Archive for the tag "technology"
Terrifying Environmental Dangers of Renewable Energy
Should we take the coal industry’s advice and abandon renewable energy immediately? It seems far too dangerous. In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit
Posted: 29 June, 2011 in comedy/humour, environment, Nature, Science, Technology, Video.
Tags: climate change, coal lobby, comedy, dangers of renewable energy, Earth, environment, global warming, humor, humour, Onion, Onion News, Onion News Network, renewable energy, Science, solar energy, solar power, technology, The Onion, Video, wind farms
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NSW Politicians are Idiots and Slime
Sir Roger tells me he really didn’t want to have to write anything today. He has a new pair of Wellington boots and they are chafing his heels. He just wants to put his feet up and go to that nothing box men go to where women are not allowed. Perhaps this will help you [...]
Posted: 21 March, 2011 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, comedy/humour, Computing, Culture, Internet, Language, Life, Media, politics and government, Science, Sex, Technology, values, Video.
Tags: australia, Australian political values, Australian Values, birth of a word, brain, brains, connection, cultural values, Deb Roy, democracy, election, government, idiots, Labor, Labour, Language, learning, Liberal, mars, men, men's, mens brains, MIT, networking, NSW, NSW election, nsw election ads, NSW politics, O'Farrell, political values, politicians, politicians are idiots, politics, slime, social media, social network, technological values, technology, TED, values, venus, women, women's, womens brains
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Who Cares If Global Warming Is Man-Made?
Influential and surprising people go to bat for dealing with global warming or clean air or both – including a CIA Director and Richard Branson.
Posted: 13 January, 2011 in Australian Values, Economics, Education, environment, movies, politics and government, Science, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: branson, clean air, clean water, climate change, Earth, environment, geothermal, global warming, government, politics, Science, solar, solar power, technology, values, Video, wind, wind power
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Oh, All Right, Then – It’s Ronnie Corbett After All
Ronnie Corbett’s Blackberry isn’t working.
Posted: 12 January, 2011 in comedy/humour, Video.
Tags: Apple, bbc, Blackberry, comedy, greengrocer, humor, humour, Orange, Ronnie, Ronnie Corbett, technology, Video, X-Box
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Insidious Worm (No, not you, Tony)
This dreadful virus attacked Sir Roger’s computer just two nights ago.
Posted: 3 January, 2011 in comedy/humour, Computing, Internet, Life, Media, Technology, values, Video.
Tags: comedy, computer, Computing, credit card, credulous, gullible, humor, humour, Internet, Onion News, Onion News Network, Onion TV, Onion video, placebo, placebo band, power balance, rip-off, rort, scam, Science, scientific values, suckers, technology, technology values, The Onion, trojan, values, virus, web, worm
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Wikileaks Shock Evidence
Yes, here it is just in time for Xmas: the shocking photographic proof from Wikileaks that America is indeed a christian nation, founded on christian principles
Posted: 18 December, 2010 in comedy/humour, politics and government, Religion, Technology, US Politics, values.
Tags: American constitution, american politics, American values, christ, christian nation, christmas, constitution, founding fathers, hologram, jesus, politics, R2D2, Religion, religious values, Star Wars, technology
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Amazon Selling Wikileaks Kindle e-Book
Having ejected Wikileaks from their servers, Amazon.com are selling “WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies” as a Kindle e-book.
Posted: 14 December, 2010 in Australian Politics, Economics, Internet, legal, Literature, Medicine, politics and government, values.
Tags: Amazon, cablegate, Cables, cloud server, concentration camp, e-book, ebook, ethical, experiments, Guardian, Internet, kindle, law, legal, Medicine, Mengele, moral, New York Times, servers, technology, value, values, WikiLeaks, wikileaks kindle, WWII
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Spectacular NASA Space Shuttle Footage
Your heart will pound, your jaw will drop, your tongue will flop to the floor, your brain will expand. You’ll want to be a spaceman or spacewoman all over again
Posted: 12 December, 2010 in History, Life, Science, Technology, values, Video.
