Danger signs
Posted on: March 11, 2010Does it bother anyone else that the radioactive symbol is used as the icon on your computer to signify burning cds and dvds? Shouldn’t that symbol only stand for Danger! ?
Warning Radioactive Material! Beware! Don’t tamper with anything here! Get the hell out! Danger! Danger! Danger!
Radioactivity is a really really bad thing to come across. So how come software producers … more »
Hold on!
Posted on: March 4, 2010This morning I saw on the side of a bus stop, a big ad for 600ml Coke in a NEW BOTTLE. The new bottle has added grips – that is, small raised dots that supposedly make it easier to hold onto. I can’t help but wonder what it is that people are doing while drinking Coke that mean they need … more »
Pink and blue R Us
Posted on: October 12, 2009I just came across an article on The F-Word, a UK feminist blog, referring to a case in Sweden where some schoolchildren brought a complaint against Toys R Us 2008 Christmas Catalogue to the Reklamombudsmannen because of what they saw as the store’s rigid and limit gender stereotyping – pink with the passive stuff for girls (princess stuff, household chore … more »
Save the Windsor!
Posted on: October 10, 2009Developers are moving in on the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne, wanting to convert it to another huge soulless hotel, leaving only the facade, which will be dwarfed by a huge tower. We’re going to end up with no old buildings at all in Melbourne, losing so much of what gives the city its character. Then no one will want to … more »
Telstra and identity theft
Posted on: August 17, 2009I have just been rung by Telstra about a billing problem – for some reason it turns out that my bills have been going to Ballarat, a lovely town but one I haven’t been to for at least 20 years, and certainly not a place where I have a post office box, so of course the bills have been going … more »
Hyperbolic crochet and the Great Barrier Reef
Posted on: August 17, 2009Yesterday I heard on the radio about a giant project of modelling marine reefs by crocheting them, as a tool to predict the effects on the fragile reefs of climate change. All over the world now people – mainly women – are crocheting the most amazing reefs, creating models in a few hours that would take supercomputers ages to … more »
Just a word?
Posted on: July 27, 2009I am more than a little disturbed by the current trend to throw around the word ‘Nazi’. I recently heard a teacher described as a hat nazi because he insisted that students wore hats outside, in accordance with school policy. And of course, there’s the phrase ‘feminazi’ as a way of painting feminists as people out to destroy everyone’s … more »
Making the world a better place (one scam at a time…)
Posted on: July 10, 2009I just received a scam email, supposedly from the United Nations, stating “This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$ 150,000,00. Anyone who has been scammed is entitled to claim this money.” All you have to do is … more »
