Eric Brodrick from Alice Springs has a piece in Crikey this week titled “What’s the Pitjantjatjara word for computer?”
His argument boils down to this paragraph: Read more »
Eric Brodrick from Alice Springs has a piece in Crikey this week titled “What’s the Pitjantjatjara word for computer?”
His argument boils down to this paragraph: Read more »
Western Australian branch of the Australian Democrats, which failed to field a single candidate in the last election, has decided not to contest the electoral commission’s challenge to prove that they have 500 paid-up members.
I wonder how membership numbers are running in other states? Read more »
I don’t share Made in Melbourne’s optimism about this piece in the Age, Layne Beachley’s “Beating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. (Yes, she’s selling something - her book and her sports clothing brand.) Beachley writes: Read more »
Yes, the promised Children in Need trailer for the Christmas special (titled The Next Doctor with a trademark Rusty tease) aired this week.
Via Wired, feast your peepers on this (quality is a bit blurry): Read more »
I was thinking about the historical detail in Mad Men and Swingtown, and tripping down memory lane myself. Thinking about the props one might procure if making a period drama about my childhood and adolescence. Read more »
White American, and proud of it?
Not sure what to put out in the yard this Christmas?
Want to express your lurve for the Real American Family?
The American Family Association has just the decoration for you.
I wandered out into the garden this afternoon, camera in hand. You can see the previous garden post from just two months ago here, with the seedlings all in. We’ve been feasting off snow peas and sugar snap peas for lo these many weeks, and the past couple of weeks have been gorging on insalata caprese with basil from the garden.
The first sunflower to open caught my eye. Read more »
The ABC news website has details of a new survey up showing that there is still a lot of work to be done to educate boys about girls.
A new report has found that nearly one in seven teenage boys think it is OK to make a girl have sex with them, if she has been flirting with them.
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Australia’s first “retail health shop” staffed by nurses able to prescribe drugs and order tests will open in Perth next week amid concerns it may lead to second-grade medical care.
I’m picturing a swipe of mercurochrome, a band-aid, and a kiss.
Copyright notice: (c)2006-8 Hoyden About Town. All rights reserved. Read more »
There’s quite a lot of chat around the femiblogosphere about this ad for organ donation, spotted at Sociological Images. Read more »
Karl Stefanovic interviewed internet service provision expert and outspoken censorship critic Mark Newton on yesterday’s Today Show. Click on the eye image to see video. Read more »
According to the database, the previous post was our 2000th published post. I’m kinda chuffed that it honoured Liss.Similar Posts: Read more »
This is part three of a transcription of MMM’s Spoonman show on internet censorship, which aired 13 November 2008. You can download the podcast here.
Previous parts: Read more »
The Spoonman on MMM last night hosted a discussion of Conroy & Rudd’s internet censorship plans. You can download the podcast here. Read more »
Amandaw has a superb post up at Three Rivers Blog: Second Shift for the Sick.
She describes the energy and time requirements for someone who is sick or has a disability, in terms of what it takes to keep an income flowing, obtain healthcare and medication, monitor and try to correct other people’s mistakes, and access the world. This post hits me where I live. Read more »
Not really, that was just a throw-away quip in the comments to this comprehensive Den of Geek post about the various contenders who have been mentioned for the role (odds are given and everything). Read more »
Lots of stuff happening off blog - about to take child to get braces etc. Read more »
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam writes:
In the Senate question time at about 2:30PM Eastern Summer Time today I plan on asking Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his project for mandatory internet censorship, the so-called ‘clean feed’ which you’ve written to me about.
If you miss the broadcast I’ll have the transcript and a video clip here as soon as possible. Read more »
A molecular biologist at the University of California is gambling with his employment by refusing to attend a state-mandated (not just a university requirement) two hour training course on sexual harassment, wanting the university “to sign a disclaimer that says that he must take the training to remain employed and that he has never sexually harassed anyone that he has supervised.” As to the second part of that statement, how could the university be sure? Read more »
I dunno, give a lad a helicopter and he takes advantage.
PRINCE WILLIAM failed to tell his superiors he used two helicopter training flights to attend a wedding and buck’s night, and allowed his senior officers to be “counselled” for not stopping him.
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Via cuteotters, this wee baby otter. The Oklahoma Aquarium pup is one month old and taking its first steps and swim in public. Read more »
Hoyden About Town has been nominated for a Weblog Award!
