October 2010
1 post
Lions attack trainers at Ukraine circus | World... →
August 2010
4 posts
Check if a website is banned in China →
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=qu... →
Canz I be a Delphic Oracle?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/02/mongoli... →
Mongolian neo-Nazis
July 2010
5 posts
The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
Overkill as art: Ars reviews the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 →
Nice rodent.
The Turn →
At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline passengers appreciate neither its elegance and mystery nor its dangerously delusive character.
June 2010
1 post
I think Julia Gillard should walk out of caucus as PM and immediately call a double dissolution on climate change.
May 2010
17 posts
WatchLadytron-Tomorrow. Killer track, killer video.
WatchYeasayer is totally my favourite band at the moment. Trippy clip!
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/j... →
The dark side of Dubai - a must read.
The Dark Side of Dubai - a must read →
The Dark Side of Dubai - a must read! →
Perfect for a nervous flyer like me: fly back into Auckland just as a “weather bomb” is hitting.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/1641/le... →
The most extraordinary article about a serial arsonist: fires = sex
Brain Gain →
The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.
Interesting fact: The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a dirigible terminal for Zeppelins and other airships to dock.
Article: My take on Sydney
Sydney, especially around the inner city, has it’s own unique tone of human static. It’s the norm to see people who aren’t the norm as you walk down Oxford St. There are the drag queens, the bleached-haired gay boys, the fucked-up homeless people (most of whom are mentally ill), the violent drunks, the fag hags and party girls and curious tourists.
All cities tend to have a...
Typical: Go to Sydney for a week, and the forecast is for rain for the entire time!
The story of the electric light →
To Be or Not to Be? →
(not for anyone who identifies with a wolf to read)… Interesting discussion of suicide…
Do you love zombies? Do you love farts? The you'll... →
UK Election Winner! Meet the New Toff (Same as the... →
April 2010
10 posts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8643844.stm →
Oh no! Might be time to go out and buy a Zip Drive!
The older we get, the better the gadgets get. It’s most annoying. We’re going to miss out on the REALLY cool stuff.
There’s something wrong with twitter when you can’t fit a Noel Coward quote into 140 characters.
“People are wrong when they say that opera isn’t what it used to be. It is...”
– Noel Coward
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/03/tory-ta... →
Does nothing change? The UK Tories would support banning gays from B&Bs… FU Cameron.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,19... →
Stephen Fry interviews Steve Jobs in Time Magazine to discuss the iTampon.
March 2010
44 posts
Well, we’re all little broadcasters now. Facebroadcasting, twitbroadcasting and otherwise web2.0broadcasting (that may be stretching the concept of what a word is). Anyway, ok, great. It’s probably better than CBS framing the snapshot of what it is to be alive in whatever century.
The problem, however, is that the broader public policy themes seem to get swallowed up in the static of...
Apple + DNS
This is a technical post. Recently Apple made changes to how their operating system (10.6) handles DNS queries. Basically, the quickest-responding DNS server is the one that gets the job. Essentially, DNS translates your request for a particular website to direct it to the right place.
Now lots of routers screw up here and break down, meaning that the Internet appears to be broken (as in, cannot...
