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.
Diablo 3 announced
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
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.
Everything is Seemingly Spinning Out of Control
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)
Get Firefox 3
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.)
Javascript Mario Kart
SNES Mario Kart lives, on the web! I can’t imagine when they created Javascript that they thought this would be possible. (via)
Devil May Care Excerpt
An excerpt from Devil May Care, the new James Bond novel – such a pity this is just about the best chapter, with the rest being a ham-fisted unreadable monstrosity.
280 Slides
280 Slides is a Powerpoint-replacement web app that looks quite slick, almost like Apple’s Keynote. Much more powerful than Google Docs’ presentation software, from my initial play around.
Movie Review: Jumper
Jumper: David Rice (Hayden Christensen, sulky as ever) is your garden variety weedy highschooler when he suddenly discoveres he can “jump” – teleport to a place he’s seen before. Based on a novel, it’s a fast paced sci-fi thriller that won’t win any award for plot (case in point: David’s never encountered another jumper before, but soon after, refers to the “jump scar” – how? wha? when?).
The action is unrelenting, the movie never really taking a breath to let us absorb and believe the characters, but for all that, it’s not half bad, and saved by Griffin (Jamie Bell, formerly Billy Elliot), ironically enough a character introduced for the film. ★★☆
Fruit in Japan
If you live in Japan and like mangoes, be prepared to pay ¥8,400 (AU$84) for one: between that and the $80 bunch of grapes, it makes our $13/kg bananas from 2006 look like a real bargain.