For every bootleg movie out there shot with a video camera, some schmuck sat in the theatre and taped the entire thing on a portable video camera. Craig Farrugia was one such person and after being found guilty of camming movies at Blacktown drive in for the scene group ‘PreVail’, was fined $5400 and given [...]
When I was at university I always secretly wondered where the magical department was in which all the whimsical studies get done. You know stuff like ‘men like rounder toilet seats then women’, or ‘females like larger gear stick knobs then males’ or even ‘wow! nobody wants to sleep with the ugly girl.’ Despite many [...]
Australian court verdicts seem to be something I find myself writing about with greater frequency. I don’t know if it’s because they just seem to keep getting it wrong or whether the media are giving greater coverage to seemingly bad verdicts. Whatever the reason is last week alone there was more then a few cases [...]
Just over two week ago I decided to switch over from my Mach3 cartridge razor to the more traditional double edged Merkur HD razor wet shave. From paranoia about bleeding to death, worrying about losing half my mornings to shaving and trying to get that pre-shave routine down pat at 6am in the morning, here’s [...]
One of the biggest decor decisions you can make when planning a new tank is whether to go barebottom (no substrate at all) or to go with gravel or small rocks. Each has various advantages and disadvantages with the final decision resting primarily on the aesthetic you are going for. Here’s the main points for [...]
by Lady Wulfrun Cycling has featured in the Australia media a few times this month. Primarily because of the harsh new laws introduced in Melbourne to stop menacing cyclists and ironically two stories featuring drivers colliding with cyclists and driving off. One of course being the elderly William Spence who I wrote about and the [...]
I read as I’m sure many of you did about Michael Jackson’s death shortly after waking up this morning. At the time it felt surreal and amidst claims of hoaxes and publicity I really didn’t know what to think. The last thing I wanted to do was head into work. Like the entirety of generation [...]
I got home from work today and did my usual reading my feeder entries, checking my email and stats/comments on OzSoapbox. Turns out the folks at Rolling Razor (specifically somebody calling themselves Alicia or Allison I can’t remember now) decided to comment spam my entry on double edged shaving. If they’d bothered to read the [...]
by Brokenbat I can remember the last time I used the yellow pages, I was dismantling a dressing table and needed somewhere to temporarily place the mirror. That was back about five years ago. What I can’t remember however is the last time I used the yellow pages to actually look up the number to [...]
You know those annoying emails everyone gets, the ones with official looking pictures from some random bank you don’t even have an account with informing you that you need to punch in your non-existent account details or your bank balance will self destruct? Yeah the ones with the dodgy clickable URL’s written in HTML to [...]
