Wikileaks wets itself

The system fails! Hooray! The system works!

Wikileaks, a wiki that allows anonymous users to publish leaked documents has allowed someone to leak information on their website, about Wikileaks themselves.

The Register:

The issue arose after a fund raising email on Saturday went out with all 58 addresses in the To field (instead of the bcc field). The all too common schoolboy error meant that all the recipients found out the online identities of other donors.

This is rather admirable. The list has been not been censored. Though some are also speculating conspiracy:

Wikileaks described the list as a partial list of its donors, adding its speculation as to the likely motives of the leaker.

A scientology mole perhaps?

The partial donor list is available from wikileaks here.

Koala cuteness tragedies

via F U Penguin (language)

Do not share your water bottle with koalas kids, you could get Chlamydia…

Click through for a larger picture. AdelaideNOW (News Ltd) has a complete gallery of thirsty koalas snapped while the Victorian bushfires raged.

Donations can be made to the RedCross bushfire appeal here. Donations can also be made to the RedCross to assist floodstruck North Queensland.

Common health for the Commonwealth?

6 minutes’ Michael Woodward summarises some of the NHHRC’s suggestions that have been made to improve Australia’s healthcare system.

1. More Super Clinics.
2. Voluntary enrolment with a single practice.
3. Fundholding to supplement fee-for-service.
4. Performance payments.
5. Super divisions of primary care to replace division of general practice.
6. Extending Medicare and PBS rights to nurse practitioners.
7. Procedural work to be done by physicians’ assistants.
8. Shared care arrangement s and care co-ordinators.
9. Electronic health records for all.
10. A National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health Authority.

Crikey‘s health blog, Croakey, believes in only one solution to reform of Australia’s broken health system.

Let the Commonwealth take right over everything. Sure delivery will be local, but no authority will rest in local hands.

Now, while I agree that a state-based model is next to useless. There’s no sudden shift in medical needs as you cross the border from New South Wales into Queensland, so really hospital standards, doctor qualifications and diagnostic testing shouldn’t differ either.

But this solution sounds typical of urban-based Australian politics.

Can has internet monies?

Internet. You have officially sold oout.

You used to be cool. You used to be about the fans. And the free … ummm… stuff.

Now companies can’t even bother paying advertising to pretend to be ordinary Joes and post viral videos on the internet.

Now they are openly soliciting entries from … anybody.

Supervirals.

I’m so torn. But honestly this can only be the unholy spawn of evil.

On one hand they are rewarding people who create original and imaginative content using a nonconformist prize-motivation system.

On the other its a magnet for attention whoring sycophantic wankers who will ultimately only be rewarded for TnA, shocking violence and mediocricity that ordinary people understand while leaving professionals out of a job.