The politics of space exploration

What’s the problem with the political staffers researching untapped votes in the electorate?Photo by chipdatajeffb from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons
Why they aren’t capitalising more on space? That’s ‘Space’ with a  capital ‘S’.

The prevalence of Space memes in popular culture

We all know about space, it’s the frontier meme that entire cable television channels are built around like the ‘Sci Fi’ channel, it’s the one that is the standard fare of blockbuster after blockbuster. 

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This post was written by @Drivelry on October 12, 2008

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Dangerous health risks lurking on the internet

Even as someone who started working on the web 12 years ago I am still awed by the ripples spreading out from simple full text search.Photo by Zemlinki! from Flickr licensed using Creative Commons

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This post was written by @Drivelry on September 29, 2008

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‘Choice’ and party politics: how to make your vote count when no party seems worth supporting

If you’re a Republican or Democrat in the US, Tory and Labourite in the UK, or Liberal or Labor supporter in Australia then when elections come around in a sense you have a choice.

By choice I mean two things:Photo by sterik_valen from Flickr licensed using Creative Commons

  1. you are able to vote for someone whose approach you broadly believe in, and, 

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This post was written by @Drivelry on September 14, 2008

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Preschooler amnesia and parental memory mismatch

Ongoing exposure to preschoolers is a bit like unexpected exposure to Alzheimers. The expectation for a lot of adults is that somehow the preschoolers will remember this period of their life.

But will they?

Probably not. Ask anyone you know whether they remember when they were 3 or 4.  

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This post was written by @Drivelry on September 2, 2008

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