Look, a butterfly!

I’ve just uploaded a video of the Glockenspiel in the main square in Munich. My first attempt at annotating Youtube videos.

I’ve been battling an aphid infestation on my chillies for a few months now. I’ve tried using natural killers like Pyrethrum spray, but to no avail. It kills them on contact, but then they come back. I wouldn’t mind having them there, except they chew away at the new fruit and leaves, which then fall […]

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”.

Who needs a guitar teacher, when you’ve got a half naked man with a doobie hanging out of his mouth, giving tutorials on youtube?

I find this appalling:

3 Billion years ago cyanobacteria appeared on the planet, changing the course of life on earth. Scientists call this event the Oxygen Catastrophe.
This video discusses the appearance of cyanobacteria and the effect it had on the evolution of life over the next 3 billion years.
Suitable for an introduction to evolution, endosymbiosis and the appearance of […]

On October 1, 1993, comedian, social critic and my personal hero, Bill Hicks was scheduled to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. For the first time in the history of the show, the whole of a segment was censored and Hicks’ footage never made it to television. Hicks died 5 months later of […]

A lovely beat poem about a dinner party, by Australian comedian, Tim Minchin.

David Attenborough talks about his upcoming BBC documentary entitled “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life”. The documentary screens today in the UK. I’m not sure if it is going to screen in Oz anytime soon, but I look forward to getting my hands on a copy. Check out the giant flower in the clip!

I wish you all a wonderful Australia Day! In celebration, I hope you enjoy this classic offering from Men At Work.

I only recently found out that the flute part was based on the “Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…” song. Now it’s so obvious!