Pam Rosengren

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• Commented on Red dawn in Australia
  Here's another NASA image http://tinyurl.com/y8vv5c8 The blue area at the bottom of the image is the ocean off the state of Victoria and southern New South Wales; the ocean at the top right is off Southern Queensland near Brisbane. Sydney...
• Commented on Red dawn in Australia
  The storm actually went from South Australia and the north-west part of the state of Victoria right across New South Wales to the coast (including Sydney) and the Tasman sea, up to Brisbane midday yesterday local time and now has...
• Commented on Fan-annotated Little Brother site
  Cory there's a typo in Alex's Twitter name - it's @halavais . Lower case h, letter 'a' apears 3 times....
• Commented on Daily Show on the housing crisis: Why can't Geithner sell his house?
  Cory isn't breaking teh intarwebs, the copyright dorks are. We should be taking our frustrations out on them, not him. This shows how the copyright dorks are clearly getting in their own way - we can see the video (free)...
• Commented on "It's something called the Internet"
  If BB ever links to Hulu again, please do the honourable thing and provide links to VPNs and instructions for setting up tunnelling so we god-damned foreigners can appear to be in the USA and see the videos. Otherwise what...
• Commented on Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
  Ever since I saw a young guy spit on his hand and then deliberately rub that onto the handrail of an escalator, I have avoided holding handrails if I possibly can. I think it should be anyone's right to make...
• Commented on Great OS for babies?
  First let me introduce myself as a graduate student in internet studies, researching the current media panic about social networking 'rewiring childrens' minds'. My undergraduate degree is Medicine, so I can accurately and critically read neurological papers. @33 ReverendDrJice If...
• Commented on Ex-drug czar John Walters made a fool on CNN
  Did anyone else notice that the background imagery was almost exclusively of coloured people using drugs? I suspect some subliminal racist fear-mongering there, and am inclined to think that the words of the talking heads were mainly there to support...
• Commented on Ad: Honeywell's Electronic Mail
  @ wigeru - love it, tweeted it for all my friends to see. @ bender, cefeida - it could have been done any of those ways. I would vote for a double exposure (or possibly, like Man Ray sometimes did,...
• Commented on New ACTA copyright treaty dodges the UN, poor countries and activists
  So WIPO are the good guys now? Sheesh. And can anyone explain to me what a 'non-paper' is? I can identify lots of things that are not made of paper, and I read academic papers and white papers often -...
• Commented on Evil Somali Pirates Attacked by Thousands of Dolphins (caveat: possibly totally bogus)
  Awesome, but possibly making light of something nastier than you think. There is a possibility that the 'evil' Somali pirates are retaliating for the practice of foreign ships dumping toxic waste off its failed-state lawless shores, and cleaning out oil...
• Commented on Statebook: how UK gov't spooks see the Internet
  This is a great spoof page. We need another one that shows the information that commercial interests - marketers - can put together about us without our consent. We don't need to use social networking sites for them to do...
• Commented on Man playing a hand-made, electrified, one-stringed musical instrument in New York's Central Park
  Being familiar with the acoustic dan bao, which is one of the most beautiful instruments I have heard, to me this electric instrument is not particularly good. However, it might be the beginning of something....
• Commented on Obama tells country "Serve Satan" (or not?)
  He has clipped it. (Not vertically, he has taken "let" away.) What you are hearing is "sserpxe em" which is the reverse of "me express". That is why we can't hear the "t" of "satan" and why the last sound...
• Commented on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic
  I e-mailed this link to my son's high school English teacher. She thinks it is priceless and is reading it aloud to her dinner guests as I write. She has also forwarded it to her Head of Department and other...
• Commented on Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of secret government censorship lists
  Spazzm, Last I looked (a few days ago) there was nothing in the Act that said linking to the page wikileaks has is illegal. However, as you know, Conroy made threats of legal action for linking to it (even while...
• Commented on Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of secret government censorship lists
  People interested in whether the Australian ACMA list is the real one or not might be interested to read http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090323-Escalation-of-the-blacklist-wars.html and http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-Arts-and-Sports/20090324-It-certainly-looks-like-the-ACMA-blacklist-eh-Senator-Conroy.html It is interesting that someone hosting the German domain has been raided. Wikileaks responded to Conroy's threats of...
• Commented on Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities
  I remember having my shoes fitted with a pedoscope when I was a child in the 1950s. Makes me ponder the fate of the women shop assistants who used this machine all day. They seemed very close to it, whether...
• Commented on Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall of Australia
  Conroy (the Minister) now claims that the leaked list is fake. Yet punitive action is still threatened against any Australian who links to this non-list. Work that out....
• Commented on Videos of "stick figure aliens"
  Not aliens, triffids. (Well, species of triffid.)...
• Commented on Social media's history and trajectory -- talk notes from danah boyd
  Thanks for those links Takuan. I have actually met Baroness Susan Greenfield (link at #15) when she made the mistake of giving that kind of keynote address to a room full of academics who study the internet. Question time did...
• Commented on Social media's history and trajectory -- talk notes from danah boyd
  What a wonderful link Takuan (#12) - do you have any more like that? I am doing a paper on scary portrayals/perceptions of social media (rewires children's brains, causes ADHD etc etc) and am collecting stuff like this. Includes online...
• Commented on Stanford Fair Use Center needs your Mannie Garcia Obama photo-alikes for Shepard Fairey defense
  They also want examples of photographs being turned into artwork. An example I can think of straight away is the photo of Ché Guevara that is used all over the place as the iconic revolutionary, on clothes, posters, badges etc...
• Commented on Electronic Frontiers Australia spokesman receives death threat for opposing the Great Firewall of Australia
  @ #6 'you'll be sorry' isn't the full text of the threat. The police are taking the threat seriously, and they wouldn't if that was all there is to it....
• Commented on Electronic Frontiers Australia slams the Great Firewall of Australia
  re #3 the last link is broken here is the right one http://tinyurl.com/dneh3z...
• Commented on Electronic Frontiers Australia slams the Great Firewall of Australia
  One of the EFA board members received a death threat last Friday, in relation to his criticism of the proposed internet filter. This demonstrates that freedom of political speech is indeed at issue here. See http://tinyurl.com/cob4ls and/or http://tinyurl.com/bznv6b On the...
• Commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  This is not new. The same was done to the editor of an Australian women's magazine when she tried to enter the US to interview Olivia Newton-John about breast cancer. The hunger made her agitated, so she was treated even...
• Commented on Where the Hell is Matt? The videogame edition
  I am getting SecurityErrors: Error#2123 and two x Error#2122 with this one, when the BoingBoing homepage loads and when this page loads. All 3 are Security sandbox violations. Is this likely to mean anything? Does BB want the details?...
• Commented on Vader joins the Lutheran Church of Iceland
  Nice video. This isn't a first, though, and it isn't the best. Darth Vader attended the Papal procession at World Youth Day in Sydney, at Bondi Beach. A friend of a friend took a photo and posted it on Facebook....
• Commented on Woman sues over child's toys landing in her yard
  I remember a joke about a kid tipping over the outhouse. His dad was furious. The kid admitted to doing it. His dad then gave him a hiding, which the kid felt was most unjust. The kid indignantly quoted the...