Switzerland has a brand website. Australia will be working on its brand. This is kinda depressing because everything around promoting Australia seems to be dorky (except for that Shins song) and it'll be such a shame if this branding is too :/ Please, someone, make this good.
Granted, I haven't used Second Life much, and I don't really get it, but one place I liked visually was the Melbourne Laneways area on ABC Island - an eerily accurate duplication of the laneways I know & love in this city.
After a year of absence, I found out that a friend is now an employee of Second Life, so I returned to visit her. The program opened at Melbourne Laneways, which had been my last-visited place. And I found this.
It turns out that Melbourne Laneways was removed (by the government?) in August 2008. Lameways. In other news, I sat on a kangaroo.
After a year of absence, I found out that a friend is now an employee of Second Life, so I returned to visit her. The program opened at Melbourne Laneways, which had been my last-visited place. And I found this.
It turns out that Melbourne Laneways was removed (by the government?) in August 2008. Lameways. In other news, I sat on a kangaroo.
I nightmared about being taken hostage by someone trying to get away with a ponzi scheme (fairly normal nightmare material) and that at the same time my iPhone cover started splitting apart (nerd nightmare material).
From across the road, we saw a huge white dog playing in the park. Racing around, having a ball. Great, I thought. Jet can have a play with a new friend. Jet must've been thinking the same thing, he wanted to bolt over. In the park, the white dog's owner grabbed her dog and leashed him. Oh. Maybe she thinks we're intimidated by the size of her dog.
I was about to call out, "Is it OK if our dogs play?" but she was scrambling to get a muzzle on her dog. Oh. Maybe it's a dog that bites other dogs. In the second that I decided to leave the park, her dog busted free of the muzzle, free of the lead, and it was attacking Jet. I thought I saw the white dog's teeth sink into Jet's back. I was saying, "Oh my god oh my god oh my god," and I hauled Jet up onto my shoulder. He wasn't injured. The woman said sorry, leashed her dog, and left.
I was about to call out, "Is it OK if our dogs play?" but she was scrambling to get a muzzle on her dog. Oh. Maybe it's a dog that bites other dogs. In the second that I decided to leave the park, her dog busted free of the muzzle, free of the lead, and it was attacking Jet. I thought I saw the white dog's teeth sink into Jet's back. I was saying, "Oh my god oh my god oh my god," and I hauled Jet up onto my shoulder. He wasn't injured. The woman said sorry, leashed her dog, and left.
I have terrible taste in cars. I like Bond cars, Jaguars, that Porsche of Sarah's in Chuck, nothing I can afford. My first car was second-hand, I had a part-time job, the car broke down. So with my first full-time job, I wanted to buy a new car, one that wouldn't break down. The only kind that I could pay off in four years was the smallest car. I chose a Holden because, compared to other small cars, it could play MP3s. So alas, I don't own a Maserati or a Lotus Esprit. But my Holden has a good sound system. There was no point to this story.
Rather than say anything, I stood up and put my foot in the water, testing it. Testing the water, that is, not my foot. Though maybe it was my foot I was testing–whether it could tolerate the water's temperature. Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.from Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames
Jet's birthday presents
iPhone thinks kottke should be spelt kittle. Mish comments, "If the iPhone should know anything, it oughta know kottke. Heck, it oughta have three language options for English speakers: eng-us, eng-uk and eng-in."