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Wednesday, 5-September-2012 01:36:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some news catchup from my pile-o-links..
The data retention policy seems to be on the rise again. The Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, appears to have swung her support behind a controversial plan to capture the online data of all Australians, despite only six weeks ago saying ''the case had yet to be made'' for the policy. Discussion continues in this thread.
You can now watch every episode of Rage from 1998 to 2012. It’s called Rage Again, and it comes from the mind of Patrick Galbraith, who spent what must have been months trawling the old program listings to and compiling the relevant YouTube tracks to match.
ACP magazines, publishers of APC and PC User (which seems to have been rebranded as Tech Life without me noticing), have apparently been sold to a German company. DOZENS of Australia's biggest-selling and best-loved magazines look certain to fall into foreign ownership with Nine Entertainment Co expected to soon announce the sale of its ACP Magazines to German giant Bauer.
A man nearly died when he posted himself in a box to his girlfriend. When the box finally arrived after a three-hour delay, shocked girlfriend Li Wang unwrapped the parcel to find her man unconscious. If he got lost, maybe they could have asked this lady to help find him. A woman who was reported missing from an Icelandic tour unwittingly joined a search for herself.
eBay won't be allowing metaphysical mumbo-jumbo to be sold anymore. Since 2010, the 50-year-old resident of Santa Clarita, Calif., has made 80% of her annual income selling as many as 60 psychic readings a month on eBay Inc., typically for about $15 each. Earlier this month, eBay said it will shut down sales of "metaphysical" goods such as spells, potions and other magical services on its namesake website.
ABC tried something new with the first episode of the new Dr Who season, and it seems to have been a success. MORE people downloaded the first episode of Doctor Who legally in 24 hours than the most popular illegally downloaded show over a whole month. The ABC received the highest amount of daily plays on iView ever after airing the premiere episode of Doctor Who on Sunday - just hours after it aired in the UK.
We haven't heard much from Wolfram|Alpha for a while, but they have a new Facebook personal analytics feature. It's fairly straightforward: type "Facebook report" into the standard Wolfram|Alpha Web site and the technology generates a report "with more than a dozen major chapters, broken into more than 60 sections, with all sorts of drill-downs, alternate views, etc.," according to CEO Stephen Wolfram.
Remember to renew your domain names, lest your stuff stop working, or worse (or better?), someone else who disagrees with you might nab it. A staunch opponent to the marriage equality movement is Family First New Zealand — a political party that recently collected 50,000 signatures against the move. Little did they know that as they passed around slips of paper to be signed, their domain name had fallen out of registration. It was then swooped on by none other than a pro-Marriage Equality movement.
F1 fans can look forward to something that sounded like a pipe dream actually happening next year, a street circuit race in New York and New Jersey. Red Bull Racing's Show Car recently completed a second All-American adventure. Driven by David Coulthard, the 2011 Championship-winning RB7 toured Liberty State Park and its spectacular views of the New York City skyline and the Statue of Liberty. The RB7 then moved on to one of the main arteries linking New York and New Jersey - the Lincoln Tunnel. Unless I've misunderstood and it's still just a pipe dream?
A few people sent word of Bruce Willis fighting Apple, but it's apparently not true. According to the Daily Mail, Willis’ legal team was apparently considering to “establish family trusts as the ‘holders’ of somebody’s downloaded music. According to Willis’ wife Emma Hemming-Willis, however, this “is not a true story.”
Today's timewaster is this Old Spice Video which becomes interactive when it finishes playing. Flame sax!
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