Category: Quickhit

[Facebook costs Australia $5b a year](http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/facebook-labelled-a-5b-waste-of-time/2007/08/19/1187462087940.html?s_cid=rss_news). By the same methodology I could say that the human digestive tract costs Australia $7.2b a year…

[Try this set of Russian nesting dolls](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/matryoshkus_russian_dolls.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

[R2-Beer2](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/you.re-our-only-hope/r2+beer2-is-my-kind-of-droid-290809.php).

Currently I’m spending a lot of time waiting for models to finish running. [Maybe this is the answer](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/geek_knitting_make_pdfcas.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

[A beautiful motorbike](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/vrooooom/confederate-renovatio-makes-me-drool-as-much-as-a-wraith-or-hellcat-290514.php).

Try this new laptop [with four processor cores](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/quad+core-laptops-coming-costs-10000%252B-fully-loaded-290405.php). Honestly, I don’t just need it to play games!

[Apple announces new iPods](http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/ipod-touch-gets-official/). I need one of these quite urgently…

In this [review of the book *Forbidden LEGO*](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/ems_labs_review_of_forbid.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

[The stand-up economist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgB6mFmYEcM).

[Try this bike](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/14/steampunk-monocycle-.html).