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This post is rated MA. Not recommended for mothers. You have been warned. OK, I’ll just hide the whole thing in white text. If you want to read this, just select the blank area below with a click and drag.

I’m sorry to admit that I just really enjoyed Big Brother. Not just any Big Brother, but Big Brother Uncut. We watched much of BB in Britain a couple of years ago, but I don’t know how anyone could give a fracking crap about it after watching this.

Most Big Brother shows turn into he-said-she-said nonsense, like a live reality soap opera, but this show takes the nudity, masturbation, sex talk etc. that you’ve never seen and shows them in a one hour show. The shower room in this BB is built for voyeurs, so they show compilations of naked people rubbing their breasts or shaking their dicks.

There’s a chat in the bedroom between a few of the girls, one of them saying how good an electric toothbrush is on her clit. There’s another scene where they’re masturbating in the spa with a hose and then their hands. Finally, a fabulous scene where a particularly thick, drunk girl is cavorting in a bath covered in rose petals, moving like a bendy dolphin with big boobs, while the guy she’s brought into the room eats pringles and pretends not to notice.

Obviously this is all part of the grand plan, to lock a bunch of horny singles in a house and get it on. That’s not unique nor a surprise. But in the UK, one stray breast is front page news in a slew of tabloids. This show, despite how steamy it all sounds, wasn’t presented as a tawdry ooh-aah nudge-nudge affair. It all seemed pretty healthy and normal for a bunch of horny singles locked in a house together. It seemed unrepressed, Australian, and funny. You don’t agree with everything they say, but you don’t need to.

Extremely hilarious, compulsive pervy fun.

Returning to normality: aren’t kittens great?

I’m sitting on the back deck at home, Sunday afternoon. Three Kookaburras just started singing in the tree directly above me, with another two in a nearby tree. That insane cackle that I can’t describe if you’ve never heard.

Then they moved. Five in a nearby tree, just one above me. The bell birds still tinkling in the distance and a cool breeze blowing. Fab.

Oh, if you’re trying to register interest in ADSL on Mt Nebo, Telstra have moved the page and (under some conditions) screwed up the redirection. Go to http://www.bigpond.com/internet-plans/broadband/availability/lodgeprospect/ instead. It’s worth doing, but bear in mind that political and other realities are important too: Closeburn exchange has just recently been enabled for ADSL, and they hadn’t reached the target just a few months ago. So register, then sacrifice a goat and cross your fingers.

In Battlestar Galactica, which ended a couple of weeks ago, they characters swore. Just like in Red Dwarf, they used a made-up word instead of everyone’s favourite F***. Why not just swear? People’s mothers could be reading. Frack it all and smeg you.

Oh, and then see Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It’s wonderful. Jim Carrey’s very good and the execution is great.

Saw a great movie on DVD recently, I ♥ Huckabees. Great DVD extras, including the weirdest thing I’ve yet seen on a DVD, an infomercial for Jaffe & Jaffe, the (fictional) Existential Detectives played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffmann. Very authentic. Jon Brion just sitting in the corner with a tiny guitar. The above web address advertised. Cool.

Also some great public service announcements from Open Spaces, another thing from the movie. Seeing a rock dropped on a daisy is a pretty effective five second conservation ad. Anyway, grab it, watch it, it’s great. Geek me says: multi-coloured DVD buttons: fancy. Mmm.

Hey – the second final candidate for my new composition for Tiger users is ready. It’s called Abstracted and lives in your ~/Library/Screen Savers/ folder. Enjoy, and leave comments here.

(Unless, like the twit below, you’re trying to promote your Delhi hotel.)

Oh, there’s another composition called Lines Dance here.

Recently, if I haven’t been wandering around Australia Zoo or finishing next week’s lecture then I’ve been mucking about with Quartz Composer, a funky program included with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. A site called QuartzComps has sprung up to focus on it and has many links to compositions people have made with it.

I’ve got a nice one to give away soon; just let me dot the i and cross the t. Soon!

Well – this entry was originally posted from Dash Blog, a handy new tool that sits on my Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger! Yes, the fact that I’m excited about that makes me a nerd!

If that’s a problem, it’s not mine but yours.

But I’ve republished it to ditch the title. Incidentally, some friends from the UK are visiting, which is nice. Hey V&A if you’re reading sometime later! Also, I’ve been playing with Quartz Desktop on Tiger, which is great. Will let you see some stuff soon if you ask nicely.

Though it’s not on the scale of what Wil Wheaton’s doing in Vegas, this is still a big deal for me. My short animation, airport, much as seen in the left hand linklist for some time now, will be shown as part of a short animation screening in the Sydney Film Festival!

Can you say WOOHOOOOO!?

More details as I get them, but regardless, I think I’ll probably make the trip to Sydney for the big screen premiere. See you soon, Sydney-based friends?

Hi there. Taking my own advice, I’ve gotten a little back into coding and greatly revised the bouncing ball/gravity simulation I did with Flash a while ago. It’s still in the menu to the left as “actionscript bouncing ball” except now there are two balls, they are coloured, you can throw them around yourself by dragging and releasing, they don’t sink through the bottom any more, you can control the gravity, and the bouncing is cleaner.

Anyway, thought you might like to play. Very small, quick to load, Flash 6+.

A recent study has shown that kids with computers are getting dumber, not smarter. Why? Two reasons.

1. Kids with computers at home don’t do their homework.

2. Information access doesn’t provide deep knowledge.

Computers and the internet provide us with so many facts, kids with access don’t think enough, don’t develop critical thinking, and aren’t creative enough. If you can look up the answer (someone’s answer) to a deep philosophical question, are you going to think about it yourself, come to your own conclusion?

When I go web surfing, I find out all sorts of weird facts, enhance my view of the world, etc. But I’m spending that time not making cool things nor creating. Sure, sometimes I’m writing this, which is at least something permanent I can share and a creative activity that helps develop my writing style.

(At least I hope it does; I’m conscious I’m writing short chunks for the short attention span of the web, perhaps atrophying any ability to write important documents like a thesis. Anyway, a warning. We’ve reached the part of the blog entry where I make a sweeping generalisation that makes a good sound bite.)

We kids of today don’t have hobbies. We have favourite movies, TV shows and websites. We develop skills for jobs but not for ourselves. If a group of us were lost in the wilderness, we’d all be stuffed.

But hey, look at this hot pic of Paris Hilton naked!
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