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Since I was a kid, I’ve always held a fascination and affinity for trains.  There are a few things I can think of that sparked this interest in me.  It would’ve come from my brother, who collected model trains, had a Top Trumps train set which we played a lot when we were little and who went on to make ...

Like many parts of the world, Australia had their own protests staged by Muslims in reaction to the online film “The Innocence of Muslims” that turned violent.  And just like a lot of other countries, we’re prone to having some pretty lazy, hyperbolic media coverage towards Muslims as a result. Therefore it was good timing to have the comedy group ...

Six months ago, I picked up a Playstation Vita, Sony’s successor to the Playstation Portable.  I blogged about it at the time, and concluded that it was a system that had great potential.  At the time, I owned all of two games (Uncharted and Rayman). Fast forward to the present and I couldn’t be happier with how things worked out ...

“They took maaah boy!!!” Sure it went for about two seasons too long and Abrams couldn’t stick the ending but it was still one hell of a ride and I still remember being absolutely mesmerized by that cracking first season.  The agonizing wait for every new episode.  The excited speculation in the office about the latest mystery.  Polar bears, man.  ...

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” – Obi Wan Kenobi With Mitt Romney’s campaign looking dead in the water a full six weeks away from Election Day, there are already retrospectives being run in the press about how we ended up with this weird Machiavellian squillionaire as the Republican nominee.  It bears repeating that ...

Survivor: Philippines My favourite reality tv show of all time Survivor is back for its 25th season with Survivor: Philippines.  The producers had some work to do after their previous season Survivor: One World fizzled badly with a cast too heavily stacked with pawns, introverts and idiots.  The winner, a woman named Kim, comfortably outplayed her opponents and strolled to ...

It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to build something from the Lego Architecture series.  I’ve always liked the look of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House but stock of it is hard to come by in Australia.  Fortunately, I cam across it during Myer’s 20% off sale and I also had a voucher from work which meant ...

Mitt Romney has some challenges reaching the minority vote in America.  For example, he has 0% of the black vote.  So he did a televised interview on Univision to reach out to the Hispanic community.  And apparently he wore Brown Face to help boost his appeal.

I’m starting to think “Mitt Romney” is actually a satirical take on a money-hungry Wall Street investor played by an actor.

My wife cannot stop watching this video.  PSY’s Gangnam Style video has become an overnight sensation and the dude seems to be all over tv and the talkshow circuit at the moment.  Yesterday I saw him on Ellen teaching Britney Spears how to do the dance.  When I first saw this video on Tuesday, it had 150 million views.  It’s ...