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Archive of posts filed under the Media category.

Food blog

My favourite recipe: 1. Drive to servo 2. Buy chips 3. Eat.

GetUp! newspaper advert

This Friday, September 25th, campaigning organisation GetUp! will taking a full-page advert in The Australian newspaper. The advert will contain a petition signed by over 100,000 citizens voicing their concerns at planned Internet censorship in Australia. The petition states: Senator Conroy, I don’t want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the [...]

Petard hoisting extraordinaire

Oh dear, what has Lily Allen done now? The poor little poppet has been having a whinge about “people stealing her music” (copyright infringement to you, me and the law). Bless her third nipple, she’s gone to all the effort of setting up a blog (a freebie account at Blogger – her finances must be [...]

The Internet filter…

…is like a giant funnel.

Heavy sky

Something I didn’t know until today – or had even thought about – is the weight of the sky. Apparently it is: about one millionth of the mass of the Earth Or: 570,000,000,000,000 adult Indian elephants Indian elephants? Don’t scientists know how measurements work these days?