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• Tuesday Links

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-08 • ( 8 )

  A Pacman cupcake tableau. Because you can. ——————————————————- From Amazon via Photoshop Disasters, Completely Pointless Knickers, aka the “Deluxe String of Bubbles”. Where are her labia? WHERE?

• Order of the Douche Savant: MJA forced-birther Edward D Watt

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-07 • ( 1 )

  In other news from the latest Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal published forced-birther pontifications[1] from Claremont-based retired UWA Politics academic Edward D. Watt (Ted Watt). You know the drill: The article is entirely adult-centred: its authors never hint that… Read More ›

• My brane is weird part eleventy thousand and three

  By tigtog on 2008-07-07 • ( 1 )

  Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this Iambic, originally uploaded by dumbeast. into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this:

• The Last Train out of Sydney

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

  We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›

• Poverty, “Risky Behaviour”, and the Virtuous Healthy-Sick-Person Interrogation

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 9 )

  WA Today reports that poor people who have been seriously ill die sooner after hospital discharge than wealthy people do. No surprises there – we all know that poor people have poorer health outcomes across the board. The results of… Read More ›

• “Blog your way to happiness”

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 2 )

  [These random happybloggers, who are definitely not Helen and Suze, come to you courtesy of manmadepants on Flickr and a Creative Commons licence.] Hoydenizens Helen and Suze both featured in an Age article this week, “Blog your way to happiness“…. Read More ›

• SF Sunday: cult SF films

  By tigtog on 2008-07-06 • ( 7 )

  This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›

• A paean to “radical feminist” organisation the Girl Scouts of America

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05 • ( 11 )

  The threat: bone-chillingly radical feminist Girl Scouts. Mississippi-based Christian “news” service One News Now claims to offer up “news without the liberal bias”. It also offers up news without that dastardly word “gay”, as Jeff Fecke and Melissa have noted… Read More ›

• Otterday!

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05 • ( 2 )

  I love love love today’s otter. This baby river otter was found wandering around Petaluma with his friends. After stopping into a tavern and an auto parts store, they were guided to a more appropriate creek by Sonoma County Wildlife… Read More ›

• Down Under Feminists Carnival: Second Edition!

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05

  I am chuffed to announce that the Second Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is now up at In A Strange Land! Lots of weekend reading for you there: check it out. And please post a pointer to it… Read More ›

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