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The decline of political news - Democracy in action
Annabel Crabb gave a speech to the Sydney Institute recently and has reposted it on The Drum. She discusses the apparent decline in the standard of politics and political reporting and the comments Lindsay Tanner made in his book Sideshow.
She seems to have come to some very similar conclusions as I did a few months ago. Which is essentially that ( Read more... ) -
Also RIP Dennis Ritchie
In less well reported news, Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of Unix, died last week. A great peice about how much of a bigger deal Unix is than Apple is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/16/john-naughton-dennis-ritchie -
Join me in supporting the Tell your MP why you Say Yes Campaign
I've just sent an email to my MP using this simple tool provided by Australian Conservation Foundation to tell them why I support a price on carbon pollution. Without our feedback our MPs have only the media with with to gauge the mood in their electorates. So we need to let them know the real strength of community support for action on climate ( Read more... ) -
British riots
This blog post from Penny Red is probably the most sensible analysis/response to the riots that I've read so far.
Months of conjecture will follow these riots. Already, the internet is teeming with racist vitriol and wild speculation. The truth is that very few people know why this is happening. They don’t know, because they were not watching ( Read more... ) -
Full support for R18+ rating for games
W00T! NSW has signed on, so it's full steam ahead for the R18+ rating for games.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-10/nsw-backs-r18-rating/2833424 -
In-principle agreement for R18+ rating for games
W00T! http://www.r18games.com.au/2011/07/in-principle-agreement-reached-to-introduce-r18/
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Telstra and Optus voluntarily filtering
So it seems that Telstra and Optus have decided to go ahead and apply ISP filtering voluntarily.
Yet another reason not to get your internet through them I guess. -
R18+ classification for games
So the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General is considering an R18+ classification for games again in July. There’s some new draft Guidelines available on the Commonwealth’s classification website. It’s worth a read.
Essentially it proposes rather stricter restrictions than for movies, because of the higher level of interactivity of computer ( Read more... ) -
Climate science 101
So, the “Say Yes” campaign seems basically like a good idea. And there’s a cute ad.
But as much as most of us are just over this whole climate science “debate” there are still quite a few people out there that need convincing about the state of the science. Which I can sort of understand given the lies and crappy communication that’s gone on over ( Read more... )