The Thoughts and Feelings of a Melbourne Person
GetUp are trying to get donations to cover the costs of airing a great spoof government FuelWatch advert to try and get the politicians on both sides to think a bit more sensibly about what they’re doing.
Update: It’s now on YouTube.
Plus there’s a fact sheet.
Hat tip to Jeremy for the pointer via Jabber.
By Bruce Schneier:
You know you’ve got a problem when you can’t tell a hostile attack by another nation from bored kids with an axe to grind.
Also, on a crypto related humour note - The Traveling Cryptographer’s Problem, via Bart.
At the ripe old age of 86 Humph has left the building..
The master of trumpets, wit and innuendo will no longer be hosting I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, leaving us ISIHAC addicts to ponder what will happen next ?
Perhaps the BBC will finally get around to publishing that final compendium of [...]
From Bunny- The Book Of Random:
(Via)
In 2004 the ever wonderful Clarke and Dawes did a very special (and still topical) MasterMind on John Howard and his governments history1 and why they got re-elected.
Now they’re back for the 2007 election, with a quick quiz on “The achievements of the Howard Government” (links to a transcript and video streams of the broadcast) [...]
This is a neat little spoof of the Federal Governments climate change propaganda by GetUp! in Australia. They’ve been raising money to try and get it aired during the AFL Grand Final tomorrow (Saturday 29th).
You can watch it on YouTube as well..
Wonderful! (Via)
Chalk up another great Google April Fool..
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.
Google - turning the fear that the Internet is [...]
On the Beowulf list the semi-mythical RGB wrote an interesting digression on getting started in parallel programming:
C is like an M-1 tank armed with pocket nukes and with a built in levitation system and antimatter propulsion system — misuse it and you can blow up whole worlds, but it can solve lots of problems very [...]
Wonderful repartee courtesy of David Starkoff.
KIRBY J: By the way, is that the form of the State search warrant? I mean, does it still look like that? It is such a tacky little piece of paper. I mean, if somebody presented you with a piece of paper like that that looks for all the world [...]
