Month: June 2007

  • Lego art

    [A Nintendo Wii made from Lego](http://kotaku.com/gaming/lego/wii-sports-lego-edition-243670.php).

  • Street art

    [A wire frame sculpture of a Subaru](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/wireframe_subaru_sculptur.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

  • Nerd politics

    [A finnish politician is campaigning in Klingon](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1870971.htm).

  • ABC News has a new site

    The [ABC](http://www.abc.net.au) launched a new website today, the most interesting part of which is the [ABC News](http://www.abc.net.au/news) site. It is, in a word, bold. Web 2.0 is getting pretty trendy now. Between [Digg](http://www.digg.com) and [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com) the most common trends have become clear. But would anyone have expected that you’d see a mainstream, conservative website with…

  • The stars of the diplomatic corps

    [Great moments in the history of dipomacy #760](http://wonkette.com/politics/diplomats/sm-ambassador-found-naked-drunk-bound-243557.php).

  • Another T-Shirt to buy

    [An animated ping-pong T-shirt](http://www.thinkgeek.com/8e31/?cpg=wnrss).

  • US Lawsuit silliness

    A train engineer backed over a co-worker. [Now he’s suing for trauma](http://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/chutzpah_railroad_edition.html).

  • Return of the Birdman

    [The Canberra Birdman rally may return in 2009](http://the-riotact.com/?p=4469).

  • Bigger iPod

    Seagate predicts [1 terabyte iPods within a decade](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/seagate-1tb-ipods-possible-in-2014-243288.php).

  • Melbourne

    [Helen](http://www.bigplatypus.com/?p=328) and I travelled to Melbourne last weekend for a quick holiday weekend. A few highlights… Firstly, I really enjoy the architecture in Melbourne. I never quite managed to get a photo of the RMIT campus near our hotel, but I was quite taken with this skyscraper: ![Melbourne Skyscraper](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/melbourne-skyscraper.jpg) First day we mainly spent going…