August 2007
Australia Drafts Further Tightening of Copyright... →
The Australian Attorney-General’s Department is looking to increase the penalties for copyright infringement, and has outlined its proposal in a new draft resolution. The proposal offers new penalties which essentially give copyright infringers a choice; either pay a fine or risk court prosecution. Of course, paying a fine usually implies money. With this draft, the penalty could also...
Beijing police launch Web patrols - Yahoo! News →
BEIJING - Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content. Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China’s top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of...
Under a blood moon rising →
At 8.37pm EST the sun, earth and moon will align
APEC Sydney 2007 Google Map →
Parallels between the lives of Jesus and Horus, an... →
The Christian myths were first related of Horus or Osiris, who was the embodiment of divine goodness, wisdom, truth and purity…This was the greatest hero that ever lived in the mind of man — not in the flesh — the only hero to whom the miracles were natural because he was not human.
Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007 →
How to be in two places at once →
Imagine taking a short vacation from yourself. A neuroscientist working in Britain has found a way to induce an out-of-body experience, a technique that makes people feel as if they are standing behind themselves, watching their own backs. The work could lead to a new generation of virtual-reality video games that would create the sensation that players really are somewhere else. It may also help...
More APEC pain revealed →
The NSW Government has expanded the number of declared security zones for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The new areas include the airport, the RAAF base at Richmond, around Kirribilli and Admiralty houses, Bondi Icebergs and Sheraton on the Park, the Hilton, the Observatory and the Marriott on College Street hotels. Police will have enhanced stop, search and detain powers...
George W. Bush's Presidential Advance Manual →
This manual was written by the Bush Administration as guidelines of what to do before the president arrived. Includes - how to hide protestors so the president doesn’t have to see/hear them, and if that doesn’t work, how to send your own people as a counter-protest to drown them out and block their view. This is real. Most of it is redacted.
Sex-mad Scottish koala sets the mood in Austria →
An Austrian zoo that was struggling to get its koala breeding program started is enjoying success after securing the services of Edinburgh Zoo’s resident stud. The staff at Shoenbrunn Zoo had tried aphrodisiacs and even erotic movies to get local pair Bilyarra and Mirali in the mood for love — without success. But five-year-old Chumbee has lived up to his reputation since arriving in Vienna,...
Blinky the double-headed cow euthanased →
A calf born with two heads at a US dairy farm this week has been euthanased after one its lungs collapsed.
Blinky, who had four eyes, two noses and two mouths, but only two ears and one neck, was put down after its owner consulted three veterinarians about the lung, the Fresno Bee reported.
Hacker accesses a Nuclear plant as easy as opening...
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant’s owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM’s Internet Security Systems, found otherwise. (via News dugg by marszau)
Google Earth given celestial view →
The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky. The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows users to search a 3D rendition of our planet’s surface. Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.
suprnova.org - "We're Back!"
“Suprnova has been down for some years due to some heavy pressure from the copyright lobby. The former owner sloncek donated suprnova to The Pirate Bay - and as you know, we like to kick ass and bow for noone!” (via News dugg by marszau)
11 Unconventional Sleep Tips: How to Get to Sleep...
Sweet Dreams! O: (via News dugg by marszau)
Darwin Award Nominee, Idiot is eaten by bears...
Darwin Award Nominee, Idiot is eaten by bears after getting naked and going into a circus bear cage (via News dugg by marszau)
Grog, porn bans begin next week →
ALCOHOL and pornography will be banned in some indigenous communities as early as next Monday, after the Federal Government’s intervention program to stop sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities received royal assent on Friday. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough said yesterday he would meet tomorrow with the taskforce leaders running the intervention program in the Northern...
How Propaganda Works
It’s not hard to understand how propaganda works. You don’t need a college degree, or to even to read any of those thick textbooks everybody hates. Everything relevant can be explained in one not-particularly-long article. And, I guarantee you, you must understand how propaganda targets you, to immunize yourself against the attempts. (via News dugg by marszau)
Money: Educate Yourself With 20 Investments
Want to diversify your financial portfolio? Try reading Forbes’ writeup of twenty investment options, part of their stellar Investopedia service.You’ll learn about all sorts of good stuff here: annuities, common stocks, corporate bonds, etc. Each definition is short and to the point, including information on objectives and risks. (via News dugg by marszau)
A World Without Humans? It All Falls Apart
NYC subways flood in 2 days, Fires rage after 5 years……..See the destruction. (via News dugg by marszau)
Rudd apologises over strip club visit →
The office of federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has issued a statement in response to claims he visited a strip club while representing Australia at the United Nations (UN) four years ago. The statement confirms The Sunday Telegraph reports that Mr Rudd went to the club in Manhattan when he was a UN observer in September 2003.
Putin bans BBC broadcasts in Russia
The BBC said Friday its Russian-language FM broadcasts have been taken off the air by its Moscow distributor, which said its programs were “foreign propaganda.” Critics say Putin’s government has stifled media freedoms and quashed political opposition as part of a broader effort to increase Kremlin control over Russian political life. (via News dugg by marszau)
How To Encrypt BitTorrent Traffic →
More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question. The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has begun.
rehab chic →
Sorry Guys Morons Only
And I’m not even a clubber, I avoid nightclubs as much as possible but unfortunately, this weekend, I was forced to confront what I hate the most. Men with fake tans wearing bright yellow t-shirts decorated with sketches of what appears to be road kill leering across the room at women who even Paris Hilton would describe as ‘vacuous’; (via News dugg by marszau)
Court rejects allofmp3.com case →
MOSCOW court has thrown out a case against the former head of music download site allofmp3.com and rejected the damages claims made by three major recording labels. Allofmp3.com, which was closed in late June but reopened later under a similar name, has been cast as the epitome of Russia’s shoddy copyright enforcement and repeatedly held up by US trade negotiators as imperilling...
Sydney's Simpsons pirate →
A WESTERN Sydney man armed with a video-capable mobile phone faces criminal charges after allegedly becoming the first person in the world to illegally upload The Simpsons Movie to the internet. The 21-year-old Prairiewood man allegedly uploaded a copy of the film to a US global streaming website hours before the film had screened there. The youth allegedly saw the eagerly awaited film at a...
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
Very interesting article about the benefits of a minimalist home, and how to get there. (via News dugg by marszau)
Robot Chicken S03E01 →