by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | environment, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
G’DAY WORLD #243 – Dr Peter Ellyard (Part Three)
GDAY WORLD #213 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part Two)
GDAY WORLD #204 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part One)
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by cameron | Jul 11, 2007 | Christianity, Iran, Uncategorized
Mike Moore gets stuck into Wolf on CNN:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bs_LBXD69w]
(via Chris Pirillo’s twitter)
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Remember Marc Rich? The guy indicted by Guiliani for trading illegally with Iran and tax evasion who then received a Presidential Pardon from Clinton in the last hours of his Presidency because he was a large donor to the Democratic Party? Well guess who his US attorney was from 1985 until 2000? None other than Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the current recipient of Presidential largess. Small world.
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Via CC Chapman:
Another amazing video from Britain Has Talent. Check out this 6 year old girl singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Bloody amazing.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8]
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The iPhone is cool but – will it blend?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI]
Thanks Leslie Nassar!
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Duncan Riley put me onto this online film called Zeitgeist. It’s an examination of the central mythologies of Christianity and showing where they come from. According to the doco, the vast majority of the Jesus stories in the New Testament are direct rip-offs from the story of Horus dating back to 2000BCE.
Check out these similarities. Pretty compelling stuff. Any of the Christians out there have a good answer?
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by cameron | Jun 28, 2007 | Iraq, Podcast, technology
If you aren’t on Twitter yet, you are probably wondering what it’s all about. It’s kind of like a steady feed of… stuff. Stream of consciousness from your friends. What they are doing, thinking about, reading, watching, etc. Here’s my last couple of days of twitters e.g. the things I’ve written. Inane? Or addictive? I guess that depends on your state of mind. In a way, it’s a kind of constant background conversation between your friends that all of you can see and participate in. Like most things internet, I guess it is what you make of it. If you and your friends write about what you had for lunch, so be it. Or you can write about the current news. Or ideas. It’s like that old quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
You can me to your Twitter friends list by going to my profile and clicking “add” in the sidebar.
My recent twittering:
I remember when the sweetest sound in the world was a modem actually connecting to my ISP and not giving me a busy signal less than 20 seconds ago from web
watching the “Mac or PC” Rap Music Video http://youtube.com/watch?v=… 1 minute ago from web
@Scobleizer Consider yourself lucky to be in a country that will actually see the iPhone before 2008! about 1 hour ago from web in reply to Scobleizer
MODM #3 is July 5. Hope to see Melburnites there. Register: http://tinyurl.com/23of3r about 2 hours ago from web
@mspecht you moved hosting providers? about 3 hours ago from web in reply to mspecht
discussing napoleon’s invasion of russia with j. david markham, my co-host on the napoleon podcast napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com about 4 hours ago from web
recording new episode of the Napoleon podcast – today we take 500,000 soldiers deep into Russia. Doh! about 5 hours ago from web
@leslienassar interesting article, i admire her views on iraq and US politics, but she’s a catholic, the very opposite of “progressive” about 5 hours ago from web in reply to leslienassar
@leslienassar can anyone who believes in a supernatural magic ghost being really be considered “progressive” ? about 5 hours ago from web in reply to leslienassar
@leslienassar all xns believe the same bronze age mythology as the nutjob. about 6 hours ago from web in reply to leslienassar
my thoughts – http://tinyurl.com/28xhjs about 9 hours ago from web
not enough – 4 out of 5 adults in an educated, intelligent society, still believe that mythological, supernatural beings govern the universe about 9 hours ago from web
Australian census data – the number of people having “no religion†jumped from 15.5% of the population (2001) to 18.7% (2006) about 9 hours ago from web
watching Christian pastor who wishes 33,000 were killed at Virginia Tech http://view.break.com/291886 about 9 hours ago from web
@bronwen – I always ask them – how does their economic model stand up against 100,000,000 new media choices? How can they stop the bleeding? about 16 hours ago from web in reply to bronwen
@delic8genius Billy Walsh is da man! Along with Michael Bay! about 17 hours ago from web in reply to delic8genius
