In reading about today’s sentencing of the complete dimwit who accepted the keys to a Ferrari F430 Spider – (that was not his) – from a valet parking attendant from Melbourne’s Crown Casino in May this year, I found an interesting comparison between the two major newspaper outlets in Melbourne. From this article from The [...]
With absolutely no desire to be flippant in regards to the death of this chap, one must point out the rather unfortunate typo from this Geelong Advertiser article: At least it was a comma, and not a colon or a full stop!
Social engineering has been used since long before the internet, to garner interest in various topics. Come the connected age of the internet, and the speed at which information can be disseminated, we’ve seen social engineering take on a life of its own – whether used for good or for bad. A good example is [...]
Given the value of auctioning off unused broadcast spectrum for mobile communications platforms, administrative bodies in most nations of the world are moving towards digital television and radio services. The more efficient allocation of the RF spectrum that digital broadcasting affords, allows huge swathes of particularly the VHF and UHF bands to be freed up [...]
I have never really understood in this age of spellcheckers – (and similar) – in modern computer systems, how obvious spelling mistakes can creep into newspapers – both in online and print versions. Of late, Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper has been particularly good at missing really obvious stuff, but it is a phenomenon that finds [...]
There has been a lot of talk both online and offline since yesterday’s revelation that the Australian government wishes to force ISPs to log internet browsing histories for an extended period of time for all users, without the need for a warrant. Without jumping to Orwellian conclusions – (lets remember, this is only a proposal [...]
There is a lot of pointless hoopla going on today about the Collingwood vs Geelong / Top of the AFL Ladder tonight – much of which is quite tiresome. However, I guess it would have been respectful of the Herald-Sun to have gotten Geelong’s colours right? Don’t Geelong have DARK blue HORIZONTAL stripes, and not [...]
In one of the biggest journalistic beat-ups / publicity stunts I have seen in a while, there is a growing perception online that in some way Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been made a “political prisoner” within Australia, after his passport was “confiscated” upon his recent ingress via Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. Australian Wikileak Founder’s Passport [...]
While I am definitely inclined to contact the Darwin Awards on this one, here is an interesting headline and article blurb from the website of The Age. Man Dies After Being Flung Into Tree Hmm…here’s how it appeared on the homepage: While I feel for his loved ones in what is undoubtedly a terrible time [...]
Well, despite its excellent anti-bullying campaign titled “Think Again”, the Geelong Advertiser seems to have effectively bullied a man into fear of his life with its bullying “Name the Granny Killer” campaign. The newspaper has been running this campaign to publicly name a convicted rapist and killer of an elderly Frankston woman ten years ago, [...]
