Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
My new pet
adopt your own virtual pet!
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Yay Friday Diversions!
I want a pet dinosaur… Stuff finding cures to incurable diseases and saving lives and all, what geneticists SHOULD be doing trying to make pint sized dinosaurs for us. In the meantime, I’m happy to bide my time with a mechanical AI one: this little fellow is called Pleo and “is capable of expression. He […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
How I feel at the moment!
It’s been such a busy month! I was procrastinating this morning and I read this:
I hate when a week goes by and i haven’t written in my blog. Most of the time, it’s because i’m too tired, don’t know what to write, procrastinate, etc. but this time i was just too busy to steal […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
How to fold a t-shirt
There’s been a lot of interest in t-shirt folding since the origami t-shirt video was posted. I’ve watched it about twenty times and didn’t get it, so if you are like me, here are instructions in stills, a diagram and words.
So here’s another t-shirt video, this involves a super easy to make machine that guarantees […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Bizarre little mathemetical trick
Multiplication isn’t THAT difficult, but if you are bored with the usual methods, here’s a visual way:Easy Mental Multiplication Trick - video powered by Metacafe
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Sydney Morning Herald at it again…
At least this time they actually mentioned the police (see this) but “text/email us OR the police”, shouldn’t it be AND (well it really should just be the police)? Do these people have no shame? If they then report any information given, that could prejudice firstly the information and subsequent witness reports. I don’t see […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Dying in the streets…
I’ve linked to xkcd before and will again… (you have to click on the link/image to get the whole comic).
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Brilliant!
This guy swears he can’t play, he’s used video cuts to simulate it. I think he must have some musical talent though: Amateur
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Vampires are Cool
If you have a look at my Reading Now widget in the righthand column, you’ll notice a high proportion of vampire stuff at the moment (3 of 7 listed and another is a book on witches), so I guess I’m on a bit of a supernatural trip. Found this YouTube video today and I love […]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Profitable Conservation and Public Regulations on Private Life
Malaleuca has a post on saving the environment through commercially profit ventures, including a UNSW program called FATE (Future of Australia’s Threatened Ecosystems) which encourages the harvest of native plants and critters.
I’d like to see our laws changed so that people can have more native mammals as pets. I’m sure there are some species […]
