“In the connected world we are constantly findable by our friends or whatever, …the age of gps and so on. Disappearing seems like an extremely exciting prospect. I mean, where are you going to disappear?”
— Rene Daalder on Bas Jan Ader’s final masterpiece In search of the Miraculous Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The life of Bas Jan Ader
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Apparently BP may have avoided Biblical Proportions and stock prices are going back up.
Perhaps you should walk to work today and think about what you’ve done.
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have 4 years of life left. — Albert Einstein
In MONOCOLUMN new data reveals that Australians have the world’s largest homes. According to Caitlin McGee of Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Futures Australia’s credibility has taken a hit as one of few countries that have given climate sceptics such prominence in the current climate change debate. It seems that the abundance of natural resources has gone to our heads inside mansions upon the driest inhabited continent on the globe, Australians believe that they can cope by just flicking the switch on the air con.
We took to the sky in a hot air balloon equipped with camera where it quickly became apparent that Australians do like to think in widescreen.
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