From woody at wudee.net Sun May 2 17:59:58 2010 From: woody at wudee.net (Woody Wood) Date: Sun May 2 18:00:11 2010 Subject: [eclectika] So you'd like to... Spend the Night with a great Paranormal Romance Novel Message-ID: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/RS4372TDWKC8H I love to read a well-written paranormal romance novel. Specifically, I look for [...] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100502/10172b64/attachment.htm From ralf at muhlberger.com Sun May 2 20:40:49 2010 From: ralf at muhlberger.com (Ralf Muhlberger) Date: Sun May 2 20:40:50 2010 Subject: [eclectika] BBC - save our sounds References: <604150.97213.qm@web29007.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I just got a Sony pcm-m10, which is awesome for recording anywhere with very low device noise and very long battery life. I'm really enjoying it, and getting lots out of listening to my own Shakuhachi practice as well as the background sounds I pick up. If you also enjoy recording, or listening to the world, have a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/saveoursounds.shtml Ralf __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100503/bd019013/attachment.htm From loch at pobox.com Mon May 3 20:24:29 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 3 20:24:36 2010 Subject: [eclectika] clever ad Message-ID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY From les at greemo.com Mon May 3 20:38:11 2010 From: les at greemo.com (Les Green) Date: Mon May 3 20:38:18 2010 Subject: [eclectika] clever ad In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow. That is the best ad I think I've seen in a looong while. Brilliant! Had to watch it twice to look for the subtleties. Thanks. On 4 May 2010 11:24, Lochy wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY > > _______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100504/2faf93d6/attachment.htm From simon at rumble.net Tue May 4 20:49:09 2010 From: simon at rumble.net (Simon Rumble) Date: Tue May 4 20:49:13 2010 Subject: [eclectika] Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy" Message-ID: "Oh yeah lift my luggage like that." http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/04/christian-right-lead.html -- Simon Rumble -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100508/0be19db4/attachment.htm From flippy at internode.on.net Sun May 9 19:05:59 2010 From: flippy at internode.on.net (Ben Dixon) Date: Sun May 9 19:06:06 2010 Subject: [eclectika] amusing ad for google chrome Message-ID: <4BE74DE7.80803@internode.on.net> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0&feature=player_embedded From loch at pobox.com Sat May 15 03:18:31 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Sat May 15 03:18:46 2010 Subject: [eclectika] diaspora Message-ID: Diaspora: Personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open-source social network http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html From jimsteel at gmail.com Sun May 16 19:01:06 2010 From: jimsteel at gmail.com (Jim Steel) Date: Sun May 16 19:01:18 2010 Subject: [eclectika] diaspora In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: So, best I can tell, the only thing Diaspora actually does for now is receive donations. Right? It does seem to be doing that very well, though. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Lochy wrote: > Diaspora: Personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open-source social > network > > http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html > > > > ?_______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > From simon at rumble.net Sun May 16 19:08:59 2010 From: simon at rumble.net (Simon Rumble) Date: Sun May 16 19:09:15 2010 Subject: [eclectika] diaspora In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 17 May 2010 10:01, Jim Steel wrote: > So, best I can tell, the only thing Diaspora actually does for now is > receive donations. Right? It does seem to be doing that very well, > though. > And appears to be replicating what a bunch of existing projects do. Though given the number of donations they've received, it's possible they'll get the critical mass to displace Facebook. 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Right? It does seem to be doing that very well, > though. > > And appears to be replicating what a bunch of existing projects do. Though given the number of donations they've received, it's possible they'll get the critical mass to displace Facebook. If they're lucky. Have a look at: http://onesocialweb.org/index.html who are much further along, and funded by Vodafone. They just haven't tapped in to the hype machine as efficiently as diaspora has managed to do. ...j -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Another workaround is to use separate web browsers for Facebook and surfing the rest of the web. (e.g. I use Firefox for web browsing and Safari for Facebook). Although I'd like to dump Facebook, I just find it too damn useful at the moment, and am yet to find a viable alternative (despite all the Diaspora hype). -- Nigey Nige http://www.netvibes.com/nigeynige From gfmcewan at gmail.com Sun May 16 23:00:08 2010 From: gfmcewan at gmail.com (Gregor McEwan) Date: Sun May 16 23:00:19 2010 Subject: [eclectika] Facebook secretly installs applications on your profile In-Reply-To: References: <201005170047.o4H0l8IL032620@mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: Just to put my two cents in... My solution is to not use the Facebook