Month: November 2007

[How to build your own Dalek](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/dalek_builders_manual.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890) Probably not that hard to beat the original Dr Who's production values here...

[A 1000 year Forest Clock](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/11/1000-year-forest-clock-tiwalkme.html). The aims of this project are the kind of thing that make me rest my head in my hands, but it'd be cool…

[Bug Labs make open source hardware that you can link together like Lego](http://www.buglabs.net/). I'd love to play with this stuff. It looks really cool and it's a clever…

[NASA has released several sound files from Saturn](http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/). Cool in concept, sound a bit like static in realisation.

[Joss Whedon is returning to television](http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=972f7d73-e0a2-43ea-abad-0abf6afba1f3). If you don't know who he is, go watch *Firefly*.

*Announcements*: ALP has [$20m for a National Centre of Excellence in Water Desalination](http://alp.org.au/media/1107/msiwatloo020.php). That was all I could find... *Polls*: [AC Nielsen](http://www.theage.com.au/news/federalelection2007news/labor-retains-poll-lead/2007/11/01/1193619061391.html) ALP 55-45. And in [Bennelong](http://www.pollbludger.com/669) it's…

[Japan's Phillip's Curve looks like Japan](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11/rorschach-econo.html) (including picture). In case you were wondering: it doesn't seem to work for Australia.

[The Australian of the Year finalists](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/australian-of-the-year-finalists-announced/2007/11/01/1193619053511.html?s_cid=rss_news). Only two sportspeople on the list, thankfully. But I've never been sure why on earth this prize exists, it serves no purpose…

[Star Trek themed coffins](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/star-trek-coffin/star-trek-coffin-warps-your-corpse-to-the-final-nerd-frontier-317341.php). In case my loved ones are wondering: **NO!**.

[A history of US tax rates by income group](http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/evolution-of-tax-rates.html). The decline in the top 0.01 per cents tax rate is astonishing, but it's noteworthy how badly the top…