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Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops program

drworm — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:40:29 +0000

Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops program Election fun and games By Drew Cullen • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 29th July 2010 10:08 GMT Australia’s general election is in full swing and disputes over tech funding and tech policy continue to intrude on today centre stage. In today’s spat, shadow treasurer

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Emmerdale shoves jam rags in innocent kiddies’ faces

drworm — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:54:53 +0000

The Daily Mail has worked itself up into a right tizz over last Friday’s episode of ITV1 soap Emmerdale, in which a chalked shopping list was seen to contain the items “jam rags” and “pile cream”. PA explains that the outrage was “visible during Friday’s episode as a drunk Shadrach Dingle stumbled into his nephew

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Extreme Slow-Motion Video of Things Getting Destroyed

drworm — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:03:54 +0000

Philip Heron and James Adair filmed this super slow motion video of things smashed, shot, chopped and dropped with a Photron SA1.1 high speed camera. Warning: This may make you want to shoot things (pun intended). (via Laughing Squid) via feedproxy.google.com Posted via email from drworm’s posterous Extreme Slow-Motion Video of Things Getting Destroyed is

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Vodafone iPhone 4 Pricing Revealed

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:32:04 +0000

Vodafone have released their much anticipated pricing. Excerpt below Vodafone releases iPhone Pricing Tuesday, July 27, 2010 in News Everyone’s been waiting for our plan prices to be released, now we can let you all know. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait! *Monthly credit can be used for Standard calls, video, TXT & PXT®, International

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Porsche Revving Up All-Electric Sports Car

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:07:16 +0000

The electric sports car scene is heating up with Porsche‘s confirmation of a new all-electric sports car based on its Boxster. The company is conducting daily tests of three research cars to study battery systems and electric drive components. Porsche President and CEO Michael Macht said in a statement that Porsche will “definitely be offering

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British Royal Family Has a Flickr Account

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:11:05 +0000

The Royal Family is really getting into social media: in addition to their YouTube channel, Twitter, and series of iTunes podcasts, the Family now has a Flickr account which went live to the public this morning. Currently, the British Monarchy’s photostream contains 683 uploads of both recent and older historical photographs. According to an announcement

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Now Legal In The U.S.: Jailbreaking Your iPhone, Ripping A DVD For Educational Purposes

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:02:17 +0000

It’s no longer illegal under the DMCA to jailbreak your iPhone or bypass a DVD’s CSS in order to obtain fair use footage for educational purposes or criticism. These are the new rules that were handed down moments ago by the U.S. Copyright Office. This is really big. Like, really big. Read the rest of

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Fact: Literally No One Would Pay To Use Twitter

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:11:07 +0000

There may be plenty of ways for Twitter to make money, but it doesn’t look like charging membership fees will be one of them: a recent survey showed that 0 per cent of users would pay for the service. Zilch. None. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zippola. Goose egg. This is fun! Of course, some people will

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iPhone 4 Outright Pricing Starts At $859

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:10:37 +0000

Last night, Apple confirmed (again) that the iPhone 4 was launching in Australia on Friday. They also confirmed the outright price for their new phones: The 16GB iPhone 4 will cost $859 outright, while the 32GB version sneaks in just under the $1K mark at $999. Unlike Telstra and Optus, Apple won’t be hosting any

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Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website

drworm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:10:22 +0000

A new option has just appeared in Twitter’s “Settings” menu called “Twitter Media.” This appears to indicate that inline image and video sharing is making its way to Twitter.com shortly. The option appears on my account, but checking the box does nothing so far. [update below] If this is indeed the case, Twitter is once

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Vodafone to release iPhone 4 details this Wednesday

drworm — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:31:30 +0000

In a tweet from the official Vodafone twitter account @vodafone_au, Vodafone has confirmed they will be announcing details of their iPhone 4 plans on Wednesday. The new iPhone is expected to be released in Australia on Friday 30th July. Posted via email from drworm’s posterous Vodafone to release iPhone 4 details this Wednesday is a

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Media tycoon buys UK’s Channel Five

drworm — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:06:02 +0000

Media tycoon buys UK’s Channel Five By David Knox on July 26, 2010 Filed Under News UK media tycoon Richard Desmond, has purchased TV channel Five for £104m. The channel plays Australian soaps Neighbours, Home and Away and has just launched new UK talent show Don’t Stop Believing, which will have an Australian adaptation. But

