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Follow the link above to a fantastic humourous little flash movie – do check it out.

Michael Moore is planning a sequel to ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ his polemic against the Bush administration, to be released about the time of the next presidential campaign, according to a spokeswoman for his distributor. The sequel, dubbed ‘Fahrenheit 9/11 and 1/2,’ will revisit the same issues as Moore’s earlier documentary, which he repeatedly said was aimed…

Last night i found my mobile swimming in a puddle – it didn’t agree much with the water and I should be picking up a replacement on Monday. Until then, I might have some trouble receiving calls and SMS messages, so please call me at home or email me if you need me.

A Florida scientist has developed a “brain” in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane. The “living computer” was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat’s brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish. The study was of more immediate relevance as an experimental…

Today our beautiful Isa Brown hen (unimaginatively named Isa) laid our first egg! How frickin’ exciting is that?!?! Our two Australorps look like they’re not too far off, but our two New Hampshires are still looking like they might be a little while yet. We paid $54 for the (then tiny) five hens two months…

“SP Telemedia has emerged as the winning bidder for wholesale network provider Comindico which was recently placed into receivership by its secured creditor, Cisco. Newcastle-headquartered SP Telemedia today announced to the Australian Stock Exchange that it had reached an agreement with Comindico’s appointed receivers, McGrath Nicol, to purchase the wholesale network provider’s business and assets.…

“The Chinese government confirmed this weekend that it has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan since March, when it began its crackdown on violent or pornographic content, and other material it considers harmful to public morality. Government inspectors have checked up on 1.8m cafes since the campaign began, seeking…

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced it acquired Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based digital mapping company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ‘With Keyhole, you can fly like a superhero from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world – or find a local hospital, map a…

Detailing ‘a new and surprising twig’ on the human family tree, scientists report Thursday they’ve discovered the remains of a clan of tiny human relatives, standing about 30 inches tall, that lived on an isolated island in eastern Indonesia as recently as 18,000 years ago. Bones from seven individuals of the new species have been…

In a long awaited and much heralded move, the Russian Parliament voted overnight to confirm the Cabinet’s decision two weeks ago to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The global climate protection treaty is now set to come into force, leaving Australia and the USA the only two developed countries refusing to ratify. Greenpeace Campaigns Manager Danny…