Category Archives: News
APEC funny shirts day (photos on SMH)
Photos of the APEC leaders wearing the ‘national dress’ of Australia, knee-length Driza-Bone coats. (SMH, 8 Sept 2007) read more | digg story
Revealed: Our national dress (APEC funny shirt day)
The 21 APEC leaders have posed for the traditional group photo on the steps of the Sydney Opera House wearing brown tailor made knee-length Driza-Bone coats. Each APEC leader was given a choice of four contrast colours for their all-weather … Continue reading
Mattel recalls more toys in Chinese lead paint alert
THOUSANDS more toys are being pulled from Australian shelves as an international investigation delves deeper into China’s disgraced manufacturing industry. In a recorded statement, Mattel’s Australian marketing director, Julie Kearns, said the company had been testing toys since the paint … Continue reading
Thirty truths for young dads
“IT’S FATHER’S DAY tomorrow and, while fathers of all ages deserve praise and acclamation, we should raise a special cheer for the nation’s more recent dads.” A humorous list of 30 changes in their lives new fathers may recognise. (SMH, … Continue reading
Aliens abduct Weekly World News
A newspaper famous for printing extraordinary stories will finally cease printing. Succumbing not pressures about the validity of its stories, but to its bank balance. Praised in the movie Men In Black as “the best damn investigative reporting on the … Continue reading
Dora the lead paint explorer
Dora is recalled from exploring. Sesame Street is no longer giggling. Barney is facing extinction. Mattel is recalling 83 models of Fisher-Price toys. In Australian the product recall is estimated at 43,000 and in the USA at nearly 1,000,000. An … Continue reading
Innerwest’s lights punched out by Energy Australia
Last night a number of suburbs had their light turned off at a quarter to five. And not by choice. It appears that some Energy Australia workers were ‘tinkering with’ the network in St Peters and ‘a fault occurred’ causing … Continue reading
Sexy in space
New space suits are being designed by MIT. Described as being reminiscent of Barbarella, they are figure hugging and use “‘mechanical counterpressure’ rather than gas to maintain Earth-like conditions for astronauts”. Professor Dava Newman is working on ‘BioSuits’ that will … Continue reading
Sydney freezes
Yesterday was cold in Sydney, today was even colder, if only by 1 degree. Today was the coldest day Sydney has seen in 21 years, with a temperature of 3.7 degrees C at 6:45am. Sydney has coldest July day in … Continue reading
Inner city kiddom
There is a current baby boom in inner city Sydney. And it is putting strain on the resources that weren’t expecting it. Just ask RPA who down sized their labour ward before the boom. If you walk around Newtown you … Continue reading