Levitating on the beach

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50 Top Free Apps | Lifehacker Australia

via lifehacker.com.au LifeHacker this week features the best 50 (!) free applications for Mac, iPhone (and other systems). Posted via email from What I Learnt Today

Four Degrees of Seperation

When you live in a country town, you soon learn that everyone is directly connected to everyone else. Even in a large city like Sydney, its unusual if someone you meet doesn’t know a friend of a friend. But did you know that if you meet a stranger anywhere in the world, whatever remote spot, [...]

#QantasLuxury: a Qantas social media disaster in pyjamas

via theconversation.edu.au The Conversation today has an analysis of the Qantas Twitter marketing disaster. The Qantas team announced a new competition on twitter – tweet your favourite thing about Qantas, use the tag #qantasluxury, and you could win a major prize. Not a holiday, not a first class flight, not even a short domestic hop. [...]

25 Worst Passwords of 2011

SplashData created the rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers. Here is the complete list: 1. password 2. 123456 3.12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123 6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9. trustno1 10. dragon 11. baseball 12. 111111 13. iloveyou 14. master 15. sunshine 16. ashley 17. bailey 18. passw0rd 19. [...]

Always Late, but always worth waiting for

via lifehacker.com.au Someone very dear to me is always late – but always worth waiting for.. Do your friends give you a starting time one hour earlier than the time they tell everyone else? If so, you may benefit from the ‘How Can I Fix my Chronic Lateness’ article in LifeHacker today. Rule Number One [...]

The Support Group for McDonalds Toys

Scientists have proven that only two things will remain recognisable after a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches, and Happy Meal Toys. As you know, our family motto is “If It Ain’t Broke, It Ain”t Ours”. Even in our family, there are complete sets of intact McDonald’s toys whose ancestry goes back generations. These are the only things [...]

Explainer: The Greek Economy – Better Value Elsewhere

Ernie Morcombe: I Say, I Say, I Say, What’s a Grecian Urn? Eric Wise : Oh, about 3 Drachmas a week? The Greek Government has been spending more than it earns for many years, particularly since the rapid expansion after it entered the Eurozone in 2001.  “Public spending soared and public sector wages practically doubled [...]

Create Your Own Online Clothing Boutique, Earn 10% of Sales

via mashable.com Do you know a Uni students who has a strong interest in fashion, a flare for writing, who spends too much time on the web looking at clothes, and who has a lifestyle that exceeds her budget? (I do) StyleOwner is a new company that lets you create your own fashion boutique online [...]

Screevers and Lego Terracotta Warriors

See the full gallery on Posterous Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim cheroo  I does what I likes and I likes what I do  Today I’m a screever and as you can see  A screever’s an artist of highest degree  And it’s all me own work  From me own memory” –    Bert – Mary [...]