Tags: Adventure, America, americans, astronaut, cinematography, Discovery, DVD, film, high-speed film, launch, NASA, pioneering, rocket, rocket launch, rocketry, Science, shuttle, shuttle launch, space, space history, space shuttle, space shuttle footage, spaceman, STS, technology, USA, Video, videography, youtube
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Hostgator Cyber Monday! [Closed]
Hostgator Cyber Monday: Half-price hosting on world’s best webhosting service (we think), ONE DAY ONLY. Three steps to get on the web for as little as $40/year!
Posted: 26 November, 2010 in Blogging, Internet, Technology.
Tags: .info, .mobi, black friday, cheap domain names, cheap webhosting, cheapdomains, cyber-monday, domain names, firesale, hostgator, hostgator cyber monday, Internet, magazine themes, technology, webhosting, webhosting special, WordPress, wordpress themes
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Woman Goes Back to Work after 30 Years
Woman Goes Back to Work after 30 Years. Watch carefully. 4 seconds only.
Posted: 15 November, 2010 in comedy/humour, Computing, fun, Life, Video.
Tags: back to work, carriage return, comedy, computer, employment, humor, humour, office equipment, PC, reemployment, secretary, technology, typewriter, typing, unemployment, work
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Whatever: Nokia N8 Movie
A short action film shot entirely on a mobile phone is not a novelty but the N8′s camera has 12Mp so the picture quality is excellent and the story is good fun.
Posted: 31 October, 2010 in Culture, fun, Life, Media, Technology.
Tags: action film, cell phone, Dev Patel, mobile phone, N8, Nokia, Nokia N8, Pamela Anderson, phone, promo, promotional film, promotional video, technology, The Commuter
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Did You Know? Amazing Internet
just proves the point of the speed technology is changing the world. It’s exponential. Two years ago it was all MySpace, and Facebook barely rated a mention.
Posted: 31 October, 2010 in Australian Values, Economics, Education, fun, History, Internet, Language, legal, Literature, Maths, Media, music, Science, Sex, values, Video.
Tags: brain, did you know, download, Education, employment, exabyte, facebook, Google, human brain, Internet, Jobs, learning, music, MySpace, SMS, social media, social web, study, supercomputer, technology, text, web, world wide web
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Child-driven Education: Sugata Mitra on TED
Take a moment to be inspired and amazed by something incredible that is going to change your world and that you probably didn’t even know about.
Posted: 12 September, 2010 in Computing, Culture, Education, Internet, Life, Literature, Media, Science, values, Video.
Tags: africa, autodidact, children, collegiate, computer, Computing, Education, educational values, Google, group learning, hole in the wall, India, Internet, Language, learning, mentor, school, search engine, self-directed learning, Sugata Mitra, teacher, teaching, technology, TED, TED talks, terrorism, values
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iPad Issues
How the iPad caused Hitler’s downfall … Even the mighty are frustrated …
Posted: 4 September, 2010 in comedy/humour, fun, History, Internet, Media, values, Video.
Tags: Apple, Apple iPad, comedy, comparison, Computing, downfall, ebook, Hitler, HP, humor, humour, Internet, iPad, iPad issues, iPhone, iPod, kindle, multitasking, spoof, tablet, technology
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Rag Bag. Fun Bag.
Amazing 2.5 yr-old shows how to play with iPad. Climate Denial Crock of the Week. We are Neanderthals! Yes! Prime Minister. Borders special on fiction.
Posted: 14 May, 2010 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, Computing, environment, History, Internet, Literature, politics and government, Sex, values, Video.
Tags: Apple, apps, books, Borders, Britain, climate change, climate denial, comedy, Computing, cromagnon man, data, DNA, environment, genome, government, History, home sapiens, humor, humour, Internet, iPad, Jim Hacker, Literature, Media, Neandertal, Neanderthal, Pharyngula, politics, press, prodigy, PZ Myers, Science, Sex, Sir Humphrey, technology, Video, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister
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