Category Archives: Opinion/Blogs
The invasion of Australia – official at last | John Pilger
[via/John Pilger] The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. “We were invaded,” said Paul Morris, an Aboriginal adviser […]
SoundWorks Collection
[via/zarq] The SoundWorks Collection gives a behind-the-scenes look into the work of talented sound teams working on feature films, soundtrack scoring, and video games with a compilation of exclusive interviews, awards shows /event panel coverage and sound stage / studio room videos. Vimeo Channel. YouTube Channel. The YouTube channel is more accessible, but contains a lot less content.
Kind of Bloop album postered on Jay Maisel’s building
[via/Jason] A pair of fair use crusaders hired some “street art underground” friends to place several posters of the Kind of Bloop album cover on the building that Jay Maisel owns in Manhattan as payback for Maisel suing Andy Baio over using a representation of Maisel’s photo of Miles Davis for Bloop’s cover. I hope that every time Jay […]
Reproductive technology and the child’s right to know
[via/Salamandrous] The Supreme Court of British Columbia decided that the BC Adoption Act is unconstitutional ”because it treats adopted children differently from children of sperm donors. Adopted children are provided information about their biological parents, whereas the children of donors are not.” The decision (full text) is still subject to appeal, but Canada would not be the first country […]
Chapter closes on Peanutweeter
[via/Jason] I know that plenty of people have a bone to pick with me, saying Peanutweeter isn’t fair use, or parody, or transformative enough or blah blah, and at the end of the day, it just doesn’t matter. What very few people seem to get, boils down to this: I made PT for laughs. It […]
The art of conversation
[via/John Armstrong] [...] A conversation is the encounter of two polished minds: tactful enough to listen, confident enough to express their true beliefs; subtle enough to search out the reasons behind the thoughts. A conversation is a work of art with more than one creator. So, quite often, two or more people cannot rise to […]
10 Myths About Introverts
[via/Carl King] Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days. Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to […]
Giving the finger to the infringer
[via/jason] As you may or may not have known, @Peanutweeter was shut down by Tumblr today, June 17, 2011. The reason for this is that Tumblr received the letter below from Iconix Brand Group, owner of Peanuts Worldwide, LLC. While I maintain that @Peanutweeter fell under parody and Fair Use, and have indicated so on […]
There is no Cabal
[via] Deep in the heart of Switzerland there is a small gathering of individuals taking place. … That’s right Bilderberg is here again and so is the Guardians Charlie Skelton seeing an elected Swiss official get denied entry. It is a meeting of those who control a huge section of the world’s economy with minimum news coverage and near zero transparency. “I don’t have […]
Feminist geek critiques pop-culture
[via/Kattullus] Feminist Frequency is a videoblog by Anita Sarkeesian that critiques pop-culture from the perspective of a feminist geek. She explains her approach in this video. Among the topics she’s covered in her videos are fembots, the boy’s club veneer of file sharing sites and gendered toy ads. Sarkeesian has recently started to make a series of videos for Bitch Magazine called Tropes vs. […]
European pissants, humbug hypocrisy
[via/Gary Johns] So, that’s decided, then, is it? Australia is a pissant nation of tossers, too afraid to throw in its lot with European carbon traders and open its borders to boat-people. Australia’s critics – among them the BBC, The Economist, Ross Garnaut, Julian Burnside QC and Michael Grubb of Cambridge – have really had […]
Heading for the last Roundup?
[MeFi/Twang] Industry regulators have known for years that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide causes birth defects according to a newly released report by Earth Open Source. Regulators knew as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the chemical on which Roundup is based, can cause birth defects in laboratory animals… Although the European Commission has known that glyphosate causes malformations since at […]
Assange and Brainwashing
Assange and Brainwashing [aangirfan] “ Julian Assange was born in 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Reportedly, Julian, together with his mother Claire and his half-brother, spent his childhood fleeing the father of Julian’s half-brother. That father was a member of a cult, called The Family, run by a Anne-Hamilton Byrne. Anne-Hamilton Byrne ran her ‘child-kidnapping […]
Original manuscript of AA’s “Big Book” to be made public
[MetaFilter by Joe Beese] For millions of addicts around the world, Alcoholics Anonymous’s basic text – informally known as the Big Book – is the Bible. And as they’re about to find out, the Bible was edited. After being hidden away for nearly 70 years and then auctioned twice, the original manuscript by AA co-founder […]
The man who posted himself
The man who posted himself [MetaFilter by Joe in Australia] He showed that the Royal Mail will deliver things as small as a bee or as large as an elephant; he once posted himself home; and he invented the self-recirculating postcard – it had two sides, each with a different address. W Reginald Bray was […]
