Australian Economic Indicators, Sep 2007

A monthly compendium of economic statistics, presenting comprehensive tables, graphs, commentaries, feature articles and technical notes. Primarily a reference document, the publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy.
Australian Economic Indicators, Sep 2007

Radar's Guide to shopping for Counterfeits

You know you want it: The high-performance sports car, the designer handbag, the Rolex. But the prices! So-called counterfeiters feel your pain, and they're doing everything they can—including putting themselves at tremendous personal risk—to make such items truly affordable, to take luxury out of the soft, deeply moisturized hands of the privileged few and bring it to the masses. Most of these so-called knockoffs come from China.
Radar's Guide to shopping for Counterfeits

Stonehenge: The Inner Circle

English Heritage does grant very limited access to the stones themselves to limited numbers of visitors, by advance arrangement—long advance arrangement, in the early mornings, before the site opens, or in the evenings, after it closes.
A slideshow of some snapshots follows.
Stonehenge: The Inner Circle

The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time

One question you may be wondering: Why are these experiments listed here, on the Museum of Hoaxes? They're not hoaxes, are they? No, they're not.
The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time

Upload and Send Large Files for Free

File Sharing the Easy Way: Upload and send large files for free.
TransferBigFiles

Got The Current Time? Your Search Engine Does!

Typically, a search in the format of "time in [city] or [state] or [country]" returns the current time for the area you searched for at the top of the search results, for most major search engines.
Got The Current Time? Your Search Engine Does!

Archival Space

In honor of the recent announcement that the Internet Archive is partnering with NASA to archive and manage all of their photographs and audiovisual materials, this blog entry is devoted to space science.
Archival Space

Divorces, Australia, 2006

Information on divorces granted in Australia in 2006. Key indicators of national and state divorces are included in the analytical commentary.
Divorces, Australia, 2006

Update on Windows Releases: Vista SP1, XP SP3, Server 2008 Update

Overnight Microsoft announced availability dates for several key product updates including Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008.
Update on Windows Releases: Vista SP1, XP SP3, Server 2008 Update

Tweak Vista and XP with Xdn Tweaker

Windows only: Tweak system settings in both Windows XP and Vista with lightweight freeware application Xdn Tweaker.
Tweak Vista and XP with Xdn Tweaker

China's New Cop Avatars

Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
China's New Cop Avatars

25 Tips to Become More Productive and Happy at Work

Would you like to be more engaged, satisfied, and fulfilled in your work? Would you like to be more productive and feel a greater sense of accomplishment at the end of each day? Well you can.
25 Tips to Become More Productive and Happy at Work

50 Tips for Frugal Living

I am fairly frugal (though not always), but sometimes I take it too far: I have T-shirts with holes in them, I never buy new clothes, we’re shopping for a new couch because our current one has holes in it, and I ran my current pair of running shoes until the soles fell off.
50 Tips for Frugal Living

13 ways to Protect Personal Data from Online Fraud and Identity Theft

In our digital age, it's becoming increasingly hard not to share your personal data, such as passwords, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc online because even if you prefer the two P's when performing transactions (Paper and Phone), most companies prefer doing everything online for financial reasons. Unfortunately, some companies do not put in place the necessary stringent policies and procedures needed for your personal data to be secure.
13 ways to Protect Personal Data

Sony blasted for helping hide Malware

Security specialists are warning that Sony's MicroVault USB, which is a biometric USB storage device, cloaks driver software in a Windows directory that could be used by malware to avoid detection from security applications.
Sony blasted for helping hide malware on users' PCs

Maintain a Consistent Workspace Across Multiple Computers

Most likely you use more than one computer in the course of a day—a work computer and a home computer, maybe even a laptop and a desktop. That means you've got at least two workspaces that can get horrendously out of sync if you don't keep them in check. The key to staying productive at all your computers is building a consistent workspace—that is, a computing environment that is the same (where it counts) everywhere you use a computer.
Maintain a Consistent Workspace Across Multiple Computers

How To Hide An Airplane Factory

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
How To Hide An Airplane Factory

It's Time to Stand Up to Your Email

Thanks to the avalanche of messages they receive every day, many professionals and office workers say they suffer from email overload. It doesn't have to be that way.
It's Time to Stand Up to Your Email

