by podblack on September 21, 2010
I really have have half-a-dozen things requiring completion (particularly new podcast episodes out on Token Skeptic) – but the lure of retweeting jokes about the #onmouseover on Twitter… BBC News: A flaw in the website of micro-blogging service Twitter is being used to pump out pop-up messages and links to porn sites. So, if you’re [...]
by podblack on February 28, 2010
by podblack on November 25, 2009
brandist Hungry Beast was bloody brilliant!!! I’ve never seen such a poignant picture of Australia’s refugees. GREAT JOB GUYS!!! So, I’ve been lax in keeping up with my Hungry Beast round-ups. Simply put, I’ve been busy for a sequence of Wednesdays and that pretty much means that I’ve been stuck trying to catch the online [...]
by podblack on September 20, 2009
The Telegraph: Reviews posted by Amazon customers have become one of the online retailer’s most useful and popular features. But they are open to abuse by mischievous commenters. “By avoiding this book you will miss out on the precise location of the heretical surfboard worshipped by the British royal family and the sinister significance of [...]
by podblack on March 18, 2009
Yay! Includes ‘The Interval Song’, which has always amused me. Review from Dean Love from the Fringe Festival about the show, from which this album comes from: “But the songs, oh the songs, are uniformly magnificent. They swing from clever through satirical all the way into silly, with an occasional diversion into parody. There’s less [...]
by podblack on January 22, 2009
by podblack on December 29, 2008
IMDB.com: Few View Pirated Copies Of Australia: Although pirated copies of the Baz Luhrmann epic Australia have been available on numerous BitTorrent sites since the film premiered last month, few people have bothered to download them, the U.K. tech site The Inquirer reported Tuesday. “There are several copies out there but all but one have [...]
by podblack on January 17, 2008
At least twice a year, some well-meaning person announces on a message board, forum board, email discussion or just during a conversation at a conference that they’re planning on putting together a book for kids that will tout the skeptical message. I’ve been involved with the initial stages of one myself; it’s a bold adventure, [...]