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These are my links for December 1st through November 14th:

• The Complete Playboy - Massive collection of Playboy images from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
• Wooster Collective: Another Crate Piece from Melbourne -
• Wooster Collective: Crate Art in Melbourne -
• Greetings from Idiot America - Esquire - “There’s never been a better time to espouse, profit from, and believe in utter, unadulterated crap.”
• Big Blue eyes on Asia potential | Australian IT - Interview with the head of IBM Australia Glen Boreham
• The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times - Interesting article about microblogging, primarily Twitter
• Johnny Cash on Sesame Street - “According to legend, Cash attacked Big Bird with a broken whiskey bottle backstage.”
• It’s A Fat World After All | Autopia from Wired.com - “If there’s a sadder commentary on the state of American society, we can’t think of it — we’ve grown so fat we sink the boats of It’s A Small World.”

These are my links for July 22nd through August 2nd:

• Index funds - A look at Index Funds in Australia
• Turn on the top 40 and mourn the decade the music died -
• xbmc iphone remote - This is really cool! C’mon iPhone, come to Australia…
• Charitable music = Instant Karma! at twelvemajorchords - Beautiful John Lennon cover by Regina Spektor here…
• When Mobile Phones Aren’t Truly Mobile - New York Times - I’m glad things aren’t this bad in Australia…

These are my links for June 19th through July 16th:

• Gored during “Running of the Bulls - OUCH!
• Measure the speed of light in your kitchen - I’ve seen this done with marshmallows, and told the guys at work about it. Home science for the win!
• Latin You Should Know - I love latin, I think more people should at least have a cursory understanding…
• The YouTube effect: HTTP traffic now eclipses P2P - I wonder what YouTube’s bandwidth bill is… surely they’re a massive chunk of that 46%?
• How Google Gears could augur the death of Microsoft. - By Harry McCracken - Slate Magazine - Interesting thoughts, but offline-mode isn’t going to take over the world just yet.

These are my links for June 12th through June 18th:

• Aussies ‘don’t understand home loans’ - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News -
• Lifestyle Inflation - When Does It Become A Problem? - with graphs!
• The black cloud over a rich land - Opinion - brisbanetimes.com.au - Even the UN thinks Australia is in the grip of a “serious national housing crisis”
• BitTorrent, Australia and TV Networks - MacTalk Forums - Well written article about television show piracy in Australia
• Twentysomething: The Paradox of Choice, gen-Y style » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk - Similar thoughts to my previous article on the paradox of choice…

These are my links for June 9th through June 11th:

• The Science Creative Quarterly » HOW I GOT OUT OF WRITING AN ESSAY ON H.G. WELLS’ THE TIME MACHINE. - Cleverly written short story.
• Zolved - Tune Boot-Up-Manger for better performance of Ubuntu -
• EFF Privacy Advocate Sighted in Google Street View -
• The Rise of Corporations - Global Issues - Interesting read.
• johnnycash on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Johnny Cash flips the bird to Nashville
• Why music really is getting louder - Something I’ve seen for ages, it completely ruins the dynamics of the music.

These are my links for June 3rd through June 6th:

• The Profit Calculator — New York Magazine - Brilliant article about the profitability of businesses in New York
• Money trouble? It’s your own fault - Well said!
• Why Are Macs So Expensive In Australia? - I’ve been thinking the exact same thing lately…
• Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority -
• PLAYSKOOL MR. POTATO HEAD TRANSFORMERS OPTIMASH PRIME Figure- Product Detail - Optimash Prime - Potatoes in disguise!
• iPhone confirmed to hit the streets on June 29 (Updated) - Looks like the iPhone will be launched while I’m in the US
• Freakonomics Blog » How being a lousy journal editor nearly ended up getting me sent to Guantanamo Bay - How the TSA missed a knife in carry-on luggage…

These are my links for May 29th through May 31st:

• Don’t Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice - Bruce Schneier has a way of explaining and illustrating complex issues around security that make them clear as day. In this article, he talks about how implementing counter-security measures based on one event (such as an attempted shoe bomb) is both ine
• Museum Show Spotlights Artistry of Manga God Osamu Tezuka - I saw this exhibition when it was in Melbourne. Any Bay-Area folks should check it out if they get the chance!
• intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates - Nice list of CSS templates, with various column layouts
• Alan Quatermain - BackRow Developers Kit - Things like this are making the AppleTV closer to an XBMC replacement every day…
• Music CD, I’m just not that into you - I’m glad someone else sees through the “piracy is killing the music industry” charade. This article takes a new approach, highlighting how media consumption is really shifting to other formats such as DVDs.
• What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil? : Violent Acres - Awesome story… I wonder if the same would happen in Australia?
• Housing dream vanishing - “HOUSING affordability has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded by a key industry measure of the market, set up 23 years ago.”

These are my links for May 25th through May 28th:

• LOLCODE - A take on the “lolkitties” phenomenon but with code. I especially like “AWSUM THX” in the FILEZORZ example!
• java.net: Invoking Web Services using Apache Axis2 -
• The Simple Dollar - I’m Twenty Years Old And Have No Debt - When Can I Retire And Live Off My Investments? - A brilliant way to look at the benefits of investing and living below your means.
• www.myspace.com/jacksonjacksonmusic - Awesome new band, featuring Harry from The Cat Empire
• Unclutterer: The landing strip - Excellent technique to ensure that your phone, wallet, and keys are the same place every day…

These are my links for May 24th:

• Writing Secure WordPress Plugins -
• Recognizing Deven: Episode 26 - India grows up - Looks like wages in India, at least for the high quality employees, are getting to the point where there’s no cost benefit to outsourcing anymore…
• Inside the Monkeysphere - The Monkeysphere == Circle of people you care about…
• The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online - Really interesting article about publicly disclosing your every movement. “I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away.”
• Switching from ITunes to Amarok: Tips and Tricks « Il Pozzo Oscuro - Guide to migrating iTunes Library Information (playlists and ratings) to Amarok.

These are my links for May 21st:

• Illustrating your article or tutorial for developerWorks - Guide to providing illustrations for your developerWorks articles
• Authoring with the developerWorks XML templates - How to use the developerWorks XML templates
• Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway and ASP.NET authentication - Using TFIM with .NET for enterprise SSO. Look for something similar by me in the coming months…
• IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com: The Joker is Scary - Promo shit for “The Dark Knight”… Holy shit, Heath Ledger looks freaky!
• Design Eye for the Usability Guy - “Queer Eye” still overhaul of usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s webpage
• The root of all evil? - Article on SMH about Richard Dawkins
• Urban Giraffe | Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 1 - A little bit dated now (refers to WordPress 1.5), but still a good introduction to how WordPress themes are created.