This is the personal website of Dashiell Dunn, a South Australian student who wears his socks inside out.
Remixing (i.e. changing the text on) vintage World War II propaganda posters is just something I do. This time, they’ve got nothing to do with the 2007 federal election.
And, as special bonus for anyone who has never had someone look at them weird after seeing their desktop wallpaper, I present the 1600×1200 “That’s Corn” wallpaper.
Today I have launched the latest version of www.maestrosync.com, which I have given the rather uninspired title of Novus. Fundamentally, it’s based on the latest versions of WordPress and K2. There was then much designing and coding (HTML, CSS, and proper PHP) and the site was born. Some brief notes:
There are still a few rough edges that I’m working on, so ignore them for the time being.
Had a go at a little World War II propaganda. The rhyme is original (hopefully) and the blur is deliberate (because I drew it roughly).
Absolutely! Many of them relate to the 2007 Australian federal election.
An simple abstract composition, designed for use as a wallpaper. To an extent, Mondrian-esque (but not really).
If you’re looking to buy a domain name, don’t look it up to see if it’s available unless you’re prepared to immediately buy and register it. Many people have reported this happening, and it just happened to me: Maltuzi Holdings LLC., a company which is essentially scum, intercepts WHOISs to empty domains and registers them—and uses them as nothing more than parked advertising sites—so that legitimate users cannot.
These fuckers are big. Check out DailyChanges.com. They’re top of the list for domain name activity.
Mind you, I had no great desire for the domain. I just thought it would be kind of cool (I wasn’t sure what I would use it for, either, so perhaps me not buying it is a good thing). That still doesn’t excuse what happened.
I doubt you’d manage to put a dent in the system unless there was a large, concerted effort to do so (possibly due to a Slashdotting, hint hint), but it’d be nice to have people placing huge numbers of WHOISs for useless and empty domains (whois bombing, as it were). Of course, I don’t know how kindly the people running the whois servers would take to it.
