2008

Jul

- “Direct action carries the truth of justice and love” — Philip Berrigan...

- My empire for a world without sync conflicts.

- Got my extension! Hell yeah!

- Completely appalled by how hard it is to manually animate parallel dotted lines that twist and...

- Will miss my little home office. Whatever will I do in a huge attic?

- Speaking as a Catholic: World Youth Day can fuck off: http://icanhaz.com/christofascism

- Watching Genesis of the Daleks again. For SJS’s yellow raincoat.

Jun

- How much is Shirky’s urge to harness “cognitive surplus” actually a form of...

MY VISION IS NOT IMPAIRED!

- And in other news, a friend named her daughter “Leela” — it’s all good.

- An odd scrap of paper reveals that L recently met someone called “Romana”, and...

Situated Technologies

- Mozy fucking rules!

- Flash’s “Export to QuickTime” doesn’t actually render a movie. Oh no. It...

- Only I would be so foolish as to have a dual monitor setup in a hotel room. Idiot. But, the...

hydrant: Fire hydrants in Canberra are way sexy! At least, I...

- To those worried about my process of rapprochement w/ Catholicism, let me clarify: ANTI WOMEN /...

- Thought: Arabic names that end in “eddine” are way cool. Pass it on.

- Whenever I go to Newcastle for TINA, I’m always struck by the number of Unusually Beautiful...

- Doing Capital with David Harvey: http://davidharvey.org

- Followed inexplicably in shuffle mode by Agnetha Falkskog’s brilliant “The Heat Is...

- To combat the Canberran cold, listening to the Afghan Whigs’ “Somethin’...

- Copper domes and pungent seed pods.

- Can’t believe I didn’t know there was a Ruby In The Smoke TV adaptation, or that...

- “Fringe” is somewhat ludicrous.

- ANU at night = Spook Central. Hell, ANU at any time of day!

- Jesus, all I’ve done in Canberra is eat.

- If we ever have a son, we’re naming him “Mister”.

- Leopard’s wifi detection ironically seems to freak out in alien environments. Solution:...

- Curse you, blocked hotel ports.

- Begin human cloning immediately.

- Rael was right.

- Once they made my luggage go through the x-ray five times. My mother-in-law was laughing and...

Since the age of airport security, this is the FIRST time I haven’t been “randomly...

Gave my last film festial ticket to a random stranger on the train. He was stoked!

- Even more appalled that Pinky and the Brain are co-producers of the new Dune movie. Heavens...

- Appalled that the guy who plays Middleman was also FEYD-RAUTHA HARKONNEN in the Dune TV...

- Amused that haters of Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson call them “Pinky and the...

- Note to self: don’t put $700 phone next to a glass while pouring drink.

- Bumped into a lot of people at the Taussig lecture, including the glittering red Deborah Kelly.

- Have I already mentioned that “General Petraeus” sounds right at home with...

- Trying to imagine dinner w/ Eleanor Arnason and Maureen McHugh: total meltdown!

- Damn, gonna miss the machinima festival tonight.

- Of course, Dune’s casting and costumes rule. Francesca Annis’ exquisite eyebrows...

- Still puzzled as to why Zizek loves Lynch’s Dune. It’s a total mess.

- Merlin Mann: “Organizing your email is like alphabetizing your recycling.”

OMG, choking on a lentil. Cat is going insane — he’s never heard such noises before.

Listening to Michael Taussig on colour and slavery.

- I coulda had a season filled with Fillion.

- Why did nobody tell me that Fillion and Delaney were in Housewives? Jesus.

- Committing heinous IA and usability crimes.

- Everyone must be a Cylon.

- Damn you all to hell.

Unbelievable that Bowie remembers nothing of recording Station to Station.

- It’s too late / the European canon is here

- Ooh, full page zooming in Safari 4…

The options dropdown in the OS X print dialog box is totally cryptic if your app is named, say,...

Sydney light rail is charming.

- Lazyweb: PHPers? I wanna hack PHP Markdown to suppress ul tags (i.e. create non-semantic...

You have no idea how much I look forward to the abolition of capital.

- Hello, Robin of Sherwood nostalgia. Sigh.

- At least my Random Outmoded Tech cupboards are a little emptier…

- That 5yo packing foam TOTALLY came in handy for eBay selling. I need more Merlin Mann in my life,...

- I have an almost erotic relationship with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce.

So: copy and paste?

Stars of the Lid: hmmm.

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Designing one of the biggest, most important websites I’ve ever worked on, while lying the...

