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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-12

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Fabulous photo of M27 (a gaseous emission nebula) from a recent @NASA @APOD http://bit.ly/d050Nd #
  • Today is the 175th anniversary of the founding/stealing of Melbourne – I will be celebrating by going to the dentist. #
  • Removing 20% of guns in Australia cut firearm suicides by 74%, no change in other methods http://bit.ly/cu1N1V v:@johndalton #
  • If told you're breaching #copyright by taking a #photo of an Australian building you might want this http://bit.ly/athLA0 #
  • …and the world didn't end! #GetOverItAlready – RT @abcnews Tasmania recognises same-sex marriages http://bit.ly/blBgb8 #
  • Amnesty reports 3 Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured, jailed, after forced repatriation by Australia – http://bit.ly/bCIxp1 #
  • Earth wrenched apart – http://images.smh.com.au/2010/09/04/1906314/quake4-600×400.jpg #eqnz #
  • Got an email from @Twitter on Thursday, 2 days after OAUTH jump, saying it was going to happen "in the coming weeks" #fail #
  • Off to opening night of Message Sticks, the indigenous film festival, courtesy of @MelbourneMuseum, thanks tweeps! #
  • At #Bunjilaka for Message Sticks film festival @MelbourneMuseum #
  • Just saw "Lani's Story" at Message Sticks at #Bunjilaka very powerful and moving story of triumph over domestic violence #
  • The message is that #NoMeansNo and standing aside and ignoring domestic violence is wrong, no matter who or where #Bunjilaka #
  • Apalled it took 4 years for the case to get to the point where a warrant was issued – and that's with constant pressure #
  • When Lani's Story was shown on #SBS it got 200k viewers, more than twice the normal amount for that slot. #Bunjilaka #
  • Sigh, I really am crap with home #email just replied to a Christmas email from a friend. Sent in 2002… #
  • Hurricane Electric currently estimate 272 days until the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space #ipv6 #
  • http://doesaustraliahaveagovernmentyet.com/ says "ALMOST" 😉 #auswaits #
  • Australian Psychological Society: chaplains cash "better spent on evidence-based psychological services" http://bit.ly/aRHJms #
  • Missed all the fun of the storm this morning, was working in the VLSCI machine room and came out to see water everywhere! #
  • I CAN HAZ IBM BLUE GENE/P! 🙂 #vlsci #
  • We're opening up the #VLSCI #IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to those projects that have been granted time on it. #hpc #
  • I'm betting a Bob each way, and who knows about Tony! #ausvotes #auswaits #
  • Gillard is PM #
  • Gillard is PM #ausvotes #finally #
  • Feeling pretty average so won't make @linuxusersvic AGM tonight, heading for home to crash #
  • Rainbow over Melbourne prior to opening of Message Sticks film festival http://twitpic.com/2m2avf #
  • Sunset over Melbourne before Message Sticks film festival http://twitpic.com/2m2azc #
  • All new ALP with added NBN – 2 out of 3 independent electorates say their MPs prefer it. #ausvotes #
  • Dancing with the Dead (@NYTimes video) insight into a culture where death treated with less distance http://nyti.ms/bI9S8C #
  • Only 2 of 23 arctic ice models in 2007 IPCC report are extreme enough to match current observations, rest too optimistic #
  • Anyone confirm that the #Panasas filesystem does not support UNIX domain sockets? We are seeing EPERM from bind(2). #hpc #
  • Group of US soldiers formed "kill team" to murder for fun in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/2g9zee5 (via @arjenlentz) #
  • Now have confirmation that #Panasas filesystem doesn't support UNIX domain sockets on PanFS volumes. 🙁 #hpc #
  • Mrs Lincoln to her husband: the theatre tickets were a lovely idea, but let's just have a quiet night in #historicalspoilers #
  • So Rev. Terry Jones, are you happy that your Quran buring threat has already led to the death of 1 person in protests ? 🙁 #
  • Hmm, looks like I may end up flying to #SC10 on United not Qantas as Q are double the price. 🙁 #
  • Congrats to @KateLundy, now Parliamentary Secretary to @JuliaGillard, shame it's not Communications though! #nocleanfeed #
  • The nice @sfd_melb people have asked me to do photos of the event @Library_Vic on Saturday 18th Sept! Thanks folks! #SFD #
  • Waiting for @donna_williams flight to land from Wellington. The coffee at Villa & Hut isn't much cop.. #
  • Germany on peak oil "global economic system and every market-oriented national economy would collapse" (via @arjenlentz) #
  • Peak oil study by German military body is reported on this NYT blog – http://bit.ly/d9BTgZ (of interest @abc_investigate?) #
  • New York, September 11th 2001 from space http://bit.ly/aPuIFZ #911 #iss #nasa (via @VaxHeadroom and @bzwingzero) #

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