Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Town dumps revenge on John Cleese [21/05/2007. ABC News Online]
"A New Zealand city on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing from British comedian John Cleese has hit back by re-naming its rubbish dump after him."
(tags: newzealand johncleese humour)
The Sarah Connor Chronicles Trailer [YouTube]
The trailer for the upcoming The Sarah Connor ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I was playing with Google Trends and their comparison function and noticed that you can now limit searches to regions (ie just Australia, for example). I was playing around looking at the comparative popularity of 'blog' versus 'wiki' and found something interesting: cumulatively, global searchers are still typing in ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Internet's free world attracts dark forces [web - Technology - theage.com.au]
"A report for Britain's Fraud Advisory Panel wants the Government to extend real-world financial regulations into Second Life.... It warns that players can transfer large sums of money across national borders without restriction and with little risk of be
(tags: secondlife ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Swedes open first Second Life embassy [NEWS.com.au]
"Sweden will open the first "diplomatic representation" in the virtual reality of web-based Second Life, a fantasy world inhabited by computer-generated residents, on May 30."
(tags: secondlife sweden convergence)
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Most teens are MySpacers [New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk]
"More than 90% of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do, according to research. ... one-third of teenagers have at least four social networking profiles..."
(tags: myspace socialnetworking youth uk)
Fiji muzzles critical blogs ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Amazon to sell unprotected music [BBC NEWS | Business]
"Amazon has announced plans to launch a digital music store that will allow customers to download music without any digital copying protection."
(tags: copyright drm amazon)
Sometimes We Make Mistakes [FlickrBlog]
Flickr apologies for making a big boo boo and retains transparency and (I'd hope) ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Inside the Digital Dump [Foreign Policy - Photo Gallery]
"Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground..."
(tags: photography technology environment refuse ecology)
Push for new game ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
A 21-year old Sydney man, Ryan Lambourn, has sparked outrage by creating a game based on the Virginia Tech Massacre. The game, called V-Tech Rampage, is far from technically impressive, but has nevertheless understandably upset quite a few people. One of the real difficulties is that while ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
The Real Story of JPG Magazine [Derek Powazek]
The sad story of how JPG Magazine lost its founders ... and a piece of its heart.
(tags: blog photography business)
Anti-Plagiarism Video - It's Fun:: Provost Video on Plagiarism [Paul Robeson Library]
The Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers have come up with this nifty set ...
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