Obscure Box

Just doing the usual lazy spell check using Google to see if I’ve spelled “parodying” correctly. The number one search result took me to one of the many YouTube videos looking at what happens when you add coke to raw pork, “What REALLY happens when you add Coke to raw pork”. No obvious mention of [...]

News on the net this week that the domain name america.com is to be auctioned off. It’s expected to fetch anything up to US$7-million if the owners can be believed. America.com was appraised by independent evaluators like Duff & Phelps, Sedo and Afternic within a range from 3.5 to 7.3 million US dollars (files available [...]

I’m fed up with websites that start playing music or some other sound as soon as you visit them. I’m even more fed up with those that try and play me a video before I’ve even worked out what the website’s about, or whether I even need to be there in the first place. Do [...]

What is it about web addresses that make people mis-quote them so often. Channel 9′s breakfast Today program has a segment each day where it brings you the news from various internet sites. Trouble is, most of the sites given are incorrect because host Karl Stefanovic keeps forgetting the “.au”. Time and again he directs [...]

Student journalists continue to ask why they should not use Wikipedia as a credible source for their stories. For some time I’ve been struggling to best answer this question. Others have already done research to show how some Wikipedia entries contain inaccuracies, and still the student journalists want to use Wikipedia as a source. Often [...]