Don’t steal your neighbour’s wireless. The legal ramifications could be startlingly literal.
Jul 192007
Thanks Telstra. Now I can’t even leave the house.
Jul 192007
Nerds have opinions too. John Howard recently posted a personal message about his party’s policy initiatives on YouTube.
The response was rapid and vicious – many comments so voracious we can’t repeat them here. But I saw that nobody had yet taken the time to post a video response. So, here’s ours.
Update: We’ve been inundated with feedback, both positive and negative. It’s great to be part of the debate – keep those comments coming! I’ve witnessed a non-stop barrage of criticism from mattus52 and HowardsBeast.
Almost everyone else has been fairly positive, apart from a few criticising my debating/reading/lighting skills, and one smart kid who noticed the glaring factual error right in the middle. By 2010, Howard’s measures will have prevented 87 million tonnes of CO2 per year, not in total, leaving the amount saved closer to 9% (rather than 0.85%), relative to where we would have been if we’d polluted our asses off. Still rather depressing considering yearly output has gone up by around 100 million tonnes anyway.
Update 2:
- We’ve been embedded in an article at news.com.au which has generated a great deal of traffic to the video.
- Howard’s people have paused his video comments (after wiping them 3 times and also attempting to “filter” them to only positive comments. Like people wouldn’t notice!)
- Howard’s channel page has had comments disabled. Earlier I noted that there was a very large number of negative comments on his channel. No more!
Jul 182007
Dan Walmsley talks to Sony Wonder Tech Lab Director of Programming Corrine Doron about education, entertainment and portentious android visitors from the future.
Jul 182007
Unfortunately, a T-800 sent from the future just came to my house and destroyed the description of this episode. Something about a war.
Heya Planet Nerdsketeers,
Our beloved Paul has a side venture. Another one, besides Planet Nerd. Read all about it in his message below.
Incidentally, [ "modern day enthusiasts" hedge ] is a Google Whack. There is only one reference on the web to both the Modern Day Enthusiasts and a hedge.
Over the coming months, hopefully, this will change.
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Hey everyone,
Some of you may already know that myself and Luke (Or “tito”) have a radio show on SYN starting this Saturday entitled The Modern Day Enthusiasts. It’s a two-hour show in which we pick a theme, and duel with a kind of mixtape each, based on said theme. Our inaugural episode is themed “songs to impress girls with”. It starts at 5pm and runs until 7pm, and should be a blast (Matty of Action Battle Team is working the panel for us). We’ll be picking songs and hurling them at each other with reckless geek abandon, so tune in and enjoy.
If you couldn’t be shagged reading all of that…
THE MODERN DAY ENTHUSIASTS.
SYN 90.7
5pm – 7pm Saturdays.
Old(ish) school battles new(ish) school. Hilarity ensues.
The web site will be up sometime over the next few weeks hopefully. Tune in! Or we might just send rats after you!
Jul 162007
Paul Verhoeven gives Dan Walmsley his take on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But first, he has to throw up.
Jul 152007
Ben McKenzie explores the world of mathematical postulates that tend asymptotically toward being funny.
Simon Barber shows you how to surf Wikipedia like a digital-age Kelly Slater. No keyboard? No problem!
Jul 112007
There’s a huge number of ways you can watch Planet Nerd. Of course. Because we’re nerds.
You can catch Planet Nerd every Thursday night at 10pm and every Saturday night/Sunday morning at 1am on Melbourne’s Channel 31 community television station.
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