Comments on: Are you ready for episode 40?

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:48:40 +0000

Thanks for all the nominations. I’m sorry I didn’t mention them all on the final program, but it was a tad chaotic at the time. I was still editing graphics up to 10 minutes before we started.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:49:28 +0000

Thank you, everyone. Nominations are now closed and I am frantically preparing for the program in 40 minutes. Jesus WEPT.

By: Andrew Boyd

Andrew Boyd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:32:17 +0000

I’d like to nominate Dell for this piece of shit: http://www.adamobydell.com/

By: DizzyStuff

DizzyStuff — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:57:11 +0000

The ACMA is filled with particularly high levels of cnutfulness this week

By: Dave The Happy Singer

Dave The Happy Singer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:10:05 +0000

Can we please have a mention for March in March in Canberra on Saturday? http://www.marchinmarch.org

I nominate Kevin Rudd, his government and his dopey comms minister. And his cat, while we’re at it. And ACMA. And Bernadette McMenawhatever. And Clive Hamilton. And anyone else who thinks that children are safer now that Australia’s Yellow Pages of child abuse sites is out there and Streisanding.

Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for this expensive, impractical, immoral and downright dangerous vanity project.

Attention Conroy: you promised us an evidence-based approach. The evidence says you should go now.

By: James Beattie

James Beattie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:57:27 +0000

How about Steve Fielding? Not for blocking the legislation as such, but just for being generally clueless yet powerful!

By: Trekalong

Trekalong — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:46:13 +0000

I think the Bill on Alchopop tax will get the go ahead anyway (we do want it don’t we?), but Senator Steve Fielding tried to block it in the Senate. See http://tiny.cc/3tbiP from The Australian. I’m not having much luck filtering Hansard to see more but I’ll keep trying.

By: DaSuthNa

DaSuthNa — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:37:52 +0000

Can we rename the award to Conroy of the Week, or give him a permanent seat / induction to the hall of fame or something? Otherwise we’re tying it up indefinitely.

By: KerryJ

KerryJ — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:37:21 +0000

ACMA – because they want to reduce the tide of change to a moderated dribble.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:37:20 +0000

well ACMA for listing wikileaks on the don’t look at site

By: Stephen Stockwell

Stephen Stockwell — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:26:24 +0000

But I’ve got Buckley’s of even laying a glove on AMCA in the Cnut stakes, and I know it. Wankers.

By: Stephen Stockwell

Stephen Stockwell — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:21:51 +0000

Does hypocritical laziness come under the rubric of futile resistance?

If so, I nominate myself.

I haven’t updated my blog since the second post late last year, yet still pretend to be some sort of ‘communicator’. Shame on me.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:39:36 +0000

Thank you for all the nominations so far. I had to look up Heather Ridout, I must admit, but I now know she’s CEO of the Australian Industry Group, and that she’s been whingeing about the unfairness of the government wanting to limit executive salaries when — what was it again? — oh yeah, when we’re all having to do it tough because there’s a global financial crisis!

Keep the nominations coming in — and don’t forget to explain why your nominee is “holding back the tide of change”

By: JC

JC — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:23:56 +0000

Heather Ridout

By: Noodlez

Noodlez — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:17:10 +0000

My vote for Cnut of the week: Senator Conroy re the AMCA and his statement "No one interested in cyber safety would condone the leaking of this list." Maybe he will now get the point that we don't condone it, in fact we're horrified by it, because it proves two things:

We were right: it was inevitably going to be leaked.
We were right: it's already being abused to block the wrong stuff.