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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Memo to Dave Winer: fix feed
I’m partying like in 2003! for the second day running:
Voyeurism is a crime? look out celeb blogs
Yahoo News: Police: Shampoo camera taped roommates The guy was caught video taping female roommates via hidden camera in a shampoo bottle, and was caught after a roommate discovered the wiring from the shampoo bottle. The charge? 15 counts of voyeurism. Voyeurism is a crime in the United States? yikes, there’s a whole pile of […]
Haiku headlines from the Wall Street Journal
Ethan Smith is taking the piss, right? A new way to drive traffic perhaps?
Save the Polar Bear
Want to know what’s wrong with the hard left, the environazis and animal rights activitists: they want to kill this polar bear: More at the SMH + News.com.au. Lets see, Polar Bears are facing extinction (allegedly) and yet the very same people who carry on about this want to kill the bear. Obviously drugs are […]
Where Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon
This clever kid is importing old Land Cruisers from Australia to convert to biodiesel for resale in the US, apparently Australian Land Cruisers are the “best cared-for”. I wonder if he needs to convert them to left hand drive? At least now we know where old Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon. There’s got […]
The state of Australian Journalism
Slow news day, or have News Ltd just sunk to even lower lows? The lead photo story at news.com.au at 7:25pm Sat AWST: Does the tambourine eat your butt when you visit news.com.au? or is it simply a matter of extraterrestrial phenomena in Adelaide. Quality Australian journalism at its finest thanks to Rupert Murdoch.
And the award for the weirdest thing you’ll see on YouTube this week goes to
This: Howard Lindzon in a Bra–the Remix. WTF doesn’t even cover this in terms of bizarre. (via 1938media)
The Nanny State Strikes Again
Will it ever end. Probably not. The Hyundai Commercial with the driving baby has been banned in Australia according to the SMH: The Advertising Standards Board ordered Hyundai to pull the advertisement for its Santa Fe model on Tuesday after it ruled that it depicted under-age driving and promoted unlawful behaviour. It also ruled that […]
Want to come to Australia? you’ll need DIC
Australians are fond of shortening names of Government Departments (in part because the web address for each is usually shortened as well), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is known as DFAT, the Australian Tax Office is commonly known at the ATO, and here in Western Australian the former Department of Fair Trading was […]
Plain Wrong
From the only in America files: A teacher is convicted of endangering minors after porn popups appeared on her computer. A 16 year old kid has his life ruined in Arizona after child porn is found on his computer. A forensics specialist finds 200 separate trojans, malware and spyware. All US based podcasters could be […]
I’m Spiderman
Another meme, but I couldn’t help it, via Dave Winer: Your results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 60% Superman 40% Batman 35% The Flash 20% Robin 10% Wonder Woman 0% Supergirl 0% Green Lantern 0% Catwoman 0% Hulk 0% Iron Man 0% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click […]
God Hates Blogs
Looks like the looney religous right isn’t into blogging because it’s evil, according to Kevin D. Denee of the Restored Church of God: Should teenagers and others in the Church express themselves to the world through blogs? Because of the obvious dangers; the clear biblical principles that apply; the fact that it gives one a […]
News.com.au in very bad taste
News.com.au reports on Lauren Huxley, a women severely attacked last year returning to the Spring Races. Simple story you might think, if it wasn’t for the caption under the picture: An alleged attack? WTF? Was it a love bite that put Lauren in hospital? Did she do it to herself? Alleged?!?! Someone call Media Watch […]
Big Brother is alive and well in England
The Guardian reports on a chap getting two years and eight months in prisons for the crime of “hate speech”. Apparently the goose wrote some racially offensive stuff on a website. Get this, he got an additional 6 months for possession of kiddie porn! Yep, apparently in England using racial abuse is over 5 times […]
Germany menaced by giant bug
The Register reports on a giant bug menacing the German countryside. The really odd thing for me is that it would appear that the satellite images were scanned. Scanned? weren’t they digital images to start with? is there a giant factory of Google Earth workerbees scanning satellite imagery for our enjoyment? Odd.
Why doesn’t Google love Canada and Australia?
Interesting post over at Jensense. Apparently you can’t become a Qualified Company in the Google Advertising Professionals program if your company is in Canada. It appears that you can’t be a member of the program if your company is in Australia as well…and yet if your company is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, […]
More proof that Australia is out of touch
This article on SEO from Australian IT. As Threadwatch headlines it: “Australian IT Now Teaching SEO Tricks from 1997”. This from our national newspaper. Yikes. I some journalists wonder why people are moving away from the MSM to blogs and other alternative news sources.
America proves again why others regard it as stupid
Todays the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. Now read this: CBS Corp. said on Saturday it would broadcast the documentary “9/11” on the Internet as well as the airwaves after several affiliates said they would delay or forgo the award-winning film because it includes profanity. The documentary was produced by French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet […]
When the man becomes the blog
There’s a big blog conference in India this weekend according to ITWire, and the headline speaker: “Robert Scobleizer”. I kid you not. And in case they realise their error, here’s the screenshot: Good luck to them none the less. Tags: Robert Scoble, India
AOL Data, OMG!
Check this and this out…both awful and extremely funny at the same time. PS: no pics but content NSFW. (via BlackHat-SEO Blog) Tags: AOL data