Battle of Kruger

Another reason why youtube is better than TV. Although the video clocks in a 8.23 seconds, it’s the best 8.23 seconds you’ll spend today. Marvel at the wild, and how the passives can take it up to the aggressives! A truly amazing video…
(probably not suitable for young children)

The budget and our need for broadband relief…

“Fuel International, a small special effects company in Newtown, does business all over the planet. Raw footage is sent to it over the internet; it adds its touch of magic and sends it back overnight to clients in Los Angles, London and Wellington. It employs 70 people and has annual turnover [...]

The Methane Blaster

What NASA’s been up to in the desert…

The consequences of work

Buzz Andersen is, or rather was, a programmer with Apple. He announced his resignation via his vox blog and it makes for interesting reading. I can certainly empathise with the phases his job went through and the consequences of working such a demanding job. A fascinating read I recommend with some noteworthy advice within.
Apple: A [...]

It’s a breeze…

…or at least they make it look so.
Came across a sweet site that covers the Australian kite-surfing scene. Has loads of news, reviews and best of all a sweet gallery of kitesurfers in action.
Check it out at:
www.kitesurfsessions.com

Hey McFly!

Came across this on Digg (natch) and this website purports that Nike are planning to release the “power laces” future Nike’s worn by Marty McFly in 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. Well it doesn’t take a genius to see that these clearly aren’t prototypes for a possible release, but are instead a [...]

All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app

Awesome perspective of everything. Fantastic for viewing relative scale!
read more | digg story

Live and learn

Last night over dinner a friend told me of an event the night before when a stranger buzzed his apartment intercom. At the door to his apartment complex was an enraged man who had apparently, earlier that day, bought a car in a private sale. The individual whom he had bought it from had listed [...]

Waitresses catch man drugging date’s beer TWICE

Talk about heroic. A quick-thinking San Francisco pair nail a man slipping his companion two separate mickeys and get the girl out of harm’s way. Now Joseph Szlamnik, a 43-year-old senior management assistant for the San Francisco Unified School District, is going to jail on narcotic charges.
read more | digg story

“Things may change” for Porn Pop-up teacher

The sentence date draws closer in this sad-sad case of inept School boards, facist DA’s and a walking example of why the art of print journalism needs to die so it may be reborn.
After weeks of e-mails and bad press discrediting the District Attorney’s prosecution of the case, the tide may be turning for So-called [...]