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  • Neat graffiti

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    Via counterclockwise at Flickr, a neat bit of street art.

  • Your friends make you fat

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    (Subtext: so if any of your mates are a wee bit plump you better drop them quick smart or you’ll be rooned, rooned! Yay, let’s make fat people even more socially isolated and scorned!) So say all the headlines and… Read More ›

  • Spoiler alert: Book Review HP7 whaddayareckon?

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    Plot spoilers will appear in this discussion for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

    Don’t read any further unless you already know plot twists or if you don’t care whether you learn plot twists. If you are subscribed to comments here using RSS, you should probably treat that feed most warily until you finish the book.

  • Wednesday Wow

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    There’s just something irresistible about a majestic march of mountains…

  • Milking it in California

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    Edited to add: Two other blogs have now picked up on this story. The Lactivist notes “The International Breast Milk Project in the News Again“. And MamaBear at breastfeedingsymbol.org has done some ringing around – directly to the iThemba Lethu… Read More ›

  • Political outreach online

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    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about just what online strategies could be most effective for political parties in getting their message across to the voters. I’ve run across a lot of interesting views, and thought on them (in… Read More ›

  • Image du jour: Girl cancer!

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    The March, 2007 edition of Australian Family Physician magazine is a special issue on gynaecological malignancies. I’m boggling at this cover illustration. What do you think? (click for larger version)

  • ACT parliament improves its mother-friendliness

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    [Image credit: The Age, “Charlotte Makes a Meal of Question Time“] Cheers to the ACT parliament for becoming the first parliament in Australia to get Australian Breastfeeding Association accreditation as a breastfeeding-friendly workplace, as reported in IBN News. The ABA… Read More ›

  • Two sides of the same coin

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    Great comment in a thread over at Feministe about yet another book calling for more sexual modesty (from women, of course): This seems like a great time to focus on re-directing the debate away from regarding “raunch culture’ and “modesty’… Read More ›

  • “God didn’t make any junk”

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    So said Tammy Faye Messner (once Tammy Faye Bakker) once when asked her opinion on homosexuals and whether they could be part of the Christian family. She died yesterday of cancer aged 65. I’m not a fan of televangelists as… Read More ›