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	Wed, 08 Sep 2010

Blathering for Wednesday, 08 September 2010

08:23

Carrot shaped like Buzz Lightyear - Telegraph

Ground breaking journalism at its finest.

14:07

US federal IT spending: a wasteland of misbegotten contracts

Great video about US government IT waste.

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	Tue, 07 Sep 2010

Blathering for Tuesday, 07 September 2010

08:55

Book Review: The Stainless Steel Rat Returns by Harry Harrison Grasping for the Wind

Interesting. Harrison's newer stuff isn't as good, but I'll probably end up buying this regardless.

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	Mon, 06 Sep 2010

Blathering for Monday, 06 September 2010

10:57

Diving in - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Some of these pictures are amazing. I especially love the ones where there is water deformation...

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	Sun, 05 Sep 2010

Blathering for Sunday, 05 September 2010

19:04

Ten ways to survive the pensions crisis | Money | The Guardian

The average UK retirement savings account holds 30,000 pounds? That's a bit worrying.

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	Wed, 01 Sep 2010

Blathering for Wednesday, 01 September 2010

13:07

Penn and Teller take on vaccines | Bad Astronomy

Nice video about the dangers of vaccination.

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	Tue, 31 Aug 2010

Blathering for Tuesday, 31 August 2010

10:40

chumby hacker boards (now available in beta)

Very very tempting. It is a bit of a shame that ethernet isn't built in though.

12:09

Lloyd's of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lloyd's has an interesting history. I like the coffee shop beginnings.

14:02

FDA Finally Inspects Tainted Egg Farms, Discovers They're Unsanitary

Why isn't the FDA inspecting places like this? That seems like a pretty fundamental requirement to me.

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	Mon, 23 Aug 2010

Blathering for Monday, 23 August 2010

17:28

AFP: China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km

9 day long traffic jam...

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	Sat, 21 Aug 2010

Blathering for Saturday, 21 August 2010

23:11

Make: Online : Open source Breathalyzer? There's a shield for that

Nice, the MQ-3 alcohol sensor requires no calibration, and they're $9 USD on ebay.

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	Fri, 13 Aug 2010

Blathering for Friday, 13 August 2010

03:19

Hotel Playa del Carmen, Mexico Hotel Riu Palace Riviera Maya - RIU Hotels & Resorts

This sounds like fun

03:19

DuplicityBackupHowto - Community Ubuntu Documentation

I built off site backs the other day using duplicity. Its a nice tool.

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	Wed, 11 Aug 2010

Blathering for Thursday, 12 August 2010

10:53

What Happened to Yahoo

Interesting read about what Paul Graham thinks went wrong at Yahoo

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	Tue, 10 Aug 2010

Blathering for Tuesday, 10 August 2010

05:24

YouTube - Telephone Remake

You are required to like this, as these guys have guns.

05:25

YouTube - Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce Vs. Metallica "Telephone vs. Enter Sandman" (Djs From Mars Bootleg Remix

The original of this video was taken down, which is sad. Here's a new copy.

22:00

YouTube - Time Warp starring Tony Abbott

This ad is awesome, if short on actual content.

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	Mon, 09 Aug 2010

Blathering for Monday, 09 August 2010

05:28

dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library

Looks useful. If only it could display more than one row per day.

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	Sun, 08 Aug 2010

Blathering for Sunday, 08 August 2010

23:05

EFO iPazzPort Keyboard looks like a BlackBerry, calls your HTPC instead of your boss

$45 is a bit high. I paid around $30 for two of these the other day. The keyboard is really clicky (it feels a lot like a blackberry), but apart from that I think they'll make good HTPC remotes for more advanced users.

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	Sat, 31 Jul 2010

Blathering for Sunday, 01 August 2010

00:43

TO BE FUSED: WATER BEARS and MOSS PIGLETS

These things are awesome. Tiny indestructible clawed monsters of death.

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Blathering for Saturday, 31 July 2010

17:22

Hall of Shame: Whats wrong with the sunscreen protection business? | EWG's 2010 Sunscreen Guide

Wow. The Banana Boat stuff is awesome.

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	Fri, 30 Jul 2010

Blathering for Friday, 30 July 2010

15:05

North Korean soccer team fails at "ideological struggle"

I think this management technique could improve corporate life. If you're set an impossible project, and fail to deliver because you lack super human powers, then should deserve to be banished to a life of hard labour. When I run a Fortune 500 company, y'all be banished.

20:22

Sand Drawings :: Jim Denevan

Some of these are cool.

20:43

Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission - ICRC Reports and Papers

Interesting reports on solar feed in tariff takeup in the ACT.

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	Wed, 28 Jul 2010

Blathering for Thursday, 29 July 2010

01:24

A Mad Engineer at SciFoo

I'm helping out at SciFoo this weekend. Exciting!

01:26

Amazon rolls out smaller, lighter, WiFi-only Kindle for $139

I love what's happening in the ebook market. These things get more tempting every day. I have a Sony PRS 505, which makes it hard to justify another ebook reader. Must be strong...

01:30

Chevy Volt: No $5K rebate, carpool-lane access for CA buyers

There is an interesting general point buried in this article. Catalytic converters need to be hot to operate effectively. A hybrid kicks the engine in and out, which means the catalytic converter can cool down unless counter measures are implemented. This increases the amount of time the catalytic converter isn't operating, and therefore the amount of pollution produced by the engine when its on.

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	Tue, 27 Jul 2010

Blathering for Tuesday, 27 July 2010

16:10

Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million - CNN.com

I knew garage sailing to pay off.

17:52

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I am a teapot

20:34

First Drive: 2011 Nissan Leaf doesn't change the game, just the players Autoblog

Want.

23:31

Sniper jesus

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	Mon, 26 Jul 2010

Blathering for Monday, 26 July 2010

01:48

You say Iceland has no ants? Not even giant radioactive ones? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The problem with the hotel life? I like my possessions. Especially the wife and kids -- they're definitely my favourite possessions.

02:02

TechCrunch TV | Web Cam Barbie: Come On Barbie; Let's Go Party

Join us next week for another edition of "What's fucked up in toys".

15:50

Existential D&D comedy: when characters realize they are trapped in adolescents' imagination

I am sure Panos has this on pre-order.

16:12

50 Fantastically Clever Logos

I love the use of negative space in some of these.

20:29

The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style | A Hamburger Today

I have been trying to make these since moving to Australia. This page is awesome!

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	Fri, 23 Jul 2010

Blathering for Friday, 23 July 2010

22:06

BP Photoshopping Goes From Bad To Ridiculously Bad

I love BP more each day. I hope I don't own any stock in them (although, it is stupidly hard to determine what actual shares your super and 401k hold).

22:09

The Tangga House by Guz Architects

Ok, so I am sure that pool is impossible to keep clean, but I still want it.

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