These moded PC cases at Slippery Skip are pretty frelling awesome.

GetUp's Campaign Ideas Forum has a suggestion to urge the Australian Government not to bow to US pressure to criminalise WikiLeaksOther suggestions in the comments include assisting with funding now that PayPal, Mastercard and Visa have all cut ties with WikiLeaks. GetUp could probably fairly easily do some of their own fundraising and get the ( Read more... )

You can read it and sign it hereSome of the names at the top of the list are pretty interesting ( Read more... )

The Attorneys-General are meeting on Friday to decide whether or not to allow an R18+ classification for video games. And the federal government has supported the move for an R18+ classification.

The Attourney-General's website was also updated on the 5th of December to include a "literature review on the impact of playing violent video games on ( Read more... )

This is totally awesome

It's a rap explaining how the LHC works. What could possibly be more awesome than that?

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. This is the first time a spacecraft has directly captured molecules of an oxygen atmosphere - albeit a very thin one -- at a world other than Earth.It's not a lot of air, and Rhea doesn't have ( Read more... )

GetUp is seeking donations for an advertising blitz as part of their My Choice Is Not Crime campaign to get abortion removed from the criminal code in Queensland. It's countering a campaign which has begun to keep abortion in the criminal code.

Donate to the ad blitz here: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ChoiceIsNotACrimeThey're also talking to ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many of you will be interested in this, but I figure there are enough IT geeks around here that might be interested in helping save a bit of computing history for a museum ( Read more... )

I would so read this: The Adventures of Tintin in R'lyeh. Sadly it's just a cover. :(

Also awesome, this very pretty abandonded City Hall subway stop.