Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Crisis Rocks Hawaii
Saturday, January 28th, 2006The Humuhumunukunukuapuaa has been the Hawaii state fish but it is no longer! Can anarchy be far behind? And what about Naomi?
Archive for January, 2006
Today In History: Sydney Founded
Thursday, January 26th, 2006January 26th: Today in 1788 a British fleet established the first permanent settlement of Europeans in Australia in Sydney. This allowed them a new place to dump prisoners as Georgia in the United States was no longer an option to them due to the American Revolution. So Happy Australia Day to all readers on the [...]
For all you knitters out there…
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Apparently you are no longer to get together to ‘Stitch and Bitch’ together thanks to an over aggressive trademark holder. If that bothers you there is a boycott going. There are many companies who seem to protect their trademarks just fine without pissing all over their fans (or in this case potential customers), I wonder [...]
Print Your Game Characters Out, As Models
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Very interesting application called OGLE that lets you extract 3D images from computer games and the like and print them out on the various modelling printers on the market. They are hugely expensive printers at the moment, but someday you can have your own action figures of you in game characters. If I was a [...]
Today In History: Bly Returns
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006January 25th Today in 1890 Nellie Bly completes her around the world trip in 72 days. She was a hoot. If you didn’t check out here writing when I posted the start of the trip check it out now here and here, good stuff.
Today In History: Caligula Assassinated
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006January 24th: Today in 41AD Caligula gets assassinated by his guards giving birth to both one of the best scenes in I Claudius and a terrible porn movie.