September 2009
30 posts
USA: Clashes with Police at Pittsburgh G-20 Summit →
Anti-capitalists, anti-war groups, anarchists, environmental rights groups, and concerned citizens congregated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Thursday, September 24, to protest the negative effects…
Sep 26th
Sydney’s Apocalyptic Dust Storm Seen From Space →
On September 23, Sydney woke up to a surreal scene that looked more like Mars than Australia. The entire city had turned red due to an enormous dust storm. Our readers in Sydney sent us…
Sep 25th
Butterflies Use Antenna GPS to Guide Migration →
Scientists have finally located the 24-hour clock that guides the migration of monarch butterflies. Instead of being in the brain where most people expected, it turns out the circadian…
Sep 25th
Aussie Data Centres Brace For Dust Storm Barrage →
Shared by Zacha Another effect of the dust storm. An anonymous reader writes “Data centers and telcos in the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane have shut off external ventilation systems,…
Sep 24th
French Propose Disclaimer on Photoshopped Ads -... →
Shared by Zacha How cool. French member of parliament Valerie Boyer recently proposed a law to include a disclaimer at the bottom of all enhanced press, political, art and advertising-based…
Sep 23rd
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine →
Shared by Zacha Russia has a fully functional, cold-war era Doomsday Device. Yarynich is talking about Russia’s doomsday machine. That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning…
Sep 23rd
Resetting the balance of power →
Shared by Zacha ’ Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was quoted following the last G20 summit in London in April, saying “Don’t you find it very chic that Brazil is lending to the…
Sep 23rd
Jedi Persecution In Wales: General Order 66 Or... →
Shared by Zacha ‘Daniel Jones, the 23-year-old founder of the religion inspired by the Star Wars film saga, believes that he has every right to insist on wearing his hood. … The retail empire…
Sep 21st
Google Maps now has live traffic for Sydney,... →
Google Maps now has live traffic for Sydney, including predicted traffic. http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&layer=t&ie=UTF8&ll=-33.86671,151.207108&spn=0.711538,1.454315&z=10
Sep 21st
Sat nav apps could be heading for a dead end →
Shared by Zacha New road rules coming up.. New road rules threaten to kill use of smartphones as a GPS….
Sep 20th
JMW Turner: Master in the making →
Shared by Zacha ‘His last words are supposed to have been: “The sun is God.”’ Turner is hailed as a proto-modernist, a ‘painterly’ painter concerned more with surface and light than subject…
Sep 20th
Italian women have to fight sexism in every aspect... →
With men routinely taking lovers and expecting their wives to cook, clean and look elegant, Silvio Berlusconi is only part of the problem It’s not easy to explain, as an Italian woman, why so…
Sep 20th
Skimming off the cream of children's fiction →
From Diana Wynne Jones to Alan Garner and Dick King-Smith, the winners of the Guardian children’s fiction prize have stayed with me for years Leafing through the longlist for the 2009 Guardian…
Sep 18th
Google Docs Has an Equation Editor →
Google Docs added the equation editor previously available in Knol. It’s a basic LaTeX editor that’s not very easy to use if you aren’t familiar with LaTeX or programming. Open a Google Docs…
Sep 17th
Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of... →
Shared by Zacha Locations listed are: “… the University of Michigan Shapiro Library Building in Ann Arbor; the Blackwell Bookshop in London; the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt; the…
Sep 16th
Maori legend of man-eating bird is true - National... →
Shared by Zacha Megafauna. Maori legend of man-eating bird is true 9:58AM Monday Sep 14, 2009 By Paul Rodgers An artist’s impression of a Haast’s eagle (L) attacking moa. Image / John Megahan in…
Sep 16th
No Depression = no 30s-style revolution in ideas.... →
Shared by Zacha This should be incredibly interesting to watch. I’ve been going through the rushes we shot in New York on the day Lehman collapsed, in advance of tonight’s programme - a special…
Sep 15th
How to make noodles →
The commentary is occasionally inane, but the demonstration is impressive.
Sep 14th
Google Releases News-Reading Service - NYTimes.com →
Shared by Zacha Just kick ass. Skip straight to the reader here: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com Google is making an attempt to be seen as a friend to the news industry with a new service it…
Sep 14th
City Talks 2009: Integrated Transport for a... →
Shared by Zacha Next City Talk - inc. former London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Free. Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP and Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, discuss greener, better and more accessible…
Sep 11th
The Curious Case of Senator Fielding →
Shared by Zacha “As Annabel Crabb put it rather deftly in the Sydney Morning Herald, he is “the latest in a long line of boutique eccentrics to whom the Australian people, with their unerring…
Sep 9th
Monty Python Reuniting for 1 Wild Night in New... →
Disbanded but hardly forgotten, sublimely ridiculous comedy troupe Monty Python (pictured above) gets a fresh influx of showbiz love over the next couple of months. Tributes to England’s…
Sep 8th
Top 10 Sydney Eats for Tourists →
Shared by Zacha Absolutely FAN-tastic post from Helen on highlights of Sydney food in & near CBD, then down the train line suburb by suburb to Cabramatta. Each week Grab Your Fork receives emails…
Sep 6th
DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the... →
Sep 6th
Melting ice will trigger disasters →
Shared by Zacha This is part of the general scariness. Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and…
Sep 6th
Next step in gaming revolution →
Shared by Zacha This could be very interesting if it a) works and b) has summat interesting to start with and c) it’s not too hard to get onto this new Beta. OnLive burst onto the scene at the…
Sep 3rd
Online style guide | Radio National style guide →
Shared by Zacha Radio National’s internal style guide is linked to from their new Beta homepage. a or an before H all words beginning with H now take ‘a’, not ‘an’: a hotel, a historian, a hero,…
Sep 3rd
An evening with Generation Whatever →
Shared by Zacha as someone said about Morgan Stanley’s report on teenage media habits, “the plural of anecdote is not data”. A few months ago, a smart 15-year-old intern at the investment bank…
Sep 2nd
August 2009
23 posts
Google Reader - Featured Reading Lists →
Reader has new people in the Power Readers bit.
Aug 31st
Dawn Fraser knees intruder in groin - ABC News... →
Shared by Zacha Headline on main news page for this was “Titanium Knee”. Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser says she fought off a young intruder who attacked her during a home invasion at her…
Aug 31st