A cartoon from Working for Change via Perceptric Forum. John Howard take note, please.
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One for the diary: my partner ’Pong’s first solo exhibition Passive Intruder opens at Buzzzbar Café Restaurant in Newtown on Tuesday 5 December.
… remember to clear your web browser’s cache first. Here’s a TV report from Denmark about — oh, something or other. Watch our serious bearded Internet expert demonstrating how to download music. Now when the time code reaches 58 seconds, stop and notice the second-to-last file he downloaded. Oops.
Using highly-classified Victorian-era satellite technology, Google Earth now includes views of the Earth from historical times.
“Always follow procedure,” I tell every new contractor or employee. “You can’t remember everything, no matter how intelligent you are. Always cross-check.” Measure twice, cut once. All very, very good advice.
But this morning I knew that the 1GB memory stick I had in stock would be compatible with the client’s computer. I know my memory specs, all is under control. I am a professional. And besides, we’re in a hurry.
Um, what’s that burning smell…?
The result of today’s professionalism? One fried memory stick. One fried motherboard. A client’s computer which must now be replaced at my expense. A thousand dollars out of pocket and a day’s work lost.
Over-hyping “the threat of terrorism” is one of the more obscene reality-distortions being committed by our current government and its Washington and London counterparts.
This is well-documented. But nowhere is it made more clear than in this statistic:
Excepting a few particularly bad years, the annual number of deaths from terrorism worldwide since the late 1960s, when the [US] State Department started record-keeping, is only about the same as the number of Americans who drown every year in bathtubs.
Now for a quick crash course in how terrorism works…
In retrospect, it’s amazing this hadn’t been thought of before…
Tip o’the hat to Boing Boing and The Hippocratic Oaf for the link.
Encased in a steel cage and with people prevented from choosing their own drinks, yesterday’s Newtown Festival ceased being a true community event and became yet another “officially-sanctioned party.” It’ll never be the same again. But why should it be that way?
Australia’s divorce numbers have fallen for the fourth year in a row — although to look at the graph (total number of divorces granted in each year) it’s nothing to write home about.
Check the full report for some other fascinating insights.
And now a video which is not propaganda! My photographic better half has assembled some of his fine architectural abstracts into this 9-minute journey down Enmore’s Cavendish Lane. Enjoy.
You’ll also have the chance to see this at higher resolution at an exhibition in December — but if you can’t wait until then there’s a higher quality Quicktime (54MB).
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:40 — 51.8MB)
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