There’s been a slew of articles about Google and privacy and Google monstering poor little media conglomerates lately. Just paranoia (or competitors panic-mongering), or is there a legitimate concern regarding a looming information monopoly?
Science
The Great Social Media Brownout
Twitter and Livejournal completely fell over around an hour ago, and Facebook has been bouncing up and down like a yo-yo. News sites and blogs are strangely silent about it all. TechCrunchers are speculating a little. DDoS, domino effect, outlandish… Read More ›
Fifteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival: July 2009
Welcome to the Fifteenth Edition of down under feminists carnival! This carnival features posts made by Aussie and Kiwi feminists during July, 2009.
Quickhits: The Good News And The Bad News
Home births back on agenda for Labor CANBERRA is reconsidering its controversial exclusion of home births from a new midwifery indemnity scheme, before a Senate challenge to the draft legislation. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon revealed yesterday she was looking… Read More ›
Random Googling observation
whoa, there really are a lot of pics of Gerard Butler in his Spartan togs out on the web.
What? You try googling images for “alien butler” and see if you can avoid pics of men in leather speedos.
What now? Why do I need an alien butler, you ask? Ah. *taps nose*
I Have A Very Good Reason. OK? But I don’t want this alien butler:
SchoolHolidayBlogging: SCIENCE!
Oh, I luff him. And I luff his sense of wonder, of infinite possibilities. The Lad, age six, has just hatched one of these Growing Lizard Egg Pets, which he bought with five dollars of his pocket money on an… Read More ›
Moon Landing Quote of the Day
“You can’t fake a moon landing – it’s not an orgasm!” Craig Ferguson – Late Late Show (starts approx 4:30 in) h/t The Bad Astronomer on Twitter ETA: NatGeo has a gallery of 8 photos that don’t show what the… Read More ›
Happy Anniversary to the Apollo 11 mission
I remember the excitement of the television coverage of the launch, which we went to a neighbour’s house to watch as we didn’t yet have a TV. And then I remember our school putting a TV on the stage in… Read More ›
Blog briefly broken, all fixed now
The blog software has been upgraded, and so a few things will look different when you log in to comment. Everything should essentially work the same way though. Any problems, please just email me.
Hoyden About Town 