Water vote under way in Toowoomba

Water vote under way in Toowoomba - National - smh.com.au

I think the time has come. The time has come for people to understand that they have already been drinking recycled sewage in country areas of Australia for many years. It’s the city people who don’’t understand and it’’s they who are the biggest consumers of water.

I love my long hot showers like many people, but the time is rapidly coming to hand where the water “crisis” (dare I use that word) is starting to take it’’s toll n rural and urban Australia. Take a look at Dubai. Dry as dust. But they have a water park, a booming city and economy, right in the middle of a desert.

The time is now. Government in Australia need to make the choice. Prosperity or failure ? The use of recycled water for human consumption has already arrived. I haven’’t tasted it, but I will and continue to do so if I get the chance.

 

RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person

For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files.

I'm not an IP I am a human being. Although I really would not like to test them out. No I do not have any Kazaa soucrced files on my PC. LOL !

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The 100 Most Valuable Brands

I wonder how much turnover these companies and business generate for the world economy in total, not just thier sales but the sales which are generated from the spinoff effect of them doing business. Can the modern the world could survive without them ?

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RC Jets

Oh come on this is better still ... I wonder what they cost and how much to run.

Model Tomcat

Even better ... I really want one of these ... check out the safety officer carryng the fire extinguisher in the wide shot just at the start of the taxi out to the end of the runway. Now thats for real stuff.

Controlled Aircraft

Guuzus I want one of these. I could play with these for hours.

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Snugglepot and Cuddlepie's TV Antenna

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie's TV Antenna
Originally uploaded by Adam and Tennille.

When bush animals get Fox News !

Football Dribble in LeidsePlein Amsterdam

It's an incredible dribble!!

Hasselhoff Mania - Jump in My Car

Personal GPS Location Recorder

Personal GPS Location Recorder from Ozspy surveillance and spy equipment Australia

The TrackStick records its own time, date, location, speed, direction and altitude at preset intervals. With over one Mb of memory, it can store months of travel information.

HAPPY 1000 POSTS ON THIS BLOG

Bulldogs prank not funny

Bulldogs prank not funny

A comedian with ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything has been charged with offensive conduct after what senior police describe as an "act of mindless stupidity" outside a rugby league clash.

A Trip Down HP's Memory Lane

In 1960, when Hewlett-Packard built offices and a new boardroom at 1501 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, Calif., the facility was state of the art and evoked the new frontier.

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SanDisk U3 Cruzer Drives Are Skype Compatible

"the new SanDisk U3 Cruzer Smart Drives have Skype loaded in. You can keep all your contacts, account info, and the Skype program on the disk and use it on any old computer you visit provided that computer has a mic and speakers."

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Little Bird helicopter flies unmanned for first time

The Little Bird has achieved a major milestone in its development by flying unmanned for the first time. Soon we'll have battlefields with flocks of warbirds, all networked, armed and very dangerous ... and not a pilot in sight! Then something about skynet I think...


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How To Save YouTube, MySpace, Etc. Videos As .AVI's Using Free Tools

This tutorial shows you how to download any video from sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc. and then convert them to .AVI files using only free tools (Firefox, VideoDownloader, and MediaCoder). Although this tutorial doesn't go through how to do it, you can later burn the AVI videos onto a DVD so you can watch them with a DVD player.

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Bubble Happiness

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Originally uploaded by dogseat.

I just love this picture. The accuracy of the colours amaze me. Check out the original picture and look at the notes.

How To Save YouTube, MySpace, Etc. Videos As .AVI's Using Free Tools

This tutorial shows you how to download any video from sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo, iFilm, etc. and then convert them to .AVI files using only free tools (Firefox, VideoDownloader, and MediaCoder). Although this tutorial doesn't go through how to do it, you can later burn the AVI videos onto a DVD so you can watch them with a DVD player.

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TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, Mininova, and PirateBay all in one!

A very intuitive torrent search engine that cleanly displays search results from TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, MiniNova, and PirateBay all in 1 page. One stop shopping for that torrent you've been looking for. While it is only in beta stages, it works great.

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Zidane the Dummy

Chart Of Every Religion With Info On Each

This is a chart i found of every religion with info on each, i thought iw was really interseting. Laughed at the fact that there is from 3-100 million falun gong, pretty big range.
Enjoy



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Zidane headbutts Italian player, gets ejected from the World cup Final

Watch this replay as France's star player levels Italy's Materazzi, for which he recieves a red card. Some of the worst sportsmanship ever from one of the sport's best

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The Magnificent Moscow Underground

And you thought Moscow looked great aboveground?

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Google online dating service: Google Romance for real ?

It looks like a dating service from Google might just be a reality. Google Base is collecting lots of personal profile content from prospective daters.

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Google products review

Review of Writely, Google Pages and Google desktop, and a great source for Writely invites.

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World Wide Wondering

I'm sitting here in my office at the moment, pondering how I should research keywords for our corporate website.

It seems to me that in Australia at least there are very few people with the knowledge to mine the exact keywords to help your ads gain prominence in Google Adwords.

However, the more you look, the more you research, the more you see your competitors ads appearing for what you think are the best keywords to use.

Most of this knowledge is in the hands of keyword brokers and maximisers, ot those who have been in the business for quite a while now (if you can call two years - quite a while).

