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An interesting tail. . .

Remember how I was complaining about "People who bought this also bought. . ." when I got the Penn & Teller DVD's from Amazon? This Wired article looks at the effect that feature (and similar ones at other sites) is having on the economics of entertainment retail.

Oh, and I've done the math for the price of everything I have to declare to customs on the way home next week - about US$600. Only a bit more than double the duty free limit :P

This looks promising

I always thought it was the platinum catalyst that made fuel cells so horrendously expensive, but it looks like there may be more to it than that. Hopefully this development will make fuel cells more cost effective. It's also interesting in light of announcements like this one.

I was wondering why my Father's PC wouldn't switch on...

...then I opened up the case.




Can we call say scorchy.

Photoshop contests rock

More Photoshop hilarity are Worth1000.com

Good Fantasy Novel

I was just reading the web site of one of my favourite authors, Ian Irvine, and have found that there are four more books planned for one of my favourite fantasy series The View From the Mirror (which is the first part of the Three Worlds Cycle).

If you haven't Read The View From the Mirror I suggest that you do. It is a fantasy series that stands out with a rich universe and a lot of events thoughout the series. In some novels the characters only go to a few places and do a few important things, in others (eg Lord Of The Rings) they go to quite a few places and do proportionally more. I found that at the end of each book in the series that so much had gone on I needed to read the synopsis at the beginning of the next novel to refresh my memory.

The characters have interesting histories. The cultures are rich with tradition. Magic, while powerful, has consequences.

The names of people and places are somewhat Lord of the rings-like. They are somtimes unusual, typically exotic but you can tell one from another.

How to write a best selling fantasy novel

Every since "The Lord of the Rings", epic fantasy novels have been high on the bestseller list. Every thought of writing one? WELL HERE'S HOW.

Another Song Murdered?

William Shatner does it again.

Chewbacca Defense

"If it doesn't make sense, the jury must acquit."

One down for private manned spacecraft to win $10 million X Prize

Onlookers held their breath as the manned SpaceShipOne performed unexpected but spectacular acrobatics on its way into space, the first step toward winning the Ansari X Prize on Wednesday. Full Story Here

Do you think that some SJGames stuff is rediculous?

The new toy

UPS delivered my iAudio M3L today. It's pretty.

It now contains my entire digital music collection, a backup of my email archive, every digital photo I've ever taken, and a season's worth of Cowboy Bebop AVI's.

It's barely half-full.

The only downside I've found so far is that the included carrying case only has a belt loop (instead of a clip), and seems to be designed for the slightly thinner M3 (the M3L is about half a centimetre thicker and US$80 or so more expensive, but has 35 hours nominal battery life instead of 14).

I also discovered that my car kit doesn't generate the right voltage for the M3L (it needs 5 V, the car kit only does multiples of 1.5V). However, it then occurred to me that with this thing's battery life, I really don't care ;)

The Science Of Flotsam

At work, today, one of the stations received a call from a bloke who reckoned he'd found a human femur in a dam. (The femur, for those without their finger on the anatomical pulse, is the thighbone.) This, naturally, was cause for some concern. The caller went on to add that he worked for the CSIRO, and he was able to tell that it wasn't a bone from an animal.

So, too, were the police that attended.

He was right - it wasn't a bone from an animal. It was, in fact, a piece of wood.

This caused a workmate of mine to speculate that if this particular gentleman actually works for the CSIRO, it's likely he works as a janitor.

New Special Edition Changes

Remember Lance's Post?

Well, don't worry about getting one like that from me }:>

Kristy and I have had had fun over the last few months, but, as of this evening, we're officially not dating anymore. I'm coming home single. C'est la vie, I guess.

This Is So True...

"People who bought this also bought. . ." is evil

So, among other things, I was buying this at Amazon.
The previously mentioned evil feature then lead to me discover this. And this. And this. So I ordered them too.

This was helped by the fact they were all really cheap compared to the main toy I was ordering.

Educational Animation

Don' t Show This to Children

Australia's First SuperCar

Joss Developments