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Vettel on pole, Webber fourth

drworm — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:20:56 +0000

Local hope Sebastian Vettel will race from pole position in the German Grand Prix after topping the times in qualifying in his Red Bull. Vettel’s Red Bull was 0.002 seconds faster than Alonso’s Ferrari to give the German his sixth pole of the season. Felipe Massa of Brazil in the second Ferrari, who was third,

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Tape Up Your Box With Hinges

drworm — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:24:42 +0000

Tape? You use tape to tape up a box? Do you have a death wish?? If you hadn’t heard, tape is out, hinges are in. That’s right, hinges have just made a huge comeback. They can tape stuff up now. We all thought they’d settled on doors, chests and other relics of a world once

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A Fighter Jet Pilot’s Most Terrifying Moment

drworm — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:55:37 +0000

See that man in the top left of this photo? That’s Captain Brian Bews and he’s lucky to be alive. The skilled pilot barely managed to eject before his CF-18 fighter jet crashed to the ground during a practise flight. The practise flight took place at Lethbridge County Airport and was apparently in preparation for

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Remarkable Stop-Motion Walk Across America

drworm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:57:58 +0000

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Apple: White iPhone 4 Delayed Until Later This Year Due To Manufacturing Challenges

drworm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:52:37 +0000

Looks like you’ll have to wait a little longer for the White iPhone 4. Apple just released a statement saying that the white model of the new iPhone won’t be available until later in 2010. In late June, Apple released a statement saying that the white iPhone 4 will not be available until the second

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Darth Vader Robbed A Bank

drworm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:29:43 +0000

Darth Vader must either be down on his luck or trying to gather funds for another Death Star, because he was last seen robbing a bank in Long Island, New York. Here’s what the poor bank teller faced: Scary, no? I mean, what on earth do you do if you glance up to see a

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No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop ‘premature unnecessary debate’

drworm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:12:46 +0000

Govt censors docs for web plan From black list to blacked out. Documents on plans to store web surfing data are heavily censored due to the possibility of ‘premature and unnecessary debate’. The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians’ web surfing,

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Unlucky Thief Steals iPhone With Live GPS Tracking-App Running

drworm — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:02:17 +0000

Jordan Sturm was probably stunned when her iPhone was suddenly snatched away by a bike-riding thief. I know I was when the exact same thing happened to me – except unlike Jordan, I wasn’t testing a live GPS-tracking app. Apparently Jordan was in the middle of testing out a product called Alert & Respond –

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Apple ad-addled OS scheme resurfaces

drworm — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:44:28 +0000

Steve Jobs & Co have renewed their interest in developing an operating system that can disable “one or more functions” of your Mac while an ad is being played. “Jobs; Steven; (Palo Alto, CA)” is the first-listed inventor in a filing published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The application, “Advertisement in Operating

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ABC News Coverage of the Leaders Debate

drworm — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:56:07 +0000

On Sunday 25 July, ABC News will broadcast the Leaders Debate in full on ABC1 and ABC News 24 nationally. A half hour of analysis will follow after the Debate on ABC1 in WA and the eastern states, and on going on ABC News 24. The normal 7pm ABC News bulletin will follow in SA

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iPood raises Apple’s ire

drworm — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:12:43 +0000

Toilet humour gets the iPood in trouble with Apple. Frustrated Apple customers dealing with new faulty iPhones may think they belong in the loo but a Perth company’s foray into toilet humour got them into trouble with the technology giant. Outdoor adventure equipment manufacturer Sea to Summit spent two years developing a small aluminium spade

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Cross-dresser shags mutt at historic castle

drworm — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:37:20 +0000

A lone, predatory cross-dresser has been cautioned for outraging public decency after having sex with a dog in the moat of an English Heritage castle, the Telegraph reports. The incident at Henry VIII’s Pendennis Castle, which overlooks Cornwall’s Falmouth Bay, took place at “around a quarter to 12″ on Saturday 10 July, when the attraction

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The countdown to the launch of ABC News 24 begins

