one of the recurring supposed arguments against the widespread use of aboriginal languages in the curriculum is that they dont have a word for x an ironic twist on the exoticism argument that such languages also have ywords for snowtrees animalse tc.
there are three or four ways that languages get new words. one is by borrowing from neighbouring languages. eng...... [Show More]
drop it like its hot Post Source: www.womanist-musings.com Posted: Nov 22 2008 06:11:00
well we all survived another week. its been a rough week as both the boys have colds. the little one is particularly miserable and has been cussing us all out at every opportunity. i cannot wait for them to get better so that we can return to our normal level of insanity. as usual tell me about your week and share what you have been reading or writing. let the weekl...... [Show More]
heres another batch web links for 16 november 2008 posted semiautomatically.
where attention flows money follows kevin kelly the technium the new rules for the new economy can be summarized as where ever attention flows money will follow. almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. they quickl...... [Show More]
first up efa looks at how much content on the current acma blacklist is illegal . of the 781 urls put on the blacklist in 2007 08 368 of them contained legal content pdf with summary table .
i touched briefly on this a few days back
acmas 2007 2008 annual report table 25 shows the number of completed investigations in which prohibited or potentially prohib...... [Show More]
random feed wrote an interesting post today on heres a quick excerpt yet again women who play videogames are rare perhaps mythical beings. wa today has issued an ominous warning to warcraft widows widows of warcraft be warned you may not see much of your boyfriend partnerhu sbanddefa ctointend ed in the next six months or so. today is the day that millions of online players d...... [Show More]
wakinggiant.org has organised an official and legal written petition against the internet filtering proposal and trial scheduled to begin in december 2008 this trial begins on the 24th of december 2008.
what does it say
to the honourable speaker and members of the house of representatives
we the undersigned citizens of australia draws to the attention of the house the mandat...... [Show More]
links for 20081108 Post Source: shutupsitdown.co.uk Posted: Nov 08 2008 09:32:19
girl dolls that look like actual girls
these dolls look like girls. not babies or late adolescents but girls. and the business was started by a western australian woman helen schofield.
the characters have actual hobbies that dont involve conspicuous consumption or beauty rituals. amy plays sports belle snorkels at the beach jasmine is a muso and emily loves animals and is rocki...... [Show More]
carni time again Post Source: showyourworkings.wordpress.com Posted: Nov 05 2008 23:25:30
the carnival is up and has lots of interesting reads to see you through the weekend so go check it out
helen squared is part of the carni too so you have twice as much reason to look
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its important that the media continue to sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak when it comes to breast cancer and associated potential freak outs remember when they said underwire bras would cause breast cancer so good on fairfax digitals essential baby for reminding us of whats true andor false in that department with a lengthy feature on the topic.
b...... [Show More]
a lot of people are racking their brains trying to explain some wrong numbers that two harvard school of public health researchers graphed. the real explanation of the surprising result is that the authors got their crosstabs backwards. they were looking for these numbers the ones circled in green which show the percentage of selfidentified strong democrats who say they are in poor hea...... [Show More]
these magnificent beasts came home from school with the misses seven today.
they made horses drew numbers out of a hat and watched the race live on tv all in class time. however i dont think they put any bets on it. the elder miss sevens horse came in second. if you look closely you can see the rosette on its hindquarter.
personally im with tigtog when it comes t...... [Show More]
gaelx flickr
since sarah palin joined the mccain campaign theres been vociferous disagreement over her feminist cred. is she blessing or blight to the cause to catch up on the debate here are a few recent strands.
wendy describes herself as a con servative home schooling mom with a smo kin hot hard workin82 17 husband. she loves and prays ...... [Show More]
its carnival time Post Source: penguinunearthed.wordpress.com Posted: Nov 03 2008 11:42:39
those hoydens lauredhel and tigtog are always looking for ways to enliven the feminist blogospher e.awelcom e to the latest instalment of aone of their great ideas athe sixthadownunder feminist blog carnival.
my feminist posts are often about the workplace so thats the main theme of this carnival. im invoking my hosts privilege to give you an old one to start you...... [Show More]
one amusing moment in the us campaign and oh my how many of them have there been happened when my guy joseph robinette biden jr took on some freeper drongo who has a gig on florida telly. she asked hey from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs is that protoislamofascist marx right so b. hussein obama is a marxist right...... [Show More]
this week thereaare a bunch of reclaim the night rallies happening in australia and all over the place. whenever someone says that tired old line about feminism being dead because men and women are already equalaapart from rolling my eyes i wonder whatathey thinkaabout the fact thatahalf the population is scared shitless of walking down a street at night by themselves in case they come ac...... [Show More]
castles in the air Post Source: www.sandlund.net Posted: Oct 27 2008 17:10:00
tigtog at hoyden about town choses 8 dream homes apparently the meme is in reference to the mccains eight or so no one seems to be entirely sureahomes . anyway it got me thinking so i thought i might as well note down my thoughts
1. large oldish villa in one of trondheims quieter areas preferably with a view of the fjorda singsaker would be good except...... [Show More]
hoyden about town have put out the call for down under feminist carnival submissions at penguin unearthed who is hosting this month
im particularly keen to have posts with a workplace focus so all workplace submisions gratefully received.
but all feminists posts are welcome and if you dont have your own blog dont be shy feel free to send me a post that i can put on my blog ...... [Show More]
this month im hosting the down under feminist carnival a wonderful inititive started by those indefatigable hoydens tigtog and lauredhel at hoyden about town . im particularly keen to have posts with a workplace focus so all workplace submisions gratefully received.
but all feminists posts are welcome and if you dont have your own blog dont be shy feel free...... [Show More]
by straxd
so australias apparently getting filtering technology thats mandatory for anyone who accesses the internet.a links about it are growing. some examples are here here and here .
in summary its basically the great firewall of china but marketed slightly differently for the discerning australian audience. notice how senator conroy minister for broadband ...... [Show More]
this is a post from the curvature about the psa above.a i couldnt say it better so i quoted below.a the link to the original post is in the title above the video.
right dont kid yourself.a parents dont kid yourselves into thinking that if your daughter is raped the government will actually hold her anonymous and faceless rapist accountable. instead theyre going to wag thei...... [Show More]
found the above in the comments thread here . many feminists myself included are pretty fed up with the way companies commodify breast cancer awareness by adding pink to their products and radiating a faux spirit of sisterhood to ratchet up their sales. one of the best essays on this topic is barbara ehrenreichs welcome to cancerland . another good one is he...... [Show More]
but now is the time for a you tube clip guide to the us election.a so we have
a song for sarah palin
from looky daddy
or some of the tina fey satire that has been making news .
from audrey and the bad apples . hey you like that you can join the tina fey for vp facebook group.
from l avatus prodeo this kind of people vote for mccain
...... [Show More]
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