I’ll get around to putting a few photos up from my recent trip home in a day or two… In the meantime, I thought I’d share a poem I found from a year or two ago, newly rediscovered during some random cleaning and sorting this evening…
Sitting; shifting; in an out and in again.
Attention wavering as […]
One of the good things about the internet and the increased use of free media for self-exposition is the innovation and creativity it encourages. The pure numbers of people floating around the internet who are interested in a short video/blog post/tidbit that exhibits originality of concept and nice execution mean that talented ‘artists’ have […]
The are thousands of flights going to and from US destinations at any one time. One savvy fellow has created a graphical representation of these flights using algorithms. If you’re wondering what that bright patch is towards the bottom left, it is not an Australian destination but rather Hawaii…
During my news roundup the other day, prior to doing any ‘real’ work, I stumbled on a news article regarding the launch of a new website. The spruik ended up slamming the website’s server such that using it on the first day was akin to cutting your front yard with toe clippers. However, […]
The recent sale of the Rothschild Faberge Egg (1902) brought these little gems to my attention for the first time. Indeed, they appear to be sensational works of craftspersonship and are very striking. I found a good site with pictures of a lot of the eggs if you’re interested in taking a sticky-beak […]
How to make and bake some breaks
Apparently, the guy is Darren Foreman a.k.a - Beardy Man (UK Beat Boxing Champion)
So, part of my honours has me going and digging out Media Releases from a certain Lobby Group to analyse qualitatively for signs of change in rhetoric. Unfortunately, some of the old links are broken and thus I had to try novel ways of finding the data…
Which brought me to the Internet Archive Wayback […]
Here is a link to a video of a tesla coil playing music (including the theme of Mario Bros)… whacky
Here is a clever little map of all the U.S. states renamed after countries with similar GDP figures.
Here is proof that Pi = 3
Last night I decided to do a routine upgrade of Wordpress, and I’m proud to say she’s humming along just fine and dandy on version 2.2 (after a few minor hiccups of course). In the process of upgrading, I decided to upload a plugin that allows me to view my stats - how many […]