Could be beat, could be nerdcore, could be rap, not really sure.

Anyway: ( onwards )

Yes folks, I have a new job. I'm now the "Internet Sales Co-ordinator" at Computerbank Victoria

What does this mean? It means I rummage through piles of odd IT and multimedia gear, research specifications online, and then list them on ebay. For a day a week of this and a couple of hours from home, they pay me $23.50 an hour ( Read more... )

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... The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder and asked if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."[4] ...

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Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future ( Read more... )

Calling all dorks, geeks, nerds, weenies, video/audio artists, AV clubbers, roboticists, tinkerers, hackers, modders and benders.

Dorkbot Melbourne are having a get together with talks, demos and an "open mike" in Fitzroy, 4pm Sunday 29th.

Well, I noticed the image disappeared from my previous entry about the Meraki Mini, a $50 WiFi access point the size of a playing card that can run a pretty complete unix. So I went to their site to look for a new image to link.

It seems they've morphed from a mere hardware seller into a project "to bring affordable Internet access to the next ( Read more... )

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Further to recent discussions with noteris I present A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. This is a very long article, it's late, and I'm off to bed. I've barely scratched the surface. But so far it makes for an interesting read. Discussion is invited. I hope to read the whole thing in the next few days.

in order to work, Vista's ( Read more... )

Left Behind: The Game

... controversial new Christian fundamentalist video game in which players battle the "forces of the Anti-Christ" and kill or convert non-believers.

... begins in a time after the "rapture" ... The remaining population on earth must then choose between surrendering to or resisting "the Antichrist", which the game describes ( Read more... )