Like the rest of the world, I’ve watched, appalled as the people of Japan dealt with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear. Only slightly less appalling is the way the nuclear lobby have pointed to Fukushima as an example of why nuclear energy is safe and good. I don’t pretend to be an …
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Duh! you already pay a carbon tax!!
To the dummies who don’t want a carbon tax… Do you realise that we, the Australian taxpayer, currently PAY the fossil fuel industry $9 billion dollars a year? They are a drain on your pocket to the tune of around $450 per person, per year. Of course they don’t want you to stop! We are …
Hugh Riminton gets upstaged
One of those “see it but don’t believe it” moments on 6pm with George Negus. Hugh Riminton starts his presentation from Washington when a dog cruises by in the background… on a skateboard! The rest of the family looked at me like I was crazy, but I wasn’t the only one to see it!
no google, I don’t like that!
In the wake of my previous post, I was checking out some of the photos on Google maps of Sydney Road, one of my photos came up first, which was nice, but then I started navigating around the nearby photos… they were all crappy photos of a shoe store! I probably missed this addition, but …
StreetView updates… eventually!
Couple of new things on Google Maps / Street View. They’ve added some new imagery captured by the trike, Google Earth Blog has a good write up of the additions. While I was there, I was alerted by user “Munden” that the blue dots of user generated photos had disappeared from the Google Maps when …
the shaky isles strike again
Christchurch cops it again! Live footage on ABC24. Harrowing stuff. People being pulled out of the Pyne Gould Guinness building shown here before (google street view) and after. Ooops! I’ll leave the post as is, but it seems my ‘before’ picture is the building next door – almost identical in appearance. Street view stops just …
Can someone please explain this?
Prompted by this tweet, I experienced this behaviour. I am not normally given to conspiracy theories, and apparently this is a hangover from when the wikileaks server was down and google dropped results from its index, but that was ages ago – why hasn’t it been fixed?
all that water
When it comes to big events like the recent floods in Queensland and Victoria, it’s information overload. The news organisation love it, broadcasting incessantly and devoting great slabs of print to it. I don’t want to add to that, so this post is just a scrapbook of, for me, the most striking images. These are …
online vs aussie retailers: the final word?
Trust the folk at NMA World Edition to explain the story in just 90 hilarious seconds!
Big retail never got it
Gerry Harvey (and @harveynormanau ) has become the visible target of the online shopper recently with his comments regarding GST and a ‘level playing field’. Technically, he’s correct, but his approach and methods work best for a certain demographic on shallow, sensationalist popular television – in the faster moving, better informed blogosphere, he’s experienced a …
kids were much cooler in my day
It’s true! sadly. If you’re not convinced, just check these two images from NASA. They depict global temperature anomalies over the course of a decade. The top one is the most recent: 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31, while the bottom is a decade from my youth: 1970-01-01 to 1979-12-31. Quite the little climate vandals, ain’t we?Click through …
Put the #wikileaks heat on your bank
Donation payment channels to Wikileaks are being choked off by political pressure. The US State Department have had words with Paypal, Visa and Mastercard and all three have withdrawn their services despite Wikileaks not breaking any laws. Check out this statement from DataCell, the hosting company that provides the payment gateway to Wikileaks donations. Then, …