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:26:48 +0000

The ABC News 24 team is hard at work preparing for the launch of the service tomorrow night at 7.30pm AEST. Kerry O’Brien, host of The 7.30 Report, will be the first face seen on the channel as he introduces ABC News 24 Launch: ABC News Special – an hour-long news program covering the news

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Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:58:49 +0000

Stephen Fry revealed the details to a 14-year-old interviewer in a Radio Times special. Photograph: Steve Forrest/Rex Features He’s used to people hanging on his every erudite word. Now Stephen Fry – actor, author, quizmaster of QI, enthusiastic tweeter and celebrated brainbox – has announced that he is to make a series for BBC2 about

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Russians quizzed over parasailing donkey

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:51:53 +0000

Russian police are less than impressed with the instigators of a parasailing donkey stunt which saw an innocent beast of burden hauled into the skies to promote a private beach on the Sea of Azov. According to AFP, several Russian businessmen decided it was a bright idea to use a flying donkey to advertise their

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Times loses nearly 90% of online readers

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:48:10 +0000

The registration page for thetimes.co.uk – 25.6% of users sign up and proceed to the Times site The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show. Unregistered users of thetimes.co.uk are now “bounced” to a Times+ membership page where they

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Saudi activist jailed for being “annoying”

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:43:55 +0000

The House of Saud is living the dream. While most Middle Eastern regimes make up all sorts of excuses for throwing activists who raise inconvenient issues in jail — “endangering security” and “undermining national unity” are favorites — the Saudis are admirably honest. Mekhlef bin Daham al-Shammary, a prominent Saudi human rights activist who has

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Pre-Review Preview: Windows Phone 7

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:40:53 +0000

To make a short story shorter: for the last three days, I’ve been one of but a handful of people carrying around a handset running Microsoft’s unreleased Windows Phone 7 operating system. This specific handset isn’t one that’s ever intended for release, and, while it’s looking pretty close to done, the build running on the

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No Filter In The World Would Help Jessi Slaughter

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:00:52 +0000

According to a news.com.au article by Peter Farquhar, head of Deakin University’s School of Information Systems Matt Warren has claimed that the recent trolling of a foul-mouthed 11-year-old Jessi Slaughter by 4chan users is a perfect example of why the Internet needs filtering. It’s scary that someone in his position could ignore facts so easily.

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Track Your Water Usage Via An LCD-Equipped Tap

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:48:32 +0000

If you are looking to keep track of your water usage while also using an unnecessary amount of technology in your bathroom, the Koolhaus tap was designed with you in mind. Using a built-in LCD screen, this tap tells you your exact water usage stats every time you wash your hands. If you want even

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Absolutely Genius: Slide Your Plugs Into Slots Instead Of Individual Holes

drworm — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:44:57 +0000

I can’t believe no one has thought of this until now. I will never have to rearrange my mobile phone charger plug, laptop plug and the dozen others that fight for space on a single traditional power strip ever again. You can thank Chen Yinfeng for this innovation, called, appropriately, the Slot-Type Power Outlet. Rather

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Apple, Antennagate, And Why It’s Time To Move On

drworm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:17:26 +0000

“There’s an awful lot of hoopla about that iPhone 4 antenna.” Why yes, there is. And while there’s much to criticise about Apple’s response, we’re glad to see they’ve stopped pretending the problem doesn’t exist. Apple spent most of the time last week defending the iPhone 4′s antenna, using both data and rhetoric that was

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This Wall Breathes With The Wind

drworm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:29:09 +0000

This thing is called kinetic wall. Made with 250,000 aluminium panels that are sensitive to wind currents, its 5000 sq m surface looks like a vertical lake. Watching it in motion is a surreal experience: The video above is from a smaller previous project. The wall in the image is being made by Urban Art

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RIM Death Grips BlackBerry 9800 “Death Grip” Videos?

drworm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:05:13 +0000

During their press conference on Friday, Apple made the case that the so-called “death grip” isn’t unique to the iPhone 4. In fact, they showed the same symptoms on three other phones: the HTC Droid Eris, the Samsung Omnia 2, and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Apple also created a website to show how the death

