festering piece of cinematic detritus

As part of my ongoing project to watch appalling, Z-grade movies, I have come across this: Troll 2, IMDB score 2.0 out of 10.  As IMDB reviewer  ‘Justin Michels’ helpfully tells us:

…”Troll 2″ is a

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animated fish coming out of the street

My friend Sam forwarded me this amazing video of… well, I don’t know what it is.  It appears to be some kind of interactive animated light display which is mapped precisely over the physical surfaces it is projected…

do not want

I totally agree with this proposal: that telemarketing should be entirely ‘opt-in’ rather than ‘opt-out’.  In other words, unsolicited commercial telephone calls should be illegal unless the victim recipient has previously agreed to receive them.

At the moment…

new comments system – recaptcha

Until recently, commenting has been restricted to registered users due to the ridiculous torrent of spam which any website automatically attracts.  Before registration was required, I was using Akismet, which was fairly effective, as in it caught 99.9%.  Despite…

what is a “writer”?

I guiltily enjoyed this rant by Timothy Egan in the NY Times about people who become “writers” as a result of celebrity or unusual life experiences rather than the possession of actual writing ability.

Most of the writers

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getup save the net campaign

iinet case update

This is quite a good summary of some of the legal issues in the iinet case.

internet censorship – national protests

Further to the previous post, there are national protests on 13 December 2008 in relation to Labor’s mandatory Internet filtering scheme. Details here. Attend, if you don’t want the federal government to decide what you can and cannot…

internet filter – positive noises from… the Liberal Party?

No doubt stung by the fact that no-one in the electorate actually pays them any attention at all (or maybe just because they don’t have to pal up to right wingnuts like Steve Fielding any more), the Liberal Party appear…

crazy cult update

A couple of ex-Exclusive Brethren members are asking Justice North in the Federal Court in Victoria (VID904/2008) to order that the AFP investigate the cult: link.

Former Brethren members Lydia Desai and Priscilla D’Souza have accused Exclusive Brethren

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