Maybe it’s about time I pulled out the old watercolours! By Geoffrey Maslen March 4 2003 Australians spent more than $100 million on fine art last year, with a record $80 million passing through the hands of the nation’s art auctioneers. Despite the uncertain economic and world political climate, that record could be broken this […]
Connections do exist: Our arts, our philosophies, our literature are the product of human minds interacting with one another, and the human mind is a product of the human brain, which is organized in part by the human genome and evolved by the physical processes of evolution. Like scientists, the science-based humanities scholars are intellectually […]
Yesterday I attended the presentation by new-media artist and hypertext fiction and poetry writer Deena Larsen at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. As I had showcased some of Deena?s work to students while teaching ?Creating Interactivity? at Griffith University last semester, I was glad of the chance to meet this talented lady from […]
I have not visited Netscape’s DevEdge site for a very long time. In fact, when I saw it mentioned on Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘Daily Report’ I had to dig deep into my sluggish memory banks as the name ‘DevEdge’ slowly emerged as an “I seem to remember that” type of occurrence. However, all that will now […]
Straight to the ‘colour picker’ bookmark with this one. Thanks and much praise to Eric Meyer for this nifty little color blender tool. Any of you out there who know how long it can take to blend a colour scheme on a Web site will really appreciate this one. However, I love the disclaimer even […]
“Culture With Byte” - very catchy The third annual OZeCulture conference of culture, new media and ebusiness, OZeCulture 2003: culture with byte!, will take place in Brisbane at the Brisbane Powerhouse from 29 - 31 July 2003. It will feature Australian and international speakers on a broad range of topics related to the creation of […]
It’s almost beyond the realms of imagination - a computer plugged into an item of clothing for power. Scientists attending a recent three-day conference at Wollongong University on breakthroughs in intelligent polymers, say such a development is only a matter of time. Go to ‘more’ for the full article…. or… go to article itself
Controversy is raging in Berlin over a film that portrays Hitler’s days as a young, struggling artist. Its stars and director defend it to Peter Culshaw. John Cusack plays Max Rothman, a Jewish art-dealer who once wanted to be a painter but lost an arm in the war and now runs an avant-garde gallery. He […]
STUDENT demand to take up IT degrees this year has dropped as much as 30 per cent at some universities, causing alarm that the IT downturn has scared ambitious school leavers away. In December initial applications to study IT at undergraduate level in 2003 were down, and falling interest led some universities to lower entry […]
Michael Rogers of Newsweek Online reviews three books which he believes ask, “Is there a comprehensive theory of the Web? And if so, does it do us any good?” The three books under review are ?Linked: The New Science of Networks,? by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, (a book that I am still half way through reading and […]
This article brings a whole new meaning to the term “using your head”. With the amount of bare skin about to be on display at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus, when the new batch of first year students begin vying for attention, the mind boggles at the entrepreneurial possibilities that will be available. I guess […]
Adelaide, a city of approx. 1 million persons situated on the central southern coast of Australia is set to become fully 802.11 wired. Adelaide…. is now home to one of the boldest experiments yet in the deployment of Wi-Fi hot zones (a hotspot providing a “cloud” of coverage in a selected area or neighborhood). StreetWise, […]
This is an innovative Flash tool. Go here to see my imagination at work
The Capitol and Empire State Plaza complex in Albany, New York, which includes the offices of the governor, requires 65,000 gallons of oil to heat on the coldest days of the year. The gargantuan heating system employs 212 people. The behemoths guzzled about 65,000 gallons of oil on Tuesday. Ten oil trucks from the Port […]
blogging network claims to be the place on the Internet where you can publish, be read, and get paid—right now! Reportedly Blogging Network gives you: Your own blog (short for weblog): everything you need, including state-of-the-art technology Complete freedom: write what you want, when you want Immediate readers: via an automatic listing in the Network […]
?Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed publishing.? go to article here
but.. will super-heroes still have a place to change clothes? Payphones: The Next Hotspot Wave? BY ED SUTHERLAND | January 28, 2003 Remember payphones? Once a vital link for people away from the home or office, payphones now languish in the shadows of cell phone users, collecting dust and graffiti. But in one of those […]
If man is becoming ever more fused to machine, The Soul of a New Machine Once a speculative idea, the cyborg is now a familiar subject in the humanities By SCOTT McLEMEE Cyborgs are hacking into the intellectual mainframe. They have taken over cultural studies, established a colony in the English department, and—wet circuits glistening—started […]
