links for 2007-07-03
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An Adelaide woman has been arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy she had met playing role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Internet.
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“Plasma televisions are sending home power bills sky high as more people install bigger and more energy-intensive screens. Electric hot-water systems remain the No.1 energy guzzler in the home but plasma TVs are fast overtaking…”
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“Richard Dawkins, the British ethologist and author of The God Delusion… reveals in a recent interview … that he has a digital alter ego — an avatar — who frequents the virtual world Second Life.”
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Little website to FLIP text upside down and then lets you cut’n’paste the upside-down version.
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“Channel Seven will broadcast two of its cult import dramas, Heroes and Prison Break on the same day as their US screenings in a ploy to lure drifting audiences away from DVDs and the internet.”
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Alex Malik notes that Australian commercial TV broadcasters also have a nasty habit of editing US shows to fit timeslots and more ads in, especially in the late-night slots (eg Boston Legal).
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Outsourcing social networking profile building?
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Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning.” Australian Screen Ed.41 (2006): 66-9. (Good introductory piece/)
links for 2007-07-02
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The publicly-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation turns 75 today and is still going strong! 🙂
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Google aligns with the US Health Corporations against Moore’s Sicko?!?
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“While 96% of online tweens and teens have used social networking technologies, 71% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, according to a study and white paper being released today…”
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine reported that a man was imprisoned for stealing cars and assaulting people with weapons, then sent to a psychiatric facility for “acting in a bizarre manner.” … he thought he was playing Grand Theft Auto
When Subiaco Oval Attacks!
The second half of 2007 hit with something of a bang today. The combination of extreme winds and the proximity of our place to Subiaco Oval suddenly led to the rather loud, dramatic and quite dangerous appearance of the massive advertising signs from Subi Oval hitting out (glass) back door and coming to rest in our back yard:
While fascinating on some level, these huge signs had to travel over the top of the oval (they’re supposedly fixed to the stands) and fly probably 50 metres in the air before spinning down into our place. It’s incredibly lucky that it was pouring with rain, too, because it anyone was outside, being hit by one of these could have caused some very serious injuries.
When the winds settled a little, Emily headed out the front door and discovered a whole lot more of these hoardings lying on our road and in the drive-way, so now we have four massive advertising banners on centimetre-think cardboard sitting soggily in our little backyard:
We now have part of an SGIO sign, a National Australian bank advertisement and something that has NTER in its lettering. I wonder when Subiaco Oval will be knocking on our door looking for them? Maybe they’ll offer to replant the bits of the garden that were sheered in half when the sign flew in from the sky?!
(Given that these signs cost advertisers anywhere from $5000 to $60,000 dollars each to display, I suspect someone might want them back!)
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