Australia Day timeline  This is an interesting timeline of Australia Day from the official government website.  Before 1770 – Aboriginal peoples had been living for more than 40 000 years on the continent we now know as Australia. At least…

Hotel Drinking Glasses This put a dampener on my excitement about going to Melbourne this week. If you have ever used a glass in your hotel room when travelling, this news report video will give you shivers. As you’ll see,…

Fast Food Choices Program Emily Brindall, Adelaide researcher with the CSIRO, says the main reason South Australians eat fast food is because it’s convenient. She interviewed 500 South Australians and discovered that we visit fast food chains about 3.4 times…

Amazon’s Kindle Taking away a few novels to read over the summer break is about to change is a big way, as Amazon.com, the Web’s largest online bookstore, rolls out its recently released electronic book reader. It’s a standalone book…

Life Hacker’s Top Ten Food Hacks Life Hacker is one of my favourite sites online, and as we start getting ready for Christmas Day, I thought it timely to visit the site’s Food Hacking tips. There are techniques for folding…

Global Incident Map This is interesting! This site consists of a World Map featuring strange and dangerous things that are happening right now in every country in the entire world – and it is updated every few minutes. You can…

Wired Test edition Wired magazine has been an online icon for geeks for a few years now, and each year they produce their TEST edition. There are 300+ items tested, reviewed and rated in the 2007 edition, which covers just…

I’m Thinking Of You Adele Basheer from Intrinsic told me about this site. Thanks, Adele. A website has been developed here in SA for people experiencing trauma or critical illness. It enables them to be part of a constructed “care…

Givle.com An Adelaide accountant and web enthusiast, Richard Khoo, has set up a site that mirrors Google, called Givle.com. It is based on the blackle.com site – which is Google with a black background. The idea is that when you…