web page (most of the time). I find that there are stand-alone applications that do (almost) all of the things that I do with Facebook. For me that's seeing and posting status updates, wall posts and the occasional picture. My application of choice right now is Tweetdeck, but I've used Orsiso a bit too. I'm with Nigel on this one - I'd love to dump it but there's too much of my social network tied up in it that I wouldn't see otherwise. The Diaspora hype came at the wrong time. I am close to jumping but there's no alternative now. Hopefully they can generate the hype again when they actually have something that works. Gregor. On 16 May 2010 19:41, Nigel Ward wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:47 AM, ? wrote: >> Facebook secretly installs applications on your profile when you visit third party sites while logged into Facebook, and apparently turning automatic personalisation off doesn't stop it. >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/195710/new_facebook_social_features_secretly_add_apps_to_your_profile.html > > Which says: "One work-around is to always log out of Facebook before > surfing the Web. Another is to block each application after they > appear." > > Another workaround is to use separate web browsers for Facebook and > surfing the rest of the web. (e.g. I use Firefox for web browsing and > Safari for Facebook). Although I'd like to dump Facebook, I just find > it too damn useful at the moment, and am yet to find a viable > alternative (despite all the Diaspora hype). > > -- > Nigey Nige > http://www.netvibes.com/nigeynige > ?_______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > From andynehl at optusnet.com.au Sun May 16 23:49:02 2010 From: andynehl at optusnet.com.au (andynehl@optusnet.com.au) Date: Sun May 16 23:49:12 2010 Subject: [eclectika] Spider Goat Message-ID: <201005170449.o4H4n2HK020788@mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au> What happens if you cross a spider with a goat by putting spider genes into a goat's DNA? Well one more friendly version of the result looks like this .... http://www.news.com.au/technology/meet-spider-goat-the-dna-enhanced-web-flinging-nanny-that -may-one-day-knit-your-bones/story-e6frfro0-1225867617374 From loch at pobox.com Mon May 17 00:05:22 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 17 00:05:29 2010 Subject: [eclectika] quit facebook without quitting Message-ID: some other suggestions http://lifehacker.com/5538697/how-to-quit-facebook-without-actually-quitting-facebook disclaimer: i have a facebook page but don't really use it much at all and could possibly care less about facebook but it would require quite a bit of effort to do so. :-) lochy From loch at pobox.com Mon May 17 17:04:12 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 17 17:05:10 2010 Subject: [eclectika] diaspora pt 2 Message-ID: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/17/147235/Is-Diaspora-the-Future-of-Free-Software-Funding "Diaspora, the free software project to create a distributed version of Facebook, has been much in the news recently ? not least because it has raised $170,000 in just a few weeks " holy crapballs! From loch at pobox.com Mon May 17 17:04:52 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 17 17:05:44 2010 Subject: [eclectika] iphone killer Message-ID: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/17/iphone-killer.html :-) From loch at pobox.com Sat May 22 22:43:10 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Sat May 22 22:45:27 2010 Subject: [eclectika] why Diaspora will win (and why it will fail) Message-ID: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/why-diaspora-will-win/ http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/diaspora-social-network-fail-kickstarter-facebook/ From simon at rumble.net Sun May 23 00:14:15 2010 From: simon at rumble.net (Simon Rumble) Date: Sun May 23 00:14:19 2010 Subject: [eclectika] why Diaspora will win (and why it will fail) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 23 May 2010 13:43, Lochy wrote: > http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/why-diaspora-will-win/ > > > > http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/diaspora-social-network-fail-kickstarter-facebook/ Real pro move right now? 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Compare with Marmion's Sch?neberg from 4:20 onwards - hands in the air! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUXqVtVm2g&feature=related juz On 24 May 2010 12:01, Andy Nehl wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iysSJ51sRc > > > ?_______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > > -- the connotation depends on the beacon, as usual From liz.willis at gmail.com Mon May 24 10:06:50 2010 From: liz.willis at gmail.com (Liz Willis) Date: Mon May 24 10:06:59 2010 Subject: [eclectika] ABC News Remix In-Reply-To: References: <33E3B7DA-BED2-4EA3-948F-A8717543D982@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: Wha!? Theme from Rocky? I prefer Paul Mc Kerchers scratchy more fucked up version! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:08 AM, jstn wrote: > wow. overcompressed hell. ?no dynamic range. ?made my ears feel like > they are being sucked out. ? ?trumpets with a backbeat - meh. > > Compare with Marmion's Sch?neberg from 4:20 onwards - hands in the air! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUXqVtVm2g&feature=related > > juz > > On 24 May 2010 12:01, Andy Nehl wrote: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iysSJ51sRc >> >> >> ?