In defence of gloom
I seem to be getting a bit of a reputation as a purveyor of gloom, especially with posts about solar storms wiping out the electricity grid and possible supervolcano explosions. I like to think I’m just being realistic. I was [...]
SaturdayEaster Salon
An open thread, where at your long weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like. Happy Easter from all at LP!
Democracy wins in Fiji
In December 2006, military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama overthrew the elected government of Fiji in a military coup. The military claimed to be acting to protect the constitution from Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, who it accused of creating instability. Today, the [...]
Iceland wants our computer servers
The night before last, deep in the night I was listening to the BBC I think it would have been. There was a news item saying that Iceland was trying to persuade the world to locate all its large computer [...]
Geothermal energy progresses – slowly
The topic of “hot rock” geothermal energy has been covered a number of times in LP, the first being this post by Steve Edney back in 2006. Australia has little volcanically hot rocks close to the surface; however, in some [...]
Critical (film) cultures
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
The new Facebook and the New New Face
A couple of signposts from the strange new world we live in, both from New York magazine. Vanessa Grigoriadis offers one of the most insightful analysis pieces I’ve seen on Facebook, asking Do You Own Facebook? Or Does It Own You? Chronicling the backlash [...]
The structural separation we've always wanted?
The government’s announced that it’s given up on the original form of its national broadband network scheme, and is now proposing “a new public/private company to build a national network”. They’ve also taken a significant step up in the proposed [...]
Hierarchy is a health hazard
This, in a nutshell, is the key finding of the Whitehall II Study. The higher a person’s position in workplace and other organisational and social hierarchies, the better their health is likely to be and the longer their life expectancy. [...]
Turnbull: The new "Mr 18 per cent", Labor 58:42
There almost seems to be a relationship between the economic bad news and Malcolm Turnbull’s poll numbers – he’s now down to 18% as PPM in Newspoll, as job numbers also tumble. Anyone might think that constant negativism on everything [...]
Murdoch doesn't get it
Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of editors/columnists/commentatorsminions have been sounding off about the evils of Google as a news aggregator. News Limited is a “content creator”, it’s asserted, and news aggregation is something akin to theft. A few years ago, [...]
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