G’DAY WORLD #257 – MY TRANSFORMERS REVIEW! http://tinyurl.com/2fccq7 about 17 hours ago from web
@cait dunno but I’m going again tomorrow! twice! about 18 hours ago from web in reply to cait
JUST SAW TRANSFORMERS!!!!! GREATEST MOVIE SINCE MATRIX 1!!!! 5 STARS!!!! about 19 hours ago from mobile web
G’DAY WORLD #256 – Brian Goldfarb, Silverlight http://tinyurl.com/2yyznt about 23 hours ago from web
just booked a photo shoot for Saturday arvo. This is for the Anthill story. about 23 hours ago from web
oooh my gdayworld custom laptop skin from http://www.tekskin.com.au/ is in the mail! about 23 hours ago from web
just picked up my kids from school. making them dinner. then going out to see TRANSFORMERS! Hope it doesn’t completely suck. Michael Bay. 🙁 about 23 hours ago from web
@mspecht forget about synching! just dump outlook’s sorry ass and join the gcal revolution compadre. 04:17 PM June 27, 2007 from web in reply to mspecht
@duncanriley I *am* on Twitter you goose! Where you been? 04:16 PM June 27, 2007 from web in reply to duncanriley
@mspecht using google calendar is the solution, not plaxo! 03:51 PM June 27, 2007 from web in reply to mspecht
recording interview with michael georgeff for gdayworld.com 03:22 PM June 27, 2007 from web
got free tickets to see TRANSFORMERS preview screening tonight! thanks to my friends at Paramount! 02:53 PM June 27, 2007 from web
@mollyfud christian – they only talk to you when they want something for free 02:51 PM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to mollyfud
@mollyfud the 10 mins comes from not having to edit down from wav files which I’ve been doing for the last few months 02:45 PM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to mollyfud
@mollyfud yes i do but only for TPN hosts. 02:45 PM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to mollyfud
@mollyfud stopped using skylook as callburner is the same product without requiring Outlook. 02:37 PM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to mollyfud
prepping for interview this afternoon with Michael Georgeff http://www.theage.com.au/ar… 02:12 PM June 27, 2007 from web
just got callburner working properly! thank darwin. that’ll cut 10 minutes off my post-production time per show! 02:10 PM June 27, 2007 from web
back at the office. Father Bob was in a shitty mood. 01:55 PM June 27, 2007 from im
about to catch up with australia’s oldest podcaster, father bob maguire 12:26 PM June 27, 2007 from mobile web
heading out to meetings for the next few hours 10:57 AM June 27, 2007 from im
listening to Hilltop Hoods “The Calling” 10:22 AM June 27, 2007 from im
@delic8genius – lets hug it out bitch 10:14 AM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to delic8genius
@cait – school holidays! 10:01 AM June 27, 2007 from im in reply to cait
by cameron | Jun 26, 2007 | climate change, energy, environment
Half the time I try to open a Microsoft Word attachment in my email (which is Gmail through the browser) I get this error message:
Windows doesn’t seem to know that Word is the application to open a .doc. Anyone else seen this? Damn annoying!
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If you want to know what carbon trading is all about, listen to The Cleantech Show #007: Understanding Carbon Offsets – Interview with Jeff Angel, Total Environment Centre. It’s an excellent overview. Well done Nick!
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, media 2.0, Podcast, US politics
A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting goals, the Amway business getting slapped in the UK, having local tech support, Lenovo’s crap technical support, HelloWorld’s network marketing approach, and the future of a little business called Scouta.
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by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | CIA, US politics
From the BBC:
The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency’s worst illegal abuses from the 1950s to 1970s. The papers, to be released next week, will detail assassination plots, domestic spying and wiretapping, kidnapping and human experiments.
Conveniently, the papers being declassified stop in 1975 – the year before the current President’s father became Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).
One good thing out of this, I hope, is that fewer people will now call any theory that suggests the CIA is or has been involved in some pretty dirty business a “conspiracy theory”. It shouldn’t be beyond belief that American intelligence has played a fairly critical role in global politics over the last 60 years. They play with the same espionage toolkit as everyone else. Just because America has been the greatest experiment in human democracy, doesn’t mean it hasn’t got it’s fair share of skeletons. And if these things were true in the 50s, 60s and 70s, what makes you think it isn’t still true today?
Now, if we can get FBI to release their documents from that era, we might find out the truth about who ordered the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and Marilyn….
