Apr 19th 09
Fail Whale Art – Twart
The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter)
It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message.
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Apr 14th 09
It’s spreading!!!
Oh no dear god all mighty above us and all around the newsroom NO!!!!!
Automation jitters have spread to the Sydney ABC newsroom and again we see the lack of staff training and.. well, let’s face it…machines taking over and replacing what humans have done fine with for ages. The ABC is slowly being eaten away by budget cut cancer, low morale, journalists editing their own stories (as well...
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Apr 7th 09
Happy Passover
This time last year I was in Israel and having Seder in Haifa. Tomorrow night I will be with family in Melbourne. I prefer being with family than with strangers. This year I’ve been given the task of making Gefiltefish, but have instaed settled for purchasing them as the way I’ll make it will be too “fishy” for everyone’s taste.
For those of you who would love a great...
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