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Australia

• Cult of youth spells end of Western civilisation

  Tim Ferguson waxes hyperbolic on the issue of growing up. [via Slatts] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Kazaa in court this week

  Australian Recording Industry Association raids Kazza's offices in Sydney. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Glenn Milne: Rough end to a smooth ride

  Latham's lack of policy folow-through | Comments/Trackbacks

• Grace Bros braced for name change

  A Sydney icon may soon change forever. | Comments/Trackbacks

Bizarre

• Age-maps

  Amazing photo's created that combine a child and adult photo of the same person. [via radio daisy pad] | Comments/Trackbacks

• The pen is mightier than the sword

  Googlefight is a great site that takes two keywords and faces them off against each other to see which is most popular on Google. [via LawGeek] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Researcher Links Obesity, Food Portions

  The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will eat. [via Rebecca Blood] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Cubical Decorations

  I think this may be taking the Christmas Spirit a wee bit too far. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Linked by the French

  I've been linked to by a french publication on Germaine Greer, here's an English translation of the page. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Modern Art

  Modern art has now sunk so low that a guy who hung himself was mistaken for a sculpture. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Once Bitten Cookie Cutter

  A cookie cutter that makes cookies with a bite taken out of them! | Comments/Trackbacks

• German crowned world beard champion

  Now these are some serious sideburns! | Comments/Trackbacks

• The ESP Game

  This is disturbingly addictive. You get randomly paired with someone else & you need to label images the same as the other person. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Caucasian Club founder decides to leave school, cites harassment

  While I can't say I'm suprised she was harrased, why shouldn't there be a club about 'white' culture? Equal opportunity & all that. | Comments/Trackbacks

Books

• Nevermore

  The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe online at eserver, cool! [via widdershins] | Comments/Trackbacks

Design

• 4096 Colour Wheel

  Colour wheel that shows the nearest web-safe & web-smart colour for any given colour. | Comments/Trackbacks

• StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design

  Randomly generated web design. Some good, some... ughh. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Color scheme

  Find a colour scheme that fits your style, then see how it looks to people with a sight deficiency. Brilliant. [via pixeldiva] | Comments/Trackbacks

• SelectORacle

  Ever wondered what that excruciatingly complex CSS selector was going on about, well, wonder no more. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them

  Sitemaps & indexes are a great idea for making your site easier to navigate. | Comments/Trackbacks

Film

• Spy Hunter Movie

  I can't believe it, they're making a Spy Hunter movie! Very cool. [via cnwb] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Sky Time Lapse

  Check out snowman's cool timelapse video of the sky! | Comments/Trackbacks

Games

• Slime Cricket

  Great little game I found from some kids in a computing class. | Comments/Trackbacks

• SimCity Classic Live

  Play Simcity online | Comments/Trackbacks

Humour

• Red vs Blue Episode 25

  Episode 25 is up: Last Words | Comments/Trackbacks

• Red vs Blue: Episode 23

  The latest installment of Red vs Blue is available for download: Episode 23 -- The Joy of Toggling | Comments/Trackbacks

• Lego Knights of the round table

  Too.Funny | Comments/Trackbacks

International Politics

• Pakistani Scientist Admits That He Passed On Nuclear Secrets

  Hmm, can you say "Fall Guy"? | Comments/Trackbacks

• Over-Humanizing the Enemy

  Dr Helen Smith on why it's not such a great idea to 'empathise' with those who hate us. | Comments/Trackbacks

• A Friendly Drink in a Time of War

  Paul Berman on why the left should have supported the war in Iraq | Comments/Trackbacks

• Photos of Saddam's Capture

  Assuming these aren't fake, they appear to be photos taken by the unit that captured Saddam. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Sometimes You Get the Bear...

  It's funny 'cause it's true. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Palestinians invent massacre

  What do you know, the Palestinians have been caught red-handed making up lies about an IDF attack. Makes you wonder about what else they tell us. Jenin anyone? | Comments/Trackbacks

Religion

• Politics, Not Religion, Spurs Violence, Pollsters Told

  People from India to Israel explain that it is the politics, not the religion of people that causes most of the strife. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Good Faith

  Apparently, things go better with God. [via You Are Here] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Offering

  Try saying this the next time you're in church & the offering plate comes around. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Thank God for missionaries

  Nicholas Kristof shows a different perspective on Evangelical Christian missionaries - the humanitarian without strings attached. | Comments/Trackbacks

Science

• Orbiter

  A free 3D space flight simulator that uses real physics [via Mine Blogging] | Comments/Trackbacks

• The Mars Mission

  An animated simulation of the recent NASA Spirit Mars mission. Great stuff. [via Signal vs Noise] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Environmentalism as Religion

