August 2008 Archives

Pneumatic tube


Originally uploaded by iwoolf.

My local supermarket uses a pneumatic tube system for moving cash and documents around the shop. This is one of the canisters that whizzes around the store, like something out of The Shadow.

My first crop!


Originally uploaded by iwoolf.

My first crop of sugar snap peas are growing on the vine!

I saw a sneak preview of The Strangers tonight. The Strangers was appalling, and I say that as someone who enjoys bad cult movies. Don't waste your time.The movie had no redeeming features at all. The best thing was that it was a free ticket, and it was a preview so I can warn people. Maybe they thought they could capture the charm of badly written and produced movies and get a cult hit? Fail!

Do you care about the future? If yes, then... on August 17 at Newtown Square (corner of King St and Enmore Rd opposite Newtown Station) THIS IS A FREE EVENT!
Join us at Live Futures. Explore the future with others online and in the real world. Part of National Science Week, and supported by the Futures Foundation, Live Futures 2020 is a walk into the future. Meet futurists, scientists, designers, performers, artists and film-makers. Be provoked and inspired! Workshops, films, co-creation and expression spaces, live theatre. TWO film festivals - Scinema and the portable film festival (this year more portable than ever before!). Explore the universe with the world wide telescope. Explore how open innovation enabled by the net is changing our world. Hear how we can return carbon to the soil, and climate projects we can do ourselves. No matter what your interests we all care about the future. Lets co-create it.

The answer to "Eternity"?


Originally uploaded by iwoolf.

Chalked stencil seen about 6 times around the bay run & at about 5 times on the Victoria road inbound bus stops in Drummoyne & Rozelle.



Graffitti with URLs!

MP3

Dr Stephen Graves, Director of Hunter Area Pathology and the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory spoke with me about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference held in Cambridge in July 2008. What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? What are the causes, and what is it like to be struck down by the illness? Why is it still the invisible illness so many years after its discovery in the 1980s?

The interview was broadcast on Diffusion Science Radio on 2SER on the 4th of August 2008 You can download the whole show here.