- Why Punt Road Bridge is at a funny angle
Thursday 27 August 2009
Punt Road Bridge, built at a dog’s leg angle to Punt Road because a fellow who ran a one-penny punt, complete with jazz band and beer, continued his ferry where the bridge should have been built.
- Animals Making Faces
Thursday 27 August 2009
- Move the bloody port already
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Dredging has caused environmental damage beyond expectation at the entrance of Port Phillip Bay, with scientists reporting a biological shift in marine communities there.
- How Google Serves Data from Multiple Datacenters
Tuesday 25 August 2009
[The Google employee] does an excellent job explaining and evaluating the different options you have when architecting a system to work across multiple datacenters.
- A Vision of Students Today
Saturday 22 August 2009
via youtube.com
Dinna at @infoxchange sent me this video, created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
- Possibly my next camera
Saturday 22 August 2009
- Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad
Saturday 22 August 2009
via youtube.com
Alan Kay (himself, no slouch) presenting Ivan Sutherland’s “Sketchpad”, developed in 1963 (!
- Slow loris loves getting tickled
Saturday 22 August 2009
via youtube.com
It’s an endangered species, and it’s cute. There’s something wrong with the world.
- Comparison of Cloud Computing environments
Friday 21 August 2009
Availability an issue for Amazon EC2, Google AppLogic and Microsoft Azure.
- I like this kind of thing.
Monday 17 August 2009
