Archive for November, 2006
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Commercial TV ban LG ad promoting adskipping
The commercial and pay TV networks have banned an LG ad that sells a new TV that can skip ads. It’s basically the same time shifting technology that any DVD recorder with a hard drive has. They’ve had to recut it so the ad focuses on a different message. I can understand the commercial free […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Making Your Own Language
Boing Boing had a post on Friday about Tuomo Sipola attempting to create a common fantasy language, ” a kind of Esperanto for inhabitants of fantasy worlds” which is a pretty cool idea. It would be nice to establish some common fantasy languages for public domain use for fantasy writers.
BB picked it up from […]
No Comments » - Posted in ..Stuff, ..Culture/Canons, ..365 Ideas by Kitty
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Sydney Arts 5th best in the world
The Dean of Arts sent this round recently:
Sydney University has been ranked in the influential Times Higher Education Supplement 2006 World Rankings as the fifth best Arts/Humanities group in the world (behind Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Berkeley). The rankings are based on a number of indicators:Peer Review (40%)Recruiter Review (10%)Staff/Student Ratio […]
No Comments » - Posted in ...Issues by Kitty
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Blogging Hiatus
Suddenly realised the shockingly huge amount work that I have due for most parts of life in the next couple of weeks (+ nanowrimo), so I will be trying hard NOT to post over that time. If you do notice any posts then feel free to send me an email abusing me and telling me […]
No Comments » - Posted in mystuff by Kitty
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Nanowrimo started today! Yay!
I’ve been waiting very impatiently for the past few days for Nanowrimo to start, because I’ve really felt like writing but felt like I was cheating or something. Anyway, I decided that I won’t be stressed out by the need to create some 1-2000 words a day, especially as the next two weeks look […]
