Australia’s Next Top Model is on again. These models were put on the spot, asked to name name five things that made them a better model than the woman standing next to them.
Alexandra identifies her strengths:
“I’m taller, I’m whiter…” [silence] “uhh….. I have longer legs, I have better style.”
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One of my Flickrfriends, Mum49, had her camera to hand at exactly the right moment to catch a shot of some very tighty-whiteys outside Myer’s flagship store in Melbourne today.
Nice boots, too.
Some soap pictures for you!
The first is a couple of well-cured soaps from a few months ago. I like this photo because it shows the extreme ends of the range of textures achievable in handmade soaps. The purple soap dusted with gold mica shows the texture of a rebatched soap, if I don’t plane the edges after hardening. I rebatched this with the oven method because the original clary sage blend soap wasn’t cosmetically quite as I’d planned. Read more »
From a google alert I follow a link to a blog written by Malaysian student Akmal Azeman and her post Muslims In Another Word which features questions about wearing hijab asked of an Australian high school student by her fellow students. Read more »
Zoe had some sort of collision with a crystal ball and ended up liveblogging Tonight’s Budget Speech last night instead. So the plan is: Read more »
I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. Read more »
Ken Parish of Club Troppo has just introduced what he calls the Tropposphere. The Tropposphere is a Clayton’s feedreader of selected news, opinion, and analysis. Read more »
Images from the Australian Antarctic Division’s online photo gallery from a 2006 exhibition: these are the Icebergs.
There are also galleries for:
* Animals
* Auroras Read more »
If you blog from work, someone will find out unless you are scrupulously careful.
If your workplace is a political party and you use a photo that could only come from party sources, that is not being scrupulously careful. If your use of the photo sledges the leader of your parliamentary party, you will be for the high jump.
That said, the temptation to use this picture for their blog (now made private) must have been nigh irresistible. Read more »
Just pinpoint your chosen location in Google Earth, choose a height scale, and these clever Austrians will make it out of wood for you, terrain and all.
[Via Oohsome] Read more »
Our Guest Hoyden author is regular commentor Su.
In April Lauredhel blogged the NSW RSPCA Community Service Announcement that contained scenes of a man beating and kicking a woman, overdubbed with audio of a yelping dog. The justification for the ad was an established link between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence. But seriously, dehumanising women and leveraging their trauma to sell your animal cruelty message? – that is some twisted thinking, sister. Read more »
Oh my oh my oh my.
If ever I am required to save the world by snogging a tenor, can this be the one?
And we missed it!
Anyway, Fillyjonk and Kate have posted lots of good stuff about HAES and Size Acceptance.
Everyday is No-Diet Day in my house, although yesterday was actually no-retain-food-in-belly day, as I succumbed to the chundering bug that struck my kids earlier this week. Yukko. Read more »
The handy-dandy online “TM Headstart” service is broken.
’tis most annoying, because I don’t get to tell youse all about my latest business venture until I’ve protected the name.
Sick kids, demanding clients, and my own personal project all pulling me every which way. I stole a few hours on Tuesday to meet up with Hoydenizen Beppie, where we took our cameras and snapped away around Newtown and had a very tasty lunch together. Read more »
I just remembered a conversation I had with a hairdresser last week. She was just about to do the Dramatic First Cut, as I was going from long hair to what they seem to call an “urchin” cut. (Proceeds going to Locks of Love.)
The hairdresser paused just before cutting, and checked, “Are you sure?”
“Yes,” I said, “Totally sure! Go ahead!”
She started to move the scissors, then paused again.
“Hon, is your husband ok with this?” Read more »
Just a few highlights from the OB-GYN-L list, in a thread dated last October, “Birthplans and Expectations”. Most of the posts can be found here.
In this thread, OBs discuss amongst themselves the issue of women forming their own birth plans. (Quelle horreur!)
Easily panicked control-freak Steven Richman opened the proceedings: Read more »
Despite global public censure and an apparent lack of local electoral support, serial sexual harasser Troy Buswell today survived a spill motion in the party room, and continues to lead the Liberal Party of Western Australia.
