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• Weekend Wobot: Woomba

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-30 • ( 2 )

  Hot on the heels of floral-soaked feminine hygiene products everywhere comes Woomba, taking the hard work out of women’s business. A miniature disc-shaped robot, Woomba is pink (of course), sensor-equipped, and fully-automated. Set and forget! (if the Youtube link doesn’t… Read More ›

• Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-30 • ( 16 )

  Guest post by Kate Harding (and cross-posted a couple places) So say 40.4% of people 18-24, according to The Brogan Survey. Asked to rank obesity, smoking, drugs and alcohol in order of perceived “greatest threat to public health,” most people… Read More ›

• Weekend wittering

  By tigtog on 2007-06-30

  FFS, world meeja, just quit whining about covering stories that involve a certain celebutante, will ya? Stop arguing when other journos want to put the stories through the shredder. I used to do some snarking on celebs here at Hoyden,… Read More ›

• By any other name?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-29 • ( 17 )

  Guest post by sajbrfem. Fat acceptance has recently beeped on my radar, despite living the majority of my life one or two dress sizes outside a convenient mainstream shopping experience, I had not been aware of this movement until now…. Read More ›

• Read ‘Ems: more on the NT plan, barefaced hypocrisy, and a couple of amusing tidbits

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-29 • ( 11 )

  What I’m reading today: 1. The AMA call has come. Yesterday’s email brought a plea from the AMA to volunteer 2-4 weeks in a central Australian community to perform governmental health checks on children. The email opens with a big… Read More ›

• Triple J youth radio’s “Hack” panel on the NT indigenous plan: Davis, Wenitong and Doyle

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-29 • ( 2 )

  Youth radio station Triple J’s “Hack” Indigenous Panel yesterday had a look at the Howard/Brough Northern Territory “emergency” plan. The full mp3 is available here. Triple J’s Alice Brennan asked: “Who haven’t we heard from yet? The next generation of… Read More ›

• Friday Fun: Which feminist icon are you?

  By tigtog on 2007-06-29 • ( 10 )

  Well, I try and kick arse, but I don’t really think I kick an Angela Davis level of arse. (Updated to Add: see, although Crikey! has just described Hoyden About Town as “dispens[ing] its femmobolsho views loudly, proudly and with… Read More ›

• In which I judge a book by its cover

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-29 • ( 2 )

  Guest post by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Thanks to Tigtog for honouring me with an invitation to guest post at Hoyden while she whizzes down mountains. Recently, the folks at IBTP have been bemoaning the pinkification of everything… Read More ›

• 1Q: Is there merit in governments playing catch-up politics?

  By tigtog on 2007-06-28 • ( 3 )

  Tim Dunlop’s blogging experiment, One Question, has the third round happening. (For full details see Tim’s original post.) The current question is this: the government is accused of playing catch up politics, but is there some merit in such an… Read More ›

• Sex ed – the facts

  By tigtog on 2007-06-28 • ( 4 )

  Further to Lauredhel’s post about a UK judge’s strange views on the sexual precocity of a 10 year old girl, which became a discussion on young people and sexuality (and the negatives of viewing adolescent sexual experimentation through a lens… Read More ›

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