Resources: Encyclopedias

Contains a listing of selected general encyclopedias available on the internet and selected online subject specific encyclopedias as well as selected subject and topic specific encyclopedia publications available in print, electronically or both.
These are selected titles and these lists make no pretension of being comprehensive.
General Internet and Print Resources: Encyclopedias

Track real-time Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity

Track and explore real-time earthquakes and volcanic activity with Google Maps.
Google LatLong: Track Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity

10 Killer Job Interview Questions and Answers

Behind every interview question there is a concern or another question. Your job is to process the question thinking about what the interviewer’s concern might be. In other words, why is the interviewer asking you this question?
10 Killer Job Interview Questions and Answers

Deliver Better Presentations

“Tell a story that makes the audience into the protagonist, then demonstrate how your approach to solving their problem will help them win in the end.”
How to Deliver Better Presentations

Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop

How to remove backgrounds very quickly with good results using Photoshop’s extract feature.
Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop

Teen hacks 'useless' Govt porn filter

A Melbourne teenager who has managed to circumvent the Federal Government's internet pornography filter has described it as "completely useless".
Teen hacks 'useless' Govt porn filter

Things I Learned From Movies

Meh!
Things I Learned From Movies

How to Spot a Fake Rolex

They say there’s a “sucker born every minute” but you're not a sucker if you intentionally know what you’re getting into.
How to Spot a Fake Rolex

The Manager's Cheat Sheet: Body Language

Like it or not, your body speaks volumes, even when you are silent. Here's how to express an attitude that's appropriate for a leader.
The Manager's Cheat Sheet: Body Language

All the things not to do

Breathing ?
All the things not to do

14 Foods that Lower Cholesterol

1. Whole grains and oats - a five-year Insulin Resistance Athersclerosis Study showed that people whose diets contain the most whole grains “had the thinnest carotid artery walls and showed the slowest progression in artery wall thickness.” etc
14 Foods that Lower Cholesterol

American Airlines and Wikipedia Edits

September 11 - their Wikipedia page clearly stating that Flights 11 & 77 were not scheduled on 9/11/2001. Huh ?
American Airlines - Wikipedia Edits

How to Overcome Jet Lag

Prepare Before Your Flight
Melatonin: Often Used But Unproven
Be Healthy In Flight
Reset Your Internal Clock At Your Destination
How to Overcome Jet Lag

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.
— Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979
Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

Searcharazzi: Salacious Wiki Edits to FAST Search & Transfer

Ever since Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith launched Wiki Scanner, it has been nonstop fun freaking out PR people everywhere. While Wired’s list of salacious edits has everyone abuzz, Searcharazzi still enjoys good, old-fashioned wiki sleuthing, as brought to our attention yesterday.
Searcharazzi: Salacious Wiki Edits to FAST Search & Transfer

Square Watermelon

Farmers in the southern Japanese town of Zentsuji have figured out how to grow their watermelons so they turn out square.
Square Watermelon

How to Stop Complaining

It’s good to take responsibility for your thoughts, but you don’t want to identify with those thoughts to the point you end up blaming yourself and feeling even worse.
How to Stop Complaining

Least Religious Countries

When you travel to Europe , don't be surprised to find that many Europeans don't believe in God.
Least Religious Countries

China Airlines Repaints Its Toasted 737

China Airlines has painted over its name and logo on the wreckage of a passenger jet that exploded in flames at Naha Airport in Okinawa moments after passengers slid down emergency chutes to escape.
China Airlines Repaints Its Toasted 737, Translates "Chutzpah" into Chinese

Measures of Australia's Progress: Summary Indicators, 2007

The Measures of Australia's Progress products aim to provide a digestible set of statistical evidence to allow Australians to make their own assessment of whether life in Australia is getting better.
Measures of Australia's Progress: Summary Indicators, 2007 (Ed. 2)

How to Hide Files inside JPGs

Jimmy Ruska demonstrates how you can hide any file into a JPEG image using the free 7-Zip and the Windows command line.
How to Hide Files inside JPGs

Hurtling Toward Mars

August 21, 2007: By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.
Hurtling Toward Mars

In Google Earth, a New Sky Service

Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.
In Google Earth, a New Sky Service

Australia's Key National Indicators, 2007

A summary of Australia's key economic and social indicators.
Key National Indicators, 2007

