Month: October 2007

[Qantas buys 12 planes, and one week later that model is grounded in Europe](http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/safety-scare-qantas-on-alert/2007/10/29/1193555566931.html?s_cid=rss_news). Of course, this is far far better than *the other way around*.

[Why the movie *Saw* is good for middle managers](http://www.slate.com/id/2176637/fr/rss/). The *Saw* movies (and their close cousins, the *Hostel* movies) are the worst trash Hollywood has ever made.

Average fare from my house to Canberra Airport: $45-50 Current fare from [Canberra to Melbourne on Tiger](http://www.tigerairways.com/home/index.php): $49.95

*Announcements*: * ALP announces [a plan to save the Great Barrier Reef](http://alp.org.au/media/1007/msCCloopi290.php) ($200m). * Coalition announces [100 new Australian Technical Colleges](http://liberal.org.au/info/news/detail/20071029_100NewAustralianTechnicalColleges.php). ($270m, but $2 billion over ten years).…

[The company anthem for computer game company Infogrames](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/12/infogrames-company-anthem-grrrrrl-you-have-no-idea/). The worst part is not actually the existence of the anthem so much as the words...

[A Darth Vader alarm clock](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clocks/darth-vader-alarm-clock-301128.php) Fortunately, my snooze button is more powerful than he can possibly imagine.

[A cheeseboard that also works as a whiteboard](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/27/dry-erase-cheese-boa.html). I shudder to think what would happen if this was allowed near most economists...

[Make your own sugar skulls](http://chachabowman.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/dia-de-los-muertos-sugar-skull-tutorial/). Delicious *and* scary, can't beat that!

[A fireplace designed in a more modern way](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fireplaces/radius-design-home-flame-keeps-the-domestic-fires-burning-the-easy-way-315422.php). People who know my aesthetic preferences probably already know that I think this looks really good...

*Annoucements*: * ALP: [$1 billion for urban desalination projects through a 10% tax credit](http://alp.org.au/media/1007/msiwatloo280.php). * Coalition: [$393m for skills training through vouchers](http://liberal.org.au/info/news/detail/20071028_SKILLSTRAININGFORTHEFUTURE.php) (for those over 25 and without…