Category: Quickhit

[A 1000 year Forest Clock](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/11/1000-year-forest-clock-tiwalkme.html). The aims of this project are the kind of thing that make me rest my head in my hands, but it’d be cool to see.

[Bug Labs make open source hardware that you can link together like Lego](http://www.buglabs.net/). I’d love to play with this stuff. It looks really cool and it’s a clever idea.

[NASA has released several sound files from Saturn](http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/). Cool in concept, sound a bit like static in realisation.

[Joss Whedon is returning to television](http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=972f7d73-e0a2-43ea-abad-0abf6afba1f3). If you don’t know who he is, go watch *Firefly*.

[Japan’s Phillip’s Curve looks like Japan](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11/rorschach-econo.html) (including picture). In case you were wondering: it doesn’t seem to work for Australia.

[The Australian of the Year finalists](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/australian-of-the-year-finalists-announced/2007/11/01/1193619053511.html?s_cid=rss_news). Only two sportspeople on the list, thankfully. But I’ve never been sure why on earth this prize exists, it serves no purpose and has no well defined criteria.

[Star Trek themed coffins](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/star-trek-coffin/star-trek-coffin-warps-your-corpse-to-the-final-nerd-frontier-317341.php). In case my loved ones are wondering: **NO!**.

[A history of US tax rates by income group](http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/evolution-of-tax-rates.html). The decline in the top 0.01 per cents tax rate is astonishing, but it’s noteworthy how badly the top 20 per cent did in the Clinton years compared to Bush II.

[The iPhone may launch in Australia in 2008](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/31/iphone-looking-to-head-down-under/). Yay! Happy dance time.

[Tiger Woods retirement fund could be worth $US 1 billion](http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news;_ylt=AvrCG7Va3rP9NtKe3.eLXJ45nYcB?slug=dw-pension090407&prov=yhoo&type=lgns). It’s hard to find retirement funds better than the government one, but this manages it…