Hack a Toilet for free Water

This Instructable is a step by step description of the process of adding a sink to the top of a toilet allowing the use of the clean water before it goes into the bowl.
Hack a Toilet for Free Water

Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing)

Back in the day, when people noted that Diet Coke was 99% water, it was an insult. The point was that water was free, and Diet Coke was just free water plus a little bit of artificial this and that — so you would have to be a fool to pay so much for it.
Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing)

Australian Retail Petrol Price

Australian petrol prices move in line with international prices and for Australia the current international benchmark is the spot price of Singapore Mogas 95 Unleaded, which is the price of refined petrol in Singapore, not crude oil.
Comparison of Australian retail petrol price movements with Singapore Mogas 95

History of the Flush Toilet

There is disagreement over who was the inventor of the modern flush toilet, and flushing out the truth is not easy. Many give credit to THOMAS CRAPPER (1837-1910), an English sanitary engineer, for inventing the valve~and~siphon arangement that made our modern toilet possible.
History of the Flush Toilet

Windows Rootkits 101

When administrators and security professionals hear the word rootkit, most think first of a UNIX-based system. Unfortunately, this only leads to a false sense of security for Windows-based systems. The fact is that Windows rootkits do exist, and you need to be able to detect them.

What is a rootkit?

Windows Rootkits 101

WikiScanner

WikiScanner - List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations

Watch out for the latest email phishing attacks

Arriving in inboxes around the world now are the latest email phishing attacks, socially engineered once again to appear legitimate to try and capture users, experienced or not, off guard – how do you protect yourself?
Watch out for the latest email phishing attacks

Improve your Self Esteem

Ten quick tips....
Improve your Self Esteem

How to be Clean

What better way to spruce up a potentially boring subject than through film! The archive has several films that all find different ways – sometimes bizarre, sometimes clever but always entertaining – to attack the subject of cleanliness and personal hygiene.
How to be Clean

404 Error Pages

From Smashing Magazine here are over 40 working examples of user-friendly, creative and outstanding 404 error pages.
404 Error Pages

The King: Dead and Well on Ask.com

Yesterday marked the 30th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and while we don't normally commemorate the anniversary of someone's death…well, he's the king. If you want to remember him today from your desk, here's a little help courtesy of Ask 3D.
The King: Dead and Well on Ask.com

Elvis Presley And The Events Of 1977

Elvis Presley & the events of 1977 as we remember Elvis on the 30th anniversary of his tragic death.
Elvis Presley And The Events Of 1977

Bad Habits to Stop Now

Here are nine stressful and common habits that entrepreneurs and office workers should strive to eliminate. Focus on one or two at a time, just as you would with high-priority to-do items.
The Not-To-Do List: Bad Habits to Stop Now

Free your music from iTunes with iTunes Export

Out of the box, iTunes can't transfer the song files of individual playlists out of your library for playing anywhere other than your iPod. But an open source Windows utility, iTunes Export, can do just that.
Free your music from iTunes with iTunes Export

8 Surprising Household Deodorizers

When smells turn a room sour, it may be time for an intervention. Try these gentle home remedies for the most off-putting odours.
8 Surprising Household Deodorizers

How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

Foods don't stay fresh in the fridge forever, and the day will come when you take something out and wonder if it's still good to eat or has gone bad.
How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload

The problem with being constantly bombarded by information, as we web workers are, is not so much that we can’t deal with it, or that it distracts us from our work, or that it shortens our attention spans or stresses us out.
It’s that we have allowed that information to control our lives.
21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload

10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Aspirin is an excellent painkiller and anti-inflammatory, but it also has many other household uses.
10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

In the wake of nearly 200 passenger deaths in a Brazilian airliner accident, we take an exclusive look at 36 years’ worth of NTSB reports and seating charts. The best way to live through a disaster in the sky? Move to the back of the Airbus.
Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

Worst Slogan Translations Ever

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth." etc
Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Ten Free Security Utilities

Here's a list of ten free security tools you can and should be using to help protect, disinfect and manage your Windows computer.
Ten free security utilities you should already be using

9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

If you take enough photos of people, eventually you’ll photograph someone who is either a little heavier or thinks that they are. This is especially true for those of us in the U.S., where obesity rates are sky high. The good news for you is that there are a few tricks you can add to your bag to help make your subject look thinner. You’ll get the photo, your subject will be happy with it, and everyone wins.
9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

