Obscure Box

It sounded like a joke at first. One of those stories you hear about all the time but without any foundation in truth. But this is no joke. The news websites are full of reports about a Catholic priest who’s gone missing after he was tied to hundreds of helium balloons. The Associated Press is one [...]

A little snippet in a Careers in Journalism guide available in Australian universities made me laugh. Published by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia – and last updated some time ago by the way it reads – the document contains a number of comments from cadet journalists. Here’s what one cadet at a major metropolitan [...]

Just been told about the most amazing website that can help you find out what a website said in the past, before it was changed. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine crawls the web every month or so and keeps a copy of many of the websites that it finds. The Wayback Machine says it’s growing [...]

Just a thought. Why not force drivers to use their indicators before they swap lanes? There is much truth in the observation that some drivers prefer to indicate the deed rather than the intention.

Fingers crossed that some good ideas will come out of the weekend summit. I’m always puzzled though as to why politicians take off their ties on a weekend, especially when they’re on the Sunday morning current affairs programs on TV. Is that supposed to make them look more human? I’d rather see them wearing jeans [...]