- Fucking campus Christians: “FREEDOM FOR WEALTH”. Fuck off and die, you fucking...

Have decided for postpone my iPhone adventure on account of having no fucking money.

A command line for Google: http://www.goosh.org/ — hilarious.

The darkness doubled.

Haven’t taken the Wynyard escalators to York St since last century! They also *look*...

I hope I still have my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Crumpler backpack in the 51st Century.

Met Matt Soar from Concordia today. Lovely fellow!

Oh, forgot to watch Insight. Oops.

I miss you, Veronica Mars.

Do it baby / D-do it / D-do it baby / Get it

Check it baby / Get it baby / Check it baby / Get it

Excellent response to the Henson moral panic (I assume): http://www.stopannegeddes.blogspot.com/

Every single hardware problem I’ve experienced has been part of an expensive,...

Um outro mundo è possivel.

Fourth hard drive failure in two years. Nasty.

It’s only when you rip Apple packaging apart that you realise how ingenious it is. (Like an...

My ISP’s upstream speeds are teh pits! Grrr.

May

Nothing but the rain, sir.

In other news: horror of horrors, I rather like being a “social media consultant”. Ha!

My life is so shapeless that I torrent shows that are on free-to-air local TV. Maybe I should get an...

Unsubscribing from my Facebook notifications RSS feed.

Ten years ago, I was a magazine art director. I was obsessed with magazines. I had hundreds at home....

OMG, thought I almost had a locked-in-the-public-toilet experience. Actually: the doorknob needed...

Wow, the DSP is going down the tubes. Australian Trotocracy: at an all time low.

OMG, hot vocoder action!

At Carriageworks for Hip Hop Projections soundcheck.

This time, Banks declined for carbon debt reasons. Cool! Last time, he ripped up his British...

Whatever happened to us, Iain Banks? This is the second time you’ve stood me up.

Print is a fucking great technology.

Can’t wait for Guardian Egyptian to go on sale: http://urltea.com/38h8

Did I tweet that John From Cincinnati’s Bruce Greenwood is the spitting image of graphic...

Who’s seen any of Coupling? Worth looking into?

I mean, I do appreciate that Twitter needs to move towards being a messaging platform (like IM) on...

Twitter’s classification of itself as a communications protocol, and not a publishing platform...

OMG: the Fertility Phone!

Paulos: we need citizen science.

Paulos: A/C should be controlled by smart mobs driven by your maximum tolerable temp, declared on a...

Paulos: auto-relinquishment-of-ownership for your infrequently used products. Nuts!

Paulos: major infrastructures, like the power grid, need public APIs.

Paulos: more electronic sensing of the environment leaves behind more hardware junk.

I just mentioned Eric Paulos at Digital Futures, and voila — here he is.

Resorting to the spectacular in order to engage ecologically is a total dead end, IMO.

Satchell: simulation of the environment is the answer. Huh?

Christine Stachell: the digital divide silences the environment.

Digital Futures was a blast! At Atmospheric Urbanism now.

Marcus Foth: we need to harness the kind of labour that happens in gaming communities for climate...

The FTO doesn’t have policy to deal with new media change!

Broadcast ain’t gonna work anymore.

Ross Gibson: didactic vs heuristic education.

Doing the Digital Futures panel.

- I’m building my whole talk out of my old tweets. Ace!

- Actually, just turned off Growl notification. Firing up Keynote.

- Closing Twitteriffic to get work done.

Can’t bloody train cats: when playing fetch, he only brings the thing back half the time.

Working on my Digital Futures presentation. It has cats in it.

Reading Dawe and Bennett’s _Guitar Cultures_ as a way to read “technology” without...

- I talk to my food as one would to a lover: “God you’re good…”

- Have a hankering for eggs benedict. Again.

- Cat chasing the cursor never gets old. Until he rips a gash in my expensive, wide-gamut 24”...

- Tricia Helfer’s hooded eyes are a laboratory for sympathy.

- There are like, NO repercussions for shooting people on BSG, are there?

- Whoah. Poor Natalie Six! Depressed now.

They’re right: Obadiah Stane = Steve Ballmer.

Poll: what “@ reply” settings are y’all using: “show all”, or...

Somebody will one day make a gripping Jerry Springer biopic: http://urltea.com/37pc —...

- Gawd, Twitter’s Facebook app has stopped prefacing my status updates, makin’ me look...

Filesharing: it’s evil because people have shite taste.

“Like an Evisceration”,