The mind boggles - yet more toilet information. Which part of the operation is vacuum controlled and which is broadband enabled I wonder?? Posted by Contractor UK on May 9, 2003 If you need a little relief at Glastonbury, MSN are kindly providing an internet enabled loo. So does anyone want the security guard’s job […]

Obviously I will just have to have one of these also. Perhaps they will come with an option to attach wheels for towing behind the family four wheel drive. Camping out would take on a whole new meaning. And if mobile blogging is called moblogging what would blogging from your portable loo be called? Portablogging? […]

Fat, happy and contented and living under the light outside our garage door. I have just received my new camera and couldn’t resist the urge to get acquainted with the locals.  

Cool! I want one! The problem is though, that in order to have all these goodies, we need to keep earning more money. Catch 22. IN a step toward electronic newspapers and wearable computer screens, scientists have created an ultra-thin screen that can be bent, twisted and even rolled up and still display crisp text. […]

Now here’s some news that’s close to home! PROPERTY developer Delfin Lend Lease has teamed with IT services company Silver Communities in a $1 billion broadband wired residential and business project on Queensland’s Gold Coast that could provide the blueprint for up to 21 similar developments around the country. The Varsity Lakes development will be […]

I had to share this cartoon with you. When my daughter came over to investigate why I was laughing so hard, the expression on her face when she saw the cartoon was “you are such a nerd”. But that’s OK. I found it funny, especially as it was drawn in 1958. I came across it […]

Peter Stearns writes an interesting article on the changing face of cultural research. For the past several decades, key disciplines in or around the humanities, including my own field of history, have been strongly influenced by what has been termed “the cultural turn”—the belief that culture influences, indeed powerfully shapes, the human condition. In this […]

I have posted this image here for students of Digital Production Methods who are required to write an essay discussing the virtual, the possible, the actual and the real. Source: Martina, V. 1996, ‘Cyberella: The Content Developer’ in Being On Line: Net Subjectivity, ed Sondheim, A., Lusitania Press, New York, pp. 193-201. Author acknowledges that […]

THE US military is well practised in the “black art of offensive security”, or cyberattack, according to Ron Moritz, an e-security expert with Computer Associates International. “It’s very clear to me that there have been active, let’s say black arts capabilities, created in the US,” he said. “When it comes to computers, offensive security may […]

Research for my honours courses has been fragmented by a new type of distraction. Watching the war on television, (the new one in Iraq that is), is somewhat akin to following a test cricket match over the course of five days. I tend to leave the television turned on and get on with other mundane […]

This is something that I already knew, most especially the comment regarding thinking imaginatively. Schools schedules sideline the arts Amelia Hill Sunday March 16, 2003 The Observer Britain’s creative future is under threat as teachers struggle to fit art subjects into a crowded national curriculum, according to a nationwide survey. More than 80 per cent […]

So… is this an indication that there is some sort of academic economic rationalism that takes place? I suspect so. I would be interested to know if the same graphs shown below could be used as an indicator of the ‘importance’ factor of degrees to some within the academy. Arts degrees ‘reduce earnings’ A degree […]

Writer and boxing aficionado, Norman Mailer, has a few short words to say on recent literary greats…. Name any great novel that didn’t weary you first time through. A great novel has a consciousness that is new to us. We have to become imbued with this new consciousness before we can enjoy the work. I’ve […]

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 […]