Carnuba Wax. Dead set. Allen’s Kool Chocs, cousins of Kool Mints and Kool Fruits, confectionary balls of around one cm diameter, and damn tasty, have listed as the final ingredient : GLAZING AGENT (CARNUBA WAX). This can also be found in Kool Fruits and Jaffas amongst many other things, as Glazing Agent (903) Now regular [...]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4187430023476942057 Pretty much everyone in the world has seen this by now, but if you haven’t, have a look. Some guys played an amazing game of mousetrap entirely with parts from a car.

I wondered aloud today that since spending a penny is a euphemism for doing a wee, how much they charge for a poo. Geoff suggested that a pound was appropriate, and that this might be the origin of the phrase “In for a penny, in for a pound”

http://www.flylady.net/ Fly lady is a site for people whose houses are chronically messy and cluttered. She has lots of strategies for focussing on areas that breed mess, creating routines for yourself to help manage your time, and managing some of the negative feelings that come from feeling like you are always behind in things. She [...]

I’ve spent the week teching and attending presentations at the international digital arts conference which is being held at RMIT. One of the presenters did a degree in computer studies and topped it off with a phd/masters (can’t remember) in communication. His major study was the culture of MUDs, multiplayer online text adventures, like Zork [...]

http://www.sissyfight.com/ This is a silly online Shockwave game. You and others are schoolgirls scragging in the schoolyard. Each round you decide who you are going to scratch, tease or grab, or if you are gonna stay out of it or whatever. Pretty fun :) The game is really quite innocent but the people there are [...]

So Australian troops are returning, and each of the 750 of them will recieve at least $10k in tax free war allowance. And at least a dozen have been recommended for bravery awards. OK now I wasn’t there, and I can’t account for the hardship of the environment so maybe it is appropriate to award [...]

Memes are the basic building blocks of mind and culture, they are the set of ideas you have and things you know and suchlike. Think of it as the sociological equivalent of genes, and changes in cultural and dominant memes is a sort of social evolution. Control over the memes that influence you is an [...]

Remember the pretty blonde 19 year old US soldier rescued by the elite US forces from the heavily fortified Iraqi military installation? Now there’s an image for the bovine American populace to rally behind. Oh no wait it was just a hospital. Anyway, the story from the hospital workers and British press is out, suggesting [...]

Not everything on the net is paranoia and cynicism. Every now and then you come across something that is elegantly simple. Here we have a collection of sets of a photo of someone as a kid, and a photo of them as a grown up. You don’t rate them, or comment on them, you just [...]