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Great Firewall of Australia: What’s not mentioned makes it even more scary

Many in Australia, and those overseas interested in censorship would have now read a post from the Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy responding to concern over the implementation of the Great Firewall of Australia.

I won’t rehash what’s already been reported, but having read it several times since publication, it’s what’s left out that makes the proposal even more scary.

via Great Firewall of Australia: What’s not mentioned makes it even more scary.

Oh noes.

If you have a look at the image on that post (duplicated here for the lazy amount you), then you’ll see that Australia will become and Internet Black Hole.

Australia: The Internet's Black Hole.

20 Useful USB Gadgets That Don’t Suck

It seems that every day there are new USB devices. Some are cool and some are not. I think that anyone that even has a little bit of geek in them will appreciate any of these. Some have practical uses and some are just fun, but all twenty of these gadgets are awesome.

via More Than Just Novelties: 20 Useful USB Gadgets That Don’t Suck | AMOG – Alpha Males of the Group.

Digital Photo Frames, I have been told, completely suck.

A USB Pen/MP3 player?! You’ve got to be kidding me!

USB Chess? WTF.

USB Basketball game? WTF.

USB fridge? Uhuh – because you can cool all your beverages with 5V.

Heh – interesting read anyways.

The Real WTF is that they didn’t include a USB Vacuum Cleaner with a title like that… 😛

How To Create A Disposable Webpage

The aptly named service is called DisposableWebPage and is completely free. What it does is that it creates an instant wiki for you to edit, share and perhaps collaborate with your friends. This also means you reap all the benefits of a wiki system with rich text editing and collaboration built directly into the system – plus you have version control so you can easily revert back to previous forms if something goes wrong.

via How To Create A Disposable Webpage | MakeUseOf.com.

Disposable Web Pages?

Whatever will they think of next… Disposable computers? Disposable humans?

El Guapo’s Top Ten Kick Ass Movies Of 2008!

Now that the year has come to a close, let’s take a look at what I thought were the best movies of 2008. These are the little and big gems that you looked at on the theater marquee and thought, “I wonder if this is awesome?” This list will hopefully answer that question. These are the movies that made me want to walk out of the theater and kiss the first old person I ran into.

via El Guapo’s Top Ten Kick Ass Movies Of 2008! – Movie News – Latest Movie Reviews and trailers.

For the record, I’ve seen:

Quantum of Solace (#7)

Wall•E (#3)

Iron Man (#2)

3 out of 10? Not bad, considering that 3 or more are fairly recent.