Month: October 2006

Weight: 111.3kg Breakfast: Vegemite on toast Lunch: Vegemite Sandwich Dinner: Chicken fillo Exercise: 15 mins cycling Rung: 1 Snacks: None

So which special occasions do we (well, the US) spend the most money on? The National Retail Federation has the breakdown (via Snopes): Christmas ('winter holidays'): $438.6 billion. Back…

While at Harvey Norman today I found this piece of inventive advertising: A Choice award? How fantastic! Let's investigate... The CHOICE 2006 Shonky Awards Ten products to make…

If you're currently somewhere where you can make a bit of noise you might want to have a look at this music generator. Some very strange, yet in…

Via Boing Boing (and many others) is this brilliant project from Wired magazine. Ask a bunch of famous writers to tell a story in six words: Gown removed…

Found via some source I cannot now remember (sorry!), is this collection of 100 scanned issues of Computing Gaming World. The collection covers from 1981 to 1992, so…

Via The Daily Show, I give you the Jimmy Dean Chocolate Chip Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick: There are just no words...

From smh.com.au, a Harry Seidler designed home is up for sale, and apparently: the new owners would probably demolish the house The price is $3.5m. To knock down…

From The Courier-Mail (via Boing Boing): THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there. I don't feel that I'm exaggerating when I say that…

From MSNBC.com: The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said Wednesday. Hee hee hee! Although, has anyone checked our bank notes…