Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in environment, miscellaneous, news, politics, technology on May 5th, 2007
Turnbull says IPCC report backs government position: The government asserts black is white (again). Breathtaking. Peter Garret, the Opposition Environment Minister, is not hitting back hard enough with things like this. I’m not sure why, because he is articulate and knows his stuff. On present form his predecessor, Anthony Albanese would be better. I was [...]
Posted in technology on Apr 1st, 2007
Sending a wave to Dave Winer today as Scripting News celebrates it’s tenth birthday - congratulations, Dave, and thank you for all you have done for the medium! We carry our essential selves into the blogosphere, so it is a medium that has all the same challenges as the real world; but I love it [...]
Posted in media, miscellaneous, newspapers, technology on Jan 7th, 2007
The Fairfax papers are running a curious 3-page story today saying Justice Michael Kirby ‘has been vilified and defamed by fraudsters who have stolen his identity to post offensive material on the popular internet site MySpace,” and implying it is a first case scenario. Good grief, what a beat up!
Is this just lazy or out-of-touch [...]
Posted in technology on Jan 3rd, 2007
I’m testing whether I can post to my typepad blog from the OPML editor…
Cool! Its worked!
Just trying to see how the changes and tiltles work out
Posted in miscellaneous, news, technology on Dec 9th, 2006
This is a satellite image of the Victorian bushfires from the satellite NOAH/AVHRR at 10.15 am ESDT, on Dec 7 2006 (click on the image to see it full size). It was processed by Edward King from CSIRO’s Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research. The colours indicate green for forest, blue for smoke and cloud, [...]
Posted in craft, fun, make, technology on Oct 31st, 2006
Posted in make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, technology on Sep 23rd, 2006
Greetings from Australia for OneWebDay yesterday/today! A few months ago I started making a sculpture or puppet, with the intention of it being performed in a public place on the day, but yesterday, the 22nd here, was so windy I would have got blown away, and today is, too. I’ve just updated my Flickr set [...]
Posted in animation, puppetry, puppets, technology, tv on Sep 1st, 2006
I caught a little of the second episode of David Tench Tonight last night, and I’m quite intrigued. My impression on googling is that people disliked the first episode, but I wonder if it doesn’t have the same kind of sophistication and potential as Norman Gunston, and will take a bit of time to really [...]
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, technology on Aug 18th, 2006
OneWebDay, 22 September, is a global celebration of online life. I was hoping to make a couple of big puppets or sculptures for the day, but I have three current work projects that all culminate at exactly that time, so I am not sure if I will get anything together in time to use offline [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Aug 1st, 2006
I’ve added some more blogs to the puppetry directory over in my sidebar there. It’s getting to be quite a list now, and I think I still have a few to add. You will also notice that, thanks to the guys at Grazr, you can now launch the program in a new window and [...]