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• Festive Soapmaking, November 2007

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-01 • ( 4 )

  A few pictures of the results of my soaping session this week! I haven’t got around to trimming and planing yet, so these are raw. Cranberry Fig stars. I dusted the molds with gold mica before pouring the soap, and… Read More ›

• The Age: “Exciting, defining times for women”

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-01 • ( 2 )

  [Running this photo again, because I love it. Julia Gillard. Source: the West.] Things are changing in Australia! It feels like we’re taking full breaths of air for the first time in over a decade. While Costello snipes sourly and… Read More ›

• This time last week: Election Day Grevillea

  By tigtog on 2007-12-01 • ( 2 )

  View On Black | View Large On Black So, what does everybody think of Rudd’s first week? Are we up for any big surprises once they’re actually sworn in on Monday, do you think?

• Friday Hoyden: Colleen McCullough

  By tigtog on 2007-12-01 • ( 7 )

  McCullough in 2004 I’ve just spent the last week, in between spring cleaning and the odd gleeful skip over the departure of John Winston Howard from the national scene, reading the latest volume in Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series… Read More ›

• “Seen And Heard”: Children in public spaces

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-01 • ( 10 )

  The dearth of children in public spaces is too often decried purely in terms of The! Obesity! Crisis!!1! But there are much better reasons to encourage children back into the public world, and they’re reasons not readily addressed by a… Read More ›

• “Plus we sell fair trade coffee!”: Say No to WHO Code Offset Attempts

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-30

  [all images courtesy of promom.org. Click for larger versions.] There’s been a bit of discussion about the traps about whether carbon trading offset schemes are of any real use, or whether they have the end result of not-so-covertly encouraging resource… Read More ›

• Friday Funnies: 24 spoof – Jack Bauer saving the day with 1994 technology

  By tigtog on 2007-11-30 • ( 1 )

  Found a YouTube version to replace the CollegeHumor direct embedding which broke the blog. (link in case the embedded Flash doesn’t work for you) Oh, the memories: maintaining a dial-up connection uphill both ways in the snow! H/T Pam at… Read More ›

• Grin du jour.

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-29 • ( 4 )

  I’m enjoying a temporary blogflump, thanks to a bit of soapmaking and some post-election floatiness. So I bring you this, courtesy of Neatorama. Illegitimi Non Carborundum

• Is Missy Hillary a lipsniger?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-29 • ( 2 )

  Crossposted from LP in exile. I’m surprised that detailed lesbian slurs against Clinton have taken this long to arise, actually, given that her sexual preferences have been questioned since long before Gennifer Flowers’ memoirs put the allegations into print. The… Read More ›

• Not just change

  By tigtog on 2007-11-28 • ( 8 )

  Tim Dunlop has had enough of excuses from the Liberals and Nationals about the fickle, silly electorate that apparently didn’t have a single good reason for voting the Howard government out. [quoting Mark Vaile] “There seemed to be a sense… Read More ›

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