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« Previous EntriesAnalysis of climategate emails
Monday, January 18th, 2010I have always been sceptical about the more extreme claims of the Global Warming True Believers. However, despite news media and left wing politicians using the climate change issue to bludgeon the economy, I really had believed the underlying science.
However, many people saw the climategate emails as proof that the science had been manipulated. [...]
ACMA blacklist leaked online
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Too many people knew of the existence of the blacklist. Too many people had motives to see it leaked. Of course, MEGAUPLOAD text file of the ACMA blacklist.
By the way, there are serious issues at stake here.
There is a also PDF version of the ACMA blacklist at whatsup.
Update:
Update of Australian government secret ACMA internet [...]
Car is a Rolling Obama Tribute, Owner 3 months behind on Payments
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Label this story The American Dream, All care / no Responsibility, “the audacity of hope,” or just plain greed and irresponsibility but it probably won’t make the network news. Jennifer Hale of Scripps-Howard News Service reports on unemployed artist Jennifer Stone-Anderson of St. Petersburg, Florida, who used her free time to turn her car into a rolling artistic [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisSyringes falling from the sky?!
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Got sent a link that went (via Not The Dark Matter – The Gray Matter) to this story about used syringes from the Sydney news, from earlier in the year:
“January 11, 2009 Eamonn Duff
USERS of the Cross City Tunnel have been warned of the risk of needles being dropped by drug addicts who frequent a [...]
What DO Economists Agree on ?
Friday, February 20th, 2009In chapter two of his first year economics textbook, economist Greg Mankiw includes a table of propositions to which most economists subscribe, based on various polls of the profession. Below is the list, together with the percentage of economists who agree:
A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available. (93%)
Tariffs and import [...]
Maori receive IP rights over Haka ritual
Thursday, February 19th, 2009In a landmark decison, the New Zealand government has assigned intellectual property rights in the traditional Maori haka, the Ka Mate, to Ngati Toa, a North Island tribal group.
The haka war dance, made famous by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, was officially handed back to a Maori tribe on Monday 11 February to [...]
Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008From The Guardian’s Greenwash series:
Is clean coal possible in future? Well, if you mean could we capture carbon dioxide emissions and bury them somewhere out of harm’s way – in old coal seams or oilfields or salt mines – yes, it is possible. The former British chief scientist Sir David King called it “the only [...]
Why Newspapers are Dying
Friday, December 12th, 2008It’s all about the numbers, according to this O’Reilly Network article, Why Are Newspapers Dying?.
As of April, 2008, only three newspapers had a subscriber base in excess of 1,000,000 readers – USA Today (2.3 million), The Wall Street Journal (2.1 million) and the New York Times (1.1 million). Most newspapers average approximately 300,000 subscribers. This [...]
Australian charged after reposting YouTube video
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Any doubts I ever had about letting Government Officials decide what I can view over the internet have been completely erased. Apparently, reposting a video that shows a man swinging a baby by the arms (BTW, the baby is shown laughing and smiling at the end of the clip), that was broadcast on US [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisCircumventing Internet Censorship #1
Monday, November 10th, 2008AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. And, by the way, it also lets anyone on the outside of a U.S.-only service like Hulu or Pandora get around that often arbitrary restriction.
Hotspot Shield is a [...]