[Hasselblad's updated 39 megapixel camera](http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/hasselblads-39-megapixel-h3dii-39ms-dslr-brings-the-multi-shot/). As an aside, I just recently got a new 50mm lens for my 7 megapixel digital camera, and I can notice a huge…
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*Announcements*: ALP announces a [Increase in the child care tax rebate rate](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/21/2065345.htm). Not much today, because of the great debate this evening. (Which I will *not* be watching).
[This designer took 'Cuckoo Clock' too literally](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/08/watchismo-times_29.html). Seriously, don't look if you're sensitive, it's a bit unpleasant. Not gory, just vivid.
[Two tetris cosplayers get into a fight in a parking lot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKrm93nqnM). They better watch out, that 4x1 piece will come along and clear everyone out.
[Business advice from Houdini](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/580-five-marketingbusiness-lessons-from-harry-houdini). Actually, there's a lot in that list which would work pretty well for politics or policy design too.
[A super computer in a chapel](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/heavy-metal/marenostrum-the-worlds-most-gorgeous-super+computer-293608.php). If that photo doesn't send a shiver down your spine, it's because you'e never read Arthur C. Clarke's [*The Nine Billion Names…
Unstuck the post feed. It turns out when you tell WordPress to publish stuff in 2008, it doesn't go 'no, he probably didn't mean that' and publish them…
[Olympus is releasing cameras that detect when you're smiling](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/olympus-fe-series-cameras-have-smile-recognition-other-fun-features-up-to-12-megapixels-292473.php). Of course, because it's an Olympus it will then take a further three seconds to actually *take* the photo.…
Another quiet day following a quiet-ish opening week to the campaign. Only two major announcements this week: the tax plans of the two parties. And only one major…
[Super deformed Star Wars plush figures](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/9405/). [Super Deformed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_deformed), in case you don't know, is the art style where the character has a very big head, which started in…