Over the front. WWI aviation at the AWM
If you’re in Canberra in the next little while, make sure to check out this exhibition at the Australian War Memorial. For further details click here.
Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas from BuzzMoo.com for 2008!
YouTube – symphonyau’s Channel
A nice first from YouTube – an effort to form a symphony orchestra from people submitting their individual parts online. The music, composed especially for this project, is offered to anyone who might like to enter. Top entrants go to the USA to perform with all the other entrants in a special concert. Cool!
CASE in The Canberra Times
Computing Assistance Support and Education, or CASE to its friends, had a visit from The Canberra Times last week and made a nice article in Monday’s Canberra Times Computer section. It looks at CASE’s history and structure and also details the recent work with the Dharriwaa Elders Group in the remote community of Walgett. If you missed the article, you can download a PDF version of it here.
You can follow along with all CASE’s projects at the official CASE Blog.
Top 5 Time Trips @ EOL
I started writing this post by saying “The movie debates continue at Elroy Online” and then had to double take. He’s got a list of the “Top 5 Time Trips” posted and open to comment. Two of the top five time trips (of all time?) are books apparently! Neither of which I have read, both of which I will. I recall driving away from the Melbourne Exhibition Centre after eGames complaining to Insane Gazeebo about the lack of interest in literature a lot of gamers hold. He sympathised and then we discovered we had quite similar tastes in fiction. The real problem is books are long and can be quite complicated, and don’t necessarily fit properly into this medium (antithetical to this kind of writing, really) . Still I can’t help but feel there was some merit to my idea of using book packs as prizes for gamers. Anyway the point is Back To The Future Wins. Who comes next?
Halloween in Pakistan
It’s amazing what gets you hits these days. Take Better Homes and Garden’s (US) tutorial on how to make a Halloween wreath. It’s a full page article that can be summed up in a single sentence. To make a pumpkin wreath, glue pumpkins to a wreath! Good advice. But not enough for poor She256:
“I REALLY LIKE IT,BUT MY BADLUCK IS THAT IN MY CITY I COULDNOT FIND PUMPKINS,I LIVE IN KARACHI,PAKISTAN.SO I SAVE YOUR PIC IN MY FILE.”
Ahhh the Internet…
replacing an XO screen
Pia is pretty clever. Or maybe she’s just showing us how easy things are. Learn how to replace a broken XO screen while watching tuesday night TV!
Editorial: Sony Didn’t Intend PS3 To Succeed As A Console
It must be a game-news kind of day. I just read a thought provoking editorial (gaming editorials being close to my heart – I’ve read and written enough of them to know that it’s a hard thing to do, and there aren’t many good ones out there). But this is an interesting idea – Playstation 2 and 3’s primary function being a Trojan Horse for Blu-Ray.
Editorial: Sony Didn’t Intend PS3 To Succeed As A Console
Read it!
Nintendo Wii Stomps Rivals
A great place to get your gaming news is consolemine.com. While browsing there I noticed an article containing the numbers I was recently wondering about…
Despite Xbox 360’s big sales during Black Friday Nintendo is in the lead building a huge gulf between them an all rivals. Nintendos Wii sold three for each Xbox bought during November reported NPD a research group. Four Nintendo titles were among the ten best selling games in November: Wii Play, Wii Music, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart. Wii’s motion-controlled games consoles held three top selling spots.