Spotted on Facebook: “Eric TF Bat reckons all these people with their biting and requests and poking have too much time on their hands and should take up drugs or something.” Agreed.
Top story on Internet filtering
Crikey has made my piece about Internet filtering one of their “top stories” for today — and it’s free to read even for non-subscribers.
Online video audience doubles
Crikey gets my thoughts on Internet filtering
I’ve just written a piece for Crikey on this Internet filtering malarkey, combining my original post and the follow-up. It’ll probably be published around 2pm today.
Bernadette McMenamin’s logical fallacies
Actually, I shouldn’t have bothered giving Bernadette McMenamin even the slightest attention because even in her first two paragraphs she commits logical fallacies. First, “It is beyond belief that…” is the fallacious argument from personal incredulity. And “there exists a small but vocal group” is an assertion that because an opinion is held by a “small” number (asserted without evidence) that it’s inherently wrong. While her cause — fighting against child abuse — is a good one, she does herself no credit by using such corrupt techniques. So, Ms McMenamin, are you a puppet of The Australian or a puppet of Senator Conroy’s office?
Bill’s last day at Microsoft
This video about Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft would be even funnier if it wasn’t for Bono’s pathetic attempt at relevance. Still, nice to see Mr Gates manages to self-promote to the very end.