The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.
- Alan Moore
This is probably the best example I’ve seen yet of how the NT is gleefully twenty years behind the rest of Australia [and the rest of the civilised world]. It’s definitely worth viewing large and reading.
Not only are the attitudes contained within completely laughable, but as far as writing, reporting and debating goes it fails on every level. It tries to hide this behind the pretence that it’s tongue in cheek, but the sad reality is that this is how the majority of Territorians feel.
It initially states that a study has shown that ‘hard blokes’ are a dying breed, but then counters that small modicum of uncredited scientific evidence by spending the rest of the article running the opinions of Davo Rutter the warehouse storeman.
There’s also the usual laundry list of grammatical and spelling errors that befits the NT News’s reputation (what is going on with the second last paragraph?), not to mention the glorification of binge drinking, bomb making instructions and an unmistakeable hint of homophobia.
And before anyone tries to pull me up on any typos, I’d like to remind them that this blog exists in the wild wild west of the internets, and that I’m not paid to spell proper.
A teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Does anyone actually use this?
I see several mentions of it around the internets each day, but I don’t think I know anyone IRL that uses it. I’m beginning to think that it’s part of some grandiose alien (possibly skrull) invasion plan.
As far as I can tell it’s just like Facebook’s status update, so unless you’re stalking celebrities or subscribed to Oscar Wilde’s feed I don’t really see the attraction.
I saw this today, which is pretty cool (all the better because it’s made without flash) and a good window into the zeitgeist of internet narcissists.
I just wish you could enter your own words like ‘decapitate’ rather than being stuck with hippy crap like ‘think’, ‘feel’ and ‘believe’.
This just happened. Two days before GTA4 is released. Thanks Microsoft.
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
- Mark Twain
I was originally thinking of explaining what this is for, or why a guy in latex suit and gas mask would be holding a guitar, but the explanation would be far too long and boring, so be glad that I refrained.
Suffice it to say that I’m pretty happy how it came out, in game pic below:
The site is currently being swamped by comment spam, so I’ve taken the drastic measure of breaking the comment system for now.
Here’s an awesome image to make up for the boringness of this post:
Not really happy with how this turned out (hence the overdone wacky colours and texture), my Intuous is at work so I had to use my crappy old Graphire. The faces are all a bit weak imho, but I’ve spent far too long on this already.
[This is the Spy from TF2 btw].
While I think it’s promising that a company with such a focus on usability are having a stab at You-Tube, it comes as a bit of a shock after Flickr’s previous holier than thou ‘FLICKR IS FOR PHOTOS ONLY K’ attitude towards people using it for Illustration and other purposes.
It’s obvious that this order came from above [Yahoo] and that this is a last ditch attempt to revitalise Flickr, and in turn, Yahoo, both of which have been struggling of late. The ole Flickr has been flagging in an inversely proportionate amount to Facebook’s meteoric rise to king of the ’show your crap party photos on the internet’ throne.
These days flickr is only populated by boring ass photographers… and me. The only streams that I find interesting on flickr these days are the ones with old Found photos, Superbomba and Ben Pearce.
None of my real life friends™ post anything on flickr anymore, which is a shame, because it’s a great site from a technical and usability standpoint. If they hadn’t previously restricted themselves to photography only, and added more social features like Facebook’s style of tagging friends, flickr could have been a serious contender.
So I’m not really convinced that having 90 second video clips shoehorned into it help.
What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. It’s easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room. Elephant One is the ever-deepening divide between the haves and have-nots in this country, a situation guys like Fiddy and Snoop have been indirectly rapping about for years. Elephant Two is America’s almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he’d been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn’t even have been able to kill himself.
Case closed.
Edit: Interesting chart here 
My name is Aaron Booth and I am a huge nerd. I have lived in a few places but currently I live in Darwin, Australia.
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