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Google launches a site dedicated to the upcoming Australian Federal Election
with Youtube channels from each party, electoral boundaries integrated into Google Maps, a search engine to allow you to view what each candidate has said on a range of issues, from immigration to interest rates, news from your electorate, and graphs of media activity on candidates and issues. Australians have been lacking a comprehensive political resource like the UK's
The Work For You, and Google has brought it one step closer.
Unfortunately, many of the resources are in the form of gadgets you add to your iGoogle homepage, rather than standalone applications.
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at 6:57 PM on September 16, 2007
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It's like Google Maps...for space.
Wikisky is a draggable, zoomable, web-based star map. And if you click on a star or other object, it brings up a page with all the information you could want on it, including recent articles and astrophotos that contain that object. And it does lots more. Go explore.
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at 11:30 PM on March 22, 2007
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Games games games.
You've probably seen some of them before. But they're all based on good physics.
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at 2:37 AM on October 16, 2006
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Podbop.
Completely stupid name. Not a bad idea. Enter your city, and it will come back with MP3 links and podcasts from bands soon to play in your town, in a "try before you buy tickets" kind of way. Works quite well for the
US, other countries
look like they need updating.
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at 8:48 PM on March 3, 2006
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Praise "Bob", slack off, lose custody of your child.
A Texas woman has
lost custody of her son, not even being allowed to write to him, because she was involved in activities of the
Church of the Subgenius. Although her son never attended any of the events, which involved fun, nudity, and good old-fashioned blasphemy, a New York judge,
James P. Punch, allegedly a "strict catholic", has denied custody of the child Kohl out of anger after seeing videos of the church's devivals and X-days.
Rev. Ivan Stang goes into more detail about the situation in alt.slack.
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at 4:07 PM on February 21, 2006
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Meet Retrievr...
Web 1.0 surrenders. Draw a sketch, and instantly, Flickr images that look like your sketch magically appear. It works so well, it's a little disconcerting. Prizes awarded for people who can generate the most inappropriate search results.
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at 9:48 PM on January 2, 2006
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Welcome to
Supr.c.ilio.us, the World's First Social Social Tagging Site Tagging Site™. This is the place to come to tag all those other tagging sites. (But...is it
Web 2.0 Or Not?)
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at 8:03 PM on October 7, 2005
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Micromovie awards 2005 -
the mission: produce a 90-second movie filmed entirely on a mobile phone (dubbing of better quality audio permitted). Dozens of films are available here for viewing.
Sponsored, or course, by a major phone manufacturer. Don't let that distract you from the cute little films, though)
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at 7:31 PM on May 26, 2005
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Listening to Antarctica
is a daily web diary, including audio clips (RealMedia) of ambient sounds and conversations onboard the Aurora Australis, a research vessel currently on its way to the Australian Antarctic bases. Margot Foster's next port of call is
Casey Base.
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at 8:56 PM on March 16, 2005
(4 comments)
The AWOL Machine
- a new way to party. Just incase you have trouble getting drunk.
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at 8:26 PM on July 14, 2004
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Illlustration maker
- design a cartoon image of yourself. Or someone else. Hours (or possibly minutes) of fun.
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at 7:27 PM on June 10, 2004
(44 comments)
Greenfleet
is an Australian environmental organisation who aim to help citizens offset their own greenhouse gas emmissions. Their
Tree Totaller (Australian-based, but I'm sure conversions are easy) works out how many trees you need to offset your annual emmissions, based on private car, home energy use and flights. It's a very neat little flash-app, and at the end it lets you chose to "subscribe" to Greenfleet so they'll plant the necessary number of trees for you. I owe 44 trees, for only AU$103 a year.
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at 4:43 PM on June 4, 2004
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The mind of the fundamentalist
(streaming RealAudio) is an hour-long radio show featuring excerpts from talks given at a psychoanalytic psychotherapy conference in Sydney. Three speakers discuss experiences with fundamentalists, and driving factors behind their beliefs. It includes an amazing first-hand account of fundamentalist terrorism by a journalist whos plane was hijacked, and who later tracked down the hijacker and attempted to understand what drove him. The RealAudio-squeamish can find a
transcript here.
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at 3:40 AM on April 29, 2004
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SBaGen
is software (Windows, Mac and Linux) that generates binaural beats - interactions between sound waves that
mess with your brain, to induce sleep, relaxation, activity, and allegedly even hallucinogenic states. SBaGen relies on text-file presets (although it comes with dozens of files to experiment with) but if you want a "quick start", there's also the Windows-based
Brain Wave Generator.
