Spring Valley juice bottles have a Liddle Fact [^] under the lid. Number 220 is “Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water”. It’s the only one so far that has made me stop and think. Does this mean that we should be making desalination plants out of penguins? And yes, penguins do drink salt [...]
The CannibalRabbit bites back
A Technical View of the Filter
Gizmodo has a look at the proposed compulsory Australian Internet Filter [^] proposed by the Federal Government. The article has a look at how filtering systems work – either by IP address, domain name or specific pages. The story is a good primer on the mechanics of web filtering, and interestingly it includes a brief description [...]