The Sydney Royal Easter Show started yesterday -- and I went along last night and did this panorama in the Cattle Pavilion. The funnel-shaped objects hanging from the roof are part of the ventilation system.

[Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog]

Moo!

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Click to make BiG.

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CATNIP TIME!

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EFF dream gig: technical director. How's this for a dream job? EFF is looking for a Technical Director to run special projects to enhance liberty and screw with The Man (i.e., making kick-ass, user-friendly PVRs; turning white-box PCs into software-defined-radio spectral analyzers, hacking on anonymizing onion-nets, etc).

This person will be responsible for managing four members of EFF's technical staff and their various projects. Technical staff responsibilities include keeping our internal systems running and providing expert support to our attorneys and members. It also includes actively building, and supervising the building of, technologies that advance free speech and privacy. The technical director will be responsible for creating a cogent technology strategy for EFF. The director must be a team player. This person must be a good writer, good speaker and good listener. This person may be called on to be an expert witness, conference speaker, declarant in a court case, or debater against entertainment companies or government attorneys. Comfort with advocating for a position essential.

Link [Boing Boing]

2:43:37 PM    

I have no idea where this image came from, aside from my inbox, but as someone who's been bitten in the ass by more than one March snowstorm, I heartily concur.

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JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER!

The Bunny loves Bob; you love Bunny.

Available for a limited time only.

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Obviously, the United States of America has a problem. We keep electing war-mongers, adulterers, patrician oil barons, California Fascists and ineffectual ex-peanut farmers to high office. Let's face it; for the last 80 years or so the electorate has shown itself to be a wild-eyed, hysterical bunch of barely controllable maniacs.

Which is why I am presenting a New Idea For Election Reform (NIFER). Instead of wasting time trying to fix the way candidates raise money in this cuntry, we need to reform the basic underlying ideas of the franchise.

Look at that first paragraph. Go on, I'll wait.

Yeah. 80 years or so. 80 years of electoral hysteria. Hysteria.

I'll say it again. Hysteria.

That's right, the U.S. of A has become the U.S.of PMS. Think about it- politicians have aggressively courted the "soccer mom" vote for the last few elections, tailoring their policies to pander to a group that is demonstratively INSANE for at least two weeks of every month. Also, the large group of hysterical voters have consistently shown VERY BAD JUDGMENT when it's "that time of the year." I mean, who else but a hysterical woman could ever vote for a smirking frat boy like Dubya Bush? I'll tell you who: a dewy-eyed sorority sister in the full clutch of her hormonally-addled "love time," that's who.

So, it has become plain that the time for NIFER is NOW!

We must, at all haste, partially disenfranchise fertile women.

Now, I'm not saying that we take away the vote from women! Far from it! We're just moving the age of enfranchisement for women up a bit, to say, 50, to reflect the biological and political realities of hysterics in the polling place. We could even make exceptions for women who've had a hysterectomy or an early onset of menopause- they could register to vote, provided they had a note from their doctor.

But what about that vast majority of women who are of childbearing age, you ask? Will they have no say in their and their children's future? Of course they will! The other edge of the NIFER is the Mothers And Daughters Enfranchisement (MADE) act. This act would grant every married male an additional vote for his wife and any unmarried daughters over the age of consent in that state. For example, married man with two unmarried daughters in their twenties would have four votes to cast on election day.

This allows the husband or father to act as a filter, a brake, as it were, on the hysterical whims of the walking uterus, thus avoiding electoral nonsense like little Debbie throwing away her vote on a write-in for Justin Timberlake or Ralph Nader, while still providing mom a voice at the polls. Everyone gets a voice, and the country avoids another PMS-fueled debacle, like we had in Florida.

So it's time we MADE America great by going under the NIFER!

Thank you.

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It doesn't look like there's much hope for salvaging any of this bit of history:

Since the tower's segments are considered toxic waste, federal regulations prohibit their sale, Mr. Summerfield said.

Mr. Tierney says he is still determined to obtain some of the parts.

"Perhaps one of the service arms, or maybe two, if they can give them to me at a reasonable price," he said.

Short of that, the tower, which survived the red glare of the rockets, will melt in a white-hot blast furnace.

10:14:43 PM    

Underwater motorcycle shipping soon.

The Scubadoo is an AUS$17,500 "underwater motorcycle" that looks like something off of Space: 1999's aquatic habitat ship, shipping soon. It does 2.5 knots and carries an hour's worth of air.

Link

(via Gizmodo)

[Boing Boing]

OK, so it's not a jetpack, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

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Bootleg trailer for Spider-Man 2

Get it before Sony makes it go away.

via What the Hell is Wrong With You People?

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But barely awake.

My post-by-email scheme was bollocked up by my AirPort going offline almost immediately after I left.

Y'all can look at The Annex until I'm coherent enough to post more.

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