Read this in the local newspaper: New automated dairy farm system lets the cows decide when they want to be milkedThis sounds like an innovation that's going to be great for both the cows and the farmer, and likely to be adopted widely in New Zealand (and maybe the rest of the world) in a few years. It costs around the same amount as a traditional ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm currently obsessed with Meet The Robinsons, which was of course released a couple of years ago. Hooray for TV reruns and cheap DVD rentals, yay! :)

( Meet the spoilers. )

Or, I'm proud of my country right now. Okay, the one I currently live in.

Three New Zealand entrepreneurs have invented a commercially viable way to recycle old car tiresThe process they've invented breaks the rubber in old tires to release gas, which is cooled and can be made into various useful compounds such as carbon and oil. Which is a great ( Read more... )

A while ago, I was a bit miffed that a book that costs a few dollars require about $20 in shipping from America to New Zealand. That has been my experience with Amazon.com for, well, forever.

Then I realized - for me, that's about an hour and a half's wage.

Basically, I can work for an hour and a half - and for the money I earn doing that, get a ( Read more... )

The always awesome Crush Pessimism blog quotes a book by Les Giblins, which stated ( Read more... )

From the always awesome CrushPessmism.com: An article about how our perception is often geared towards the negatives in life - not because they're so common, but because they're actually not, relatively speaking ( Read more... )

I've mentioned once or twice how scared I was of flying. If you've ever had the same problem, Captain Stacey L. Chance has made a website that will calm your fearsReading this has indeed calmed me a lot, if, admittedly, not completely. I've also gained a new appreciation for aviation in general - After reading in detail about it seems amazing how ( Read more... )

Hat tip jordan179: Fusion power may soon become a viable energy source. As long it doesn't end up like the one in Spiderman 2.

The actual output is still relatively small, but, as the old adage goes, Rome wasn't built in a day.

(And why is it that I read the headline of that article and instantly thought: "Star serious laser..."?) :D

Why has Classically Liberal's post about the people who rushed to save a mother and her children in a flaming car only gotten one comment? And that one comment was from me!

I know for certain that almost all of his posts which complain about some horrible abuse of justice have gotten more comments. And the articles, which he writes, are longer to ( Read more... )

It's important to deliberately remind ourselves of the good in people, because it often gets lost among the news media reports of every horrible thing ever done by human beings (and even some that were not done by human beings).

For your daily dose of basic human decency, Classically Liberal reports a touching story in which bystanders rushed in ( Read more... )