pushing the sky

proposed law of productivity: when you have more than 3 meetings in your calendar for a day, you can safely consider it a write-off.

Accidents stop in a town without signs – National – smh.com.au: Who knew: when you trust people to do the right thing, they do it.

Come my friend, and stay a while – rejoice, for Diablo III has been announced! Someone definitely left the fanboys in charge at Blizzard, and it looks like they’re improving on the existing, brilliant, formula.

The Big Picture blog: Late in linking, but if you’re not subscribed already, you’re missing out on some of the best of photojournalism.

The recent kerfuffle between the parties over who has the best strategy for cutting petrol prices – the Liberals pushing for “at least” 5 cents a litre cut in the excise, and the government considering lifting the double-tax of the GST on the excise – effectively cutting 3.8c – is astonishing in its short-sightedness. The [...]

And the survey says… my last post isn’t far off wider sentiment: okaaaaaay, now I really need someone to restore my sense of hope and the possibility of getting out of this rut we’ve landed in. (via)

Climate change. Global food shortage. Global oil shortage. Global  Overfishing. Deforestation. Desertification. Ice caps melting. Credit Crunch. Corporate short-sightedness. Inflation. Labour shortage. US Recession. China overheating. Growing inequality. The war in Iraq. The war in Afghanistan. The never-ending Israel-Palestine-Lebanon conflict. The “War on Terror”. Rising nationalism. Rights abuses. Increasing surveilance. Decreasing freedoms. Continuing racial inequality. [...]

Firefox 3 released today. If you’re not aware already, Mozilla is “aiming for a record number of downloads”* in 24 hours. *(no existing record exists so whatever is downloaded is a record.)

It’s not exactly a light topic, but here’s a thought on democracy. I’m sure most people understand the rudiments of democracy – rule of the majority is essentially what it boils down to, or so that’s the theory. Which is the point I was pondering the other day, really – if you take the English [...]

SNES Mario Kart lives, on the web! I can’t imagine when they created Javascript that they thought this would be possible. (via)