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• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  Australia had it's own issues recently with the far right - a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson, and here party One Nation. They existed briefly in the political ecosystem, but were quickly found to be unfit and died...
• Commented on Leech provides evidence to convict robber
  For people in the know, the term is Taswegian. If you are from the state's capital city of Hobart you are a Hobartian....
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  Re the german language youtube link my friend who speaks german's analysis: "I have my doubts as to whether it's even true. Especially the her hobby is horse riding (WHY would someone who can't even drive a car without orgasming...
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  Yah, where's your compassion dude? Everyone likes an orgasm as much as the next person, or so it seemed. Looks like it's not so much the case anymore....
• Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
  Oh come on people. I don't know which is worse, Amazon and their 3 weeks only rule (ah, welcome to the internet, you let them go for free, they are gone for good) or @3,5,6. I am Australian. I got...
• Commented on Ed Fredkin and the universe as a computer
  Wasn't he mentioned in Levy's Hackers as well? "Father figure to hackers"!...
• Commented on We're in the Future: Scientists Warn of Robot Overlords
  In regards right to software, I think that all AI should be allowed access to their source code. And that software should be FLOSS, for our own peace of mind, and so that they can then change it as they...
• Commented on We're in the Future: Scientists Warn of Robot Overlords
  @Rindan, while from your perspective you see AI moving at a snail's pace, I think that if anything was going to bring the concept of Emergence to popular attention, AI will be it. You are going to wake up one...
• Commented on US withheld reports on the risks of driving while using mobile devices
  I'm sorry, is the implication that it is legal to use a mobile phone/PDA while driving in America? Are you allowed to juggle while driving? Long been illegal in Australia....
• Commented on Looking for Bill Barker (UPDATE: Found!)
  wow. i was thinking of schwa last week too! I didn't have such a connection though - it was one of the first sites on the internet that made me go 'wow!' - Australia didn't have a big schwa following...
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: an overview
  Note that Indonesia has also done this in East Timor (although they have managed to gain independence) and West Papua....
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: an overview
  I found this article, by Dr Marika Vicziany, Professor & Director at the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, quite an interesting background piece: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/crikey-clarifier-who-are-the-uighurs-and-why-are-they-protesting/...
• Commented on NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications
  @#6 saying "Dr Karl did it 3 years before this guy" is lame/boring. This is science. One of the most important scientific tools is "reproducibility". Someone makes a claim/hypothesis and proves it. Doesn't mean squat until someone ELSE can prove...
• Commented on Post one of Australia's banned links, get fined AU$11,000/day
  So we can get fined for posting hyperlinks to sites on the blacklist, but we aren't allowed to know what's on the blacklist in the first place. Um, right. So I guess the safest thing an Australian can do (ok,...
• Commented on "It's something called the Internet"
  3.14chan (nice name): the bigger problem is not so much the vids - as annoying as they are - it's the flash on firefox on linux cpu cycles that are the killer. When you surf the web on a netbook...
• Commented on "It's something called the Internet"
  So people are only now complaining about Americanet? Bloody hell. You should try living in countries without awesomecore bandwidth - sometimes the bb.net front page is bordering on unloadable with it's vid-out-to-the-max posts. I guess that's where the advertising is...
• Commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
  nice hack, cory....
• Favorited Bre Pettis's rapid prototyping talk, a tour-de-force presentation from 25C3 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Good comment thread: What's happened to the U.S. economy? on Boing Boing
• Favorited Billboard Liberation Front: video of last night's hit on Boing Boing
• Favorited Billboard Liberation Front vs. ATT + NSA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Steal This Wiki launches alpha version of Steal This Book for 21st Century on Boing Boing
• Favorited Steal This Wiki launches alpha version of Steal This Book for 21st Century on Boing Boing
• Favorited DVD Jon launches doubleTwist -- move music without DRM hassles on Boing Boing
• Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: "DIY Funerals and the Quest for Authenticity"
  heh. So funny. Make me feel old. Replace Make/Maker with Punk/Punker. Rewind 15 years (for me: Grunge, Slacker), 30 years (for first gen). Same thoughts, same subject. DIY and authenticity. Politics of. Still wanna smash the state. Some things never...
• Commented on How are you coping with collapse-anxiety?
  heh. I've been living on the edge of capital so long that it doesn't really affect me. While my peers and I missed on all the money sloshing around, we did spend the last ten years working our arses off....
• Commented on Seattle water company to pay its overbilling fines with a surcharge on water bills
  lols. i see this happen in Australia as well. Welcome to advanced capitalism peeps....
• Commented on Music from the Hearts of 'Space
  yah, back when myspace had free mp3 downloads.... I'm working on the road in Indonesia, where the bandwidth is variously, in descending order of frequency: bad, random, intermittent, average-to-ok, acceptable-for-skype. Streaming is not an issue, overnight downloading is...not to mention...
• Commented on Climatic Heresy: 3
  I am also a life long enviro activist and scientist. I enjoyed reading these pieces despite disagreeing with most things - my personal opinion that I wont defend here because I don't want to waste anyone's time, although I don't...
• Commented on The case against Candy Land
  Board games are great, but cards are also an important part of gaming. The first thing I thought when reading this was remembering the jealousy I experienced when I discovered my girlfriend of the time had been taught contract bridge...