By creating a separate website at gretschcustomshop.com.au, they’re able to showcase the unique, top-shelf qualities of these instruments and give visitors the impression they’re seeing experiencing special.

Stilgherrian has written a fairly blunt article in his personal website.

Do Australia’s politicians really understand the Internet? If they way they use social media sites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding “no”!

Stilgherrian will be presenting Politicians and Social Media: a catalogue of cluelessness at the PodCamp UnConference in Perth on 27–28 October.

The same report says that 8% of all email contains a “blended threat”: links to malicious websites which try to take over your computer, for example.

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You can recycle any old computers (not just Apple’s), laptops, monitors or computer-related peripherals. They won’t accept copiers, TVs, overhead projectors, batteries not integral to computer systems, cracked or broken CRT monitors, UPS units or other toxic or dangerous items.

While this isn’t the only way to get rid of computers, and it follows scathing criticism of Apple’s environmental record, it’s certainly going to help get rid of Australia’s mountain of computer waste.

“No one’s telling how much of our money is being stolen through the Internet because no one wants us to lose confidence in the system. The banks are making so much money out of it, they prefer to wear the costs or push them down to the customer. In the meantime, everyone has a story and global criminals are stalking our accounts, our phones and our PCs.”

Pitch included opt-out instructions as soon as they realised they were breaking the law. However, “ignorance of the law is not an acceptable defence”, said ACMA chairman Chris Chapman. “All businesses sending commercial electronic messages must make sure that they and their staff fully understand the requirements of the Spam Act.”