This post brought to you by the letters N, B, and N
When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
Privacy and you
Especially relevant given the infamous “Privacy is for Paedos” line spun by an ex-editor of the News of the World at the UK media inquiry.
Autonomous vehicles and the end of the private car
Driverless cars are coming sooner than you probably think – so let’s have some fun speculating about the implications.
Quick link: IEEE Spectrum’s account of the Fukushima accident
While comprehensive accounts have apparently appeared in the Japanese media, this IEEE Spectrum article is the best attempt I’ve seen to present an English-language timeline of initial events at Fukushima Dai-chi in the wake of the tsunami.
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The technology world has just lost another giant, though one without the towering public persona of Steve Jobs. If you’re not actually a programmer, you’ve probably never heard of Dennis Ritchie. But the vast majority of software you use was [...]
Skilled graffitist makes the front page
Oh Noes! The NBN ha5 been hax0red! The police have saved us from “…what could have been Australia’s biggest hacking attack.”
The Global Village still has idiots
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
A whimper rather than a bang
It started with Holden 48-215 or FX, followed by the famous FJ. Others followed. According to The Volkswagenwerk Classic and Vintage Club of Australia: By 1962, Volkswagen was the 3rd largest producer of cars in Australia behind only GM and [...]
Quicklink: partial web censorship starts in July
Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month
Solar PV coming of age?
You can take your pick from a few posts on solar PV lately. John Quiggin has one. He borrowed from one by Stephen Lacey at Grist, cross-posted at Climate progress. I think I’ll start with Giles Parkinson at Climate Spectator. [...]
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