Five Things - Salon.com
Awesome!
(And I'm extremely glad that there isn't any video of me floating around in my stupid years.) I remember when I was planning to become a professor in Tudor history- raising triplets is sure a long way from that!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sarah Palin swimsuit video
Hear our Voices
Hear our Voices
A very powerful video about poverty, disability and exclusion, from Inclusion International. Thanks to Estee at the Joy of Autism for posting this.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sea Turtle
Email Bookmarking Blog: It's Not PhotoShop !!
Awesome! I never had hair this punk!
(caveat...no one seems to know why this turtle has hair...if it's something harmful, I retract the awesome comment).
Muslim sentenced for religious ceremony cruelty
Muslim sentenced for religious ceremony cruelty
| Oddly Enough
| Reuters
As I've talked about before (Jen in the comments), I'm not sure why these people get charged, and people who submit their children to unnecessary medical interventions for years don't.
New study shows that kids want to be included in own health care
CTV.ca | Kids want to be included in own health care: study
Even though this is a very small study, I find it very consistent with things that I have heard from my own children as well as others. When one of my daughters had cancer the hospital that we were in made very sure (through child play specialists as well as others), that children were able to express their own feelings about their care. I was also "lucky" that it was my "verbal" daughter who had cancer (if you can ever use the word "lucky" to refer to childhood cancer- she's said herself that it was better that she would get cancer rather than one of her siblings, which makes me proud as well as breaks my heart). She was able to tell us what she was feeling and what she wanted throughout most of the diagnostic/recovery period. I've always believed that the more that the "patient" has input into their care (whether it's cancer or autism or CPD or whatever), the better the results are likely to be.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Vote For the Environment - Canada
Guelph | Vote For Environment / Voter Pour l'Environnement
Useful site- I have this linked to my home riding as they're having problems with the coding on the postal code search to get to it, and it's one of the "Red Hot Ridings" on the front page. If you're Canadian, it's at the very least a good way to find out what the latest polls for your riding say.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
This is how an obituary should read
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Obituaries
"True to his personal style, he spent his final hours joking with medical personnel, cussing and begging for narcotics and bargaining with God to look over his loving dog, Biscuit, and his family."
There is certainly personality to spare here. Obituaries SHOULD celebrate the person.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare | Salon Books
Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare | Salon Books
Salon has a GOOD article about vaccines!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
Some great advertising pictures. (Although I hate linking to a blog that doesn't credit the original creators).
Terrifying- Disney film about menstruation, in 1946
YouTube - Disney '46 - Story Of Menstruation
Apparently it's also the first time that "vagina" was used in a screenplay. I'm not sure whether this is better or worse than the godawful little pamphlets that we used to get at the doctor's office. On the upside, I was able to completely humiliate my older sister with the pamphlets when I was about 7...I picked up a pile of them, and thoughtfully dumped them on her lap when she was making out with her boyfriend :-) Amazingly enough, she still talks to me.
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