Liking: funky modified bicycles

There's a nifty story and slideshow over on Wired about some cool mods that people have made to their pushbikes - everything from sticking the front half of a shopping trolley on to this funky lit up number.

LOLing: Internet people

Sorry, just another short one today - trying to get my head around a uni assignment that isn't even remotely interesting and also a little fraught with marking danger.

I have to analyse two of the online activities we've done this semester - frankly for a subject that has been about learning exciting and funky new ways of teaching online, there's been a huge gap between what we've been learning and how it's been put into practice.

So many - "read this article, summarise it and post your thoughts on the discussion board" - type activities, which have sparked virtually no discussion at all and so few "here's a cool new approach/tool, try it out" ones. (We did have one where we had to upload a picture which demonstrates collaboration to flickr, that was ok but most of the group ran into trouble because they didn't have the necessary five images in their flickr account to get the pix to show up.

So what's the problem? Frankly, I'm not sure that I'll get the good marks I've gotten a little hooked on if I tell my teacher I think she's phoning it in.

I think the best approach will be to emphasise the ways it could have been improved (which is in the template)

Anyway, enough of my whining, some people don't even get to use the internet.

Unlike the people in this video by the meth minute 39, which sums up pretty well all of the web fads of the last few years. (I got about half of them)

LOLing: The Office (US)

I'm happy to say that I think that the US version of The Office has matched the original UK version. The UK version still has a slightly more melancholic tinge but both capture the funny minutiae of office life.

This clip says it all.

Remixing: ACTU election stickers

I found this nifty election sticker at the station last night and thought I'd have a go at putting my own touch on it. (I toyed with another version - Put Howard where he Bennelongs - but the photoshopping was a bit fiddly and I have work to do)



(Just in case you were wondering, I'm not a fan of the man - more on my specific reasons for this soon)

Understanding: the true meaning of Top Gun

Great rant here from Quentin Tarantino that explains that Top Gun is in fact the story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality.

Looking forward to: Destroy all humans - Path of the Furon

Counting down: 40 days til the Federal Election

Please Kevin 07, don't screw this up. Keep your cool, don't count your chickens and don't get sucked in to the PM's upcoming nasty games.

On the plus side, the Liberal party dirt unit seems to be doing a good job of shooting itself in the foot with yet another personal attack on Julia Gillard in the Daily Telegraph - this time going via her partner, Tim Mathieson.

They bandy the word flamboyant (tabloidese for gay) around twice (just in case you missed it the first time) because he sells hair products and take glee in pointing out that he lost his license for 8 months for hitting a fence while drinking driving 6 years ago and fathered a "love child" as a teenager. (Not that he or she were cheating on anyone at the time - I'm thinking that "love child" in this case is a dog whistle to anyone who might think that sex outside marriage is a problem)

Absolutely pissweak.

The last time the Daily Tele ran a Gillard smear, even their own readership roundly bagged out the Libs for it.