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 life-changing experience, similar to the Middle Ages’ trials by fire. If you succeed in ingesting this festering piece of cinematic [...]

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 onto.  Or something.  In layman’s terms, cool animated fish and stuff on buildings and streets.

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 I simply hang up on telemarketers, but I strongly resent (a) the interruption and (b) being put in [...]

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 Akismet’s valiant attempts, the sheer volume of spam meant that a lot was making its way [...]

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 I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and [...]

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

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 see on the net.

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 to have had some sort of cathartic experience about the role government should play in [...]

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 members in three countries of crimes including genocide, people smuggling and slavery.
Justice North is on the progressive end [...]