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Optus Holding Midnight iPhone 4 Launch Events

drworm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:55:48 +0000

According to The Next Web, Optus has confirmed they will be holding midnight launch events in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth for the iPhone 4 on Thursday, July 29th. Who’s going to brave the winter cold? Technically the phone won’t go on sale until 12:01 on Friday morning, but given the hoards of people who

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Qwitter: was it something I tweeted?

drworm — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:03:17 +0000

Few things cause as much despair as the news, courtesy of online service Qwitter, that your Twitter following is abandoning you

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Twitterrific 3 isn’t that good.

drworm — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:45:07 +0000

Today I downloaded Twitterrific 3 for iPhone and was left very disappointed. It is clearly a step backward, gone are easy to get to filters for replies, DM’s, favourites and my own tweets. Also gone is the ability to mark tweets within the app. Resizing for easy viewing is gone as is multiple account support

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Surely SMH.com.au could have got a better picture

drworm — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:38:53 +0000

This is the picture the Sydney Morning Herald have used on their homepage for Julia Gillard's first day in office. Surely they could have done better, She's the Prime Minister now for goodness sake. Posted via email from drworm’s posterous Surely SMH.com.au could have got a better picture is a post from: worldwormweb

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2010/11 EPL Fixture out today

drworm — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:15:25 +0000

The premier league has released the full draw for the 2010/11 EPL season today. New fixtures released The eagerly-awaited fixtures for the 2010/11 Barclays Premier League season have now been released. Champions Chelsea begin the defence of their Barclays Premier League title at home to newly-promoted West Bromwich Albion managed by former Stamford Bridge favourite

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Faster backups with iOS 4

drworm — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:30:28 +0000

Ooh faster updating with iOS4. Find out how: http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/16/itunes-9-2-paves-the-way-for-ios-4-and-iphone-4/ Faster backups with iOS 4 is a post from: worldwormweb

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Twitter down AGAIN

drworm — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:24:31 +0000

Twitter is down again, here is the post on status.twitter.com, The API’s seem to be down as well. Sadface. Twitter down AGAIN is a post from: worldwormweb

Twitter down AGAIN is a post from: worldwormweb

iPost

drworm — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:01:15 +0000

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SBS on the slow road to oblivian

drworm — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:23:08 +0000

What is happening at SBS right now is just downright ludicrous, the Head of Subtitling (who is supposed to have left the list of targets on a photocopier) is claiming she is scared for her life and has been locking herself in her office. Also, she has not turned up at least twice since news

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This guy is really creepy

drworm — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:02:33 +0000

He's built a bunch of tunnels under his house in Russia that are nothing but creepy.http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/05/24/the-most-unusual-metro-in-the-world/ Posted via email from drworm’s posterous This guy is really creepy is a post from: worldwormweb

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Swordfish with White wine Sauce

drworm — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:28:19 +0000

These are the ingredients for 1 but you can adjust to suit your own needs. 1 piece Fresh Swordfish 100 ml Cream 1 pinch Ground Cumin 1 pinch Ground Coriander 1 pinch Chilli Powder 1 pinch Dried Basil Leaves 1 pinch Dried Dill Tips 1 tablespoon Olive Oil 1 Splash of White Wine Vinegar Feshly

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Webber on Pole as big names cock it up in the wet

drworm — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:37:54 +0000

Mark Webber has secured pole position for Sunday’s Malaysian Formula 1 GP after some of the big names in formula one misjudged the timing of when to go out in the notoriously wet Malaysian afternoon. More from jamesallenonf1.com Ferrari and McLaren were left with egg on their faces after totally misjudging the weather conditions in

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The 1st Official World Worm Web Awards – The Wormy’s

drworm — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:30:00 +0000

With all the awards going around at the moment I thought I’d run my own awards for the things I like, The Wormy’s. As this is my first go I have made myself the sole arbiter of the awards. There are many varied categories so try to keep up. Best mobile Twitter client: Winner –

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Hottest 100 – 2009 – My Votes

drworm — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:17:54 +0000

I voted in the 2009 triple j Hottest 100 here are my votes: Lily Allen – Not Fair Came in at 8 Muse – Resistance – Came in at 35 Lily Allen – 22 – Came in at 60 Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land - Came in at 65 Muse – United States Of Eurasia

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