"History will be kind to us, because we will write it"
[ 24 May, 2013 to 26 May, 2013. ] Morning Rioters, I hope you've all taken it easy this week and reserved your energies for the weekend ahead. Let's find out what you shall be doing! You know the drill: 1. Find suggestions I have missed....
Summernats have the intriguing news that they’re taking the show to Malaysia: Today in Kuala Lumpur Andy Lopez, co-owner of the Summernats, signed a joint venture with leading Malaysian motorsport promoter JPM Motorsports to stage a Summernats...
ACT Policing has released a facefit of the offender involved in an incident on Friday May 17 in which a man seriously assaulted a 52-year-old female receptionist and ransacked a professional office looking for cash and drugs. Police were called to t...
Andrew Barr is breaking out the champagne over this year’s Enlighten numbers: More than 115,000 people attended the free and ticketed events during ENLIGHTEN 2013, an increase of 290% on last year’s figure of 29,437, according to an independ...
Introduction paragraphs are for the weak, I am too metal for them!
This is an Unearthed Review! If you do not like it, then I apologise!
I am reviewing The Death Storm, they are a storm of death.
Here is what they have to say about themselves:
Originally formed sometime during 2007 with both Ben an...
I am finally preparing to move into our brand new house in the Gungahlin area. One of the things I want to tackle straight away after I move in is the backyard. I have a dog and I want grass in there asap. Because of a combination of having to organise the move, not being [...]...
Where’d the month go? It’s already time for the next public viewing night up on the mountain. Plenty of us members of the Canberra Astronomical Society will be up there with our telescopes. And Saturn plus a new moon will make for great viewing if the weather cooperates. There will be pr...
The ABC has a sad report: Police believe the 48-year-old man was snorkelling at the remote Elle’s Beach with his 41-year-old partner, whose body was found washed up on the beach yesterday afternoon. It is believed the couple is from the Australian Capital Territory. They have two kids still wa...
How could we not direct your attention, dear reader, to an article titled “The Ten Most Wonderful Things Committed To Hansard as a Result of the Skywhale”.
It’s worth mentioning such tech luminaries as Jzw and Cory Doctorow have now blogged about skywhale.
The full list of Google ...
Tim has sent this in with a question:
Are roadworkers completely stupid?!
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A recent study of over 1300 Australian Public Service staff has found that more than 70 per cent experienced neck pain in the last year, well above the average of 12 to 34 per cent. Does the answer lie in improvements in ergonomics like sit-stand desks or in the way that work is organised-or what? W...
If you ever waved a jug over your head in Mooseheads with your trousers around your ankles you’ll be fascinated to hear that Canberra’s Film and Sound Archive have restored a rare print of the historic Eagle Rock video:
Forty two years after the distinctive opening guitar riff of one of...
The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has tweeted about a vicious attack on his person by a kangaroo!
Mugged by a kangaroo! And this was in the suburbs, had not even got to the nature park! twitter.com/ShaneRattenbur…
— Shane Rattenbury (@ShaneRattenbury) May 15, 2013
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Ben_Dover has discovered the marvels of the animated .gif and given us a feast of beta-motion induced illusionary movement.
Enjoy.
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The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has introduced a bill to get a straight published price on petrol station price boards:
“The Fair Trading (Fuel Prices) Amendment Bill 2013 will ensure that petrol stations display the fuel price that is available to all consumers and not the price available to ...
The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme has recycled over 3000 tones of e-waste in it’s first year, announced Shane Rattenbury today.
This is a good thing. We produce more and more e-waste every year as a society.
“Since the introduction of the scheme on 15 May 2012, the Canbe...
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