Monthly Archives: February 2005

Downloaded and Ready to Rock Now people are using iPod’s to put on their on hi-tech DJ mixtape nights. Sounds like fun, provided you pick the right room full of people to expose your musical tastes to

LHC: The First Band on the Web Apparently the first ever photo displayed on the web was in the link above – a “girl geek” group at the CERN laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee was still working on his new invention … Continue reading →

Optus suck… but I should have known that… Back online finally. Terrible problems with the phone line that were entirely the fault of Optus led to us having no phone for a couple of days, then no DSL for a … Continue reading →

Doug Gilford’s Mad Cover Site Devotion is one way to describe it… This guy has created a visual database of every Mad magazine ever published. From 1952 until now… It’s quite a nostalgia trip really – see what was popular … Continue reading →

Gigapxl Project Now this is incredible. A retired weapons engineer has created an insanely hi-resolution camera that can capture panoramic images to extremely high detail. Check out the image gallery especially to get an idea of just how good this … Continue reading →

Australian Government Shows Its “Compassion” – Part #666 “Civil libertarians are calling for the Federal Government to be more transparent about what happens inside Australia’s detention centres, after a mentally ill Australian woman was mistakenly sent to the Baxter detention … Continue reading →

Was ‘Abducted’ U.S. Soldier a Toy? Now this is just getting surreal…. Really, I don’t think it looks like a real person anyway. But you never know. Maybe it says the insurgents are getting desperate, or maybe it says they’re … Continue reading →