Friday Funnies: 24 spoof – Jack Bauer saving the day with 1994 technology
Found a YouTube version to replace the CollegeHumor direct embedding which broke the blog. (link in case the embedded Flash doesn’t work for you) Oh, the memories: maintaining a dial-up connection uphill both ways in the snow! H/T Pam at Pandagon. Related posts: Quicklinks: #socialmedia #erosion #storm #bust – oops here comes Jack Bauer Captain [...]
Not surprised, really.
This is what happens when you remember what some old geeky farts look like and don’t have to look up the less obscure elements of the Periodic Table. Related posts: You won’t be surprised to hear… Piers Akerman quotes a statement nobody else can find – is anybody surprised? Strewth! Flash used for not-evil! Eek! [...]
Perthites: get along to the Australasian Summit of Cyberfeminism next week
Perthites: It’s not too late to register for cyberpunk con Night’s Edge next weekend. Night’s Edge incorporates the Australasian Summit of Cyberfeminism. Sometime guest Hoyden sajbrfem presiding: * Cyberfeminism 101: the herstory of cyberfeminism from VNS Matrix and the Old Boys Room to cyberfeminism now * Being Frankenstein (or, I’d rather be a cyborg than [...]
Nifty new web toy
This mosaic-maker lets me share the photos from other people on Flickr which I have tagged as recent favorites. 1. Rockpool Morning, 2. Pelican Close-up, 3. rainbow, hay plain, 1989, 4. Blue Sculpture, 5. Shell and Bridge at Dawn, 6. Untitled, 7. Cirrostratus Nebulosus, 8. Fever, 9. En la luna de Toledo, 10. Untitled, 11. [...]
Wednesday Wow: Painted Clouds
I needed something tranquil after reading about antisocial trends in multi–player gaming forums.
Another linkfest: the Headcold edition
Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay into buying, rather than nicking, their media – but once the cheapskates can search for [...]
Bless her dainty hooves
If you listen very hard, you can hear the typing of a million sociology theses/dissertations about online social networking sites, crunching the data and waving the allegories. It’s pretty obvious that the various Special Interest Groups (SIGS) who have thousands and even hundreds of thousands of members have tapped into some genuine social concerns, or [...]
Soundbites on YouTube
Politicians around the world are gingerly using YouTube to make policy statements, or maybe just to get their soundbites out there while avoiding having to have a press conference. Now some Catholic seminarians have parodied the Mac vs PC ads (which I already loathed anyway) to convey the Vatican’s doctrine on Natural Family Planning vs [...]
Political outreach online
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about just what online strategies could be most effective for political parties in getting their message across to the voters. I’ve run across a lot of interesting views, and thought on them (in between reading chapters of HP7) so here’s a summary of major points. Disclaimer: I’m not [...]
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