The looming prospect of internet censorship in Australia just gets more and more disturbing. From APC Mag: Now Conroy wants Google to filter YouTube in Australia In the latest twist over his controversial Web filtering scheme, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy… Read More ›
Politics
Unsolicited visual image of the day
Fran Kelly owes me a bucket of brain bleach.
Mixed messages
That’s still a solid lead for Labor and for Rudd as preferred PM.
Hey, let’s send people who don’t speak the local language – what could go wrong?
Unable to speak Spanish except for a few phrases, the CIA team had difficulty calling off the operation.
You better run, you better take cover
What the flying blueberry-flavoured hell is up with this idea that Men At Work now owe bazillions of dollars – up to 60% of their earnings on Down Under – to a pack of copyright trolls? SMH: Men at Work’s… Read More ›
Quickhit: iiSmackdown: Roadshow, Disney, Paramount, Sony, 20thC Fox, Universal, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, and friends to pay costs
Stilgherrian writes at Crikey: iiTrial: ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement Film industry claims that iiNet, Australia’s third-largest internet service provider, was responsible for its users’ illegal file sharing were dismissed. […] “I understand this is the first Australian… Read More ›
This is why the “it’s just sci-fi, it shouldn’t have to be PC” argument is crap
I mean how am I supposed to feel if I see a movie set in the future and there aren’t any black or brown people in it? How is a child supposed to feel? It’s like someone’s saying, “I don’t like you and I don’t want you to be here, so I’m creating a world where you don’t exist.”
Obligatory Tony Abbott Said What Now? Thread
Make no mistake. Having the nation start up a debate on premarital sexuality when it’s an issue that has hardly been on the political radar is no mean feat, and Abbott is aiming to shift the Overton Window on this and other social matters.
Endangered Sunday: Andean Condor
I took these photos earlier this month at Taronga Zoo. This juvenile condor is part of the captive breeding program there, and these shots were taken while she performed in the famous Free Flight Bird Show.
Today in ongoing double standards: pretexts for invasion
Especially when the lawyers from the British foreign Office testified that they had advised the war was illegal. Well, this makes it a war-crime, doesn’t it? So why aren’t Howard, Blair and Bush on trial in the Hague? Any other world leaders who have done the same thing have had had Western politicians baying for his blood, eg Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Or is it one rule for them, and another for us?
Hoyden About Town 