stuff cubed plus one

  • Fight the treachery

    It would appear that last week Senator Helen Coonan introduced into parliament a bill aiming to grant new powers to the Australian Federal Police, allowing them to almost whimsically censor any Australian web site. Here’s a quote from an email sent out by Dale Clapperton, chairperson of Electronic Frontiers Australia: EFA is quite simply appalled…

  • The best of times, the worst of times

    Many people use the phrase “May you live in interesting times” as a blessing instead of the curse it was intended as. Lately I have truly been living in interesting times, and I do mean that in the way it was intended.

  • The .spam TLD

    There is one good thing about the .info top level domain: it’s very simple to block the spam linking to it. Just one quick rule in wordpress to block any comment with a link to a .info domain and my comment spam has been cut by about 95%. Thanks .info!