Look, a butterfly!

My boyfriend was watching Cool Hand Luke the other day and was a bit surprised to find the soundtrack suddenly break in to the theme music for Channel 9 News.

“…with Bruce Page and Heather Ford”.

Some of you may have heard about the federal government’s proposal to implement mandatory internet filtering at the ISP (internet service provider) level. I wanted to post about the proposal’s champion, Stephen Conroy’s, recent TV appearances regarding the filter, however, I thought it best to provide a short historical recap of the proposal, before […]

I find it disappointing that SBS thinks it appropriate to disguise blatant advertising as news. Earlier today, an article entitled “How to watch the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on your Telstra Next G mobile” made it’s way to the latest headlines section on the SBS World News website. Now it sits in the most popular […]

What Kari said.

Santa Clauses around Australia have been banned from saying “Ho, ho, ho!” this Christmas and are being encouraged to exclaim “Ha, ha, ha” instead. This is because “in some cases the little kids can get a little bit scared of the deep ‘ho, ho, hos’ ”
I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas, or a big […]

I’m not one to usually dote on small animals, but this puppy is the cutest thing ever!

UQ physicists Murray Olsen and Simon Haine made the news today. I just came from a talk by Murray and apparently they stumbled upon this teleportation idea when they were trying to find a way to make a homodyne measurement of an atom laser. An atom laser is essentially a BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) that dribbles […]

I’ve been trying to call the Polish consulate to organise my passport today but the line is constantly busy. I can’t imagine it being that popular. Maybe they’re busy watching Teletubbies and they’ve taken the phone off the hook. Or maybe they no longer have a phone. I imagine the Polish consulate in Brisbane to […]

After hearing about China’s plans to control the weather for the 2008 olympics, I did some wi-search on cloud seeding. Apparently, this is a reasonably successful and widely-used method for “making it rain”.
This inspired me to conceive the idea of a Raindance Festival in QLD. The plan is to get together a la Woodford Folk […]

A woman of African-American descent recently ordered a couch to be delivered to her house in Toronto (full story here). Upon arrival, she noticed that the name of the colour of her couch was “nigger brown”. It turns out that a translation program made by Kingsoft Corp., a Chinese software company, is at fault.

….when the […]