See the full gallery on Posterous Modern smartphones have the very useful feature of correcting your typing mistakes by predicting what you actually intended to type. Drats. What I meant to say in the preceding sentence was that modern smartphones have the amazingly annoying feature of sending completely random messages completely unrelated to what you [...]
VCA 2010 RACE RUN on VimeoMarch 27, 2011
via vimeo.com Valpariso in Chile is home to the world’s wildest bike race. Looks like fun – one for you perhaps, Connor? Posted via email from What I Learnt Today |
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5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald DuckMarch 27, 2011
via cracked.com Donald, his nephews, and Uncle Scrooge have been busy changing the world for 50 years. Cracked Magazine points out that they have always been ahead of their time. Did you know the ducks adventures form the basis of some very recent movies, as well as paving the way for some scientific breakthroughs? Posted [...] |
Photoshop Basics in 25 minutesMarch 25, 2011
Do you want to look 10 years younger? You could exercise 45 minutes each day, drink more water and less alcohol, eat much less and stay out of the sun at all times. Or you could schedule a regular visit with the beautician, and purchase a cabinet full of anti-aging potions specially designed by a [...] |
Mind Burning – How to Learn New Stuff Part 2March 24, 2011
See How to Learn New Stuff Part 1 Can a system help you remember everything you have ever learnt? In a previous WILT article, we learnt that testing yourself early was the best way to make sure you can recall new information. But registering information in the library of your mind is only the first [...] |
ReservationsMarch 24, 2011
Last night my flight arrived in Canberra at 11.30pm. At the hotel, I was told that there were no rooms left. “Have you got my reservation?” “Oh yes sir. We have the reservation. We just don’t have the room/” I felt like Jerry Seinfeld. Posted via email from What I Learnt Today |
Creating a Web AppMarch 23, 2011
See the full gallery on Posterous Before there were apps, there were Web Apps. A WebApp is a website that has been specially designed to be viewed on a mobile device. Before the App Store was created, WebApps were the only way to add new applications to your iPhone or iPod touch. The special WebApp [...] |
InstantExpert: World Conflict – MoJo ExplainersMarch 21, 2011
Do you find it hard to keep up with what’s happening in your favourite trouble spot? Our copy of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Conflicts is now a few years out of date. (I do remember author Stephen Strauss golden rule of African politics – The only thing worse than the African dictator you’ve [...] |
Xtranormal – Do It Yourself MoviesMarch 21, 2011
Budding Fellinis and Lurhmans out there will know that actors can be just soooo difficult to work with. Not to mention Best Boys and Key Grips. Xtranormal is a website that provides the actors, cameramen, and crew. You select the scenery, choose your actors, provide the script and bingo! Your animated movie is done. Here is [...] |
Stretch Kombi – The World’s Coolest CarMarch 20, 2011
I think this stretch Volkswagen Kombi is the world’s coolest car. See the full gallery on Posterous It was a ‘guest’ at Jessica and Jamie’s wedding last weekend – and a more suitable limo for Byron Bay couldn’t be imagined. The owner, Koshi, spent two years working on this 1950 Samba VW. He split the [...] |
