Dr Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, passed away a few days ago due to pancreatic cancer. Here’s his Last Lecture entitled, “Really achieving your childhood dreams”: Transcript available here [pdf].Read More
As regular readers will be aware, Austrolabe’s mascot is the pigeon-chested anti-Muslim campaigner Darrin (sic) Hodges. Here he is above (on the far right, with red shirt and video camera) with people we assume are his fellow “protectionist” chums. With friends like this, it will come as no surprise that Darrin also appears to be...Read More
In May this year, Iran hosted the 21st International Conference of Islamic Unity. Here are a series of inspiring photos from the conference (Via Heidariam.blogfa.com): Read More
Green Left Weekly are reporting on the RMIT prayer room issue: the apparent decision of the university administration to convert the Muslim prayer room into a “multi-faith spiritual centre”. For decades, the campus had prayer rooms for Muslim students, including separate rooms for males and females. In 2005 Muslim students pointed out that the existing...Read More
