[A Clockwork Planetarium](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/08/out-of-this-world-richard-mille_22.html). Simply beautiful design. All the gears and cams exposed to show the true workings. There's something about analogue devices that I suspect means they'll never…
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Need to make your PowerPoint presentation more annoying? [How to embed YouTube videos in your next presentation](http://lifehacker.com/software/video-demonstration/embed-youtube-clips-in-a-powerpoint-presentation-292182.php). Please, for the love of humanity, use this only for good,…
An early theme in the election is the Union links of the ALP. But [do we care about unions?](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/10/10/union-power-polling-and-electoral-campaigns/): 41 per cent of those polled in 2004 said…
If you invested $50,000 in Apple ten years ago [today you would have $1 million](http://bucknerd.blogspot.com/2007/10/big-apple.html). That's a return of 2,273 per cent. Apple is, by the way, on…
From the [Marginal Revolution comments](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/10/from-the-commen.html): >Do relative status and income matter more than absolute? If this were true, then most immigration would be from rich countries to poor…
[Wal-Mart's total area is larger than Manhattan Island](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/10/walmarts-total-area.html). Of course, Wal-Mart's [total turnover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart) of $350 billion is actually only around a third of New York's Gross State Product,…
[Boom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier). Chuck Yeagar breaks the sound barrier.
The [new Star Trek movie has a budget of $150 million](http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/071012a.php). As Dark Horizons points out, this means it will need to make twice as much money as…
There's been a lot of speculation about how prominent Costello will be in the coming election campaign. The [team](http://liberal.org.au/team/) page of the official Liberal party site splits the…
*Major annoucements*: * John Howard: Announces an election for November 24. His narrative: experience and economic success versus an inexperienced, union dominated opposition. * Kevin Rudd: Stresses "new…