”

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-13 • ( 69 )

  You know, if the worst thing that’s happening in your life is that you caught a glimpse of someone else’s breastmilk in the work fridge last week, maybe you should thank your lucky stars and go do something useful in… Read More ›

• Four things that caught my eye this week

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-13 • ( 2 )

  The hidden risks of padded bras: A Norwich woman went about half her day without realising there was a bat in her bra. She thought that the “slight vibration” was her mobile phone. ~~~~~ Bush bewilderment

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