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AVN In Trouble Due Copyright Infringement

by podblack on September 1, 2010

Here it is in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper – Copyright breaches land group in trouble: An anti-vaccination group is under fire for allegedly breaching copyright laws by selling newspaper and medical journal articles online without permission from the authors. The Australian Vaccination Network, which was the subject of a public warning issued by the [...]

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Gah. Okay, I admit it. I do most of my blogging and podcasting work between the hours of 5am and 8am. It’s quiet, it’s relatively cat-free and I can catch up on friends who happen to be in different time-zones (e.g over in the Eastern states, where it’s about three hours ahead, or in the [...]

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Podblack Finds For 12th April 2010

by podblack on April 12, 2010

A quick-round up for the start of the week – then it’s back to work for me! Firstly – Jim Wallace is not happy about ethics classes being offered to students from NSW as an alternative to scripture… Opinion, The Age: You can’t teach ethics without referring to Christianity: With our nation having just played [...]

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“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.” Sleep Talkin’ Man. This blog-post is inspired by the fact that I just fell solidly out of bed and onto a book. Nice hardcover edition of Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ omnibus. Seriously ouch-y. I woke up [...]

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Sign Up For Finding Ada!

by podblack on February 8, 2010

I got mail! Last year you supported Ada Lovelace Day, the international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology and science. It’s now time to pledge your support once more for Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March 2010. To sign up, please go to http://findingada.com and add your details to our brand [...]

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Little Kitten – Karen’s Spiritual Journey

by podblack on December 3, 2009

If you’re allowing the internet to get you down – e.g accusations of concern-trolling, site-upgrades, webinar seminar faily-faily, too many emails to reply to, emails gone missing, emails not arriving, stupid people and photographs they swiped for their site, stupid forum boards and their stupid people and more and more stupid and stupid and stupid… [...]

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If you’re a follower of the Cephalopodcast, you’d know that Cephalopod Awareness Days are held from October 8-10, 2009! Today, the 10th of October is ‘Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day, or Squidturday, covering the tentacular species’. So, here is a special interview with the award-winning, Science Blog Anthology published and regularly quoted, cited and loved blogger – [...]

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George Hrab’s “Far” Now On Fark!

by podblack on July 19, 2009

If you’re a contributor to Fark – get voting for it!! If you haven’t checked it out before, go give it a view and a vote on YouTube! Speaking of which, another Geologic Podcast comment contributor will be featuring on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast very soon – well done to Peter Sosna who [...]

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