I’m back to teaching, which is nice. I like teaching. But there’s one thing I’d forgotten about: the obligatory query as to where my Powerpoint slides can be downloaded from the web. What Powerpoint slides? Long term readers of the blog know that I have problems with Powerpoint from way back. “Powerpoint is against my [...]
Posted in Academia, Fark!, Popular culture, Technology
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Tagged Academia, Edward Tufte, edward tufte kills a kitten, general grumpiness, mark goetz, pedagogy, Powerpoint, teaching
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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (William Blake, The Sick Rose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794) plate here There is a canker eating at the heart [...]
Posted in General, Politics, Society
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, belief, fear, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, opinion polls, politics of fear, reason, the worm, Tony Abbott
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Okay, don’t answer that question. But I didn’t watch either the Debate between our esteemed political leaders, or the Master Chef final. Thus I suspect I am in a minority of the Australian population. I didn’t watch the GillAbb Debate because I am so shizzed off about the direction politics is going in this country [...]
Posted in Fark!, General, Law, Politics, Popular culture
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Tagged Australian politics, churn, crazy stuff, general grumpiness, Julia Gillard, law firms, lawyers, Master Chef, Tony Abbott
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An American tourist is suing Qantas after she was seated next to a three-year-old child who allegedly screamed so loudly in the woman’s ear that she was deafened: “The pain was so excruciating that I didn’t even know I was deaf,” Ms Barnard said, reliving the incident during a deposition for a civil lawsuit she [...]
Julia Gillard has called an election for 21 August 2010. I must confess that I’ve been pretty down about politics the last few weeks. What particularly depressed me was Labor’s ill-conceived plan to palm asylum seekers off to East Timor. It showed the same ad hoc ‘policy-on-the-run’ approach that KRudd’s regime had shown before. It [...]
I attended a religious school for the first three years of High School. I’m afraid that it went in one ear and out the other, because I didn’t even realise that Jesus was God according to Christian doctrine until I was about 25. I have a fantastic ability to be able to switch off during [...]
Posted in Australian internet filter, Children, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Religion, Society
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Tagged Australian internet filter, censorship, Julia Gillard, Religion, Sex, stephen conroy, violence
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There are a few interesting posts around the place today, so I thought I’d just do a round up: HeathG at Minimal State wonders if GetUp! will get into trouble with copyright law as a result of its political satire video (which lends from various Hollywood blockbusters). I hope not, the video is rather funny, [...]
Posted in Blogging, General, Intellectual property, Law, Politics, Society
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Tagged copyright, copyright law, Immigration, Law, lawyers, link round-up, people smugglers, psychic octopus
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“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” (Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter) Well, I doubt that it’s much of a secret. I know that many of my fellow bloggers [...]
[Cross-posted at The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law - please check this excellent resource out] In a follow-up to my post on cyber-bullying, the Australian government are intending to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) in an attempt to deal with the phenomena of cyber-bullying and “sexting”. 1. Current provisions of the [...]
Bettina Arndt wrote a piece in the SMH the other day which Paul Norton at LP has described as a “Bondi cigar“, and I must say I’m inclined to agree with Paul’s assessment. Jason Soon alerted me to the piece in the first place, and I must say I’ve stolen his heading for my post [...]
Posted in Children, Feminism, Law, Marriage, Motherhood, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged Australian politics, Australian Prime Minister, Bettina Arndt, Children, choice, Cohabitation, de facto marriage, Divorce, family law, Feminism, Julia Gillard, Marriage, Motherhood, prime minister, relationships, sexism
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