Sen. Conroy announced today that the mandatory filter is going to be put onto the back-burner until an independent inquiry has been held.
Science
Quickhit: Scienceblogs’ new nutrition blog – from PepsiCo
As Chris Clarke says: I don’t see how this could possibly end badly.
Phishing scam alert: “Your tax refund is here. Very important!”
I just received an email from “support@ato.guv.au” – this is a dummy email address that resolves to the phisher’s domain.
National Deafblind Awareness Week
I hadn’t especially considered whether improvements could be made here for those who are Deafblind, and I have no idea (yet) what their specific needs are for web access.
It’s now on my to-do list.
*Now* they’re talking about hiving off Telstra infrastructure?
The old Telecom Australia should never have been privatised as an integrated entity in the first place.
Share a Gadget, Tip, Trick, Fix or Hack
Ingenious people keep on coming up with great ideas for making things easier. Not just online, everywhere. What have you come across lately?
Crowdsourcing: ideas for an anti-filter website
I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).
Sex Bias in BioMedicine
Women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research despite significant differences in the way they experience many diseases, medications and therapies compared to men. Despite federal mandates to include women in studies, there is much that still needs to be done, says Teresa Woodruff, a leading women’s health scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a June 9 commentary in the journal Nature.
Quickhit: new discoveries on the genetics of autism
The search for the genetic underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder has just yielded a new set of clues. In the largest study to date, the Autism Genome Project consortium reports that people with autism have more copy number variants – segments of DNA that have been either duplicated or deleted – in their genes.
The lamb roast roundup: Mums and censorship
Feminist criticism of the “It’s Time to Tell Mum” anti-filtering campaign has shown up on several blogs:
Hoyden About Town 