Posted in SecondLife, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
“Virtual Terrorists” – what waffle… The fact that this article (via Ordinal’s Cabinet of Ephemera by Ordinal Malaprop) is published in an Australian ‘rag’ is pretty depressing – one might hope for better from The Australian even though it is a Murdoch ‘rag’. One could spend quite a lot of time writing about its short-comings [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Painting? Music? Dance? I don’t know, and I’m certainly not going to be so pretentious as to actually attempt to answer my rhetorical title… Personally, however, creative things which ‘touch me’ make me wonder, a lot, about the amazing people who are the creators. The awe, on a personal level, is about how did that [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
As self-expression migrates to, or maybe more accurately continues on, the Internet, it will be interesting to watch as new phenomena arise. I blog and I still think it’s pretty weird – all these people, including myself, writing ‘into the ether’, audiences ranging from no-one to the 1000′s, topics covered from the absolute trivial to [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Thought for the thinking.. “An Atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Bayal, or the Golden Calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the Gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one God further…” [...]
Posted in Cultural, The Main Thread on Aug 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
The final 40 for the Tate How We Are Now flickr pool have been chosen. There are some fantastic shots among them. What a success – combining todays emerging social networking technologies with traditional gallery curation – a great participation & marketing tool. There are over 3000 users in the flickr photo group created just [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, The Main Thread on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a reference post really… somewhere to stick all the links to things which might help folks who have bought the infamous (or not…) EN-306TV-E. This box is essentially a USB hard drive enclosure with a ‘media player wrapped around it’. It is a China produced piece of kit which has been OEM‘d all [...]
Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It would be very rare that I’d find something on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour which I would feel like passing on… So, there you go, the old cliche holds… “there’s a first time for everything”. The piece is about poet, Alberto Rios. And I particularly like these from ‘Words over Water’, a ‘Poems of Public Purpose’ [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, The Main Thread on Aug 10th, 2007 No Comments »
IceTV yesterday won the case brought against them (in May 2006) by the Nine Network who claimed copyright infringement of their TV schedule. Justice Annabelle Bennett, in her findings, dismissed the whole application by the Nine Network. The essence is that IceTV, and other aggregators (Yahoo etc), are creating new compilations (which are copyright in [...]
Posted in SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Aug 7th, 2007 No Comments »
It has oft been observed, sometimes as criticism, that I spent a fair amount of time absorbing history, and more specifically, modern war history. I would propose, in my defence (should I ever need one), that in order to have an opinion about any current or historical events one should actually know something about them, [...]