In Praise of Big Things: Telstra Competition to Name New Australia-US Cable
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Anyone who has travelled around Australia at all by road will have noticed some Big Things: the Big Merino just out of Goulburn, the Big Guitar at country music capital Tamworth, the Big Prawn (or maybe Shrimp to you) at Ballina, the Big Banana at Coffs Harbour, the Big Pineapple near Nambour.
Perhaps even the Big [...]
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Mobile Phone Advice Service in Japan
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Our friends at CScout Japan point us to a cool new service being offered in Japan. My Counselor, a new mobile site is providing an application that lets users send anonymous text messages to qualified counselors of their choosing. For example, if a user has a relationship question, you can choose the category [...]
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Dying Reef Lives On Through Google
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008For those of you who’ll never see the world’s largest coral reef before its expected demise in 30 years, The Great Barrier Reef will live on through Google Maps. The search engine giant has begun adding satellite shots and detailed diagrams of the reef’s geography for viewing by future generations. Working alongside the reef’s Marine [...]
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How to Hire Writers in a Tight Economy and on a Tight Budget
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008I’ve been having a lot of people ask me lately what it is like to hire and manage a team of 18, 13, 15 writers. To put it bluntly, it is a Big. Challenge. Not only does every blog require a unique strategy to build, but each blogger takes a unique strategy to motivate & [...]
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Google’s Mail Goggles Helps Prevent Drunk E-mailing
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Google to the rescue! Gmail Labs has created a feature that will help anyone who’s had that late-night, drunken urge to send an email that they may regret in the morning. “Mail Goggles” is a little window that will pop up and prompt you to do some simple math equations before allowing your (potentially embarrassing) [...]
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Wordless Wednesday: Tuna Delight
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Sign at Suncoast, Tweed Heads, Australia: photo copyright Des Walsh 2008
This is the sign we love to see at our local wholesale meat and seafood supplier, Suncoast: fresh Albacore tuna at AU$25 for 2 kilos - which translates on today’s exchange rate as just under US$20 for 4 pounds 6 and a 1/2 ounces.
They cut [...]
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Why Are More Teens Dateless at the School Dance (and What Does it Mean)?
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008A recent Chicago Tribune article brings our attention to the increasing number of teens who are opting to attend their school dances in groups or ’stag’ - a reflection, the Tribune suggests, of the changing way teens view personal relationships and romance in the age of social networking sites, SMS and instant messaging. Social media [...]
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$18 Transatlantic Flights?
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has announced that plans are in the works for a new pricing scheme that could offer transatlantic flights for as low as $18. He expects that within two and a half years, these unheard of prices could go into effect. O’Leary plans to do all this by making the global financial [...]
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Innovation Inspired by Nature
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008designboom has a great article that explores the concept of biomimicry. It’s the study of nature’s designs, and learning how to copy and apply them to human design challenges. The operating idea is that instead of re-inventing the wheel every time, designers should refer to nature, and it’s billions of years of history for inspiration. [...]
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ViroChip: Detecting Virus’ from the Palm of Your Hand
Tuesday, den 7. October 2008Diagnosing and discovering new virus’ is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to a new development from Joseph DeRisi and Dave Wang. The molecular biologist and biochemists have developed a a glass slide which stores the DNA fragments of every virus ever recorded - all 22,000 of them. The ‘ViroChip’ will greatly [...]
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