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• Calling the hivemind: getting freebie stuff for your school

  By tigtog on 2008-12-02 • ( 5 )

  One of my kids’ schools desperately needs new/better sound amplification equipment in their auditorium. What they currently have is not only inadequate even if it was working properly (need at least another pair of speakers to fill the space acoustically),… Read More ›

• Politicians still failing to grok technology

  By tigtog on 2008-12-01 • ( 19 )

  SMH: Laptops in schools will be antisocial The State Government will give 197,000 senior public high school students a mini laptop next year. It will have wireless but no access to Facebook and MySpace. The Minister for Education, Verity Firth,… Read More ›

• More power to Commissioner Garling

  By tigtog on 2008-11-28 • ( 6 )

  NSW Health IT in disarray SPECIAL commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed a massive dose of IT to fix NSW’s troubled public hospitals, and recommended a watchdog oversee e-health. He has demanded the provision of critical infrastructure, hospital and community information… Read More ›

• Open Mumbai attacks thread

  By tigtog on 2008-11-27 • ( 8 )

  I have no idea what to say, I just didn’t want to fail to acknowledge that this is happening. My thoughts and sympathies are with the hostages, the injured and the families of the dead.

• Whoydensday: Numberwang!(?)

  By tigtog on 2008-11-26 • ( 18 )

  The rumour mill seems to be spitting out a fairly uniform product this week: that Paterson Joseph will be the eleventh Doctor. (If you’re sick of next Doctor speculation, check out io9’s 45 coolest moments in Doctor Who history instead)…. Read More ›

• If women are “frazzled” they’re neurotic, says Tele’s Kevin Hepworth

  By tigtog on 2008-11-25 • ( 16 )

  Daily Telegraph: Women are safer drivers, but more neurotic behind the wheel THE age-old dispute between men and women drivers has finally been solved – women are the safest but most neurotic behind the wheel. Bad weather and unfamiliar roads… Read More ›

• Due process?

  By tigtog on 2008-11-24 • ( 15 )

  Film studios to become ‘police, judge, executioner’: Australia’s third largest ISP is being sued by several film studios and the Seven Network for enabling copyright infringement by failing to prevent its users from downloading pirated movies and TV shows. iiNet,… Read More ›

• A new low

  By tigtog on 2008-11-24 • ( 7 )

  The Herald Sun decides to mock a bereaved son for paraphrasing song lyrics in a tribute to his dead mother, just because that son happens to be a convicted murderer. Would any other person who used a line from a… Read More ›

• SF Sunday: Happy 45th Anniversary, Doctor Who!

  By tigtog on 2008-11-23 • ( 12 )

  Yes, it’s 45 years since the world first saw a man travelling through time in a wooden box. (Normally I would have saved this for a Whoydensday post, but today is the Actual Anniversary). The BBC did a nostalgia page… Read More ›

• If you can’t beat ’em, then get your own YouTube channel

  By tigtog on 2008-11-21 • ( 2 )

  Monty Python and Led Zeppelin have decided to make high definition recordings of their most popular material available on YouTube. Python seem to be reaping the rewards in a boost to their DVD sales, because as their introductory clip below… Read More ›