Tetchy!

Some people get a little tense when people take over their private parking spots...

Morbid knits from a warped granny?

See more knitted pieces in the same style/theme ag yumlum knitwear art gallery ("Beautiful Art Made with Knitting").

Thanks to Batty Whispy Grrrl Smickles for this discovery :)

Web links: April 2006

• SpyChips.com (aka RFID nineteen eighty-four) - How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
• Where the bloody hell are you? the spoof ad - amusing or horrifying depending on which angle you look at it from. (the original ad)
• The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books
• Wheat Bribes - The "honest" ad - GetUp! Australia - satire(?!)
• Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth - and... the list
• New Take on the gender gap - article from 'inside higher ed'
• Death by Caffeine - How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out:
• Obligatory Office Equipment - workload getting to you? feeling stressed? Too many initiatives cascading down? Here's a new low cost way to cope...
• Can't Stop the Serenity - Well... yeah... can't help it, like the show so am lowering my standards and featuring something fanish... SO??! Oh and... um... I wouldn't mind it being featured on the big screen again.
• Monday to Friday Distractions - a blog full of 'stuff' that has landed in the bloggers email inbox.
• BoreMe - the best of your inbox - pretty much the same concept as this page... but a whole site of it.
• ACMA Spam Reporting System - SpamMATTERS - Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is implementing a system to improve the forensic value of spam submitted for analysis by the public. This system will help ACMA to track down spammers by providing an easier way for the public to make reports and complaints about spam.
• Craftster - "Craftster is a forum for people who love to make things but who are not inspired by scrapbooking with die-cut teddy bears, cross-stitched home sweet home plaques, wooden boxes with ducks in bonnets painted on... If you've been known to run with scissors, cavort with your fellow rebel DIY'ers here!"
• Survey questions with the "right" answers - "This could be fun. Presumably you've seen those oh-so-helpful Scientologists offering to do free personality test, or whatever they call them now? Could be fun to memorise all the wrong answers to deliberately get the worse possible score to see what they do. Or, give all the correct answers (and presumably be "perfect"), and see if they then decide you're a giant clam."
• Douglas Rushkoff - "Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values."
• Introvertster - Introvertster Beta: The new way to get rid of people - an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online. [FAQ] Why didn't I think of that ! Anti-social networking. Somebody is listening. I don't want any more invitations to join more online crap. Disclaimer: Of course I would never classify Your Friendly Spam as "online crap". ;-)
• Mosquito - a Firefly parody.