3 ⅓ relatives == one illegal download

Air France pays an advance of $24K per family member to the relatives of those on Flight 447. And an Minneapolis jury sets the price of downloading an illegal MP3 at $80,000 per file.

I'm not condoning illegal downloads or plane fatalities here, but I am asking - what's going on when society's values are set this way?

Geektool = win

Just discovered GeekTool (naff name, I know), a little OSX prefpane which will let me dump the output of a few handy things to my desktop.

Like tail -f or - and this is what I really wanted - composite some beautiful desktop backgrounds from Paul Bradley with the scary horrors of my munin or cactii graph outputs.

I forsee many graphs in my future.

Get clean coal clean!

A birth poll!

Place your bets. We're taking odds on the gender, birth weight and date of the new baby.

Full disclosure:

Our first son Hunter was born nine days late (after three days of labour) on the 29th of September 2007, at seven pounds.

This baby is due on the 2nd of September 2009.

Facebook Monkey Prank

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I saw a Facebook user have his account hijacked recently, and used to spam a lot of contacts with wall messages pointing his mates to sites (DON'T VISIT THESE SITES) like -

  • sobgroan.com
  • scrambleweep.com
  • whipchime.com
  • floatfaint.com
  • slideleap.com
  • votebeep.com
  • singhoot.com
  • roargroan.com
  • clapspray.com
  • wavehum.com
  • gigglesail.com
  • thumpwish.com
  • spoilroll.com
  • spoilhike.com
  • ridepush.com
  • swinghiss.com

CreativeFreedom.org.nz Launches With Campaign Against Guilt Upon Accusation Laws In NZ

The Creative Freedom Foundation launches today in New Zealand to unite artists who are against the removal of New Zealander's rights through proposed changes in Copyright law, done in the name of protecting creativity.

The Creative Freedom Foundation's first campaign is against a proposed law in New Zealand: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. S92 assumes 'Guilt Upon Accusation' – cutting off internet connections and websites based on accusations of Copyright infringement, without evidence or even a trial.
Foundation Co-Founder and Director, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith says:

I don't know you people!

I logged into OldFriends for the first time in bloody ages, and they wanted me to walk nine miles through some crazy process clicking "I don't know this person" on all 5000 people who'd registered from any school I ever attended. This seemed like a really stupid thing to make people do, so I wrote a JS bookmark to skip the remaining 49 pages of bad UI.

Walter today posted a GreaseMonkey script which inspired me to make it more proper.

So now there are a couple of ways you can install it:

please be not alarmed

we are transitioning from glob v0 to glob v0.0

please enjoy the new poo-brown theme

cheerio

Raglan Transition Town on Campbell Live

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no cafe bob go bloody national

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someone forked out the $$$ to buzz piha with a plane carrying a banner today

NO CAFE BOB GO BLOODY NATIONAL

they did about four laps and few off north towards bethells (or more likely whenuapai)

so ...

  • was this terse message intended for bobbie? or bob harvey?
  • if it's really for just one person, why not save the dollars and, i dunno, paint it on the road, or get some stickers printed, or .... no wait, forget i said that.
  • why "go national"? are you saying a national govt would put the cafe on hold? i got the impression national were a little bit more freemarket than that, since muldoon anyway

hey, it's election year, most candidates will promise you anything you ask for in exchange for a few votes.

fascinating ... i'd love to know how much it costs to get a plane to do a few laps of piha. and how many letters you get.

i would personally have been much more impressed if they'd scooted along the back of the breakers, or maybe done old fashioned skywriting.

is it better than a few more stickers? yeah, na.

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