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“Given the way ASIO has used existing terror laws in the case of Scott Parkin are you more worried about the agency getting stronger powers? Do you believe the government is deporting Mr Parkin on security grounds, or are they denying him free speech for political reasons?”

I’ve met Scott, sat in on some of his workshops, had some good little chats possibly over a beer or two can honestly say he’s no threat to National Security – unless of course we’re all scared of democracy and free speech. This is another fine example of an increasingly dysfunctional Australian government stealing from…

Quench your thirst for knowledge. At Google our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it. That’s why we’re pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with…

Slashdot | Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps: “Satellite imagery of New Orleans taken on Wednesday, August 31st is now available on Google Maps. Enter ‘New Orleans’ in the search field at the top of the page, or drag and zoom the map to the area. A red ‘Katrina’ button will appear at the top right…

THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming. When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming. When 124-mile-an-hour winds shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in…

What: Last ditch attempt to make Premier Bracks see sense on Hazelwood Where: 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne (Spring st, near top of Collins St) When: Monday 5 Sept, 8.30-10.30 am Wear: Black (mourning Bracks’ decision) or a suit if you’d like to be a money shoveller Hazelwood power station is the most greenhouse polluting power…

Google Blog: Introducing Desktop 2: “At Google we’re never satisfied. Last fall we released Google Desktop Search, which finds reams of information of all kinds on your computer with Google-fast speed and accuracy. But then our product people got to thinking: what about when you’re feeling kind of lazy? Wouldn’t it be cool if your…

thomasstreet.info: “features photos of the plants we’re growing in our garden & notes on germination, propagation and growing them, in addition to notes on nutritional, medicinal, psychoactive and other properties & uses of these plants.”

A fortnight after closing the world’s largest coal export port (in Newcastle, NSW), Greenpeace is taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The power plant, known as Hazelwood, should have closed this year. Instead, Victorian premier Steve Bracks has kept it running and polluting, even though the clean energy…