After two and a half hours sleep I got up at 2:30am to make my way down to the opera house through the CBD. Down the southern end of the city near central there were people out and about, early morning delivery vans starting their rounds, clubbers heading home etc. I made my [...]

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Every so often I have come across an image on the web of a massive number of nude people all arranged in a pose of some sort, most often in cities but also out in the country (see below for some examples). The photos are kind of cool in that the people in them [...]

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As a researcher I do a lot of trawling of electronic data bases for data or information.  When you are performing a search, the construction of a good search string is critical in being able to find what you need.  If there is something unique about what you are after then it makes it a [...]

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As I mentioned in a previous post I am a member of the Giant Microbe Affiliate program, mainly because I love all the soft toys made to look like microscopic organisms, and as a research scientist these are the things I deal within my work.
The way the affiliate program works is that for each toy [...]

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Health authorities in Australia, as elsewhere in the world are currently obsessed with Swine Flu, or as those same authorities would prefer us to refer to it, H1N1.
The designers at Giant Microbes have even put out a Swine flu soft toy (see  here), which like all their other  toys are a great likeness of the [...]

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Episode 2: Valiant
Australian Air Date: 10/5/09 Sunday 6:30pm
Not a bad episode.  As the second episode all the characters have settled down a bit.  The main ones, Merlin, Gaius, Arthur, Uther, Gwenivere and Morgana were introduced in the last episode, the film makers can now start to explore the relationships between the characters a bit more.  [...]

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Most people probably have a story to tell about products they remember eating as a kid which they return to years later only to claim with some alarm, “I remember these use to be much bigger”.  In some instances, certainly, this may be due to an increase in size of the person doing the remembering, [...]

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Air Date: 3/5/09 Sun 6:30pm
 
The first episode of Merlin was aired last night so I thought I would write a quick review, particularly since it is the first Myth and Magic style fantasy TV series we have had for quite some time.  There will be two sections of the review, the first one [...]

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My mum and my sister bought me these really cool soft toys in the shapes of microscopically sized things  for my birthday this year.  But more than just being something a little unusual, they are actually really well made and really clever.  They are by a company in the US called Giant Microbes and the [...]

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