Hear about this on Friday’s Buzz Out Loud.  Interesting story.  I realise this is cyberbullying, but reading Judith Griggs response, I almost want to join in.  I’ve had my copyright material stolen off the web myself, and this attitude of “the web is public domain” just burns me.

On top of that, how else will Monica Gaudio get justice?  Look, I know Gaudio isn’t doing this – the 4chan crowd is in it for the LOLz.  But as others have pointed out, the legal costs for chasing a copyright case are prohibitively expensive.  If it weren’t for the 4chan crowd, Griggs would never have had her “pound of flesh” exacted from her.

Will Ms. Griggs and Crook Source, er  Cook Source learn?  I doubt it.

(Here’s another article about the story: The Cook Source Scandal: How a magazine profits on theft.)

Here’s a page that shows not.  So these people are selling a (goofy?) product.  Presumably they don’t want to piss me, a potential customer, off.  So they include a gallery of photos and make all the images thumbnails.

Except they didn’t bother to actually make thumbnails.  So now, when I visit this page, the browser actually downloads ALL the images IN FULL and they rely on my browser to do all the resizing, slowing the page loading down even more.

It would take probably 30 minutes at the most to resize all these photos (and that’s very generous); for the cost of half an hour, I’m guessing most customers ditch the page without bothering for the images to load.

EnviroDome Photos.

Here’s the answer to all those people who say it’s pointless to do anything in Australia until they start doing something in China.

Yeah, Big Bad China is kicking our ass in combating global warming now.  They’re turning around that ship of one point whatever billion people faster than we are able to maneuver our 20 something million.

There goes our excuse: now we’re left with just the reason – we’re lazy.

Must read editorial on the failure that will be the Great Firewall of China.

Make no mistake, this will be another Labor Bungle.  Although it won’t cause the loss of life the Insulation Affair did, it’s going to cost us far more money is lost productivity and lost opportunity, even before the program costs, which will be huger than huge.

If you think the Global Economy will not be Internet driven (if it isn’t already) in the future, then you’re living in a dream world.  A country without Internet tomorrow will be as competitive as a country without roads was yesterday.  And here’s Kevin Rudd and the crew erecting 10kph speed limit signs.

And to what end?

This will do nothing to combat Child Pornography.

Not one thing.

It’ll be as effective at fighting child porn as throwing out all your silverware, except it sounds more related.

Wow, this is some impressive stuff!  Something I’m going to have to look into further for the redesign.

Cute idea, but I’m not sure how often I’d use it.  I prefer clarity to cleverness.

I want one

CBC News – Nova Scotia – Snowstorm sweeps into N.S.