Sunday,
9th October 2011
So, I’m flying to Vietnam in nine hours. Seems like as good a time as any to start typing “learn vietnamese” into Google.
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Saturday,
10th September 2011
In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.
Friday,
9th September 2011
Zero by Sage Francis from Li(f)e.
Wednesday,
17th August 2011
New bike, new job, new Bored to Death. Life is very good right now.
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Monday,
8th August 2011
So here we are: Australia in 2011. For convenience we have forgotten our origins, our good fortune, our blindness and our selfishness. In place of memory we have constructed a national myth of a generous, welcoming country, a land of new arrivals where everyone gets a fair go; a myth in which vanity fills the emptiness where the truth was forgotten.
Wednesday,
6th July 2011
Spray Water On The Stereo by Turnstyle, filed under “forgotten reasons 1999 was awesome”.
Tuesday,
5th July 2011
Epic by Faith No More, my favourite memory of the now-defunct Video Hits. This song was so badass.
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By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.