Today, in its infinite wisdom, Software Update decided that I needed to install 2 copies of iTumes 10.4. Now, while I understand that Software Update must have

With all the rain at the moment in Sydney, I'm sure the parking police need a new uniform. When do you think they will be handed out wetsuits and flippers?

ISAAC ASIMOV would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again in a bid to induce anything from mild to unbearable pain – in apparent defiance of the late sci-fi sage's famed first law of robotics, which states that "a robot may not injure a human being".

If you didn't think there was enough about zombies. Here is a podcast by the Sean Hoade and the University of Alabama based on a course about zombies in literature.

All the doors on the second carriage of my train this morning were taped up with Door out of order please use another door stickers. And the inter carriage

Renovation or removal? It appears that the sunglasses shop in Broadway is being boarded up. Though only at waist height. To keep the munchkins out. I suppose

Opinion piece by Ross Gittins about why governments should not subsidise 'Positional goods'. That tax money is better spend on the public good than keeping statuesque.

At peek hour on Friday morning even the buses had to queue for parking behind the Queen Victoria Building.

Interesting email about Bill Gates having trouble downloading Movie Maker form the Microsoft.com site. Fun with Microsoft Update. And other complaints.

Parliamentary officials say a report allegedly exposing Labor MP Paul McLeay and Christian Democrat Fred Nile as having accessed online pornography is flawed, and does not identify the minister or the MP directly.

People are having a laugh about Paul McLeay and Fred Nile being caught surfing the net on government computers. But isn't this an example of problems with dataretention? Leaked reports, leaked logs, much the same thing?

But the sign said, signal bus driver | Leefe rates the world… Misinterpretation of the bus stop sign? (tags:

Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour.

John Howard must be eating his own liver around about now. He had only to look sideways at a little brown foreign chap and the media would be all over him for dog-whistling up a storm of racism. Granted, he might well have been blowing some wicked tunes on the bow-wow flute, but he'd have been called on it. The Orange Roughy meanwhile is in danger of popping her eyeballs out she's blowing so hard but nobody's calling her on it.

The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate".

A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James.

Why the Internet filter issue is just a beatup by IT journos. And that the election will be decided by issues that more Australians connect with.

Because some parents do not understand the Internet, Professor Matt Warren thinks that the Internet should be censored for all Australians. Dumb down the Internet to cater for the lowest common denominator.

Lots of piles of crashed cars on the set of Transformers 3.

The Australian Christian Lobby was briefed one day before Labor's major announcement on delaying its controversial internet filter plan.

On how it was possible that the expert would be able to access pages automatically blocked by all Australian ISPs, the spokeswoman said: "The independent expert will have powers to carry out their job." The government is not saying how much the expert will cost taxpayers. (Or how they will deal with checking 10,000 pages individually)

Looking out the windows of Kingsford Smith Airport's domestic terminal at planes of fluffy white clouds and blue sky peeking through.

If video killed the radio star, then downloads may in turn kill the video. The advent of Foxtel IQ, Telstra's T-box and fetchTV, which allow movies to be downloaded on demand, threatens to render the local video store redundant.

New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts — and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best.

"Trading in shares on the stock market requires certain skills and expertise and to expect this from deities would not be proper," judges P.B. Majumdar and Rajendra Sawant said, according to Indian newspapers.

About the beatup and FUD behind cybercrime.

While preaching is not allowed in Australian public schools, it is apparently fine to replace school counsellors with 'Christian Volunteers' such as Darryl.

Digital advertising billboards being trialled in Japan are fitted with cameras that read the gender and age group of people looking at them to tailor their commercial messages.

Maslow’s classic hierarchy of needs has now been updated and adapted for the Internet age

A Senate Committee has censored a link to a morally-ambiguous parody on the US TV show Family Guy that was included in a written submission by prominent anti-filter campaigner Mark Newton.