Category Archives: Web sites

Web sites that I thought were eithor good, quite bad, or contained something funny.

Pirate Bay sunk

The Pirate Bay  court case if over, and the owners of the service have been marched down the plank. The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement (2, 3). Now, are the users of Pirate Bay to be deprived … Continue reading

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No Japanese slogans for TypeTees

Have you ever gone looking at Threadless? There are some nice T-shirts there. It is a community driven T-shirt site. People submit designs; they get voted on; and if the votes are enough they get their T-shirts printed (& US$2000). … Continue reading

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Fahrenheit 451 staring Stephen Conroy

For those that can’t read all the text on the movie poster: presented by OFFICE OF FILM AND LITERATURE CLASSIFICATION Stephen Conroy as Guy Montag Fahrenheit 451 2009? staring STEPHEN CONROY and STEVE FIELDING director AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA AUTHORITY … Continue reading

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Australian Net filters may block porn and gambling sites

Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be expanded well beyond “illegal material”… read more | digg story

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Aussie govt: Don’t criticize our (terrible) ‘Net filters

Stephen Conroy, Australia’s Minister For Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, gets called to task by an Australian newspaper for ignoring bad results from Internet filtering field tests and for attempting to stifle his critics. read more | digg story

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How government tried to gag web censor critics

The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography. read more | … Continue reading

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GeoTagged JPGs and Flickr – Life could be easier

Been taking geotagged photos with a camera phone here is Japan. I though this would make it easier to add photos to Maps in flickr. Well it doesn’t! I spent a long time trying to workout where the ‘use geotag … Continue reading

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A poke in the eye con?

Seeing as Necronomicon is not running this year another group decided to run their con at Easter, Eyecon. From their FAQ they intend to run it each year. Will it be the new Easter convention in Sydney? I went and … Continue reading

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Excersise your mind

The latest Iron Web Master specs are up. The round 5 theme is fitness. And the sites are due up Thursday 20 March at 3pm PST (-800 GMT?). But what can I use as a parody theme this time? I … Continue reading

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Go To Hell – Infernal travel service

My latest offering for the Iron Web Master competition if Go To Hell. The theme for round 4 of the competition is Travel, where should you go, how to get there and what to take. So I though why not … Continue reading

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