Blog Title: Hoyden About Town

Things annoying me today.

Mindy, For Battler, parent and feminist 1. I’d like to think we’d gone beyond this, but obviously not. 2. Greg Bird’s lawyer, Gavin Orr, is claiming that he has done nothing wrong and that the Cronulla Sharks have no reason to sack him, nor have the NRL any right or reason to stop him from playing for read more..

Ticking all those boxes

Via Feministing: Planned Parenthood in Indiana is offering a gift certificate service for the winter gifting festival: it is redeemable for the reproductive health services their clinics offer, and their hope is particularly that women on low incomes will be able to ensure that they keep up their well-woman health checks and pap smears etc read more..

LibrarianLazyWeb: Books of mythology from current dominant religions?

I’ve been poking around looking for books of the basic Bible stories and of stories including the basics from the other current prevalent world religions, but (a) told in a form suitable and engaging for a primary school kid who loves science and monsters, and (b) told (explicitly or implicitly) as mythology, not as read more..

Etymology 101

I’ll stop arguing with anti-feminists and other provocateurs who claim that the latest act labelled “misogynist” isn’t really that, because, you know, whoever did it doesn’t actually HATE women when they stop calling rich people “philanthropists” for giving money away, because I really doubt that those rich people really LOVE the folks that are going read more..

Calling the hivemind: getting freebie stuff for your school

One of my kids’ schools desperately needs new/better sound amplification equipment in their auditorium. What they currently have is not only inadequate even if it was working properly (need at least another pair of speakers to fill the space acoustically), but someone’s blown the tweeters in the speakers so that it’s definitely not working read more..

The Web isn’t like movies

Clive Hamilton, “public intellectual”, has been banging on about how wrong wrongitty wrong anti-censorship advocates are. Clive has been stampily regurgitating the mantra of the censors: “I have heard no one argue that films, television, books and magazine should be a free-for-all. But somehow all of this goes out the window when it comes to the read more..

The Great Smiley Conjunction

I’m sure there are better photographs of the Great Smiley Conjunction out there. But this is mine, taken mere moments ago; and that’s what makes it special. Similar Posts: Australian Internet Censorship in the Media: EFA Chair on the Morning Show by Lauredhel Supernova observations by tigtog Bother, missed the planetary conjunction by tigtog Tightly focussed snark blog of the read more..

Politicians still failing to grok technology

SMH: Laptops in schools will be antisocial The State Government will give 197,000 senior public high school students a mini laptop next year. It will have wireless but no access to Facebook and MySpace. The Minister for Education, Verity Firth, said the Government would prevent access to the social networking sites, and other sites, even when the read more..

Pirelli 2009 calendar hits every -ism in the book

Warning: most of the images below the cut are wildly offensive, racist, and contain strong sexualised violence triggers. The same applies to all of the links in this post. Sociological Images features some photos from Pirelli’s car-tyre calendar. The calendar is distributed only to selected so-called “movers and shakes”; it is considered a status symbol to read more..

Thanksgiving harvest

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