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According at an article on Stuff, Canterbury health workers have described the health system as "sexist", saying that despite men sufferring poorer helth and having a higher mortality rate, "...there appears to be significantly more health promotion targeted at women."

Report co-author and Sport Canterbury events and marketing manager Jonny Kirkpatrick said it was difficult to attract funding for male-focused health projects.

"Men are partly to blame themselves because of the `she'll be right attitude', but it starts at the top," he said.

"The awareness around women's health is fantastic, but men get breast cancer too and as many men die from prostate cancer as women of breast cancer."

The report's main recommendations were raising awareness around men's health and making services gender appropriate.

I remember discussing this issue with friends over 20 years ago, when I was told that a group doing a prostate cancer awareness leaflet drop had been warned by Police to stop for "indecency" or somesuch thing. This isn't a new problem, but it is a largely ignored one. The Movember team deserves huge recognition for the efforts they've made raising both awareness and funding for men's health issues. Cheers guys!

From: Defective by Design
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Subject: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

Dear supporter,

Today, Apple launched a computer that will never belong to its owner. Apple will use Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to gain total veto power over the applications you use and the media you can view.

We've launched a petition calling out Apple's new product for what it is: a frightening step backward for computing and for media distribution. Can you read it, sign it, and share with friends?

Up until the late 1990s PC Computer cases were typically rectangular, beige objects where the colour was dictated more by the quality of cheap recycled plastic from which they were manufactured than by choice or design. In the late 1990s to early 2000s some PC enthusiasts, many of them Gamers, began Case Modding - "spicing up" their PC cases with lights, windows and paintwork to reflect their personalities and interests in much the same way as car enthusiasts have been modifying their cars since the early days of hot-rodding in the 1930s.

Case mods are often bright and gaudy, festooned with lights and high-gloss paintwork, but increasingly there are beautifully conceived and executed, even elegant, case mods by talented and professional designers.

In 2001 VIA Technologies introduced the Mini-ITX form-factor motherboard; a tiny 17cm x 17cm board with onboard CPU and minimal cooling requirements. This has opened avenues for case modders to build PC into smaller and more unusual enclosures than ever before. The case mods I showcase here combine these tiny mini- or pico-ITX boards with classic PC from computing history. Here are my picks for the best retro case mods:

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While searching for something completely unrelated, I stumpled upon one of the most egregious sins against the natural world since the invention of fire. On the otherwise excellent Binary Zone Interactive I found the Specadore 64.

When is a Commodore 64 not a Commodore 64? When it's a ZX Specadore 64! So how the blazes did this all come about then? Well, I've had my trusty C64C for MANY years now - in fact, it was bought brand new way back in 1987 I think! Unfortunately over time the keyboard changed colour from a vibrant light grey/cream colour to a horrible yellow mess. So I decided to give it a fresh new coat of paint. As I rather like the colour scheme of the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum I thought I'd paint up my C64C in ZX Spectrum style colours!

Shame on you Jason Mackenzie!