Archive for October, 2006
Contraption
27 October 2006I’m at uni at 5:30 on a Friday night waiting to go meet a friend in town. Needless to say, I’m bored
How fragile is American Democracy?
26 October 2006Americans pride themselves on their institution of democracy, so much so in fact that they are quite willing to forcefully export it to as many countries as possible. But how democratic is America? It is no coincidence that politics is seen by a majority of people as being a dirty business to get into - […]
Brisbane Ring Road
26 October 2006My friend Frank just pointed me to this interesting article which details a proposed ring road system for Brisbane (which obviously never happened). It seems like it would have done a great deal to alleviate the problems that are now facing Brisbane as it struggles to cope with it’s population boom.
The centrepiece of Brisbane’s freeway […]
Boycott Sony
25 October 2006In case you haven’t heard enough bad things about Sony (root kits on cds, crippled music players etc) here is another example of their complete disregard for their customers. Despite their unwillingness to sell the PSP in europe they are (successfully) suing the importer Lik-Sang for filling this hole in the supply demand chain. I […]
Another reason not to move to the USA
23 October 2006THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there.The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.
Expatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up recently and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on toast for […]
All your base
20 October 2006I saw this piss funny comment on slashdot under the “Japan McDonalds distributes USB virus” article. This is very geeky, if you don’t find this funny then you probably have a life off of the internet.
In A.D. 2006
Meal was beginning.
Customer: What happen?
Slashdotter: McDonalds set up us the free mp3 player.
Slashdotter: You get virus.
Customer: What […]
New Google Search features test site
19 October 2006Looks like there can actually be too much of a good thing. At least that is what Google have found regarding their brand recognition when testing out new search features, apparently people just love Google so much that they’ll like whatever Google gives them. To get around this they have launched a new search site […]
Dove Natural Beauty
19 October 2006Great video but it pretty ironic that they are using it to sell beauty products to women.
Time to update the Periodic Table
16 October 2006Well perhaps not, depending on how old it is it could already have Ununoctium marked in down the bottom at position 118.
“The heaviest element yet, Element 118, has been created in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US. They […]
Thoughts on Firefox RC2
15 October 2006Firefox is now nearing the version 2.0 milestone, with the second release candidate being released last week and positive reviews already starting to surface on the net. The development team have apparently already started focusing their efforts on the next version (3.0) and are soliciting requests for features, you can even download alpha builds for […]