January 2005 – daveg

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy

I’m usually pretty open minded when it comes to new stuff thats occuring in the field of genetics, but this is the first time that I can remember that I really thought “errgh”.

The Samba Project: Transformation of Self through Open Source Software Development

Props to Bec’s brother Nico who has completed a thesis on the Samba community.

This research is an exploratory study into the constitution of identity in the Samba community. The results presented are based upon an analysis of documents, websites, internet-relay-chat (IRC), mailing lists, private correspondence and face-to-face interviews. The primary method of data collection was the semi-structured interview method.

Tortoise Last night at the Festival Bar, Sydney

Bored Tonight?

If you’ve got nothing to do tonight, Rozie is djing down at Suzie Q’s on Oxford St at King Hit sometime between 10pm and 3am.Yeah! Expect lots of 80’s. And entry is only $5.

Dust Science have made available for download an two-hour live set from the Black Dog recorded in Toronto, Canada on the 1st of June 1997. The set can also be downloaded from the Black Dog website as well along with some other goodies.

Ergonomic Mousepads

Observations on Nerds

Over at Maddox’s “Best Page in the Universe“, he has some great observations on a couple types of nerds, with my favourite being the “I wish I was Japanese” anime nerd.

Everyone knows someone like this. They refer to themselves as “otaku” and they embrace everything Japanese, not necessarily because it’s something unique or interesting, but because it’s Japanese. They wear clothing with Japanese or Chinese characters on it that translate to English phrases like “good will” or “long life.” They wouldn’t be able to get away with wearing a shirt that said “long life” in English because it would just look stupid, but as soon as it’s translated into kanji it suddenly becomes cool and mysterious? Please.