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Support Blogger’s Rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently running an awareness campaign to raise funds and gather support across the blogosphere. I urge all my fellow bloggers, and also all you lurkers out...
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Not So You’d Notice
Well you’ve probably all read that Google has made a deal with the government of China to provide a google.cn portal that is censored according to that government’s whims. Yes, the corporate honchos...
View ArticleGoogle Took My Friends
Dear All, I apologize for the idiotic behaviour of The Cow over these last few days, even though it really has nothing to do with me. Blogger/Blogspot is having some kind of spak attack and all manner...
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Are You from the Past?
In Australia, our risible government has just announced the genesis of a personal identification card for the citizenry, something this conservative party has been trying to instigate for over two...
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Do Do That Voodoo
I have this friend who was interested to know if it is possible to put a curse on someone online. This friend searched all over the internet and found that aside from one poxy and insipidly saccharine...
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Figures
You know, it’s quite remarkable. I make posts about science, art, philosophy and religion and get a smattering of comment and a trickle of visitors. But one picture of a scantily-clad girl sticking...
View ArticleI Searched™ For It
Mark my words: Google is the Roman Empire of web colonization, and the beginning of its decline is already being chalked in big letters. Honestly, their rise in profile is commensurate with their...
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A Dime a Chime
So I was over at Modern Mechanics having a browse as I’m wont to do, and I found this great article about an invention to keep canvassers and peddlers from ringing your doorbell. The principle is...
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To All My Blogger™ Friends
UPDATE to the UPDATE: Blogger folk – here’s what you need to know to set your comments to allow links to blogs on other platforms. First, you need to log into your blog via Blogger in Draft, which is a...
View ArticleBailing with a Sieve
Once again, the n00bs in the Australian Government’s technology departments (this time the Australian Communications and Media Authority) demonstrate their complete lack of acumen when it comes to the...
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The Dumbest Kid in the Class
Australia is a country that is a long way from pretty much anywhere. For instance, if you had to walk to Australia from the US, it would take you nearly four months if you walked 24 hours per day and...
View ArticleArt for Money’s (oops) Art’s Sake
Along with the prestigious Cow Medals I hand out very sparingly here on The Cow, I think I’m going to have to invent some kind of trophy for the opposite end of the spectrum; an award for those who say...
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pASSword
Spare me once more from the morons. I’ve spoken before about senator Stephen Conroy[tippy title=”*”]Just testing to make sure you paid attention to the last post.[/tippy], the politician who...
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NEWSFLASH!
An unbiased poll at Tetherd Cow Ahead finds that Stephen Conroy is officially a dunce!
View ArticleInnovation is the Sincerest Form of Flattry
You will remember that some time back I was musing about the exploration of models for earning income in the new media paradigm. At that time I installed the Collection Plate, to the right there in...
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The Times They Are a-Chargin’
You will remember that a little while back we learned that Rupert Murdoch, using his needle-sharp insight into how people use the internet, stumbled on the notion that it would be a good idea to start...
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Desperate?
For most of you, Tetherd Cow is an unfolding story of antics in Cow World that plays out on a fairly linear daily or weekly basis. You know how it goes – I post a story, you comment, we have a some fun...
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The Game Is Afoot!
I really love a good mystery! In my last post Desperate? I talked about the apparent spamming of my (and others’) blog comments by Microsoft. Cow reader Damned Skeptic took me to task about this...
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
As much as I’m disparaging of journalists, I do encounter, very occasionally, some smart ones. Annabel Crabb, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is such a writer. You may remember my very...
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Underexposure
If you have any finger at all dipped in the vast ocean of blather that is social media, you can’t fail to have noticed yesterday’s flurry of hand-waving over some comments made by internet luminaries...
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