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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Screw You…and your trademark
From The Register: “A businessman has failed to win the right to register the term “screw you” as a wide-ranging European trademark because it is offensive. It can be used, but only for goods sold in sex shops, the European trademark authority has ruled.”
Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup Video
According to Greywolf, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is the next big thing in the States…can’t say I’ve heard of the Chicken Noodle Soup Video or Chicken Noodle Soup song for that matter, but here it is, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video! Sort of Chicken Dance comes rap..sort of…bizarre. Tags: Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup […]
Calling Mr Al Kyder
I love the Chaser, again another story via the SMH: ABC TV’s Chaser boys have struck again…The pranksters pulled off a stunt at Sydney Airport on Wednesday which saw Virgin Blue staff make a “final boarding call” announcement for five late passengers, including one which sounded suspiciously like Mr Al Qaeda and another which sounded […]
And you thought you lived in a bad street
From the SMH: Maori living in a number of New Zealand towns have – not to put too fine a point on it – been living in Shit Street for years. Their road name signs actually read Kaka Street and, having been erected by predominantly English-speaking local councils, are supposed to be the name of […]
Today’s smiles
Whilst I’m still waiting on my latest attempt to convert Thunderbird files to something I can use elsewhere (it’s been an hour running now!), two quick smiles both from Fark: On this story about a hit and run at a McDonalds outlet, the Fark headline: “Disgruntled McDonald’s customer runs into two other customers with her […]
No nappies on your goat, then you get the chop…
This is incredible…Andrew Sullivan reports on some Shiite Islamists in Iraq killing shepherds because they have not put modesty diapers (nappies) on their goats! The goats are apparently too tempting for Muslim men…..that is one seriously f*cked up country.
Communism = homosexuality?
Despite the recent song getting airplay, I’m happy I didn’t live in the 60’s..check this out…(two parts..via Boing Boing):
Mel Gibson is nuts
Tags: Mel Gibson
Rabbincal Council: no innocents
Something very, very wrong with this, but I’ll leave it at that, don’t want to be accused of being anti-semetic… From ynetnews.com: The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that “according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as ‘innocents’ […]
Doesn’t the US have the first amendment?
WTF? from ZDNet: Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives. By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that “chat rooms” and “social networking sites” be rendered inaccessible […]
Sheep make their New Zealand film debut
I just can’t stop laughing….(via The Courier Mail) A HORROR comedy about killer sheep made in New Zealand and distributed by an Australian company will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. “When a reckless genetic engineering experiment goes horribly wrong, a flock of innocent sheep accidentally transforms into a pack of blood-thirsty killers,” […]
Beware of Falling Dogs
Bizarre, from News.com.au: A MAN was bruised but alive after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-storey window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec. The 50kg dog was pushed out of the window by its drunken owner on Monday, police said. “The dog had […]
Dell HQ is actually dumber than it’s Indian Call Centres
No racism intended in the heading for this post….but you’ll know what I mean if you’ve ever tried calling Dell..but on a brighter note, according to VNUnet, Dell’s new one2one blog shares its name…with a porn site. Sh*t, haven’t these morons ever heard of a Whois lookup? Tags: Dell
Whats for lunch
Shame, shame,shame.
The new Rocketboom
(via Valleywag) Tags: Rocketboom
US Nuclear security is a circus: even clowns can break in!
Now I think some of the things the US Government are doing at the moment to their citizens, in terms of spying in particular, are abhorrent, but it seems pretty clear that whilst they are busy spying on innocent civilians they are leaving their nuclear warheads unguarded…why you may well ask? Well The Register reports […]
Geneticist believes people will live to 1,000
How does that song on the radio go? …Forever Young? From the BBC: Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.
A good hard stalk needs a big cold beer, and the best cold beer is Vic….from Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
Only in Australia! (via a Socialiteslife) After staking out Kidman’s harbourside Sydney house for most of the day, some 20 photographers heard her garage door start to rise and quickly armed themselves with motor-drive cameras. But instead of a shot of the bride and groom before the wedding day, the paparazzi were met by two […]
Drunk Elephants and Giraffes
Looks like even animals know how to party 🙂
Cover me up?
A story of the Bizarre from the BBC: Rebecca Holdcroft likes to “express” herself through body art. However, she felt she was being discriminated against at work and contacted the BBC News website to express her point of view. Even though she does not deal with the public face-to-face, her latest employers told her she […]