December 2008
21 posts
No One Else Is Reducing Emissions That Much So We... →
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a likely victim of rising temperatures due to global warming. Photo: Leonard Low Last week the EU announced a new global warming mitigation plan that, as…
If You Don't Like Coal You Are A Commie! Atheist!... →
It really is quite extraordinary. We quoted Don Blankenship of Massey Energy earlier, but NRDC has found the tapes and edited highlights for us short attention span types….
What the hell is a Credit Default Swap? →
This American Life’s hour-long show on “credit-default swaps” is the best explanation I’ve heard so far for what the hell these things are and how they ended up causing so much havoc. I keep asking…
DS Scrabble Beats Kid On "Fuckers" Triple-Word... →
Well, if it isn’t the Daily Mail, with another highly entertaining story about the EVILS and HORRORS of video games. In this instance, the evils and horrors of…Scrabble. Yes, Scrabble. 36…
Delicious Mobile? Still a Pipe Dream →
Yahoo’s popular social bookmarking tool Delicious announced tonight that there is a new mobile version of the site. We were excited to see what that included, but ultimately disappointing that…
Mirror's Edge With And Without Awesome PhysX... →
Remember that fantastic Mirror’s Edge trailer dripping with snazzy PhysX eye-candy? The differences may not have been clear enough to the casual observer, something DICE, EA, and NVIDIA hope to…
Recessions Are Good News For Immature Aussie... →
With all the news around at the moment, indications are that they sky is falling and Aussie Tech Startups have little or no chance of surviving through the ever-widening financial quagmire…
Linux - Stop holding our kids back (Blog of... →
Blog of helios: Linux - Stop holding our kids back — This blog is momentarily interrupted to bring you a snippet of recently received email. … Karen xxxxxxxxx — xxxxxxxxx Middle…
First iGoogle Banking Gadget Released By Fidelity →
Fidelity, one of the world’s largest financial service institutions, has just launched the first iGoogle secure banking gadget for use by their tens of millions of customers. With the new …
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The... →
Yesterday’s scandal over the UK Internet Watch Foundation’s attempt to censor a purportedly pedophiliac Wikipedia entry raises some important questions about unintended technical consequences of…
Lawrence Lessig: the mistake in bailouts →
Lawrence Lessig posted a good rant about bailouts today: These bailouts are an awful idea — the worst of K St. capitalism (== kapitalism) inviting an insanely bad future for the industries…
Sackboy Pattern In UK's Leading Knitting Magazine... →
Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet could be the source of the first major commercial cross-over between knitting and gaming as the UK’s Simply Knitting magazine features a professionally created…
UK ISPs Filtering Access to Wikipedia →
ZDNet is reporting that six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia as a result of the site being added to the Internet Watch Foundation after accusations that it is hosting what…
mobiForge →
Yahoo Search Assist Adds Image Previews; I Wish... →
Google may get three times more search traffic than Yahoo, but, SearchWiki aside, most of the innovation seems to be coming from Yahoo and Microsoft’s Live Search as they strive to gain a…
ReWare →
November 2008
73 posts
Children's welfare groups oppose Australian... →
Itsumishi sez, “A few weeks ago it was mentioned that the Australian Labor Government will be trying to introduce mandatory internet filtering despite promises before the election that any filtering…
Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? →
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the…
Defying Classification: Removing The... →
smash's world: The "Err" sign I built with Peggy.... →