August 27, 2008 (2 days ago) – 3:06 am
My little brother recommended a threadless t-shirt - I can now testify to its inaccuracy.
August 24, 2008 (5 days ago) – 11:34 am
[k10k] What better way to combine a calendar with bubble wrap than the bubble calendar?
August 24, 2008 (5 days ago) – 11:20 am
the little marionette, balmain
Little Marionette Coffee. 1A Booth St, Balmain.
Across the road from Gladstone park, if you’re lucky you can find a parking spot just across the road. Though not a large cafe, it manages to fit a couple of bookshelves on the wall, giving that welcoming sense of [...]
August 24, 2008 (5 days ago) – 11:08 am
poppys cafe, balmain
Artecaffe Coffee. 487 Darling St, Balmain
The outdoor seating is the first thing that strikes you when you approach here: a mix of locals from different walks of life sit chatting and enjoying coffees and the all-day breakfast. Step inside (and you’ll have to - it’s order and [...]
August 23, 2008 (6 days ago) – 3:21 pm
I managed to get almost half of these movies by one letter from the poster - it’s easier and harder than you think.
August 21, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 10:03 pm
Can you really judge a book by its cover? To some extent, this is a good starting point - each commentary series has its own goals, and relative technical difficulty level. Best Commentaries dot com takes you further, though - you can see the books on a virtual bookshelf (comparing their relative sizes and thicknesses), [...]
August 19, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 10:04 pm
Is anyone else surprised to learn that an Ampersand character is a conjunction of the letters “e” and “t”, because the word “et” means “and”?
If you’re trying to find the right ampersand for the job, you might find a cross-platform list of ampersands a good place to start.
August 19, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 9:51 pm
A couple of sites dedicated to surveying other design sites: design snack and scrnshots.com.
August 18, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 10:45 pm
pantry organised
It’s taken me years to get around to this, but we finally have a pantry whose organisation makes sense to both myself and my wife. And in the end, it was a matter of thinking about what little I know about cooking, and working out how to group [...]
August 17, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 11:00 pm
[matt] Granted, the stock market average of 12% is a little optimistic at the moment, but this presentation is a slick way of arguing against getting a car loan.
August 16, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 5:59 pm
Movie: The Bank Job
Another Jason Statham picture; as you’d expect with a bank heist film set in London, there aren’t a lot of guns in the picture, but it makes up its MA15+ rating with more nudity than the trailer would suggest. Most of the violence is off-screen (or over quickly), but there are more [...]
August 15, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 10:55 pm
Mister Roberts
An old classic, I remember watching it with my dad. As it turns out, I didn’t remember as much of it as I thought. Amazing to see how much content can be smuggled past the censors back in the day. A slow-paced film - based on a Broadway play - its pacing was a [...]
August 13, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 10:53 pm
the resilient paperbark tree
Years ago, when we still lived at Hurstville, there was a large paperbark tree out the front of the unit block. One Friday night - just before friends from Canberra were coming up to visit us for the first time - someone parked a car next [...]
August 13, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 10:44 pm
There seems to be a whole sport built around stacking cups at high speed. Don’t forget, when you’re stacking cups like that to use both hands.
August 11, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 10:24 pm
st james coffee cart, sydney
Toby’s Estate Coffee. King St, Sydney. Outdoors, in the shade of one of Sydney’s oldest churches (which, incidentally, looks like it’s pretty high Anglican with its talk of Eucharist and healing ministry), is this coffee cart, with its umbrella-covered outdoor seating. Having walked past and [...]
August 10, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 11:42 pm
Great post from Mike on someone who looks for truth all over the place, but ultimately finds it in a location he’d ruled out before his search began.
August 10, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 11:40 pm
Movie: Wanted
I couldn’t get into this one. There’s too much repetition in the start, trying to set up the character as a ne’er-do-well with a miserable life that he doesn’t enjoy: in its rare moments of characterisation, it forces the point too much - we understand that the little girl is a young Angelina Jolie, [...]
August 8, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 7:04 am
This old slate article explains that you can (could?) get a short cappucino at Starbucks - a better, cheaper coffee, but it’s a secret. Why? It’s all about extracting the most money a customer is prepared to pay. If someone has no idea there’s a cheaper version available, they will spend the extra money on [...]
August 8, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 6:59 am
[jess g] Terrible puns… tea-a-logian: come on. And yet, there’s something about this blog post drinking tea in light of the cross that’s compelling.
August 6, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 10:35 pm
1975 slideshow for the future, by IBM.