_______________________________________________ >> eclectika mailing list >> eclectika@wudee.net >> http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika >> >> > > > > -- > the connotation depends on the beacon, as usual > ?_______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > From woody at wudee.net Mon May 24 10:12:02 2010 From: woody at wudee.net (Woody Wood) Date: Mon May 24 10:12:14 2010 Subject: [eclectika] ABC News Remix In-Reply-To: References: <33E3B7DA-BED2-4EA3-948F-A8717543D982@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: I was reminded of War of the Worlds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvwxvCOSH4 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Liz Willis wrote: > Wha!? Theme from Rocky? I prefer Paul Mc Kerchers scratchy more fucked > up version! > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:08 AM, jstn wrote: > > wow. overcompressed hell. no dynamic range. made my ears feel like > > they are being sucked out. trumpets with a backbeat - meh. > > > > Compare with Marmion's Sch?neberg from 4:20 onwards - hands in the air! > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUXqVtVm2g&feature=related > > > > juz > > > > On 24 May 2010 12:01, Andy Nehl wrote: > >> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iysSJ51sRc > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> eclectika mailing list > >> eclectika@wudee.net > >> http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > the connotation depends on the beacon, as usual > > _______________________________________________ > > eclectika mailing list > > eclectika@wudee.net > > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > > > _______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100524/68542e34/attachment.htm From andynehl at optusnet.com.au Mon May 24 10:18:40 2010 From: andynehl at optusnet.com.au (Andy Nehl) Date: Mon May 24 10:18:47 2010 Subject: [eclectika] ABC News Remix In-Reply-To: References: <33E3B7DA-BED2-4EA3-948F-A8717543D982@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: Yes, Paul's mangled news theme was much better. I thought it was interesting that some had had a go at turning it into and dance track, but they could have been far more creative with what they did with it. On 25/05/2010, at 1:06 AM, Liz Willis wrote: > Wha!? Theme from Rocky? I prefer Paul Mc Kerchers scratchy more fucked > up version! > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:08 AM, jstn wrote: >> wow. overcompressed hell. no dynamic range. made my ears feel like >> they are being sucked out. trumpets with a backbeat - meh. >> >> Compare with Marmion's Sch?neberg from 4:20 onwards - hands in the >> air! >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUXqVtVm2g&feature=related >> >> juz >> >> On 24 May 2010 12:01, Andy Nehl wrote: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iysSJ51sRc >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> eclectika mailing list >>> eclectika@wudee.net >>> http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> the connotation depends on the beacon, as usual >> _______________________________________________ >> eclectika mailing list >> eclectika@wudee.net >> http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika >> > _______________________________________________ > eclectika mailing list > eclectika@wudee.net > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika > From keith.duddy at gmail.com Mon May 24 20:40:11 2010 From: keith.duddy at gmail.com (Keith Duddy) Date: Mon May 24 20:40:41 2010 Subject: [eclectika] FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane In-Reply-To: References: <9EF89146-CF36-40B1-A8F4-D3B53A76CA3F@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: This is really only for Brisbane (or Boston & Eindhoven) residents - and only those of you with iPhones.... but I figure that's probably a big enough subset of readers. It allows you to photograph & geocode & then upload maintenance requests to the council.... |< ------ Forwarded Message From: Marcus Foth Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:45:30 +1000 To: QUT Mac Users Subject: FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane Dear colleagues, QUT Urban Informatics have released FixVegas on iPhone: After Boston and Eindhoven, people in Brisbane can now also report maintenance issues to Council. Feedback appreciated. cheers, marcus ?????? ?????????FixVegas QUT Urban Informatics ?? ??Release Date: 22 May 2010 ???Genre: Utilities ???? 2009-2010 Queensland University of Technology ??? ?iTunes for Mac and Windows ?This message was sent to m.foth@qut.edu.au. Please note that you have not been added to any email lists. Copyright ? 2010 Apple Pty Ltd. All rights reserved -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Group Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ ------ End of Forwarded Message From loch at pobox.com Mon May 24 20:49:44 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 24 20:49:48 2010 Subject: [eclectika] FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane In-Reply-To: References: <9EF89146-CF36-40B1-A8F4-D3B53A76CA3F@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: I wonder if the "Queer Eye" team will come out with something similar for fashion victims?? lochy On Tue, 25 May 2010, Keith Duddy wrote: This is really only for Brisbane (or Boston & Eindhoven) residents - and only those of you with iPhones.... but I figure that's probably a big enough subset of readers. It allows you to photograph & geocode & then upload maintenance requests to the council.... |< ------ Forwarded Message From: Marcus Foth Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:45:30 +1000 To: QUT Mac Users Subject: FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane Dear colleagues, QUT Urban Informatics have released FixVegas on iPhone: After Boston and Eindhoven, people in Brisbane can now also report maintenance issues to Council. Feedback appreciated. cheers, marcus ?????? ?????????FixVegas QUT Urban Informatics ?? ??Release Date: 22 May 2010 ???Genre: Utilities ???? 