An East Rand school made Satanism part of their life orientation classes. Parents fear a repeat of the Krugersdorp sword killing.
I didn’t write about the Krugersdorp killing, because I thought it obvious that Satanism, heavy metal, and drugs are just scapegoats. All that is misdirection.
My personal opinion is that the school is at fault, and [...]
Finally some good news in the SA telecoms industry.
Value Added Network Service licence holders, which include all Internet Service Providers, must be allowed by the regulator to provide their own network infrastructure.
More info at The Telco Jabberwock Is Dead by Arthur Goldstuck, and at VANS can self provide by MyBroadband News
I admire Michael Trapido. I simply can’t sustain that level of aggressiveness without chemical assistance. Last week was an exception, because I was adjusting to going back on Ritalin.
I have access to it because I was (re)diagnosed with ADD as an adult about a year ago. I tend to view such diagnoses with skepticism. I [...]
Nobuhle Khumalo was beat to death with knobkieries by her classmates for choosing celibacy.
I don’t have the words.
Girl killed for being a virgin (Via Chris Roper)
Remember those Jack Chick “educational” pamphlets? These are the guys who tried to convince us D&D is from the devil.
It seems now that a completely different organization drew their inspiration from such pamphlets. The National Center for State Courts recently released a comic called “The Case Against Internet Piracy”. They claim that the comic will [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
It’s not enough getting morality from religion, philosophy, peer pressure and law. Now business also wants to take the moral high ground.
Random House contractually requires young adult writers to behave. Cory Doctorow points out that they didn’t ask him to sign such a contract for Little Brother. This is probably because they realize just how [...]
I was about to submit the above design to springleap as a copylefted design in the hope that fellow copyfighters would appreciate a cool t-shirt. This was before I read their terms and conditions:
You also assign the entire right, title and interest in and to the copyright to your creation. This cessation includes the right [...]
I got the same feeling as Kevin Kelly while watching the Olympic opening ceremonies.
This is an alien culture. More than two thousand tai-chi masters moved like a single being. All with identical clothes. All with identical haircuts. If this is what their civilians are like… what is their army like?
While watching, I couldn’t stop thinking [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Am I the only one who finds it supremely ironic that Nic’s rant against meta-blogging is supposed to be read by other bloggers?
I think a certain amount of conversation in the community is unavoidable, and even necessary. Blogging is intensely social. It’s a conversation with our audience. Sometimes our audience is other bloggers. So [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Twitter is ending SMS support in the UK, because it’s costing them too much.
This got me thinking. Most cellphones these days have internet connectivity. The data cost of an SMS is negligible. (You want to do the math? Think R 2.00 / 1,048,576 bytes * 200 chars). Yes, I know about IM, but it’s still [...]
