More maths fun
It’s no Gomboc, but the boy produced this earlier today using a maths renderer. The function is f(x,y) = (πx3)×y He also thinks you all should know about Acid2, which test your browser to see if it is latest-standards compliant. Related posts: WTF are they thinking OTD: M$ Borgware Thursday Cheezburger and Delurking Day: Maths [...]
Overcoming electoral fatigue
After blogging the last election fairly comprehensively, I’ve really backed off from blogging parliamentary politics lately. I know I’ll get back into it, but I’ve needed a break. The good people at GetUp, however, have been indefatigable, holding meetings of members and other interested people which have been nominating and discussing and voting on a [...]
Censoring the Internet: Conroy plays King Canute
[This is a guest post by strangedave, yoinked with permission from a comment here. David is a board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and many other things besides. Here, he addresses the current plan for mandatory, national, opt-out ISP-based internet filtering, proposed by Stephen Conroy (the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy). Previous [...]
“conspire and collaborate”: quilting with 1s and 0s
Sometime Guest Hoyden sajbrfem is putting the “feminism” back in “cyberfeminism”. This Cyberfeminism 101 slideshow is the first of her web-based art project, producing one cyberfeminism work per week for a year. This is the creative-practice part of a doctoral programme in cyberfeminist art. The slideshow covers cyberfeminist basics and the thesis itself, and introduces [...]
Academia: Internet-Triggered Death of Civil Society Not Predicted
In this week of heightened Internet! Moral! Panic!, it’s worth a peek at whether the internet really is the creeping civil cancer that some believe it to be. The JCMC (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) is available in fulltext online. It can be a fount of wanky sociology-speak, of course, but it also comes up with [...]
“Civil liberties advocates = paedophiles”: Internet culture wars from the ALP.
The ABC reports on Conroy’s internet filtering bluster. He uses exactly the same discourse strategy as used by half-wit anti civil liberties debaters everywhere: “Well if you don’t like it, YOU must be a pedo then! Eh? Eh? You like little girls, eh? Nudge nudge?” Sue Gordon, on the post-”Little Children Are Sacred” NT intervention, [...]
New Year’s Linkfest ’08 v.1.0: words and pictures, pictures and words
” “‘Fatal’ gas pumped into Qantas jet “ Qantas has been pumping nitrogen from a nitrogen cart (typically used to refill aircraft tyres) into emergency oxygen tanks (used for crew in an emergency). Nitrogen and oxygen tanks have different fittings for exactly this reason – so that the gases can’t be muddled even if there [...]
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 [...]
Opportunities squandered
JOHN Howard squandered the benefits of the $80 billion-a-year resources boom and wanted to be re-elected so he could retire, Labor leader Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Defining the choice facing voters in one of his last major speeches of the election campaign, Mr Rudd said that on Saturday voters would choose either the future under [...]
From the archives: Kate Harding on cyberbullying as a feminist issue
An oldie but a goodie revisited: Kate Harding “On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name”. It’s hard to pick out the best bits, but here, have two.
Non-sequiturs
I’ve just forgotten what I was about to blog. In the meantime: A few moments ago I accidentally stepped backwards on to my cat’s paw. She yowled and then leaped several feet around the corner, so that she could glare at me accusingly while holding her paw up at a pathetic angle. As I had [...]
Duh du jour: A cautionary tale.
[scene: a very quiet room.] Me: [thinks] Gosh, that’s a lot of drive noise. And it’s constant, not fluctuating. Whatever could be hammering the hard drive? * checks Activity Monitor, nothing unusual Me: [thinks] Is it the new external drive? * unmounts it * Me: [thinks] Nope, not that. * quits out of a pile [...]
One for the Albee aficionados
Those who don’t already know this trivia, anyway. Just listened to Edward Albee in a radio interview, and he said that when he originally sold the movie rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to Hollywood, he asked who they had in mind to star. Bette Davis and James Mason. Wow. What might have been. [...]
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