Month: November 2007

[A simple map with a lot of accuracy](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/199-a-simplified-map-of-london/). OK, a bit mean. But it's certainly how The City sees it.

[A comparison of Google's home page to Yahoo's](http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/nonflickr/05_yahoogle.html). It's no coincidence that Yahoo's market value is $US 41b, and Google's is $US 222b.

[How to tell your boss he's an idiot](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2801215.ece). Attention subordinates past and future: I generally find a box of chocolate works well.

*Announcements*: * ALP: [Tax preferred saving accounts for first home buyers](http://alp.org.au/media/1107/mshou040.php), costing $500m. * Coalition: [$10 billion to fix roads in Sydney, SE Queensland and Victoria](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22700518-2,00.html). 20 days…

[Sean Hannity on Fox TV](http://mediamatters.org/items/200711010008): > Halloween is a liberal holiday [...] teaching our kids to be liberals. [W]e're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and…

[Some advice for people lucky enough to have two monitors on their PC](http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/make-the-most-of-your-dual-monitors-317479.php). I've had a two screen setup at work for a year or so now. It's…

[Plush entrails](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/02/plush-guts-entrails.html). These would go great with the [plush microbes](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/6708/\).

[A steampunk laptop](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/steampunk/steampunk-laptop-reminds-us-why-steampunk-is-cool-318191.php). Attention [Jony Ive](http://www.apple.com/ipod/).

[Donny the Downloader](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/123300.html). Explains the dangers of file sharing in a way normally associated with Troy McClure.

*Announcements*: None I could find. *Polls*: [Newspoll survey of marginals](http://www.pollbludger.com/670) implies a 24 seat swing to the ALP. *Line of the day*: Geoffrey Rush, [when asked "what do…