Rant: Apple and Steve Jobs

[image title=”jobsandwoz” size=”thumbnail” id=”242″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jobsandwoz.jpg” ]I admit that this is probably a terrible place to start apon my great return to the interwebs, considering the massive polarity between Windows people and Mac people, and the inevitable shitstorm that is created any time the two names are mentioned together in the same paragraph, but hopefully […]

R2D2 Mailboxes? Awesome!

Old, but still cool. Hey, we get news a little slower downunder. For the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, the US Postal Service enlisted a special little fellow to collect mail. R2-D2 mailboxes were deployed to cities all over the US to the delight of fans. Fricken’ awesome 🙂

Record price for 157 year old Bowmore

[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 ÂŁ29,000 (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 ÂŁ29,400 to an anonymous telephone […]

Telstra’s “Faster Broadband”

[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 […]

Apostrophe Now!

[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 […]

Smoking: The Curious Pastime

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 […]

Wii sales hit 100,000

[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 […]

Why Australians don’t (and won’t) have Unlimited Internet Plans

[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, […]

Telstra: Broadband? Or Fraudband?

[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 […]

Nintendo: Wii are going online

[image title=”brucewii” size=”thumbnail” id=”331″ align=”right” linkto=”https://irrationale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/brucewii.jpg” ]Next-Gen: Earlier this week, Reggie [Fils-Aime, President of Nintendo America] had talked about getting serious about online. Sure, there are a lot of online gamers using Wi-Fi Connect, but I look at things that Sony and Microsoft are doing with their online programs, where they’re really creating communities and […]