You can give us a +1 bump in the nominations here:
Who are both elated that Indiana went blue for the first time since the 60s! Melissa as a resident just went nucking futs, while Lauren as an expat Hoosier has a great election response roundup. Read more »
In an IM conversation with tigtog, I started contemplating what to serve up for dinner tomorrow. We usually have a hot dog dinner on the Fourth of July, so what to serve on Election Day? Read more »
What am I missing, here? Red State Blue State quotes from a study that found that people in poorer health tend to vote Democrat.
This is a big ol’ “duh”, surely - people who don’t have temporarily-able-bodied privilege are more likely to vote for a party who won’t kick them to the kerb, disabled, bankrupt and homeless, and then crow about how they shoulda been more “responsible”. Read more »
Exactly what it says, really.
It’s a name which causes strong reactions in a lot of people.
To her fans, who believe that she is a “true psychic medium,” she is a down-to-earth, spiritually deep woman who, with the help of her “spirit guide” Francine, can see the future, diagnose illnesses, find lost children, and communicate with the dead.
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In July, I published a call for people to let the Queensland government know that routinely distributing free formula samples to mothers was a bad, bad idea: “Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities”.
Success! The plan has been changed. The Australian reports: “Baby gear beats cash in Cape York towns” Read more »
This sleepy baby sea otter comes via Dependable Renegade.
Bear with me while I sort out the inevitable bugs. I’m about to put the blog into Maintenance Mode again, so this is just a heads-up for those of you on Feed Readers.
UPDATE: ok, the biggest changes are done now. It should all work, and I’ll still do a bit of tweaking in the background
Copyright notice: (c)2006-8 Hoyden About Town. All rights reserved. Read more »
Last day for submissions to the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
It looks like the Blogcarnival submissions form is back up again, so you can use that, or email your submissions directly to carnival host Penguin Unearthed, penguinunearthed at gmail dot com . Read more »
It’s been a while since I showed you some art.
The lad is showing all the signs of being a budding stationery lover. He recently raised quite a bit of money in the school Fun Run (he’s also showing signs of being a middle-distance runner), and instead of choosing toys and sporting equipment like the other kids, he gravitated immediately to a giant art kit. He enthused about this for hours. Read more »
Good summary here of attitudes towards the intervention: AUSTRALIA: Indigenous People - Approach Still Paternalistic
Dale Clapperton, Chair of the Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), appeared briefly on Channel Seven’s Morning Show today, discussing internet censorship. Read more »
I was contemplating those burned-in movie moments. The ones from horror flicks I saw as a child or young adult, the ones which I just can’t shake. I couldn’t find video of all of them, but here are a few clips from the movies they came from.
Creepiness is situational. I don’t assert that these are the top five scary movie moments of all time. But they’re my top five, the ones that spring to mind when I think “Which scary movies have frightened me out of my wits?”
5. The Birds Read more »
[from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Transcript here.]
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Saw this meme over at Cara’s and as she doesn’t tag people, I’m just taking it.
For those who have not been paying obsessive attention to the US election details, it’s a reference to how many homes the McCains own (to be precise, how many homes the corporations and family trusts controlled by Cindy McCain own).
So, this is me going absolutely wild: Read more »
The call is out for Down Under Feminist Carnival submissions at Penguin Unearthed, who is hosting this month:
I’m particularly keen to have posts with a workplace focus, so all workplace submisions gratefully received.
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Fivethirtyeight.com is a polling wonk’s delight. If you have a fraction of a passing interest in psephology, you can lose hours of your life there.
I screenshottified this comment (image text below*) because I’m still having trouble believing my eyes: Read more »
It would not bloody kill you to go and run somewhere other than the clifftop-walk between Tamarama and Bondi Beach while it’s full of crowds viewing the annual Sculptures By The Sea exhibition. Read more »
It’s hard not to have a soft spot for Canadian television. Read more »
I’m not trusting myself to come up with words here, so here’s a quick hit on what the forced-birthers in Australia are up to right now. Put sharp objects down before reading. Emphasis is mine. Discuss.
“Loophole allows baby bonus for abortions”
Fixing a loophole that allows the $5,000 baby bonus to be claimed for late-term abortions is too costly to do this year, a parliamentary hearing has been told.
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Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has been trying to extract information on the new internet filtering plans in Senate Estimates committee.
Here’s the transcript, via the Greens website.
My notes: Read more »
Among the giant pile of books we currently have checked out of the library are these two, both of which are skating close to five stars for me.
