Go throw something on a barbie, play some backyard cricket, or complain about the politicians. You know, something Australian.
I’ll be back on Tuesday. Everyone have a great long weekend.
And if you don’t get the long weekend because you’re not in Australia: Why not fix that?
A Brazilian ice-cream company has a competition where you can find an iPod in your ice cream.
Incredibly clever packaging, a good example of someone not letting the fact that an idea is impossible stop them.
A beautiful but silly wine decanter.
Why silly? Because half the purpose of a decanter is to aerate the wine – after all, sediments are pretty rare in modern wines. So if the wine can’t breathe, why bother decanting?
From The Onion’s week of true stories: “Gore Wins Oscar, Nobel Peacce Prize for Slide-Show Presentation.
The deadpan accuracy of the story is probably the funniest bit.
A magician does the table cloth trick backwards.
The whole act is pretty funny, watch the whole thing.
Caricatures are better than realistic sketches for identifying people.
Memory is a pretty strange thing – this study suggests that adapting to the way it works rather than simply forcing people to remember the ‘right’ way might be the most effective way to go.