[image title=”bowmore” size=”thumbnail” id=”306″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/bowmore.jpg” ]A 157-year-old whisky has sold for more than £29,000 (about $67,000), setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch. The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear’s auctioneers in Glasgow for £29,400 to an anonymous telephone […]
[image title=”imatejasjam” size=”thumbnail” id=”309″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/imatejasjam.jpg” ]Telstra. Love them or hate them, they’re a fascinating group to watch. Since the beginnings of broadband internet, Telstra has been trying to function the same as any other business – make a product that only you can offer, convince people it’s the best thing since sliced bread, then […]
[image title=”apostrophetoo” size=”thumbnail” id=”369″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/apostrophetoo.jpg” ]Ah, the humble apostrophe. It’s been indicating omitted letters, showing a possesive case and pluralising our words for hundreds of years. All classic English literature contains a liberal use of this simple elevated comma, sometimes in variations which are no longer used (somewhere, o’er the rainbow!). It seems so […]
[image title=”gh3wii” size=”thumbnail” id=”312″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gh3wii.jpg” ]I’ll admit that I used to think that Guitar Hero was just another one of those “Do something when the flashing lights tell you to” sort of game, but recently I’ve become a convert. Guitar Hero is a fun game where you can live out your rock-god fantasies from […]
[image title=”binary” size=”thumbnail” id=”315″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/binary.png” ]Einstein’s predicted warping of space-time has been discovered around neutron stars, the most dense observable matter in the universe. The warping shows up as smeared lines of iron gas whipping around the stars, University of Michigan and NASA astronomers say. The finding also indicates a size limit for the […]
[image title=”overlord” size=”thumbnail” id=”318″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/overlord.jpg” ]There’s something fun about games where you don’t have to be a goody two-shoes. Dungeon Keeper was a barrel of laughs as you built an evil dungeon, filled it with traps and monsters and waited for the heroes to come wandering in. Evil genius was along the same lines, […]
As anyone who does not smoke will tell you, the act of smoking is a despicable thing which makes you smell awful, removes funds from your bank account at a frightening rate, and makes you incredibly prone to cancer and other smoking-related diseases. However, as a smoker I have a completely different standpoint. I would […]
[image title=”wii-shirt” size=”thumbnail” id=”321″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wii-shirt.gif” ]The Nintendo Wii already has the title of fastest-launch seller of any console released in Australia, and today it added another feather to its cap. Figures from industry tracker GfK Australia show that 100,000 Wiis have now been sold down under since the console’s launch on December 7, 2006 […]
[image title=”australia_population_density” size=”thumbnail” id=”325″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/australia_population_density.jpg” ]Australia is the “Land Of The Wide Open Spaces”. Because of the sheer distances involved, it costs an arm, leg, six puppies and your first three children per kilometer to lay cable anywhere. God’s Own Earth Mate might have almost the same amount of land-mass as the USA does, […]
[image title=”oldexchange” size=”thumbnail” id=”328″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/oldexchange.jpg” ]In telecoms, Telstra is no 800 pound gorilla. It’s an 800 pound colic-ridden infant, irritably throwing its toys out of the pram when it doesn’t get its own way. Whether you agree with what the government’s been doing on broadband policy or not, it’s become a hot electoral issue […]
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