Cheap Therapy

I’ve got the piles of junk, now all I need is the 3×30″ Cinema Displays. Here’s the JoyOfTech take on it.

The Mundaring Truffle Festival is on the 1st to 5th of August and incorporates the Perth Hills Wine Show.

This is pretty cool, a collection of pie charts of colours used in national flags. Looks like white and red are pretty popular. See if you can find Australia. Powered by Python

If you’re a fan of Scientific American’s Douglas Hofstadter (of “Godel, Escher, Bach” fame), you may enjoy the podcast of his lecture at Stanford University titled “Analogy as the core of Human Cognition”. (on Stanford iTunesU).

Went to the park with Puggle (It’s been a while since we last went. Longer legs make him faster! He’s harder to catch when I’m encumbered with his discarded scooter too). Fortunately it being freezing cold seems to mean the playground is quite deserted. Beer with Skippy, beer and pool with the Novocastrians, blogging, chats. Bilby is scooting around on the floor now, nowhere is safe.

Some of these are very pretty (I like the pitcher plants). Click on the Top 10 list.

A reminder that the ABC will be screening the oil documentary “Crude” tomorrow (Thursday) night at 8:30pm. While you’re at it, set the video for Compass at 9:30pm on Sunday for the second part of Richard Dawkins’ documentary about religion titled “Root of All Evil”.

It looks like Michael Moore’s making himself popular with the establishment again, this time looking at the US’s health industry in Sicko.

Could you pass the citizenship test, for example? Although you’re apparently allowed to take it as many times as necessary to get the 60% pass rate, it wasn’t clear if the test is available in languages other than english. Regardless of correctness I don’t know I could stomach giving some of the answers I think they’re after.

Today when you were in the bath I kissed the top of your head, you looked up at me and said “I love you”, and I was so happy that I then shed a tear.