[Why not catch the London to Sydney bus](http://www.ozbus.co.uk/). Twelve weeks, $9000. Of course, the bus will be late and then three will turn up at once.
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[An english to R2 droid translator](http://www.r2d2translator.com/). Please let me know if you find any plausible actual use for this...
[A Hello Kitty rifle](http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15---evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx). It's hard to imagine why you would mix an icon of such unending evil with a rifle...
[Comic books published by the New York Fed](http://www.ny.frb.org/publications/result.cfm?comics=1). Clearly the Australian Budget should follow this example.
[Tour the lakes district with iPod in hand](http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/oct/31/travelnews.news?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront). Interesting idea, but I hope your walking pace matches Wainwright's.
I just recently re-read an old favourite of mine, the *[Hyperion Cantos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)* by Dan Simmons. The *Cantos* is a sequence of four books: * [Hyperion](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHyperion-Dan-Simmons%2Fdp%2F0553283685%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1202698881%26sr%3D8-2&tag=exaspercalcul-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) * [The Fall…
[A picture frame with a Wi-Fi receiver and its own email address](http://gizmodo.com/336220/lightning-round-estarling-picture-frame-hits-a-home-run-on-third-attempt). I think the killer app here is grandparents - just set one of these up in…
[An in-car sandwich maker](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/12/11/road-pro-incar-sandw.html). I suspect the people trying to write a parody of consumer society 40 years ago would have looked at this as a step too…
[The Caltech basketball team, winless for 21 years](http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-28-335/Nerd-Squad--The-Tale-of-Quantum-Hoops.html). The documentary, *Quantum Hoops*, sounds great. This is the kind of thing that restores my faith in sport, which the…
Or the lack thereof... In 1994 Linda Katx started a joke website that pretended to sell tumbleweeds. [People didn't get the joke, and she now makes $40,000 a…