Travelling up to the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) we caught the Wednesday market day at
Eumundi.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Eumundi Market Colour
Travelling up to the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) we caught the Wednesday market day at
Eumundi.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Biggles: the Movie
Video of recent efforts to restore the historical reputation of that famous South African Aviation family, the Saunders Brothers.
Friday, April 10, 2009
TERMINATE YOURSELF
COOL VIRTUAL CATWALK
(Source: Internet Retailing)
H&M launches spring collection with interactive catwalk
The new feature shows outfits being modelled on a virtual catwalk and lets customers select and view outfits, 'try them on' in the retailer's virtual dressing room and comment on them in Facebook. H&M has launched its Spring 2009 collection with an innovative interactive catwalk. Customers can choose to see any of a wide range of outfits being modelled on the virtual catwalk and can then use the 'try it on' feature to see how they could look in real life, using H&M's virtual dressing room feature. Customers can also add outfits to Facebook so that their friends can comment on them.
SIMPSONS ON SALE
(Source: ShoppingBlog.com)
The Simpsons postage stamps are now on sale at U.S. Post Office locations and online. You can see more details here.
"We are excited to celebrate The Simpsons on postage stamps," said U.S. Postal Service Executive Director of Stamp Services David Failor. "Eyebrow-raising to say the least, this witty, well-written pop icon continues to irreverently satire its parody of a middle-class family as it lampoons American culture. The Simpsons stamps, which includes known philatelists Bart Simpson, will serve as a great opportunity to interest youngsters into stamp collecting."
"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor The Simpsons has ever received," said Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons.
"We are excited to celebrate The Simpsons on postage stamps," said U.S. Postal Service Executive Director of Stamp Services David Failor. "Eyebrow-raising to say the least, this witty, well-written pop icon continues to irreverently satire its parody of a middle-class family as it lampoons American culture. The Simpsons stamps, which includes known philatelists Bart Simpson, will serve as a great opportunity to interest youngsters into stamp collecting."
"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor The Simpsons has ever received," said Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons.
Dolphin species found intact
(Source: BBC) Conservationists have expressed their amazement that thousands of rare dolphins have been found in Bangladeshi waters when previously they were thought to be endangered or dead. Nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins were discovered in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and the nearby waters of the Bay of Bengal.
Eyeborg
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence damaged his right eye in a childhood accident and was later given a prosthetic replacement. Like any other false eye, it was designed to be purely an aesthetic replacement, but he realised that the vacant bit of face real estate could be put to better use in his art.
Now Spence is attempting to build a wireless video camera into his synthetic eye, turning himself into a self-proclaimed "Eyeborg".
The camera will record anything and anyone that enters Spence's field of vision and relay the footage back to a computer. That video will provide a unique perspective on the way video surveillance is becoming more popular in western societies, he told New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16914-bionic-eye-cam-to-shine-a-light-on-society.html
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Scary stuff
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cyber-attack-on-us-grid-20090409-a0zb.html#
Cyber attack on US grid
- April 9, 2009
CHINESE and Russian cyber spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report says.
Quoting unidentified intelligence sources and homeland security officials, The Wall Street Journal said cyber spies penetrated the system repeatedly last year, but did not disrupt it. "The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," the paper quoted an intelligence official as saying.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Welcome to NZ
Good ole NZ - have a read and a chuckle
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25307374-12377,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25307374-12377,00.html
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Antarctic ice shelf breaks up
(Source: News.com.au)
AN ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history shattered yesterday and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said.
"It's amazing how the ice has ruptured. Two days ago it was intact," David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey, said of a satellite image of the Wilkins Ice Shelfon the Antarctic Peninsula.
THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA
Tea Prices Likely to Rise as Techies Switch From Coffee to Tea
Wired has an article that says tea is the new coffee and reports that today's web 2.0 crowd is on a tea drinking binge. The article also says that today's influential young Web 2.0 millionaires are drinking expensive imported teas. The article says Digg founder Kevin Rose imports $1,000 a month worth of specialty tea for Digg employees.
Wired has an article that says tea is the new coffee and reports that today's web 2.0 crowd is on a tea drinking binge. The article also says that today's influential young Web 2.0 millionaires are drinking expensive imported teas. The article says Digg founder Kevin Rose imports $1,000 a month worth of specialty tea for Digg employees.Only in Sydney
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Early Coffee
Shot of Robyn taken at our favourite, 'hole-in-the-wall' cafe en route to work sometime last week. Looks pretty dark outside with the changing season.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
EARTH HOUR - THE MOVIE
We observed Earth Hour on the deck - was interesting to see before and after pics showing our neighbourhood plunged into relative darkness.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Melbourne Morning After
After a heavy night at our favourite Italian restaurant, we were forced to innovate to survive:
Melbourne South Bank
video clip from recent trip to Melbourne - a perfect evening along the river Yarra.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Architecture that Inspires
We are really enjoying the huge range of Melbourne's architecture on display, with this visit. Every turn leads to a new exciting vista and contrasting styles. You dare not walk without looking up for fear of missing out.
Holding the Purse Strings
Only In Australia
A Canberra family's had a rude awakening after a kangaroo crashed through a bedroom window and terrorised its unsuspecting occupants.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
FOSSIL FOOTPRINT
(Source: The Economist)
Homo erectus had a manly gait
Science
THIS footprint is part of one of two series of fossil tracks found recently in Kenya in rocks that are 1.5m years old. It is thought to have been made byHomo erectus, an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens. As the name suggests, Homo erectus is known from its skeleton to have walked upright, but the details of its gait could, in the past, be inferred only from bones, rather than being studied more directly. The new tracks, reported in Scienceby Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, in Britain, and his colleagues, confirm that Homo erectus walked heel-to-toe as a modern human does, rather than with the ape-like gait of its own ancestors, the australopithecines.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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