Best of July 2007

Every month Smashing Magazine takes a look around and selects some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. They read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles they’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in July.
Best of July 2007

100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Most of us are interested in improving something about ourselves: our productivity, our sanity, our organization, our happiness, our effectiveness, our impact on the environment, our minds, our dreams.
And you can spend hundreds of dollars on books and thousands of hours on websites looking for your answers.
Or you can look no further.
100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Top 10 PDF Tricks - Lifehacker

Top 10 list of techniques for converting, exchanging, sharing, managing and editing PDF documents.
Top 10 PDF Tricks

Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

This publication contains quarterly estimates of average weekly earnings based on information obtained from a sample survey of employers.
Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Most celebrities are not known for their intellectual prowess, but they have provided words that wowed us, from insight or sheer audacity. The USA TODAY People staff picks some stunning sound bites from stars over the past 25 years.
Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare — some are on the verge of extinction.
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

10. Considered the other "Easter Island mystery," Rongorongo is the hieroglyphic script used by the region's early inhabitants. Read on...
History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The internet revolution was supposed to be about universalizing computing. So why is it that despite the fact that you can do virtually anything from anywhere through the Net, most of us are still tethered to our computer because of the need for access to basic desktop software?
No More Hard Drive! 100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Want to do your body a world of good? It's as easy as expanding your grocery list.
The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Australian Social Trends, 2007

Australian Social Trends 2007 is the 14th edition of an annual series that presents information on contemporary social issues and areas of public policy concern. By drawing primarily on a wide range of ABS statistics, and statistics from other official sources, Australian Social Trends describes aspects of Australian society, and how these are changing over time.
Australian Social Trends, 2007

7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

Whether you’re sentenced to use Word all day by a dictatorial IT department, or it’s simply your word processor of choice, you can save time and have more options by mastering a few easy shortcuts.
7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

World's Hairiest Man

World's hairiest man has a receding hairline

Exercise-Rest-Exercise: For extra weight loss

Japanese researchers found that if you exercise, rest, and then exercise some more, you actually burn more stored fat in your body than if you just exercise without any rest in between.
Exercise-Rest-Exercise: Possible formula for extra weight loss

Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

An Indian thief forced to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative to yield a gold necklace he had swallowed produced the booty on Sunday - but only after he was fed chicken, rice and bread, police said.
Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs

If your scratches are very deep you're probably out of luck. But if a few scratches are giving you some skipping or the CD/DVD is unreadable, this may save you a trip.
Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs

Old Creepy Ads

Weirdomatic - Amazing Pictures: Old Creepy Ads

Where's is All the Water Going?

Dumb Questions: If Earth is a Closed System and We're Running Out of Water, Where's it All Going?

When Insults had Class

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend… if you have one.” –
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.” –
Winston Churchill, in response

When insults had class

Windows XP won't Boot

Takeaway: If your computer powers up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly, you have some troubleshooting ahead of you. Here's a look at the likely culprits and what you can do to fix the problem.
10 things you can do when Windows XP won't boot

6 Superfoods That Prevent Disease

Simplify your life-and boost your health-with these basic foods that really work You can nibble on goji berries, whip up noni juice smoothies and stock your shelves with antioxidants. But if you're looking for what really works for optimal health and disease prevention, the best approach is to focus on foods that are rich in disease-fighting phytochemicals.
6 Superfoods That Prevent Disease

Minneapolis bridge collapse: Blog Roundup

Minneapolis bridge collapse: Blog Roundup

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

All four lanes of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge near University Avenue have collapsed into the river and onto businesses underneath the highway at 6:05 p.m. Wednesday.
According to reports from the scene, crews on the Mississippi River are no longer in rescue mode but recovery mode.
Cars are still on the bridge.
At Least 7 Dead In I-35W Bridge Collapse

The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice

By Scott Adams
Last night I met a script supervisor. She works with directors to make sure a movie has the right continuity, and one scene fits the next. It’s a fascinating job, hobnobbing with top directors, writers, and celebrities. No two assignments are the same. How do you get that kind of career? She earned a degree in anthropology and just “fell into it” through a series of events.
Career Advice

Suicide rate rises in Hot Weather

Analysis of more than 50,000 suicides in England and Wales between 1993 and 2003 showed the suicide rate rose when average daily temperatures topped 18C.
Suicide rate rises in hot Weather