Blogging is dead, long live multimedia-sharing and Twitter
Wired says blogs are dead. Blah blah linkbait, blah blah everyone’s on Twitter these days, blah blah. Read it if you can be bothered.
Most amusing moment: the author complains that blogs attract abusive commenters, and suggests Youtube instead. Read more »
Just the most recent posts from my feed-reader that have made me stroppy: Read more »
Watch how a real maverick works.
The emphasis on experience is in many ways the wrong one (rather as it has been when directed at Sen. Barack Obama). The problem with Gov. Palin is not that she lacks experience. It’s that she quite plainly lacks intellectual curiosity. It is not snobbish to harbor grave doubts about somebody who seems uninterested in reading for pleasure or recreation and whose only interest in her local public library is sniffing round its shelves for books that ought to be removed for expressing impure ideas.
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I have grey hair!
Last time I went for a haircut, I had about two grey hairs on the right temple. Now I’m quite distinctly going salt ‘n’ pepper at the temples, if you look closely. I have half a dozen or so silver hairs on each side. Read more »
It’s always irresistible when travelling with a camera, isn’t it? Any gorgeous reflections that you happen upon. Of course, some of the shots below have been meticulously planned by shutterbugs who know their local area and its lighting intimately. All photos found via Flickr Explore & a search for “reflections”. Read more »
Check out Sophie’s Steampunk Suffragette costume, now at the Hoydens About! flickr pool. She wore this for the Wasteland Steampunk convention.
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Kevin Rudd’s popularity has increased, with the latest Nielsen poll indicating that his handling of the global financial crisis (GFC) wins especially high approval, putting his personal approval rating at a personal best of 71%. Labor as a whole is more popular than at the last federal election. Read more »
Write me a review for my new Australian online comedy portal - news, reviews and directory all rolled into one! It’s called Gagging For It (rimshot), and I need more coverage of shows outside Sydney. Read more »
This fellow looks just pooped out.
[I grabbed this a while back and forgot to note where it was from - does anybody know?] Read more »
Australia’s Labor government is now set on instituting mandatory across-the-board internet censorship for every internet connection, with no opt-out facility. If this eventuates, we will join such countries as China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Read more »
but judging by how long it took for my dearly beloved to obtain a decent Amontillado sherry last night, we have the only bottle in the Inner West of Sydney. Yah boo sucks to the rest of you.
So what’s your favourite pre-dinner tipple? And what about night-cap time - mine oscillates between a single malt (Isle of Jura is the current favourite) or a snort of port. How about you? Read more »
My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed:
- McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the CNN audio. “Mmmmfnator Obama”.
- Obama a very obvious winner with the worm audience on both healthcare and education. Also a winner on reproductive choice (though not with me; he’s merely the less-bad alternative here.) Read more »
All these news reports recently about the Bradley Effect…it just struck me: are some media using earnest explanations of said Bradley Effect as an opportunity to remind the American VoterTM that that nice Obama they’re planning to vote for is, after all, still a Scary Black ManTM? Read more »
Once upon a time, the Doctor had a Companion, whom he left behind quite suddenly in the wake of an emergency. This Companion expected that the Doctor would come back, but he never did—at least not for a long time. Never one to live quietly, however, the Companion dedicated their life to defending the world from alien threats.
And then, Rusty decided to create a spinoff.
But it wasn’t Torchwood. Read more »
The Australian Medical Association on midwifery-led care in maternity services, September 2008:
“[…] midwifery services were expanded without any reference to the medical profession and without any clear evidence base around the impact on safety and clinical outcomes for patients. This has introduced significant uncertainty about the lines of responsibility for patient care and increased risk in respect of health outcomes for patients.”
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Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water.
They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while, but these “every mouthful” advertisements are new.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light sums up how frothingly the extreme right wing blogosphere is reacting to the polls for the McCain campaign: The Corner goes round the bend Read more »
Legislation to remove abortion from the Crimes Act in Victoria (abortion will still be regulated under the Health Act) has provoked hours of debate in the upper house of the Victorian State Parliament leading up to a conscience vote. The legislation has already been approved in the lower house.
ABC-Online: Upper House votes on abortion bill
A vote is expected in the Upper House today.
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The Beeb has got a nasty case of the Invisible Rapists today, in this report: “Teenager is raped in club toilets”.
A 19-year-old woman was raped in the men’s toilets in a nightclub, Sussex Police revealed.
The teenager was attacked at the Digital club, Kings Road Arches, Brighton, in the early hours on Wednesday, detectives said.
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The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Read more »
