Stalking Venus

Today seems to be a particularly good day for bizarre news.
In the Northern Territories of Australia, a man was recently arrested for speeding along in a car filled with drugs (inlcuding 2 cannabis plants on the back seat), at 150km/h, using a video camera to film himself masturbating, while shooting at kangaroos with a rifle.
I [...]

Well now here’s a pretty nifty idea. Palabea.net is a social networking site designed to foster the learning of a new language.
It’s a free service that hooks people up internationally so that everyone becomes both a student and a teacher to someone else. In other words, if someone wants to learn English, I can become [...]

I ran across this yesterday and decided I’d give it a try. Several hours later, I forced myself to save and exit, or I would have ended up getting carpal tunnel syndrome in my eyes! GemCraft is one of those really simple games, but with totally addictive gameplay.

The idea is pretty simple. Beasties come out [...]

In just a few hours, hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of balloons will begin floating across the internet. Don’t forget to go and give the Stalking Venus raccoon balloon an extra little push by clicking the orange balloon floating at the bottom right of the screen. Each time you push him, he gets to [...]

Despite all of the download day problems and poor organisation, it just goes to show what a huge following the Fox has… In 24 hours, over 8 million downloads. Guinness has yet to confirm the results, but it looks like the Mozilla uber-app is going to set and totally exceed the record.

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

Associated Press reports yet another nail in the coffin for South African commerce. The leading online retailer, Amazon.com has halted all standard shipping to South Africa because of the enormous volume of items being stolen at S.A. post offices countrywide.
South African customers who still wish to purchase goods via Amazon can do so, but only [...]

Okay, so for those of you who are absolutely desperate to get their hands on the official FireFox 3 release, you can go and download it via FTP here.
It’s weird that I should have to report it as if it’s a bleeding-edge alpha that you’re going to be downloading. Especially considering that they are trying [...]

Don’t forget to pop over to the Firefox Guinness Record site and download the latest and greatest version of the world’s favourite web browser tomorrow, Tuesday 17 June, 2008.
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right?
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set [...]

Now here’s a bunch of people with a great idea: A website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of the company they work for, including the salary that they are being paid.

The website then compiles these reviews and cross references them with reviews from other companies. In this way, a visitor to the site can quickly see who’s earning what and where, as well as how happy the person is there.