29 Fascinating Facts About Plants From Around The World

The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 107 m (350 ft) or more in height and may be up to 7.5 m (26 ft) across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has ever...

Racism Rampant or how Jamie won Big Brother Australia

This is today’s meta-post covering racism, the unwisdom of crowds, Rocketboom, Popcrunch and ZeFrank Vlog Updates, Big Brother Australia, UK and USA updates and more!

My Second Life or how we are creating a new generation of Otakus

This is the first of my meta-posts. Check out the body of this post for a definition of this term. The featured photographer of this series is Automatt. Check out his flickr site.

Synchronicity of dreams or how relationships need work

A monster of a post on a Saturday, clocking close to 2000 words. In this post I cover the movie Break Up, Chartreuse, Aquaman and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TV pilots reviewed, Architecture of Pain and Fragmentation of Family, Synchronicity of Dreams, Rocketboom, some...

The City of the Void or how I follow through on some more reviews

In this post, I cover some Big-Brother, the movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend, a recipe for vegetarian Thai lentil soup, the book Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds and more! Today’s featured photographer is Rod Monkey. Check out his beautiful pictures of architecture.

Scanning things darkly or how I write about self-employment

In this post, I cover the last few Rocketboom episodes and news from Amanda Congdon, some Big Brother Australia and UK, the TV shows Saved and Kyle XY, my own personal dog food recipe, Mr Range on contractual and self-employed work, memediggers and more!

Hits and misses or how I review some of the upcoming TV dramas

In this post I cover some upcoming TV shows through their leaked pilots. I cover Shark, The Nine and Jericho. I also have a few words to say about memediggers, Big Brother UK and Australia and more!

Alienation Nation or how I expose some viral emotions

In this post I cover YouTube’s new Terms of Service, a few interesting movie trailers, the TV pilot Secrets of a small town from ABC, the tagging and search utility Keotag, free education through Qoolsqool and Wikibooks, my wife, the length of my posts, alienation and more!

Photography will set your heart on fire or how The Lady In The Water will fare

Today’s featured photographer is Ivan. Check out his beautiful skyscapes. The rest of the photos are mostly from the HDR pool from flickr. Check out my series of articles on HDR if you want to know more. In this post, I cover some Rocketboom, a new TV pilot called...

Calacanis and the digg mafia or how monetizing the blogosphere is getting som...

It’s not like our feature photographer needs the publicity, however he is an exceptional photographer. Thomas Hawk is now working with Zooomr and Kris Tate. Most of the other photos in this post come from the HDR pool from flickr, so this continues my photographical...

Trying out Zooomr or how a short post turned into a long one over tea

In this post, I cover Zooomr, flickr, some HDR photography, some Big Brother, some Top Gear and more! As with my precedingly popular article on HDR photography, this post can be seen as a photographical revue on HDR through the HDR pool on flickr.

Understanding modern HDR photography, a set of tools, links, examples and exp...

This is the 4th article in a series of articles on HDR Photography. The 1st article was a guide to Modern HDR photography. The second article delved into how that article had been viewed 167000 times in a day. The 3rd article examined the why, how exactly did the mechanics...

How to make your post viewed 170000 times in a few hours, an analysis and fol...

This is a follow-up post to my previous post which was viewed over 167000 in the span of a few hours. This is part of a series of articles on HDR photography. This article continues the initial analysis and examines in further detail what happened. This article can also be...