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 haven’t blogged for over four weeks! I just don’t feel like I have anything to say at the moment. It is interesting how for the first six-months of this year I was really interested and willing to give some of my time to write on this blog, and then I just stopped. It is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week the Prime Minister’s office revealed they were preparing a submission to review the rights of homosexual couples (ABC). Conveniently revealed during Syndey’s annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (the PM is a clever little fella), the laws would give citizens in same-sex relationships equal rights as people in heterosexual unions, in areas [...]

This was a public lecture by: Joseph Pugliese, Helen Stacy, Richard Woolcott. Issues that were discussed: The speakers talked about the problems associated with describing potential terrorists as 'of middle eastern appearance' or as Muslim people. They described how this limits the public's ability to actually notice suspicious activity and therefore predict and stop terrorism [...]