Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Cheap Inks, The Devil’s Work?
You do have to wonder what’s behind this Sydney Morning Herald warning against third party brand inks: SMH: Photos fade with cheap ink . Is the bias merely from bad experience with one brand of inks?
Imaging can’t speak of Epson experience but we can report that third party inks wreaked havoc on the expensive printer […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Brings a New Definition to Guitar Hero
This is way cooler than Guitar Hero…
UrbanGuitar.com :: Main Stage :: Guitarmed and Dangerous
New Yorkers David Hindman and Evan Drummond have created a new form of gaming, and the guitar- a real one- is the controller. Conceived and developed while Hindman was a student at New York University, “Modal Kombat” is an extension of the […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Kidsploitation Part One
I have major problems with some of the Web 2.0s targeted at kids.
1. The Virtual World: Habbo - there’s Habbos everywhere including Australia: habbo.com.au, habbo.co.uk, habbo.com
Habbo is a community where you can meet people, play games and create your own online space. It’s free to join, so what are you waiting for?
You create your own […]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Queue Jumping Study
Maybe it was Kafka who wrote a story about a man who was so disturbed about the passing of time that he took to waiting in queues so that time, and thus his life, would be spent more slowly. Anyway, they’ve done a study of attitudes to people jumping lines. Apparently:
When a person intruded into […]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Bizarre Beyonce Story
Beyoncé Knowles has sparked controversy by saying she only makes records for black people.
BEYONCE Knowles has sparked controversy by saying she only makes records for black people. Since the Deja Vu singer made the statement sales of her new album, B’Day, have fallen by 70 per cent in the US. Beyonce, 25, told […]
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Pakistani Human Rights Blog
The BBC have helped Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai set up her own blog on their website in her campaign for women’s rights in Pakistan. Beware though, it is in Urdu. The BBC have provided some translated extracts in what will be a series, however, it would have been nice if they just did a […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Girl School Graduates Better Off Because They Don’t Take Girly Jobs
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Girls’ school women ‘earn more’
Women in their 40s who went to single-sex schools subsequently had higher incomes than those in mixed classes, a long-term study shows. Researchers at London University’s Institute of Education are tracking almost 13,000 people born in 1958. They said boys and girls in single-sex […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Free Yale Internet Courses
Yale to Make Select Courses Available on the Internet
Yale University is producing digital videos of selected undergraduate courses that it will make available for free on the Internet through a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation… The project will create multidimensional packages—including full transcripts in several languages, syllabi, and other course materials—for seven […]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
“Me” Cool Experimental Film
AtomFilms - Me
The idea is simple, the result is stunning. On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score. In the fast-paced […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Sack Workers, Raise Share Price
This is by no means a new story, but today Coles Myer announced it would sack 2500 people and the share price went up.
“Shares in retailer Coles Myer gained in early trading after it announced it would slash 2500 jobs and cut the pay of senior management, Coles Myer shares were trading at $14.55 at […]
