Month: October 2007
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Election07: 386 edition
*Announcements*: Coalition announces [$4 billion in increased benefits for seniors](http://www.smh.com.au/news/economy/4b-for-pensioners/2007/10/23/1192941038909.html?s_cid=rss_news). *Polls*: [Newspoll](http://www.pollbludger.com/639) ALP 58-42. *Other*: [Wayne Swan and Peter Costello to debate](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/23/2067041.htm). Including worm. 32 bitty days until the election.
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Prepare your brain-soap
[Steve Ballmer of Microsoft describes his relationship with Bill Gates as ‘Husband-Wife’](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/microsoft/ballmer-describes-relationship-with-gates-as-husband+wife-brings-wrong-images-to-our-minds-310740.php). My brain my never be the same again…
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Obvious joke omitted
[The journal *Economic Inquiry* has appointed a humor editor](http://www.standupeconomist.com/miscellany/). Check out the rest of the linked site – some good routines from the guy. Although I don’t think he’ll be on *Last Comic Standing* any time soon.
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Caretaker fun for AGs
[DIY Vampire Fangs](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/diy_vampire_fangs.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Bit too complex for me, but could be fun if I ever decide to go to a halloween party. (Which, in turn, would more or less require me to be in the US, as thats the only place I’ve ever seen Halloween ever treated ‘all out’)
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Make your own box
[Templates for make it yourself boxes](http://www.ideem.it/). Might be handy next time you’re wrapping presents.
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Robert Hooke
[Scans of Robert Hooke’s notebooks now available online](http://darwin.gruts.com/weblog/archive/2007/10/19a/). I think [Robert Hooke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke) is fascinating. A brilliant mind who would be one of the most revered scientists ever if he hadn’t had the misfortune to live in the same time and place as a more brilliant scientist in Isaac Newton. (And then compounded that misfortune by…
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Dematerialisation
[More people play online game *World of Warcraft* than are employed in the farm sector of the US](http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/03/farm-fetish.html). The linked article makes a reasonable point about the mythology of living on the land, but I think comparing a hobby to a way of life is somewhat misleading. Some, of course, would claim that Warcraft *is*…
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Apple has sold 1.4 million iPhones
[Apple’s Q4 results](http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/apple-shipped-1-119-000-iphones-in-q4-2007/) The countdown to the first idiot suggesting these results suggest Apple is in trouble starts now…
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Almost here
[Xbox360 game Mass Effect is finished](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/22/mass-effect-is-done-and-you-still-cant-play-it/). It comes out November 20, so you should probably expect some interruption to blogging around then.
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Election07: Masonic secret edition
*Debate wrapup*: Strong consensus (from the worm and commentators) that Rudd easily won the debate. Rudd has now called for a further debate including Costello. *Annoncements*: Liberals annonce [increased funding for cancer care for women ($41m)](http://liberal.org.au/about/documents/BetterCancerCareandSupportforWomen_000.pdf), [$174m for water saving measures](http://www.smh.com.au/news/federalelection2007environment/174m-for-water-saving-measures/2007/10/22/1192940959327.html). Also announced in the debate were some details of the emission trading scheme policy…