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• “Any tendency to self-handling at its earliest manifestation will lead the wise mother to at once adopt means for its suppression.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-24 • ( 3 )

  Another instalment in the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook series! The original post is here. Chapter IV is titled “Sex Physiology and Hygiene“. It’s long, so I’ll break it up into parts. It opens with a passionate plea for early and vigorous… Read More ›

• Otterday!

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-24 • ( 5 )

  This Otterday shot comes from yeimaya at Flickr. Feel free to cap it, if you’d like this to be a bit more interactive. The ROLFbot is a handy tool.

• Friday Hoyden: Michelle Atkins completes 10 marathons in 10 days

  By tigtog on 2008-05-23 • ( 2 )

  Last year the Guinness book of records set a challenge for runners – complete ten marathons in ten days and get in the records book. Lots of runners found the challenge motivational, and a few completed the challenge in 2007,… Read More ›

• Supernova observations

  By tigtog on 2008-05-23 • ( 2 )

  Wow, huh? for the first time in history, astronomers have unambiguously observed the exact moment when a star explodes. More from the Bad Astronomer.

• I’ve got the mindless action movie blues

  By tigtog on 2008-05-23 • ( 15 )

  having been sucked into the vortex of a particularly poor example while I work on other things at the ‘puter. I tell you what, if Our Hero fails to pick up just one more Handy Weapon Sitting Right There Next… Read More ›

• There’s a new dating service around, and it smells rather strongly of woo-woo

  By tigtog on 2008-05-22 • ( 6 )

  Firstly, how creepy is the company logo? Secondly, this interview shows that they’ve actually been around since last year, so it’s not new-new. Thirdly, let’s give this chap Eric Holzle credit for at least renovating the old idea of computerised… Read More ›

• Strewth, that’s what this country needs, the word “gormless” as a political slur

  By tigtog on 2008-05-22 • ( 15 )

  Turnbull puts his credibility on the line MALCOLM Turnbull has offered his experience in merchant banking and business as underlining his economic credibility and attacked Wayne Swan as gormless, gutless and opposed to individual enterprise. It’s doesn’t quite have the… Read More ›

• Visceral image-jolt

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-21 • ( 13 )

  I’m pretty sure anyone who has ever worked at an emergency department knows what jolted me about this image. It took me quite a while to figure out what the advertisers were actually getting at. I wonder if anyone in… Read More ›

• Eye troubles? Photoshop Disasters fun

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-21 • ( 8 )

  If you’re not already reading Photoshop Disasters, go and check it out. Here are a few recent splorfs. I tried to narrow these down to a top three, and totally failed. It’s worth going to the originals, for the larger… Read More ›

• I met this guy in Hyde Park today: big bubbles, no trouble (as they say in the classics)

  By tigtog on 2008-05-21 • ( 5 )

  Mr Incredibubble: His name’s Justin, and he’s cool. I’ll post some of my photos once I’ve got them Flickr’d. Here’s some of my photos below – the grey sky was actually terrific – apparently the bubbles sparkle much more on… Read More ›

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