These brokers, are the people who take pleasure in charging huge amounts of money for lists which in my opinion must be out there somewhere in the public domain.

The key question is how do you get those lists.

In the meantime, I've had a bit of a digg-fest and added a few items of interest to this blog today. Procrastination is sometimes my favourite pastime. I don't mean to delay, but man this is so frustrating sometimes.

Anyway enough of the latest rant. Back to adwords and the world wide wonder I go.

How Mentos effects Diet Coke

It seems Mentos is more than just the freshmaker these days. A slew of recent videos and demonstrations, have proved time and time again that introducing the chewy mints into a bottle of Diet Coke will produce a powerful and sticky geyser of soda.

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Reporter Truly Freaks Out

Keep your eye on the bottom left corner of the screen. This is hilarious.

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Aviation history is made by ornithopter

Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly � a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci.

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How To Tweak Some Of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1's New Features

This guide will show you how to tweak some of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1's new features so that you are prepared when it gets released on Tuesday!

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Next-gen iPod will talk

Next-generation iPods are expected to have speech facilites, supposedly to enhance the device's hands-free capability. Apple state that their device will feature "voice talent", allowing users to have song titles read out by their favourite actor.

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Amazing new nano-projector will change the future of mobile devices

Amazing new nano-projector will change the future of how we use mobile devices. Explay an Israeli startaup has anounced a matchbox size projector, blowing away the competition. The picture shows the nano-projector powering a wallet size accessory projecting images from a mobile phone. This is for real not illustration images.

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Velcro Being Pulled Apart

Velcro Being Pulled Apart
Originally uploaded by Trazy Anderson.

Velcro is amazing. It's lasted for so many years both in the market and in the physical sense. I have some which still holds some stuff together after 20 years. (It's the real thick heavy duty kind you used to get at Radio Shack).

Here, in all it's glory, is the amazing secret world of velcro being pulled apart.

The Torino 2006 Olympic Experience

The official debriefing of the Torino 2006 Games is taking place in Vancouver from Monday 10 July to Friday 14 July 2006. Under the direction of the IOC, the five-day event, entitled the “Torino 2006 Olympic Experience” provides a unique opportunity to bring together the organisers of the Games in Turin with those of the Games of Vancouver 2010, as well as of Beijing 2008 and London 2012, the Candidate Cities for 2014 (Sochi, Salzburg and PyeongChang) and many other representatives of the Olympic family.

Microsoft Ultimate Keyboard

Microsoft Ultimate Keyboard

Microsoft has a keyboard they are calling "The Ultimate Keyboard"

Hackers hit 700 Israeli Web sites

The Jerusalem Post said about 700 Web sites were shut down early Wednesday. Their home pages were replaced by the message, "Hacked by Team-Evil Arab hackers u KILL palestin people we KILL Israeli servers." So a Palestinian is worth a server ? I just don't get it.


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WOW. Just how fast is Dubai growing? Take a peak at these two photos.

11 years has made a world of difference in Dubai.

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Earth Observation satellites contribute to International Polar Year 2007-08

Thousands of scientists from 60 countries will be conducting research during International Polar Year 2007-2008 and will, for the first time during an International Polar Year, be armed with satellite measurements offering complete coverage of the polar regions, which play a vital role in the Earth's climate and ecosystems.

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Robin Williams: Rush Limbaugh's just going fishing

Robin Williams was a guest on The Tonight Show this evening and immediately went into one of his improvisational routines once Jay Leno mentioned Rush Limbaugh's "Viagra Vacation."

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Fun with a capture card

This is what happens when you plug your video card into your capture card.

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Jon Stewart Post 9/11 Speech

That was truly one of the most emotional videos i have ever seen. I admire him for his bravery. It had to take alot to do that. I dont think anybody else could have done a beter job at giving viewers the comfort they needed. He truly is an inspiration.

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Index of 1,000 Full Length Anime On YouTube

There are no ads or garbage clips to weed through, just 1000 anime episodes and movies. This index includes The Animatrix, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Samurai Champloo, Serial Experiments Lain, Ultimate Avengers, and more.

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Just One Word: Fructose

Plastic could be made from a common form of sugar instead of petroleum if the industry adopts a new process developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Soccer's Dark Side

British Journalist Andrew Jennings spent more than a decade investigating the International Olympics Committee. Now he's got his eyes on the beautiful game.

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Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies

ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.

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Researcher Jailed for Falsifying Research

"For the first time in US history, a researcher has received jail time for falsifying research data to obtain federal grants. Eric Poehlman pled guilty to defrauding the government to the tune of nearly 3 million dollars by changing and making up research and was sentenced to a year in a federal prison work camp.

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World's Highest Railway: China Opens 1st Train Service to Tibet

The 710-mile rail line crosses mountain passes up to 16,500 feet high and large stretches of ground that is frozen year-round. Specially designed train cars have oxygen supplies to help passengers cope with the thin air and window filters to protect them from ultraviolet rays, while high-tech cooling systems keep the railbed frozen and stable.

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North Korea Accuses U.S. of Aerial Espionage

North Korea accuses Washington of being hostile toward it and looking for a chance to attack it. The U.S. denies that..... for now.

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