Cunningham MP Michael Organ has written to the board of directors of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation seeking an assurance that its Radio National network won’t be closed down
Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s move to raise Haiti’s minimum wage was the last straw for American corporations and elitist US
A dispute at the salad bar turned into a food fracas at an upscale retirement home, with a man taking a bite out of another’s arm and other residents suffering minor injuries
A disposable paperboard computer has been developed and is already in use in Sweden. Developed by Cypak AB, the paperboard computer can collect, process, and exchange several pages of encrypted data. Impressive, given that they say it has a mere 32K of memory
A three-headed, six-legged frog has been discovered by children in Weston-super-Mare. Environmental problems are suspected. It later escaped from the jar in which it had been kept — via Pagan Prattle
On the eve of Mardi Gras, Cunningham MP Michael Organ has declared he will introduce a Private Member’s Bill recognising same sex marriage within the next 3 weeks of Federal Parliament. Legal recognition for same sex marriage is long overdue. For our legal system to have any credibility, people must be treated equally, regardless of sexuality or anything else,
Michael Organ said
The former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has declared that the war in Iraq was illegal, dealing another devastating blow to Tony Blair
HIV patients who are also infected by a second, mysterious virus are less likely to develop AIDS and die of the disease, suggests a new study. Up to six years after their initial HIV-infection, men whose blood contained the second virus — known simply as GB virus C (GBV-C) — were nearly three times less likely to die than HIV-positive men who did not have the secondary infection
Under the Free Trade Agreement, Australia has agreed to the US takedown notice regime where copyright owners can force an ISP to remove material such as music, video or text files by serving written notice
The Douglas Adams Media Archive is a collection of MP3s of the late author reading his books
A chance discovery has transformed an engine intended for speedboats into a powerful firefighting tool that douses flames with jets of water mist. During tests, a technician at Pursuit Dynamics squirted water into it with a garden hose purely out of curiosity
. To everyone’s surprise, the water emerged as a jet of fine droplets that drenched anyone standing within 20m of it
The coming Australian food revolution is all about one-stop, guilt-free indulgence, according to the researchers who are already hard at work designing it. Health, convenience and enjoyment are the main consumer drivers behind sweeping changes in the healthiness, composition, flavour and quality of foods grown and produced in Australia
St George Bank customers can monitor their accounts on their mobile phones, using an SMS facility
Some ZDnet mac articles I found interesting:
Some dual 1.8GHz G5’s have been beeping and hissing when used with some external audio gear. Certainly not something creative pros want to hear after spending thousands of hard earned bucks on one. Good news is Apple have fixed this in the production process now, so new machines rolling off the production lines are spiffy.
Will Apple bite on Motorola’s PowerPC chip?
What with Apple using IBM chips in G5s these days, you gotta wonder 2 things:
1. Where this leaves Motorola? Will Apple eventually phase out Motorola chips in favour of IBM ones?
2. Where the hell are the G5 laptops!?
The article suggests the G5 laptops aren’t far off. As for Motorola and it’s new speedier than previous Motorola chips, who knows, I mean 1.42 GHz isn’t that much faster than 1.33 GHz, even for laptops. You do the math, that’s 0.9 GHz. Big fucking whoop.
The Criminal Code Amendment (Terrorist Organisations) Bill 2003 passed the Senate today, backed by Labor, hands the Attorney-General an unnecessary and dangerous new power to ban organisations in Australia. For the first time in Australian history people and organisations can be criminalised by the Attorney-General labelling them terrorists
Portland, Oregon is about to begin issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples. Oregon law states that marriage is between consenting males and females aged at least 17, but does not state that a marriage requires one of each — via HogBlog
US forces in Iraq have a new non-lethal, but really annoying, weapon in their arsenal. According to American Technology Corporation‘s press release, the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) is a hailing and warning, directed acoustic device that is designed to determine intent, change behaviour, and support various rules of engagement. With LRAD, a sentry can issue a focused verbal challenge with instructions in excess of 300 hundred yards, and follow up with a warning tone to cause behaviour change
After repeatedly setting off RFID scanners in a truck stop, Dave and Denise discovered the culprit was a wad of $20s in Dave’s back pocket. In a paranoid attempt to keep the government from tracking him, they attempted to fry the embedded chips in their microwave, with interesting results
Plasma-torch technology, which can heat and melt virtually any type of waste, could serve as a bridge between fossil fuels and renewable energy in producing hydrogen gas
Telstra has defended its decision not to automatically upgrade existing customers on unlimited download cable Internet plans to newly-released cheaper prices, claiming the option exists for them to migrate to the new deal if they ask
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