2009-2010 Queensland University of Technology ??? ?iTunes for Mac and Windows ?This message was sent to m.foth@qut.edu.au. Please note that you have not been added to any email lists. Copyright ? 2010 Apple Pty Ltd. All rights reserved -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Group Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ ------ End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ eclectika mailing list eclectika@wudee.net http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika From clinton.roy at gmail.com Mon May 24 21:09:51 2010 From: clinton.roy at gmail.com (Clinton Roy) Date: Mon May 24 21:10:18 2010 Subject: [eclectika] FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane In-Reply-To: References: <9EF89146-CF36-40B1-A8F4-D3B53A76CA3F@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Keith Duddy wrote: > It allows you to photograph & geocode & then upload maintenance > requests to the council.... You've been able to send an sms/mms to bcc to report a problem for at least a year already. Why on earth does everything need its own app? sheesh, http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE::pc=PC_1 (yeah, shitty url. why does everyone think they need a cms for a website? sheesh) -- Clinton Roy Software Engineer Global Change Institute University of Queensland humbug.org.au - Brisbane Unix Group clintonroy.wordpress.com - Blog flickr.com/photos/croy/ - Photos From flippy at internode.on.net Mon May 24 21:12:08 2010 From: flippy at internode.on.net (Ben Dixon) Date: Mon May 24 21:12:14 2010 Subject: [eclectika] FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane In-Reply-To: References: <9EF89146-CF36-40B1-A8F4-D3B53A76CA3F@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: <002f01cafbaf$aed56670$0c803350$@on.net> Naa. No good for moving targets... ;) -----Original Message----- From: eclectika-bounces@wudee.net [mailto:eclectika-bounces@wudee.net] On Behalf Of Lochy Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:50 AM To: Keith Duddy Cc: Eclectika Subject: Re: [eclectika] FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane I wonder if the "Queer Eye" team will come out with something similar for fashion victims?? lochy On Tue, 25 May 2010, Keith Duddy wrote: This is really only for Brisbane (or Boston & Eindhoven) residents - and only those of you with iPhones.... but I figure that's probably a big enough subset of readers. It allows you to photograph & geocode & then upload maintenance requests to the council.... |< ------ Forwarded Message From: Marcus Foth Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:45:30 +1000 To: QUT Mac Users Subject: FixVegas iPhone app to report local issues in Brisbane Dear colleagues, QUT Urban Informatics have released FixVegas on iPhone: After Boston and Eindhoven, people in Brisbane can now also report maintenance issues to Council. Feedback appreciated. cheers, marcus ?????? ?????????FixVegas QUT Urban Informatics ?? ??Release Date: 22 May 2010 ???Genre: Utilities ???? 2009-2010 Queensland University of Technology ??? ?iTunes for Mac and Windows ?This message was sent to m.foth@qut.edu.au. Please note that you have not been added to any email lists. Copyright ? 2010 Apple Pty Ltd. All rights reserved -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Group Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/ ------ End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ eclectika mailing list eclectika@wudee.net http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/eclectika From loch at pobox.com Mon May 24 23:21:54 2010 From: loch at pobox.com (Lochy) Date: Mon May 24 23:21:55 2010 Subject: [eclectika] MMR and autism: the comic Message-ID: http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html From keith.duddy at gmail.com Tue May 25 18:49:20 2010 From: keith.duddy at gmail.com (Keith Duddy) Date: Tue May 25 18:49:50 2010 Subject: [eclectika] Another notch in Australia's censorship gunbarrel Message-ID: Via Gizmodo... Australian Customs Officials Will Search Your Laptop For Porn [image: Australian Customs Officials Will Search Your Laptop For Porn]The Australian Sex Party ?which is a trade group, not a fun Friday night?has risen up against new Australian customs rules that allow officials to search your personal electronics for pornography. Even *Crocodile DunDD*? Outrage! When heading Down Under , travelers are required to fill out Incoming Passenger Cardsthat list what they're bringing into the country. For the last several months, those cards have included a "Pornography" category. If you don't check the box but have mature content on your laptop or phone, you're breaking the law. If you do check it, officials are going to go through your stash. While measures to prevent *illegal* pornography from crossing borders make total sense, Australian customs officials are looking for any and all R18+ and N18+ material?even of the homemade variety. As ASP president Fiona Patten points out: "If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will have to answer 'Yes' to the question or you will be breaking the law." The policy has been in place since last fall, and the fact that it's only just now gaining notoriety indicates that it hasn't created *too* much awkwardness. It's a terrible breach of privacy, though, and one that will hopefully be corrected now that the backlash is finally building. But for now? Best to think twice about heading to the outback with a hard drive full of boobs. [Sydney Morning Heraldvia Reddit ] Send an email to Brian Barrett, the author of this post, at bbarrett@gizmodo.com. [image: track] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/eclectika/attachments/20100526/e97f8173/attachment.htm From flippy at internode.on.net Thu May 27 02:15:04 2010 From: flippy at internode.on.net (Ben Dixon) Date: Thu May 27 02:15:15 2010 Subject: [eclectika] crazy sydney storm Message-ID: <008501cafd6c$5517aa30$ff46fe90$@on.net> http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-loop/IDR712-sydney-terrey-hills/2010-05-25-05/2010-05-26-20 and an interesting and useful extension of the BOM's rainfall radar too From keith.duddy at gmail.com Sat May 29 22:17:44 2010 From: keith.duddy at gmail.com (Keith Duddy) Date: Sat May 29 22:18:15 2010 Subject: [eclectika] Fwd: Moscow Gay Pride march success In-Reply-To: <1103445784451.1102276891661.844.7.161045DB@scheduler> References: <1103445784451.1102276891661.844.7.161045DB@scheduler> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Tatchell Date: 30 May 2010 00:45 Subject: Moscow Gay Pride march success To: keith.duddy@gmail.com Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Moscow Gay Pride march success First full march, police outwitted, no arrests Moscow - 29 May 2010 Thirty Russian lesbian, gay and bisexual activists foiled the police and FSB security services by holding a 10 minute flashmob Gay Pride march on one of Moscow's major thoroughfares, Leningradsky Street, this afternoon, Saturday 29 May. Carrying a 20 metre long rainbow flag and placards in Russian and English calling for "Rights for gays", the protesters chanted "No homophobia" and "Russia without homophobes." Photos, videos and a message from the Moscow Gay Pride organizer, Nikolai Alekseev, here: http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=15821 "The guerrilla-style hit-and-run Moscow Gay Pride march was over before the police arrived. When they turned up, officers scurried around aimlessly, searching for protesters to arrest. All escaped the police dragnet," said British gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who joined today's parade to support the Russian gay campaigners. "All morning the Gay Pride organisers fed the police a steady stream of false information, via blogs and websites, concerning the location of the parade. They suggested that it would take place outside the EU Commission's offices. As a result, the police put the whole area in total lockdown, closing nearby streets and metro stations, in bid to prevent protesters assembling there. "This was the fifth Moscow Gay Pride and the first one with no arrests and bashings. It was also the first time activists succeeded in staging an uninterrupted parade. "The Russian gay activists have won a big political and morale victory. They staged their Gay Pride march, despite it being banned by the Mayor and the judges, and despite the draconian efforts by the police and FSB security services to prevent it from taking place. I pay tribute to the courage and ingenuity of the Russian gay and lesbian activists. They outwitted the Mayor and his police henchmen. "Today's events felt like steeping back into the Soviet era, when protests were routinely banned and suppressed. It is madness that Russian gay rights campaigners are being treated as criminals, just like dissidents in the period of communist dictatorship. "The real criminals are not the peaceful Gay Pride protesters but the Moscow Mayor and judges who banned this protest. They are the law breakers. They should be put on trial for violating the Russian constitution. "The EU, US and UK governments have shamefully failed to condemn the banning of Moscow Gay Pride. They support Gay Pride events in Poland and Latvia, but not in Moscow. Why the double standards?" "Western ambassadors to Russia offered no support to the Moscow Gay Pride organizers. They ignored suggestions that they host Gay Pride events in their embassy grounds and that they fly the gay rainbow flag on Moscow Pride day, 29 May. Commenting on Friday's court decision to uphold the Mayor's ban on Moscow Gay Pride, Mr Tatchell added: "In a shameless display of feeble deference to the Mayor of Moscow, a court in the Russian capital upheld Mayor Luzhkov??'s ban of the fifth attempted Moscow Gay Pride parade. The judge acted in defiance of the Russian constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression and the right to protest. "This is a sad day for Russian democracy. It is the latest of many suppressions of civil liberties that happen in supposedly democratic Russia. Many other protests are also denied and repressed, not just gay ones. Autocracy rules under President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. "This is much bigger than a gay rights issue. We are defending the right to protest of all Russians - gay and straight. 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