Imagine this: Sometime in future, everyone on the planet decides to live in a virtual world [think Second Life]. However, they don’t access that world via a computer screen and keyboard.

I was reading an article today and got really depressed. (Azeem Azhar (2005). “Better and Faster than politics” New Stateman 18(878) p. 24.) Here is a snippet: The bottom of the pyramid is a new competitive business space, with new demands. If you want to sell toothpaste to an Indian villager, you need to know [...]

There are going to be a lot of very disappointed dead people. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that I am super knowledgeable and know that heaven doesn’t exist. But there are an awful lot of people on the Earth who believe that their special brand of religion is correct and that everyone who [...]

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Dad, did dinosaurs really exist? Sure they did, son. The Bible says so. They didn’t call them “dinosaurs” back then, but instead they were known as “leviathans” or “behemoths”. But, my science teacher says dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Is that true? Of course not, son. Then how old are they? Well, let’s see. [...]

SMH: Tribal Mind reports: They were breaking records and faces at the World Swimming Championships last night, but most Australian viewers didn’t want to know. Channel Nine’s devotion to the water was able to earn it only 23.3 per cent of the prime time audience, putting Nine in an unprecedented third place behind Ten on [...]

When you type “life sucks” into Google… the first entry is the one you want. Forget the evangelical, religious, self help crap and go directly to this site – this guy gets it… Life does really suck, it’s just the way it is. God is a fucking bastard…

You don't know how amazing I felt when today at uni I could once again access my CIF (Creative Industries Faculty) Z: Drive from across campus. No more FileZilla installations and transfers and no more downloading from my CIF 'website'. No more having twenty copies of everything in different location. And even better, our CIF 'website' thing is going to [...]

Did you know that companies are ‘monitoring’ blogs and messageboards to determine people’s opinions about brands and advertising campaigns? Computers are used to “peruse” millions of blogs and messageboards and measure the amount of “chatter” or “buzz” present in the “blogosphere“. Natural Language Processing is used to analyse the language used in posts, to estimate [...]