So last night, as promised, we held MODM #1, the meetup for Melbourne’s Online Digital Media community. There were thousands of us there, spilling out into the street, dancing semi-naked on the tables, causing riots, drinking shots, it was absolutely wild. You really missed out if you weren’t there. The things I saw would shock [...]

Thanks to Chris Aliviado for pointing out that if you try to subscribe to G’Day World in iTunes at the moment you don’t actually get the G’Day World feed - you get the Digital Photography feed!!
WTF is going on with my feed???

Eddie Van Halen has new teeth!

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Thanks to everyone who commented, emailed and IMd about my dark clouds yesterday. Really, there is nothing to worry about. Today I’m back on top, thinking more about “the future” and less about “the past” (neither of which really exist, of course, other than mental constructs in “the now”). It’s [...]

I’m often criticized by those who know me best as being an incurable skeptic. So it’s my pleasure today to have as my guest Barry Williams, an Executive Officer with the Australian Skeptics and editor of their quarterly journal. Barry and I talk about the WHY and HOW of being a good skeptic. You can [...]

 

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I’ve been getting reports over the last week that the G’Day World RSS feed is sending out the data without any formatting so it appears as just one long string of text. Can anyone confirm or deny? It would be good to know if it’s happening across the board or just with certain readers. We [...]

No guest today, just a bit of a chat about:

Robert Rodriguez’s cooking show on the Sin City Recut DVD

this report that less than 7% of Australians believe cosmetics advertising

a review of “The Receipt” by Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch, currently showing in the Melbourne Comedy Festival

ExxonSecrets, a site that helps you follow the money behind [...]

 

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I’ve been meaning to publicly thank Scienta for the gift of a Flickr Pro account! She has also been telling me about a service which lets you set up a USA mailing address called MyUS.com. They will forward any mail that comes in to your regular address. Handy if you want to subscribe to magazines [...]

Ahhh… I cracked open a cleanskin Moleskine last night and have spent some time today wondering how I might hack it.
I tell ya, I don’t know what I did without Moleskines for so long. There is something mystical, magical, intoxicating about them. I swear I get almost as much joy out of cracking open [...]

I’m scanning the headlines this morning and see this one on News.com.au: “Priest claims praying ‘pointless’“. You just know that’s going to get my attention, right? I thought to myself “I can’t wait to show this to Father Bob!”
You should have heard me laugh when I opened it and read:
“SOUTH Melbourne priest Bob Maguire says [...]

It struck me last night while reading Brian Greene’s tremendous “The Elegant Universe” that if religious types were at all genuine, they would be digging through books on physics and chemistry like they were the new word of God. I’ve read the explanation of the double-slit experiment time after time over the last 20 years [...]