It's all over. Exit interview. Goodbye to friends. Last game of pool. Hand in my pass. Go home with my belongings and memories.

Thanks Animal Logic!

And watch out for the Happy Feet...

This is providing the most fun I've had online in ages. Most innovative and well-executed use of the internet in ages. I'm not going to try to explain it, but if you like to doodle on MS Paint, this is a LOT of fun. All I will say is that it's a mixture of chinese whispers and pictionary.

Here is a good example of a finished game if you want to ( Read more... )

I don't read a lot of newspaper comics but I am a huge fan of a select few. The most notable is The Far Side, by Gary Larson, which for a long time I considered the pinnacle of the newspaper comic. That title is now in doubt, my friends. For today, I have discovered another hidden gem of teh interwebs, and from now on any post I make will be signed ( Read more... )

Where The Wolves of The Calla was long, winding, and thrilling in the end, Song of Susannah was fast-paced and simply amazing. King had the audacity to introduce a concept I'd never seen used in a book before, one that veered on the side of narcissism and mediocrity - but he pulled it off. Many loose ends were explained, and the ending was a ( Read more... )

Doing Engineering Enterprise this semester hasn't been a complete waste of time - the first assignment I just submitted was a case study on the global gaming industry, and I found it to be quite interesting ( Read more... )

What's up with this:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/31/1156817015535.html

EDIT -
Ah ok, it's this:

http://blogs.theage.com.au/entertainment/archives/2006/08/last_laugh_its_1.html

It's kinda lame what they report in the newspapers these days...

Céline:"Yeah, but I had worked for this older man, and once he told me that he had spent all of his life thinking about his career and his work, and... he was 52 and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one, and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. You know, I believe if there's any ( Read more... )

It was bright, warm and sunny this morning. Just half an hour ago, I had an interesting experience here at uni. The clouds rolled in, there was thunder, and when I took a look outside it started hailing. There was hail. Lots of it. It fell for a good 5-10 minutes, blanketing my entire uni. There must have been 100 people gathered around the ( Read more... )

Some months ago I reported seeing Andrew Denton and his family in the reception of Animal Logic. Now it all becomes very, very clear...

SMH - "Ten's animated host a world first"

For higher-quality trailer goodness, and other assorted prettiness:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/happyfeet/