Britains Got Talent 2009

"Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. He then uses Photoshop to composite the results into single images." (From Boing Boing)

Not a happy cat

These aren't the girls you're looking for...

Up to scratch

The Federal Government and private sector will invest up to $43 billion over eight years in a super-fast national broadband network. In a shock decision this morning, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that none of five bidders including Optus and Melbourne group Acacia for a national network were up to scratch.

$15b broadband network on way

New website - School Enews

Great new website for government and non-government schools to send home their school newsletters via email instead of using paper.

If all the public schools in NSW were to send home their school newsletter via email instead of paper, this would save over 60 million sheets of paper EACH year. That's a pile 6km high.

www.schoolenews.com.au

PS - just doing this post to mark the start of this new website / system and to improve my Google search rankings :-)

PPS - help us save paper and the environment

New IE*

In case you didn't already know...

Microsoft launches IE8 as a faster, safer browser
Microsoft has now released Internet Explorer 8 in advance of the version that will appear in Windows 7. Full Story

Scary stuff

Americans spend 8 hours a day on screens, study finds
In a world with grocery store television screens, digitally delivered movie libraries and cellphone video clips, the average American is exposed to 61 minutes of TV ads and promotions a day. Full Story

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Susan Boyle