  Michael Crichton gets stuck into greenes who think they know everything. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Photo of California fires from space

  Great photo. (Warning for dialup users: Very Large Photo, 2324KB) | Comments/Trackbacks

• Sombrero Galaxy

  This is amazing, absolutely beautiful pictures of a galaxy ~28m light years away. If you're on broadband have a look at the full-res pictures. [via lgf] | Comments/Trackbacks

• A User's Guide to Time Travel

  1. Scan the galaxy for a loop of cosmic string.
  2. When you find one, fly close to it in a massive spaceship. Use the ship's gravity to shape the string into a rectangle roughly 54,000 light-years long and .01 light-years wide...
  3. As the two sides approach within 10 feet of each other, circle them in a smaller ship. When you return to the start of the circle, you will have traveled back in time. | Comments/Trackbacks

• 2003 Colossal Colon Tour

  That's just disturbing. | Comments/Trackbacks

Tech

• Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5

  Along with Firefox, Mozilla have also released the latest version of the mail program Thunderbird. With adaptive junk mail filtering, this program is so much better than Outlook Express. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Mozilla Firebirdfox 0.8

  Mozilla's new browser undergoes another names change for the 0.8 release so as to stop conflicting with the Firebird database project. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Basecamp has launched

  Basecamp, a new web-based project management tool has finally launched. This looks very promising. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Optimizing Mozilla Firebird

  Geek Style has some great tips on how to make Firebird run run a bit better and load pages quicker. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Neowin Interview with Ben Goodger, Firebird Developer

  Interview with Ben Goodger, chief developer of the Mozilla Firebird browser project. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Mozilla Firebird Primer for Windows Users

  A decent overview of why Firebird is a great browser | Comments/Trackbacks

• Windows Really Good

  Just like the real thing | Comments/Trackbacks

• del.icio.us

  Here's a great way to keep track of your web bookmarks or any interesting links you find. Setup an account (free) on del.icio.us and you can add links and categorise them. You can then see how many other people link to that site & there's even an RSS feed for your links.

  Here's my (currently very small) list[via widdershins] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Parental responsibility in children's computing

  Jamie Jamison has a great article on what parents can/should do to monitor & control what their kids view on the web. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Why Microsoft wants to buy - then trash - Google

  Microsoft's perverting search results to hide alternative operating systems. | Comments/Trackbacks

Web Standards

• Breaking news makes the case for standards

  Chris Heisel on why major media outlets should chnage to using CSS for their websites, for the sake of bandwidth. | Comments/Trackbacks

• A List Apart

  A List Apart is back with three great articles, on Fahrner Image Replacement, layering CSS & Random Image Rotation. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS

  Christopher Schmitt lists why you need to learn CSS. Now! | Comments/Trackbacks

• New designs for css Zen Garden

  css Zen Garden has released a new bunch of designs. My favorite is the one linked above, ironically named "I Dream in Colour". | Comments/Trackbacks

• The house that CSS built

  Just got this via the WSG mailing list, just goes to show what can be done using CSS. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Microsoft's Excuses

  Rich points out that Microsoft's protestations of not producing a standards compliant browser because the users don't want it is rubbish. | Comments/Trackbacks

• The business value of web standards

  Jeffrey Veen explains why standards are good for business. | Comments/Trackbacks

• More Important Than Web Standards

  D. Keith Robinson on why standards aren't everything. | Comments/Trackbacks

Weblogs

• Spam Talk

  Adam Kalsey shut down a comment spammer, who then proceeded to threaten Adam & try and defend himself by saying it was his competition plugging his site. Yeah sure it was. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Pixie

  This is a nifty little app for finding out the colour values (hex RGB, CMYK, etc.) for any colour on your screen. [via Gadgetopia] | Comments/Trackbacks

• Good Leaves

  Dan on Howard's approach to Mahathir's ravings, and how that relates to discussions in the blogosphere. A very good read. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Localfeeds:Sydney, Australia

  It's amazing what you can find while looking through your referrers. Here's an aggregated list of blogs within 50km of Sydney. | Comments/Trackbacks

• Do Your Research?

  An interesting post on where responsibility for fact lies in blogging | Comments/Trackbacks

• 47 key tips from the World's best bloggers

  My grandparents have been reading my Web site since its inception, so I've always been aware of them as my key audience. That’s really kept my writing focused on things I'd share with them, decreased the amount of swearing or silly whining, and I think in general kept the site accessible to a broader variety of people. | Comments/Trackbacks

• the World as a Blog

  Just sit and watch the blogs go by | Comments/Trackbacks

• Everything Hurts: New Design

  Seems it's the season for it. Snowman has gone & redesigned his site too. Very nice, makes me feel... calm. | Comments/Trackbacks

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