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at 5:53 AM on March 20, 2004
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Plants in motion
is a comprehensive archive of time-lapse movies (Quicktime format) of plants germinating and growing, flowers opening, tropic responses and circadian movements. Some of the video is quite eerie. The plants really seem...erm...alive... The site also has a guide to
making your own time-lapse film.
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at 8:15 PM on October 19, 2003
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Botanical Record-Breakers
- learn about the world's most poisonous plants, the fastest growing, the most painful, the oldest, the ongoing debate about the largest, and much more. Also discussed is the rare
coconut pearl - botanical jewel, or hoax?
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at 9:28 PM on October 2, 2003
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Midnight voicejail:
"It's partially about a bunch of 20-somethings, stuck in the pre-web very work-oriented suburbia world of Silicon Valley during the 80's and 90's. They took over various voicemail systems and used them as their main social and creative outlet. They came to be known as 'voicejailers'." Their
radio shows are pretty amazing. Do people out there still
do stuff like this, or are "flash mobs" as good as the internet era gets?
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at 5:52 AM on August 20, 2003
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The colour of numbers -
For the math geeks out there (which I'm not - maybe his theories will be shot down in flames), Karl Palmen has discovered that numbers can be assigned one of eight "colours", related to their prime factors. He goes on to show the interesting mathematical properties of these colours. A novel way of playing with numbers.
Software is on offer.
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at 5:28 PM on August 11, 2003
(21 comments)
What the world thinks of America...
are we about to find out for sure? A special live global forum will be broadcast in a dozen countries later this week, hosted in
London, and bringing in the opinions of media representatives of
Israel,
France,
Australia,
Brazil,
Jordan and more. The forum also features the likes of
Benazir Bhutto and
Joe Klein. Whatever your opinion of the part the United States plays in our world, it's undeniable that it will be a dominating force in the near future.
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at 6:15 AM on June 16, 2003
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The delicate art of topiary,
or "cutting trees into weird shapes". The
people. The
history. The
outstanding. The
bizarre, and the
phallic (completely SFW). I grew up with a similar tree to the last one on my street, although ours had...uhugm... a knob on top; I believe the gardener responsible was too short to trim above a certain level...
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at 2:43 AM on June 5, 2003
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The final and most refined form of pre-Christian paganism
- Mithraism, an ancient religion found throughout Europe and Western Asia before the time of Christ. It is suggested that this religion provided the source of many practices and beliefs recognized in contempory Christianity; baptism, the concept of a holy trinity, the last supper, and the date of Christmas to name a few.
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at 6:47 PM on May 5, 2003
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Serviceton
is a small railway town on the border of South Australia and Victoria, and was once a means for traders to escape taxes when travelling between the colonies, due to errors made when surveying the state borders. No train has stopped here since 1986, and now only a handful of people remain in the town, a sad downfall that
Tom Waits has immortalized in song. But abandoned railway stations, closed as populations decline or trade routes change, exist the
world over,
in the city and
in the country, and yes,
even in France. They look like great places to explore.
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at 7:53 PM on March 19, 2003
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Ever wondered what the Aurora Borealis sounds like?
The northern (or southern) lights generate VLF radio waves as well as light. These sounds have been captured here as hundreds of free mp3 downloads, and they make amazing ambient soundtracks. Random clicks, whirrs, pops and whistles, direct from outer space. The site also features other "weather sounds" generated by lightning storms and such, and explains how you can get your hands on
a VLF receiver to hear the sounds yourself.
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at 7:24 AM on January 31, 2003
(12 comments)
Motorbikes the new craze for Iranian Women.
More taboos crumble in Iran, as women sign-up in their thousands for motorbike riding classes. Women have been allowed to drive cars, but not ride bicycles or motorbikes since the Islamic Revoluion. The problem now is to find women motorcyclists able to train those who have shown interest.
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at 8:10 PM on October 27, 2002
(4 comments)
SPAM company sues a complainent
Not another spam story! But this one is a bit twisted. An Australian man, sick of receiving junk email, posted the details of the marketing company responsible on a website.
SPEWS discovered the information, blocked their server, and now the spammers are suing the man for lost profits.
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at 6:35 PM on June 4, 2002
(8 comments)
Fear Can Turn Us All Into 'Good Germans.'
Harley Sorensen takes on the culture of fear and bigotry that's rising in the US and Israel (and other places as well), where people are willing to give up their own freedom in the name of unity, and are happy to
plug their ears when an alternative opinion is expressed. Includes an amazing letter from someone who's "decided not to be Jewish" because of the attitude of his religion.
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at 11:01 PM on April 29, 2002
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