I generally vote for independents and minor parties, below the line, in the Senate.  It keeps things interesting.

There are always a lot of people I've never heard of.  Who the hell is Glenn Shea, for example. For some of them, the only political thing I know about them is what they say on their Web site and who they gave their preferences to.  ( Read more... )

I went to see some films.  I liked some of them more than others.  Air Doll, Philip Morris, Scott Pilgrim and more... ( after this dissolve. )

For all those Tim Burton fans out there, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has a big Burton exhibition coming up.

Check out their new Burton television advertisement.  Cute.

Tim Burton: The Exhibition
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Thursday 24 June - Sunday 10 October 2010
Open daily 10am-6pm.
Special late night Thursdays until ( Read more... )

My project for the National Gallery of Victoria, Pictures of the Floating World, got a guernsey in the 2010 Horizon Report (K-12 edition).

That makes me happy because I like the Horizon Reports. They are good.  The Horizon Project (which produces them) "...identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, ( Read more... )

Most video artwork leaves me cold. But this year's Experimenta is great. Almost every work is amazing and fun. And it has something for everyone.

• A steam-punky typewriter where your words turn into insects and fly away as you type.
  
• The logical extension of WoW, as imagined by some Russian artists.
  
• A full colour, full body scanner which is a ( Read more... )

I'm not a very introspective guy. I'm quite good at listening to others, but I don't spend much time listening to myself, so to speak ( Read more... )

Including me ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I found out two scary factoids:

• It may only take the destruction of 10 satellites to create a chain reaction of destruction (the Kessler syndrome). This might put us into a satellite dark age for a decade.
• If the Global Positioning System (GPS) stopped working, the international finance system would stop. Banks use GPS timing signals to ( Read more... )

Google is a privacy monster. They scarf up private information and don't have great policies for how to deal with it. Their practices have mostly been good, but their policies mostly suck. The difference matters if you were to ever end up in dispute with them.

Recently, they released Google Dashboard. Google Dashboard lets you see all of the ( Read more... )

The people that morsla and I work with at RMIT Business have a part time position going about banking on mobile phones. It would be good for someone who cares about how people really use money and knows a bit about technology. ( Lots of info after the cut. )