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Aug 04
Wed
Playing with time   (0)
Time lapse videos (Quicklink)  •  3:28am  •  
Is this the Canon EOS 20D?   (0)
8MP successor to the 300D. Looks like it ships with a 17-85mm EF-S lens (Quicklink)  •  3:28am  •  
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Aug 04
Tue
Japanese Paper Scissors Rock   (0)
No matter how competitive you might be, just because you lose to a girl at rock, paper, scissors 3 times in a row doesn't really justify you trying to kick her ass (Quicklink)  •  5:09am  •  
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Aug 04
Sat

Two Golds!

There is one good point in having to burn some midnight oil to write a 4000 word essay on restitution… and that is getting to see, live, Thorpey take out the 400m gold (and Hackett the silver), and the Aussie girls win the 4x100m relay in world record style! Absolutely thrilling finishes to both races!

  4:03am (GMT +10.00) tomorrow  •  Sports  •  Tweet This  •  Comments (2)  • 
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Aug 04
Fri

Google IPO

The Google IPO Auction opens today (Friday in the USA) with a final IPO price to be announced sometime during next week. There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about an interview the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, did with Playboy for their September issue. The release of details may constitute some violation of securities legislation. Kottke has a full copy of the article.

  12:41pm (GMT +10.00) tomorrow  •  Business & Finance  •  Tweet This  •  Add a comment  • 
Iraq overcomes own goal to stun Portual 4-2   (0)
First round Olympic match (Quicklink)  •  7:15am  •  
Euro patent filing reveals Apple ‘handheld computer’   (0)
Gizmodo is referring to it as an iPad. Those concept drawings sure look like those PADDs from Star Trek (Quicklink)  •  7:15am  •  
SuprNovaXP   (0)
Frontend for downloading torrents from Suprnova.org (Quicklink)  •  7:15am  •  
Top 50 Fast Food Chains   (0)
Top 10 are in Australia but only 2 of the next 40 are in Australia as well (used to be 3, but Boston Markets went bust). (Quicklink)  •  7:15am  •  

Olympics 2004

The 2004 Athens Olympics starts today. (Actually, tomorrow. The opening ceremony is today.) In other news, Sydney-siders long for the days of 2000… The annoying thing about the Olympics being back around the other side of the world is that we won’t get the opportunity to see some key events live.

While we’re on the topic, I’ve always thought the IOC’s Celebrate Humanity ad campaign to be excellent.

  8:24pm (GMT +10.00)  •  Sports  •  Tweet This  •  Add a comment  • 
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Aug 04
Thu
Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive   (0)
Some of Al-Qaeda's e-mails. Very interesting reading. (Quicklink)  •  7:19pm  •  
The Paper Napkin email rejection service   (0)
(Quicklink)  •  7:19pm  •  
Lee Kwan Yew’s son, Lee Hsien Loong sworn in as new Singapore PM   (0)
(Quicklink)  •  7:19pm  •  
Global Invasive Species Database   (0)
100 of the world's worst invasive alien species (Quicklink)  •  7:19pm  •  
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Aug 04
Wed
Magistrate cries after refusing bail to abductor   (0)
Interesting... I wonder if a magistrate displaying that kind of emotion during a trial could form some ground of appeal for the defendant (Quicklink)  •  7:30pm  •  
Windows XP Service Pack 2   (0)
Chunky 272mb download. The Windows Update version will be smaller (Quicklink)  •  7:30pm  •  
Civil liberties, anyone?   (0)
A ferry security guy absurdly tries to confiscate an "inappropriate" book (Quicklink)  •  7:30pm  •  
99 bizarre news photos   (1)
Well worth a flick through (Quicklink)  •  7:30pm  •  
480lb woman dies after six years on couch   (2)
Other versions of this story say couch became grafted onto her skin and had to be surgically removed (Quicklink)  •  7:30pm  •  
Trump sacked in casino crash   (0)
You're fired! (Quicklink)  •  1:08am  •  

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