This is just awesome - we may not be all that far off being able to clone an actual wooly mammoth. Occasionally, despite our major effort to annihilate ourselves and the planet, humans do manage to do something which is really impressive. The usual chorus of “it’s impossible” is happening, but reading about the technology [...]
Archive for November, 2008
To add to the previous post, there is an epic flame/legal/political/technical discussion of the iiNet case at Whirlpool: link.
There’s also a discussion at Slashdot: link (more from a “you crazy Australians and your crazy laws” perspective).
iiNet film piracy case
21Nov08You might remember this from a few days ago - a federal minister reading directly from the film and music industry script about the evils of piracy.
Now, in what seems not to be a coincidence (perhaps a coordinated campaign was agreed to in some Bond villain-esque meeting room), the film studios have decided to have [...]
carcassonne tactics
14Nov08We’ve been playing a bit of the boardgame Carcassonne lately. I found this article helpful in clarifying my thinking about the best tactics to use, and in particular to really think about what each move is really worth.
A lot of it seems to focus on making sure that you don’t let your spatial reasoning dominate, [...]
This just happened in one of the busiest locations in the Adelaide CBD in the middle of a weekday afternoon: link. It sounds like two groups of Sudanese youths had a very serious fight with knives. This is literally 100 metres from where I work, and in fact I walked through the front part of [...]
in soviet russia
12Nov08…water boils you! : link. Featuring headline of the week, and quote of the week from “an official at the Military Medical Academy hospital in St Petersburg”:
She parked her car, left it, and immediately found herself in boiling water.
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DVD piracy = child molesting
09Nov08And so it begins: link. If you copy DVDs, you are directly supporting drug trafficking and the rape of small children. As if you didn’t know that, you raping, drug-dealing monster, you.
The USA has been subjected to a torrent (get it?) of this kind of crap in recent years, but we have largely [...]
the thrill of legal proceedings
06Nov08This is not a great look: link, judgment. The High Court in Cesan v The Queen; Mas Rivadavia v The Queen [2008] HCA 52 has overturned two criminal convictions on the basis that the trial judge was asleep (and snoring) during large parts of the trial.
Having been a judge’s associate I can certainly sympathise with [...]
Take a moment to marvel at the subtlety and correct spelling of US presidential campaigning: link.
