Current Music: VNV Nation -- "Secluded Spaces"

This guy comes to my door and tells me he's doing some installations in the area and wondered if I'd ever considered Foxtel. I said I had, and that I wasn't interested thanks anyway. All very cordial and civilised. Except that I'd just come in from running and was in the bathroom, half undressed for a ( Read more... )

Current Music: Still the BB fucking C

It's a "humanitarian alliance" dreamt up by Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel to try to tackle major (read "telegenic" ) global issues . The rollcall looks like this:

Kofi Annan
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ela Bhatt
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Jimmy Carter
Li Zhaoxing
Graça Machel
Nelson Mandela
Mary Robinson
Desmond Tutu
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Current Music: Radio National -- Late Night Live

It seems I was wrong about Google History; it apparently doesn't store copies of the pages you visit, just links. So it's no good for "what that page said when I saw it on that day" kinda stuff. And its search doesn't seem to work. And I've decided that, given all your content are belong to Google, ( Read more... )

Current Music: Tiddas on Radio National

Since neither cupidsbow nor chaosmanor seem to have noticed (despite the fact that not only has it been BoingBoinged, it's been on c|net!), I thought I'd mention that, apparently as a result of complaints from a bunch of wowsers Six Apart (ie. LJ) has deleted a swathe of content including a number of fanfic communities and ( Read more... )

Current Music: Dolores O'Riordan -- Linger (live on Radio National)

I got an email from Microsoft today, telling me they're closing down (the distant ancestor of) the Link Exchange. I remember their standardised, 468 x 60 pixel GIFs (often animated) smeared across much of the web in the late '90s, almost as common then as Adwords are today. I even ( Read more... )

Current Music: Massed keyboard-tapping

Interzone is looking for a LAMP djinn who's interested in social networking technologies and/or communications (especially instant messaging) and has had significant experience with CMSs ( Read more... )

Current Music: Scott Joplin -- Rose Leaf Rag

From BoingBoing: a very clever and occasionally hilarious (if technically imperfect) explanation of Fair Use as a cut-up constructed entirely of Disney clips.

Current Music: Workmates debating what constitutes SF television

Interzone is currently looking for several Interns (a Videographer and a Researcher now, and an Administrator shortly). These are minimum wage, full-time, no-experience-required positions that we expect a successful applicant to fill for maybe 12 months, whereupon they'd be perfectly ( Read more... )

Current Music: Office chatter

Twitter have officially suspended their Australian service, apparently due to the high cost of SMS here. No great loss you might think-but I'm predicting phonetop lifestreaming and associated services will be mainstream inside a year. Apparently Bebo have begun offering an equivalent service.

Current Music: Office chatter

I want this USB turntable-for about a week. Anyone up for a buyer's co-op to share one? We could probably sell it once we're done.