The Coromandel Peninsula from Whangapoua Road - the picture was taken at the roads highest point before dropping into the Coromandel township as we did a circuit of the region earlier this year (Pauanui to Cooks Bay to Coromandel, back through Thames and back across to Pauanui - about a 4 hour trip).

Brilliant - Daily WTF. Catalog of IT failures - the Virtudyne series reminds me of a company I used to work for.

How Joel Spolsky does an initial Phone Screen for prospective hires.

A good review of FreeNAS. Looks good - some reservations about using it in a commercial environment though (as per the comments at the end of the article).

I could only ever get two sides - Solve the Rubiks cube.

I'm not sure how they'll cope - USA bans Vegemite due to folate. I can never remember wether I prefer Marmite or Vegemite.

You can never know enough about knots - Animated Knots.

Interesting - Six Examples of Odd Sympathy. This is explored in more detail in Steven Strogatz 'Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order.

Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows - Poderosa Project. I'll give it a try but a shell that requires the .Net subsystem seems overkill. I suspect they'll have a hard time displacing putty.

Some inspired advertising - Great ads from around the world. Beware its a loooong page - can take awhile to load.

Richard Dawkins - Why There Almost Certainly Is No God.

"We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very very improbable."

Blasphemy - of course there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster!

If you've ever wondered when togs become undies check out this NZ ice-cream commercial :-)

And if you're not sure what a Budgie Smuggler is then theres some insight in the linked Wikipedia article.

I had to look it up when I saw a giant beer bill-board (part of the Tui 'Yeah, Right') series that said something like 'Summers here, time to dust off the budgie smuggler. Yeah Right'.

Classic.