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…
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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…
[A Jacuzzi party on Mont Blanc](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/jacuzzi-high/mont-blanc-jacuzzi-party-at-15711-feet-was-low-on-oxygen-high-on-booze-309708.php) (4,807m above sea level). It's safe to say that there isn't a great long list of reasons to do this, other than…
[Scan Cafe](http://www.scancafe.com/): we ship your slides and negatives to India for scanning. This is a brilliant idea, and very cheap (24c a slide, 19c a negative). Unfortunately it's…
[Apple's directory of applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone](http://www.apple.com/webapps/). I've just recently acquired an iPod Touch, and there are a lot of useful little applications in this…
[Some alternate designs for the periodic table](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/dynamic_periodic_table_an.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). The periodic table of the elements is such an icon of science it's easy to forget that it's a somewhat arbitrary…
[Months](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2007/01/year-of-the-election/) after I thought it would start, the 2007 Australian Federal Election is [finally on](http://liberal.org.au/info/news/detail/20071014_November24AustraliasChoice.php). This is going to be a very interesting race. John Howard is a…
[Australian swim coach Don Talbot calls for sports authorities to allow currently banned drugs](http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/let-them-all-cheat-talbot/2007/10/13/1191696232452.html?s_cid=rss_news). I've always been a big fan of the idea of removing a lot of…
The new design for the site has just gone live. Hopefully it's a little bit cleaner than the old design. I've mainly tried to simplify the overall design…