February 6, 2013 – 4:55 am
Facebook. Besides being invented for the social glue that is the ‘poke’ (who do YOU poke and how often and can anyone explain why) it’s for sharing cool stuff like this 1930s aerial photograph of Edinburgh, the legendary city where I live. Originally by Alfred Buckham, I nicked it off SL’s page where it was [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Britain, History, Personal, Politics, scotland
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Tagged alfred buckham, Edinburgh, eye candy de heir, eye candy du jour, Facebook, photography
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October 24, 2012 – 2:45 am
One of my favourite modern films is “Stigmata”. In it, a Catholic priest and debunker of miracles for the Holy See (Gabriel Byrne) stumbles across the case of an American hairdresser (Patricia Arquette) who appears to be exhibiting the signs of Stigmata despite living an unashamedly dissolute party-animal life and being a complete non-believer. What [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
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Tagged christianity, holy see, kateri tekakwitha, lily of the mohawks, Roman Catholic Church, society of jesus, stigmata, the vatican
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October 11, 2012 – 11:10 pm
THE creators of a Facebook page which urged companies to pull advertising from Alan Jones’ breakfast show has now called on him to made an on-air pledge. The social media group Destroy the Joint, called on Thursday for employees of the Macquarie Radio Network, including Jones, to commit to challenge “anyone who uses sex, race, [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, Funnies, Law, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged Alan Jones, destroy the joint, died of shame, Feminism, Julia Gillard, macquarie radio network, Radio 2GB, russell tate
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September 28, 2012 – 7:36 pm
Here in Melbourne we’ve been absolutely devastated by the disappearance of Jill Meagher. Ms Meagher was a 29-year-old Irishwoman who worked at the ABC. Last Friday, she went missing after going to drinks with colleagues in Sydney Road, Brunswick. A colleague offered to walk her home; but she lived only 800m away and declined the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Feminism, Law, Media
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Tagged criminal law, due process, Facebook, Jill Meagher, media law, presumption of innocence, social media, vigilante, vigilante justice
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September 20, 2012 – 5:29 pm
You are presumably all citizens of the Interwebs, so I’d be very surprised you hadn’t come across the famous botched Ecce Homo painting. The mural was over 100 years old. It had been painted by Elías García Martínez and was donated to Santuario de Misericordia Church in Borja, Zaragoza, Spain. One of the elderly parishioners, [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Art, Fark!, Intellectual property, Law
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Tagged account of profits, Catholic Church, Cecilia Jiménez, copyright, Copyright Act, copyright law, derogatory, Ecce Homo, Ecce Mono, Elías García Martínez, internet memes, moral rights, Potato Jesus, reasonable fee
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September 15, 2012 – 12:09 pm
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched legal action against the French magazine Closer over its publication of topless pictures of the duchess, Clarence House has said. The celebrity gossip magazine printed pictures of the duchess taken during the couple’s private holiday in France. A royal spokesman said the legal proceedings had been launched [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Media, Privacy, Society
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Tagged closer, duke and duchess of cambridge, france, Kate Middleton, lord linley, paparazzi, photography, prince william, Silvio Berlusconi
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August 17, 2012 – 3:35 am
Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. It cited fears that Mr Assange’s human rights might be violated. Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country. But [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Britain, Free Speech, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Law, Politics, Technology
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Tagged asylum, Ecuador, Julian Assange, sweden, USA, WikiLeaks
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What money is We use money to transact and the money we use is fiat money, money backed only by government decree. In economic terms, money is a transaction good and all that fiat money is, is a transaction good; the only point in holding such money is to be able to engage in transactions—its expected swap [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Blogging, Britain, Economics, Events, History, Law, Media, Politics, Public Policy
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Tagged australia, BoE, BoJ, central banking, ECB, Economics, Euro, Eurozone, Inflation, margaret thatcher, monetary economics, money, Politics, RBA, the Fed, unemployment
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Dressed in his trademark hoodie and jeans, Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a cross-country road show to pitch his company’s initial public stock offering. Hundreds of institutional investors stood in long lines Monday to pile into a ballroom at New York’s Sheraton Hotel to hear the billion-dollar pitch from the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Racism, Society, Technology
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Tagged america, barack obama, crime, Facebook, hoodie, mark zuckerberg, social media, trayvon martin, US politics, USA
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When you commence a legal action against someone, it follows that you have to bring that legal action to that person’s attention. The law says that you have to serve the documents on the person i.e. give the documents to them personally so that you know that they know about it. As I worked in [...]
