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• Today’s bit of fun: medical marvels

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-09

  Check out this Worth-1000 competition to produce a Photoshopped medical anomaly. Most of them are a bit of fun, but I prefer the more subtle ones: Have a poke around Worth 1000 while you’re there. Check out Archaeological Anomalies, Alternate… Read More ›

• Imagine, I so nearly missed this sight

  By tigtog on 2007-07-09 • ( 1 )

  Published while I was away on hols: why oh why couldn’t the SuperHornet pilot have strapped him in “for more realism, Sir” and told him to push the ejector seat button (“this starts the mighty engine, Sir”)? Image Credit: The… Read More ›

• They’re creepy and they’re … creepy. Three datapoints.

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-08 • ( 14 )

  Via IBTP, buried in a long stoush about bigotry against children and whether under-18s are subhuman: To passer-by, crying child’s ear-piercing rings of abuse. Marilyn Johnson thought so when she heard a girl’s screams in a Wichita Wal-Mart on Sunday… Read More ›

• “Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-08 • ( 15 )

  Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily… Read More ›

• Lame jokes

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-08

  I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and… Read More ›

• Image du jour: Please Leave Jackboots Here

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-07

  From the ABC News, Police support Indigenous permit status quo: Reactions of indigenous people and local police to the Howard government’s plan to steal Aboriginal land and open it to “public scrutiny”. Criticism in this article centres around two issues…. Read More ›

• Stunning News

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-07 • ( 5 )

  Guest posted by Kate Harding Item: School childhood obesity programs are failing, experts say Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working, said Tom Baranowski, a pediatrics professor… Read More ›

• It’s not just the moustache

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-06 • ( 7 )

  This guest post is by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Aaaaaaargh! It’s (gag) happened! Elizabeth and the dweeby, creepy, moustached Anthony have finally realised that each other is their Only Trew Love, and they’re going at it like… well,… Read More ›

• Feminist read’ems: men harassing WOC online, iconic blondes, and party-pollie numbers games

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-05 • ( 10 )

  Feminist read ’ems! ~~ “A Disincentive to the Female Voice Online” Jenn talks about men who cyberharass bloggers who are women of colour. Her experiences are harrowing and revolting, but she vows to survive: When I participated in a popular… Read More ›

• Grrrl’s own adventure

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-04 • ( 9 )

  Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?). I don’t usually read Janet Albrechtsen because I don’t find her relevant, but today I did and now I’m inflicting her on you. Sorry…. Read More ›

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