{ the Odd & the Wonderful }

WordPress.com Video Contest: Giving Thanks

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:10:56 +0100

WordPress.com Video Contest: Giving Thanks:

Announcing our first-ever video contest, brought to you by turkey, stuffing, and that gelatinous stuff that grandma calls cranberry sauce. Yes, that’s U.S. Thanksgiving. Appropriate to the…

merlin: Me neither, Wolfram|Alpha. Me neither.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:32:38 +0100

merlin:

Me neither, Wolfram|Alpha. Me neither.

bohemea: Zooey Deschanel

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:31:32 +0100

bohemea:

Zooey Deschanel

bohemea: Cate Blanchett

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:05 +0100

bohemea:

Cate Blanchett

bohemea: Bad Romance

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:29:35 +0100

bohemea:

Bad Romance

bohemea: Bridget Jones’ Diary

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:29:07 +0100

bohemea:

Bridget Jones’ Diary

This is one of the coolest pagan songs ever! Ode to Herne by...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:50 +0100

This is one of the coolest pagan songs ever!

Ode to Herne by Tearwave

laureola: holly in circus leotard with horse - by Eleanor...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:20 +0100

laureola:

holly in circus leotard with horse - by Eleanor Hardwick

A new translation platform

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:16:23 +0100

A new translation platform:

The full translation of WordPress.com is an ongoing process, of which you are a great part and whom we thank for the patience and assistance. Thanks to you, WordPress.com is now available in …

A New P2

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:47 +0100

A New P2:

For those of you who haven’t yet tried it, P2 is an awesome micro blogging theme with quick front end posting, live ajax updating, and inline threaded comments. It already packs a big punch.

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bohemea: intweetion:nightmarebrunette:lavonne

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:03:11 +0100

bohemea:

intweetion:nightmarebrunette:lavonne

suicideblonde: bohemea: Ryan Kwanten - Time Out Sydney by...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:02:23 +0100

suicideblonde:

bohemea:

Ryan Kwanten - Time Out Sydney by Daniel Boud, 2009

"Two minutes of Googling phrases like “favorite female role models” yielded answers including: Oprah,..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:42 +0100

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Two minutes of Googling phrases like “favorite female role models” yielded answers including: Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Tina Fey, Waris Dirie, Shirley MacLaine, Dame Judi Dench, Queen Elizabeth, President of Argentina Cristina Kirchner, and J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres, twice each.

But if men aspire to sleep with 22-year-old women who can pass for teenagers, and women aspire to be 51-year-old lesbian talk show hosts, we’re at an impasse. So it’s much simpler if we just tell women what they chiefly want to be is attractive to straight men, over and over, until they internalize it.

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- Kate Harding, awesomely deconstructing stupid beauty memes. (via jaundicedeye)