tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108254062009-10-02T17:14:13.850+10:00Adrian Wiggins is a Sydney-based web producer and writer.Wiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411368436943875436noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10825406.post-85939175907637665702009-02-12T20:25:00.002+11:002009-02-12T20:27:03.674+11:00

This blog has been migrated to http://www.pureandapplied.net. Please head on over there for the latest.

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Nerriga hall Originally uploaded by adrian.wiggins. Go git em.I've an idea that with my new-found spare time I will start taking photographs again. I've really missed the boat on art photography, so I'll be old school and do landscapes. Only two early studies in the photostream so far.

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Jimmy's first protest march Originally uploaded by adrian.wiggins. Here are some photos from 1999 added to Flickr. This one see Jimmy protesting about East Timor in his stripy suit at the tender age of 3 months.

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As you may recall from an earlier post, my wife is a mad-keen knitter. Having seen this inspirational site I may stop asking for a beanie, and instead ask for some lobster... Via Boing Boing

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The abject failure of America's preparedness for disaster reveals so much about the nation, the government's self-delusion surpassed only by its over-weening pride, the president's weasel words, the tragic stubbornness of the poor and the abandonment of the infirm. New Orleans now a foetid sump. It beggars belief. In Nursing Home, a Fight Lost to Rising Waters...

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The SMH reports Malcolm Turnbull advocating a government-sponsored email address for every Australian. He reckons this email 'pigeon hole' would solve some endemic problems of the postal mail: "Many of [mail pieces] are lost, many of them are mislaid, many of them, perhaps most of them, are never read." Hmm - hang on - those sound like problems also endemic to email... But how many of us would

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Cologne Cathedral Originally uploaded by The Rocketeer. Amazing found photo archive of WWII aerial photography shot by allied planes over Germany.

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The second petrol boycott this year will undoubtedly have as little effect as the first. One day we'll look back on $1.40 per litre and say "well that was cheap". In time we'll say the same of petrol when it was twice the price it is now. That will be around the time combustion engines are finally priced out of the market. LP Gas conversions have risen dramatically in the past few weeks, but

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Boing Boing carries an interesting idea for capturing all the gobs of gum by providing a target in the path. Urban designers note - this could get a little festy. This saves the concil (sic) thousands of pounds on pressure washing large areas of the street and subsequent inconvenience to the public. It's only a matter of time till we see the revival of the spittoon.

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I've finally got round to scanning the first selections of what must be some several thousand photos lying around in boxes. They'll be slowly added to Flickr. The usual suspects - wife, kids, mates. No cats though. Cats are off the agenda.

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Panic is a virus...Link

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I don't know whether to rejoice or despair in the Konfabulator Sudoku Helper. It's a point of pride to do the puzzle with only a pen (ok - a four colour pen), but having today failed to complete the kids sudoku in the Herald, I may just install this ready reckoner. Actually a Sudoku widget would be really worrying... (mental note: new del.icio.us category - unproductivity)

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Well Lego is finally 50. I always thought it had been around longer than that... but with a 6yo son up to his neck in Bionicles, I can safely say Lego has delivered on its aims set down in 1954: 50th Anniversary: "GKC [Lego's inventor] first formulated those attributes that he believed the LEGO System of Play should aspire to deliver, 10 principles that today still are used in product and brand

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i-mode blog carries a rumour that Apple will announce an MP3 mobile phone.

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Notwithstanding the problems of iTunes 4.9 (here covered by James Mc Parlane) it is undoubtedly the breakthrough client for podcasting. I'm not going to abandon iPodder anytime soon for all its advantages over the offering in iTunes, but iTunes brings geometric growth to podcast subs. (It remains to be seen whether the phrase 'exponential growth' is more appropriate. ) Here are some links:

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I'm posting this for my mate Damian who is fond of saying "Dave Winer was there for RSS when RSS didn't have a friend". So thanks Dave.

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Iraq War Fatalities is a flash animation showing deaths in Iraq since the invasion. Linked from Metafilter: Iraq War Fatalities is a chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occurred in the War in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space. It is an ongoing project that is updated regularly, and will continue to go on as long as the war does. The

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Wow - the bad news continues for traditional media producers with this AP story: U.S. Box Office Hits Longest Modern Slump. Could be that this year's crop of blockbusters aren't so, um, bustin'. Or it could be people are voting with their bums and prefer to sit, like I am now, in front of their home computer with a nice cup of cocoa and a plate of after-dinner mints. So ya boo sucks to

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reports in its June Snapshot of Broadband Deployment that there are now 1.8 million broadband services connected. Here's the biscuit: it represents "an increase of over 1 million customers, or 122 per cent, over the preceding 12-month period". Meanwhile the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations Publisher’s Statement (reported in B&T) shows

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My wife loves nothing better than sitting down to watch some TV (preferably a cold wet detective muddling through some desultory evidence for a grizzly murder) while she knits up a storm on the couch. I thought she had the largest knitting needles I had ever seen (size 15) - until I read about the The Knitting Machine. (at Cool Hunting)

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One of the moderate extravagances of my life to date has been to buy a great desktop radio. When my wife's old Panasonic packed it in after a weekend in the rain outside I decided to get a new radio for our kitchen. So I tried the new models for all the usual suspects - Sony, Panasonic, some German brand. All had crap sound and shoddy build. Then I discovered the Kloss Model One built by Tivoli

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Mozilla conquers Redmond. Link (via BoingBoing). Also links through to Google-based games wiki. Street-based multiplayer social gaming extended by Google Maps could be very cool - link.

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In 1997 I was a founding editor of Cordite Poetry Review. David Prater, who took over at issue #8 in 2000 and made it the wonder it is today, has put together an issue devoted to poetry editors. And in a fit of productivity I produced two poems for the issue. Have a squizz.

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In addition to being streamed, The PanelBeaters show is now being podcast from the V8 Supercar site. Pod on. Link Feed

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Wow - wish I'd read this last year. Was feeling very fried.

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