Category Archives: battler

CHOGM

By txt | Published: December 11, 2004

Date: Fri Dec 17 10:48:11 2004 CHOGM Hi all, I don’t know if I am missing something here, if the corporate media sphere has fried my brain, but here are some of the democratically elected governments that will attend CHOGM in Brisbane. Bangladesh (I think the world’s poorest country) Swaziland Tuvalu Tonga Ghuna Fiji Lesotho [...]

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call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne

By txt | Published: February 15, 2001

call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne Hi, I an a disbarred historian working on the history of Fitzroy and milkbars to help understand things that effect the whole world! I also don’t understand what ICANN does, but we could always ask them. Someone once described democracy to me as hanging out with a bunch [...]

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Winners and Losers..

By txt | Published: December 12, 1999

Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]

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Paper

By txt | Published: August 23, 1999

I liked you paper and I wish that I had have heard you presenting it. I especially like the idea of embedding your arguments of masculinity and patriarchy within the culture in which we live. All too often the Gibsonesque drones look for an escape in that barren soul-less place called ‘cyberspace’. I saw one [...]

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VR Definition

By txt | Published: July 29, 1999

I’m a big fan of Margaret Verthein’s The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace also (but you forgot to put quotation marks around her work cited).I think that the most pertinent questions to ask about any medium is what can its use tell us about the state of the culture and society in which we actually live [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: April 10, 1999

When I was at battler school, in North West Tasmania…a state that this century has reaped extinction on not only the Tasmanian Tiger but also an entire race of people (Trugennini was the last Tasmanian Aboriginal and Terrance was the last Tasmanian Tiger) I learnt that you need a complete unit before you can call [...]

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