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  • The Unilever Effect: Bow Chicka Wah Wow Your Daughters

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    Melissa and I have both been posting crankily about the evils of Unilever, in the face of breathlessly fawning blogospheric viral-marketing over the “Onslaught” ad. Now, via Shakesville, comes this inevitable mashup of Axe/Lynx and Dove ads. If anyone out… Read More ›

  • Spent day with camera (and partner)

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    Thus no blogging. We walked around the Sculpture by the Sea track, and then went to some ponds covered in waterlilies. I’ll get those shots up on Flickr tomorrow, once I’ve sorted through the best. (Addit: OK, I’ve started putting… Read More ›

  • Wednesday Wow: aerial

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    So many shots taken from plane windows are rather pedestrian, but the mountains silhouettes against the sunrays and the clouds make this one pretty spectacular.

  • Kid-farming for fun and profit

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    So. Childcare. There was a great comment by Jo on Larvatus Prodeo about the economic history of community-based and for-profit childcare . It’s buried in a long thread, so I thought I’d pull it out here, as it deserves more… Read More ›

  • Pass it on

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    The GetUp! Save Our Senate 3-party ad is now on YouTube. The funding for free-to-air broadcast is limited, so the more people who see it the better.

  • Bionic Hymens

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    [image source] Today’s Pravda brings us: “Every woman has five reasons to recover her virginity”, a three-page promotorial for hymenoplasty surgery. No longer merely a tool for fooling hapless hubbies, revirginisation is the new sexual empowerfulment for the noughties. Excerpts:… Read More ›

  • Debunking differences

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    Get your Gender Essentialist bingo cards ready, but this time so that we can cross off various myths being vigorously debunked. First the headline and teaser: The difference myth We shouldn’t believe the increasingly popular claims that boys and girls… Read More ›

  • Flounder of the week: Andrew Quah

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    [image source] The Herald reports: Mr Quah told the Herald yesterday he thought it was possible that he had posed for the compromising photographs. “I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me.”… Read More ›

  • Mondayitis cure: kid art

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    Pirate Ship Pinkus. (“because the pirate ship’s name is “Pinkus”, because it’s a very old ship. Well, that’s a crows-nest with a flag, and a sail, there’s the captain, and that blue bit down the bottom is the ocean. And… Read More ›

  • Request: epistemology for newbies?

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    I feel there’s a hole in my book-larnin’. I’ve never really read any formal epistemology, just picked bits and pieces up as I go along. Can anyone recommend any web- (or uni website-) available, chapter/article-length introduction to general principles and… Read More ›