Comedienne Margaret Cho was recently speaking at a MoveOn event. Matt Drudge subsequently posted excerpts from her speech, and she was inundated with hate-mail for being overweight, Chinese, gay and a Democrat. Cho’s publicist then posted all of this hate mail, complete with names and email addresses, on her web site — via Darren Barefoot
AAMI has made some changes to some of their policies. Details of changes…
Car Insurance Policy Changes
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A bit drastic I’d say, but fair.
Let see how long it takes them to realise that they’ve fucked up a tad.
A group of international telecom providers, ISPs and software companies plan to form a neighbourhood watch to oust junk e-mail from their collective networks
Does the amount of time it takes your PC to boot up drive you mad? Well for those using multimedia PCs as the heart of their home entertainment system, the following will be music to your ears. InterVideo of California has launched the INstantOn PC which boots up in less than 10 seconds, giving all but instant access to TV, CDs or DVDs and internet radio. The trick is running all the entertainment functions on a pared-down version of the open-source Linux operating system, which is small enough to be held in a read-only memory chip
Optus has released new plans for its cable broadband and dial-up Internet products, but OptusNet DSL customers will have to wait until March for new pricing
The estate of JRR Tolkien won a cybersquatting case against Alberta Hot Rods, a Canadian-based operator which registered jrrtolkien.com and linked it to its commercial celebrity Web site. The group — which has already lost domain name cases brought by actors Pierce Brosnan and Pamela Anderson, and author Michael Crichton — was found to have no legitimate rights
Finally got my arse in gear down to Reverse Garbage, well tagged along with a friend is closer to the mark, a small warehouse full of the stuff that normally gets dumped by manufacturers. The place is a hit with teachers as it is a treasure trove of kids craft supplies. I’ve been to the smaller Casula outlet, which is now closed thanks to the inept and corrupt Liverpool Council, but it was great to finally see headquarters.
My friend was in search of dacron filling, my partner asked me to keep an eye out for metal offcuts and I had no particular item in mind. No luck with the items we’d planned on, but I did come back with some interesting stuff.
- Three end spools of yarn that will make a hefty warp for rag rugs
- Two squirty water bottles left over from a channel seven Olympics campaign
- Two empty metal 35mm film cans, I had to wait until a bus load of Japanese students had finish pawing through the bin first, don’t know what I’ll do with them but I like film things and metal tins are always cool
- A large offcut of commercial carpet for Malamute’s kennel
- 4m² of Astroturf that I still have no idea of my partner’s plans for usage
Worth dropping by if you’re in the Marrickville area.
Almost 500 Australian information technology jobs could shift to India under a new deal between Telstra and IBM worth up to $200 million and will save the telco about $75 million
In an important victory for Italian consumer rights, an Italian court has rejected the seizure of Sony Playstation game consoles that use modified chips to permit unauthorised uses of the game systems. The case is one of the first to be brought in Italy under the new European Union Copyright Directive, which is modeled on the controversial US Digital Millennium Copyright Act — via The Importance Of
If you need discounted inkjet or laser-printer cartridges, Wisconsin’s LaserMonks say they’ll give you a doozy of a deal while you ‘support prayer for the world’. The Cistercian priests — yes, they’re actual Catholic monks — oversee a novel e-commerce enterprise out of their rural abbey. Proceeds go to maintain the monastery and finance charitable works around the world
1. They took 2 weeks to port my telstra number to their Opt-sucks shit, which I was told would take 3 days max.
2. Their customer service staff on both phone and in store give you the run around. I have only encountered 1 helpful lady and 1 guy who could actually tell me what was going on, although he was still bloody annoying because he kept apologising in that monotone ‘I don’t care’ voice, out of 15 or so phone calls.
3. It is now January 2004. My mum and I submitted the change of ownership forms with 100 points ID in October 2003. It still hasn’t been done even after receiving an sms from Opt-sucks saying that my change of ownership has been actioned on the 14/10/03.
