Tue 21 Dec 2010 30 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Thu 9 Dec 2010 4 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
I suspect that Googling a website rather than just typing in the address bar turns out to be a highly rational habit. Given the phishing and other unsavoury sites out there, a simple typo in a URL can be a pretty dangerous mistake.
Wed 8 Dec 2010 7 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
See that tiny white sign hanging off the middle of the Toowong pedestrian bridge? It says “Next time, take the train”. Any driver who could read it l would probably end up ploughing into oncoming traffic. It’s lousy, hectoring messaging, too. I sort of think political action needs to convince people, not make the activist feel smug.
Addendum: I should have pointed out that I saw the kids wearing blue “Climate Change” tee-shirts hanging the sign as I walked past them. I don’t know who they were associated with.
Mon 29 Nov 2010 2 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Good, somewhat spoilerish review of one of the great SF novels of the 1980s. Certainly better than io9’s slightly daft headline would suggest.
Mon 22 Nov 2010 5 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases threaten multiple catastrophes, any one of which justifies action. Together, they represent the gravest threat to humanity imaginable. The fact that the overwhelming majority of the mainstream media ignored the overwhelming majority of these studies and devoted a large fraction of its climate ‘ink’ in the last 12 months to what was essentially a non-story is arguably the single greatest failing of the science media this year.
Wed 10 Nov 2010 7 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Circulating Library: LOL Water Dragons: Part Two: another four for your enjoyment.
Tue 9 Nov 2010 14 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Circulating Library: LOL Water Dragons: Part One. We had a lot of fun making these.
Mon 8 Nov 2010 14 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Wed 20 Oct 2010 10 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
The music industry tried to break Apple’s hegemony over digital downloads by removing DRM, which in turn allows song files to be played on any device. That had some effect, but probably not enough.
Thu 14 Oct 2010 2 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
I often think that something like 20% of all broadsheet newspaper higher education journalism is motivated by the fear that someone, somewhere, might be doing Media Studies.
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