The State election is due anywhere between 21 June 2008 and 2 May 2009. Anyone got an over/under on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend? Read more »
Image Source: davide mio by marcuzzo Read more »
I know, I know. ‘Tis a mightily horrendous pun. Blame silkworm. Read more »
For anyone who is trying to fool themselves that the next generation is inheriting a ‘postfeminist’ world, read Hell On Hairy Legs’ summary of a day in the life of a feminist highschooler.
This is what my schedule looks like on a Thursday:
Maths: 20 white guys in a 25 person class. The results are not pretty. Read more »
For those whose eyes were drawn less to the teens on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more to their mentor as played by Anthony Stewart Head. Head’s a veteran thesp, with a long background in musical theatre, and after having his first big role playing Jesus in Godspell he went on to play Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Show in the West End to huge acclaim. Read more »
For those whose eyes were drawn less to the teens on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more to their mentor as played by Anthony Stewart Head. Head’s a veteran thesp, with a long background in musical theatre, and after having his first big role playing Jesus in Godspell he went on to play Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Show in the West End to huge acclaim. Read more »
Everybody’s been posting versions of this today (USA time), but I just had to join in. As a listserv friend posted, Happy Mission Accomplished Day!
image source: SeattlePi.com
The latest White House press statement on the banner? Read more »
This post is a part of Blogging Against Disablism Day. Read more »
The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory to first obtain permission. It was cheered on its efforts by its ideological fellow-travellers, who were happy to smear anyone who did not support the move as protecting paedophiles and other child abusers. Read more »
Got an email from my MP:
The Salvation Army has approached me to help recruit volunteers in South Sydney to participate in the Red Shield appeal on 24-25 May.
In particular we need people in Rosebery, Redfern/Waterloo, and Erskineville. Read more »
The Age believes Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce today that he will introduce amendments to Parliament as early as next month to alter around 100 federal laws.
The changes will not allow gay marriages or same-sex couples to adopt children, and the issue of access to the Family Court for same-sex couples is still being resolved. Read more »
Here, Have A Kitty
Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign
That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored by one government or another. (via Lauredhel) Read more »
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so you didn’t bother, or something you wished was being blogged about by ozbloggers but isn’t, please leave links in comments to blog posts and/or news stories. Read more »
52 Acts of Political Correctness: Act Three
[original post here, 52something meme here]
Yesterday the lad came home from seeing the Wizard of Oz show, and started excitedly telling me about the characters. Read more »
moar funny picturesYou can vote for it if you like. Maybe it will make the ICHC front page! Read more »
This means the blog will go down sometime shortly to be replaced by a message from my webhost about why you can’t see the blog. I’ve tried to get onto them to jack up the bandwidth again, but I’m not getting a reply. So this is for the benefit of those of you on feed-readers, really. Once the blog goes down, other readers won’t see any explanation at all.
Once I get the bandwidth sorted out, the blog will return (it’s even just possible that I might get it sorted before the bandwidth runs out, but we’re getting verrrrry close). Read more »
mr tog is off doing a course this weekend. It will fulfil most of the remaining requirements for him to be registered as a civil marriage celebrant. He has been dressing rather more formally to attend the course than is his wont for his day job as an IT consultant.
tigtog: I haven’t seen you wear that shirt for a while.
mr tog: You haven’t seen me wear these dress trousers for a while either. I have to look the part of a “fit and proper person”.
tigtog: In that case you might want to do up that fly. Read more »
Archaeopteryx fossil, c/i Science Made Cool. If you’re into dinos and gaming, check out their game Bone Wars. Read more »
Update: Seal Press has just responded to the people criticising their artwork in Amanda Marcotte’s “It’s A Jungle Out There” book as racist and colonialist. The apology is here:.
Friday, April 25, 2008
A Public Apology
To Our Readers, Our Friends, Our Critics, Read more »