A phone call last month to see what the hell is going on turned up some other guy who said the info was there it needs to be processed, and I’ll email the dept. to do it and we’ll give you a call. Needless to say I received no such call.
Of course amongst all these phone calls, I have to have my mum to give authorisation because the account’s still in her fucking name. I don’t think I need to tell you how annoying that is.
Today’s phone call was more informative, the guy informed me that the account had been separated, but the ownership hadn’t been changed. Would be nice if I was informed properly about this in the sms or previous phone calls. No info had been submitted, I would have to go into an Opt-sucks store. I rang my Opt-sucks store. They told me Robbie was handling it and would chase it up. Robbie had since October to chase it up. What the fuck was Robbie doing? Oh I have a phone call.
It was Robbie he needed to confirm some more ID details and he’ll get back to me when he’s finished chasing it up.
Why am I still with Opt-sucks you ask? Well, they are the only mobile service that gets decent reception when I’m at home, and I would like decent mobile reception when I’m at home because I use this phone for both personal and freelance business calls. I don’t want my clients to have my home number, and I don’t do enough freelance business to warrant getting another phone line.
Stay tuned for more Opt-sucks antics or read about my previous entry: Port This!.
For the purposes of effective google searching (see Red wolf comment): Optus, Optus, Optus, Optus, Optus. Oh and Optus.
Community Service Announcement: If you’ve got serious issues with your phone service provider that you have been unable to resolve, it would be well worth your while to have a chat to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
A US Federal Court last week imposed an order prohibiting two alleged ID fraudsters from taking part in Internet auctions. The duo was also ordered to pay more than $93,000 in compensation to consumers at the end of a civil case brought by US consumer watchdogs
Researchers from Purdue University working under an award from the National Science Foundation have discovered that common blue mussels are using iron found in seawater to create their own super glue
A federal judge rejects a company’s legal attempt to assail BadBusinessBureau.com, which features negative reviews from consumers who claim to have been ripped off by retailers
Hewlett-Packard’s invention, due in drives soon, lets users burn labels directly onto discs
Got this through our gag mailing list at work with this image:
Dear All,
I don’t normally make a habit of forwarding charity e-mails, but this seemed to be a particularly good cause. I know it touched me personally. Mute Tourettes Syndrome has long been in the shadow of its more famous sister-disease,
Tourettes Syndrome, and although much rarer, is even more tragic in its consequences. While a child suffering from Tourettes has difficulty in containing its anger and frustration, a child with Mute Tourettes suffers the opposite fate, and is unable to express their true feelings. There is, however, an answer. A great deal has been achieved by the Mute Tourettes Foundation using new art therapy techniques. However, their work can only continue with your help. Just $5.00 will keep a child supplied with crayons for a whole day. $10 will provide them with enough paper for a week. Please give what you can to help this deserving cause. Thank you.Please open the above attachment so that the benefits of your generosity can be appreciated.
FJ van Wingerde, the artisan who brought us the Pink Hello Kitty Laptop, has instructions for making a Yellow Zipper Pokemon Laptop. It’s worth taking a look at the White Moonbase Alpha Laptop project while you’re there
The controversial winner of last year’s Esat BT Young Scientist competition, 7-year-old Sheffield University computer engineering student, Adnan Osmani, says his mega-browser
will be ready for commercialisation soon. Patents for the Xwebs mega browser should be filed and the software will be primed for commercialisation. Osmani said that he hopes to sell the technology to an interested company, holding on to the proceeds as a nest egg
Foxtel announced today it had secured a $550 million bank facility which would fund its full digital conversion and launch of new digital services, expected in the first half of this calendar year
The expiration of some of VeriSign’s certificate-authority certificates last week appears to have caused problems beyond harmless error messages generated when users tried to access secure areas of Web sites. Security-software firm Symantec on Friday blamed VeriSign for problems with its security products that left users’ PCs unresponsive and unstable
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