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Sustainable Land Use?

2007-04-20T14:13:00.001+10:00

Tyagarah Sustainable Community AllianceIn 1999 the Byron Flora and Fauna study identified the Tyagarah area as:* "An integral part of the coastal vegetation wildlife corridor" and* "An area of High Ecological Significance, containing core native vegetation."Sounds like a silly place to put a 5 day music festival and 50,000 plus people.But wait, theres more. The developers are not planning on

Site Details

2007-04-20T13:32:00.000+10:00

A map showing the site that Noble & Chugg (bluesfest) want to develop.Click it to or view the whole map on a new page.Lets be clear! The proposed site borders a national park, contains high conservation value flora, and is smack in the middle of a wildlife coridoor.Oh, and it floods. Sometimes 3 times per year. Dont give me any "ooh but its a local event" rubbish either. Having Coca Cola

The Proposed Site!!

2007-04-19T14:18:00.001+10:00

The Picture of the new bluesfest site that offended Bluesfest Inc so much that they have threatened legal action, and have removed any suggestion of site criticism from their bulletin board. The moderator is careful to leave comments supporting the site.Click the pic for the big picture.

Bluesfest: Roots and Leaves!

2007-04-13T16:38:00.001+10:00

Peter Noble, organiser of the Blues and Roots Festival, says change is afoot for the event. Is the bluesfest leaving its roots? With Coca Cola ads blasting the site from multiple screens, and many punters munching on pluto pups and hot chips, it would appear so. Surely the Gold coast is more appropriate for an

The Peter Noble and Jan Barham Show

2007-04-11T14:28:00.001+10:00

Brought to you by coca cola and jim beam.Read on for the article from the Northern Star.20.01.2007By HEATH GILMORENew location has to be big and close to festival’s home base of Byron BayPETER NOBLE has big plans for the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival — a 121 hectare site only 15 minutes away from downtown Byron Bay.The Bluesfest supremo is again scouting for a local site after passing up an

Bluesfest at tyagarah

2007-04-11T11:58:00.001+10:00

Mitra Ardron, Byron resident and member of the Tyagarah Sustainable Community Alliance, writes:Byron Bay forged its image as an alternative community hostingintimate, quirky events, including the East Coast Blues and RootsFestival, first held in a converted piggery before a few hundred stonedhippies.Last weekend’s version drew 15,000 punters and wassponsored by Bundaberg Rum, Coca Cola, Jim

Label clouds for blogger

2007-03-30T19:21:00.001+10:00

Beta Blogger Label Cloud

21st century Skills

2007-03-29T12:16:00.001+10:00

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning

ICT continuum

2007-03-24T13:46:00.001+11:00

http://clas.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/ITC_website/index.htm How effectively do you use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in your teaching?Use this ICT Continuum to review your practice in terms of the integration of ICT in your teaching and learning.Download a copy of the ICT Continuum.The ICT Continuum describes the knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities teachers need to

Hacker

2007-03-22T12:37:00.001+11:00

Is this for real?Is Your Child A Computer Hacker? There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson; "Neuromancer" by William Gibson; "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland;

The Fastest way to find High-Quality Freebies on the Web

2007-03-20T00:14:00.001+11:00

excellent search tipsThe Fastest way to find High-Quality Freebies on the Web | BittBox Thanks to site’s like Digg, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, Reddit, etc.which rely on users submitting the best content from around the web,there exists an easy way to find the best of the best using a quickGoogle search trick. I’m not saying it never happens, but most ofthe urls submitted to these popular social

Movie Database

2007-03-19T23:56:00.001+11:00

EMDBEMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With anautomatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text orcomplete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, searchfunction and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't need a .NET framework orany other external libraries. And best of all... it's free

teens and blogs

2007-03-19T23:48:00.001+11:00

from the times online...What does this mean for school libraries? What does it mean for parents?Dear diary, I prefer to vent my private angst in cyberspace-Arts & Entertainment-Books-TimesOnline A survey of 1,019 teenagers suggests that almost half write blogs while fewer than one in ten keeps a traditional pen-and-paper diary.According to the survey, commissioned by Sky's Young Journalist

Community walk

2007-03-19T09:24:00.001+11:00

Mullumbimby - CommunityWalkwhat are some of the uses for such a great tool in the classroom?Powered by ScribeFire.

cbox, advanced tagboard service

2007-03-18T14:53:00.001+11:00

Wow, this looks good.Cbox · About · Free Tagboard and Chat Widget for your Site Get a Cbox tagboard for your website or blog and let your visitors leave you messages or chat with each other. Getting started couldn't be easier – sign up, get your code, and start chatting!Cbox gives your website an edge over the rest. It attracts visitors and keeps them coming back for more. It gives people with

10 Tips for Attracting More Comments

2007-03-18T14:26:00.001+11:00

http://performancing.com/node/1210

Hal Higdon's Marathon Training guide

2007-03-18T14:01:00.001+11:00

PEOPLE DIFFER GREATLY IN ABILITY, but ideally before starting a marathon program, you should have been running about a year. You should be able to comfortably run distances between 3 and 6 miles. You should be training 3-5 days a week, averaging 15-25 miles a week. You should have run an occasional 5-K or 10-K race. It is possible to run a marathon with less of a training base (

teenage blogging

2007-03-18T09:03:00.001+11:00

A survey of 1019 teenagers reported last week that only one in10 of them wrote a diary compared with the 47 per cent who blog.Could there have been, in the seven or eight years since thearrival of the blog and online diary, a cultural shift of such asize that the privacy of the bound diary is now regarded as somequaint, predigital relic, as derisory to young people as someVictorian ideas about

John Mayer at bluesfest

2007-03-17T18:08:00.001+11:00

John Mayer from wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mayerJohn Clayton Mayer (born on October 16, 1977) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. After originally performing mainly acoustic

Lee "Scratch" Perry

2007-03-17T15:17:00.001+11:00

Coming to bluesfestMore here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Scratch_PerryPowered by ScribeFire.

Scribefire looks great.

2007-03-17T14:56:00.001+11:00

Lets me drag and drop an image, what about tags?Version 1.4 — March 7, 2007 — 351 KB Version 1.4 changes:* Rebranding of Performancing for Firefox as ScribeFire* Improved support for Blogger accounts* Improved file upload supportPowered by ScribeFire.

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) :: Firefox Add-ons

2007-03-17T14:51:00.000+11:00

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) :: Firefox Add-ons: "ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) 1.4 Homepageby Christopher Finke, PerformancingScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog

netWeather v2.0

2007-03-17T13:42:00.000+11:00

netWeather v2.0: "AccuWeather.com's netWeather v2.0 is free, and easy to add to any page or blog.Features:# Choose from one of six sizes and eight colors# Choose from locations around the world# Display current conditions, five-day forecast, temperature maps, and radar or precipitation maps# Available in English or Spanish# Now available for your MySpace page!"

Larry Carlton - at bluesfest

2007-03-17T12:41:00.000+11:00

Larry Carlton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Larry Carlton (born 2 March 1948) is an American jazz guitarist, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with more popular bands. Over his career Carlton has won three Grammys for his performances and compositions, including the theme music for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues (1981).Carlton started

Mullum Writers

2007-03-16T17:53:00.000+11:00

Mullum Writers: "On the Weekend I...went to the Ballina Water slides for my friend's birthday.Then I...went home and played on the PS2 with my Dad.We tried to get to the next cliff but we kept on falling into the water.I felt frustrated."