OK Go is a band that had a massive video on YouTube a couple years ago, featuring exercise machines…. You would have had to be disconnected from the world to have missed it. Their self made video got them a record deal, their record went to #1 around the world and it looked like they [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
There is the story of the little girl that asks her father if there are any other kind of fairy stories except for the ones that start, “Once upon a time…..” and her father replies, “Yes dear, there are also those that start with If I am elected….”. Well he said he [...]
Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway. They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]
I like watching things grow. My Bonsai plants are the ultimate home nurserypersons test of patience, skill and attention to detail. Bonsai plants are akin to swing voters, let the roots dry out once, and they die, soil too acidic, they wither, soil too alkaline, they wilt. Not enough fertilizer? They turn yellow and drop [...]
Michael Jackson is the “the King” of the moonwalk. The reverse step dance move that was made famous by the Moonwalker video. June 2009 will be remembered by many as the month when Michael departed this cruel world for parts unknown. But, the Music Business was quick off the mark to capitalize on [...]
Its winter in Australia. Supposedly the coldest time of the year. Yet my Serrissa Foetida’s (tree of a thousand stars) are all in full bloom. Can’t be much of a winter if my Bonsai are all convinced that it’s already spring. So if it’s still winter, and it’s already this warm, will there be a [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]
The Berne Convention (of September 9, 1886) was formed for the purpose of protecting intellectual property. It has been quoted by most American Politicians for the last 10 years as the reason why America needs to get tough with the P2P community. Its interesting, that the United States only became a signatory to [...]
I was listening to the “Big Ideas” ABC podcast today. It was an address given in Melbourne by Dr Raj Patel, who has written a book called “Stuffed and Starved”. It is about food. Apparently Dr Patel has degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics and Cornell. He has also worked for the [...]