The Matchbox Project: Sydneysiders; look out for those matchboxes…

Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by a girl (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. It’s a random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed at disrupting someone’s day in a tiny but positive way. That’s if they dare to pick it up…

Cool idea! +

Band Name Origins: ah ha… I knew the name of the Stone Roses had something to do with The Rolling Stones. Via everwas. +

All in the mind? But at the SitePoint blogs?!

The heart doesn’t really control emotions, it’s just a muscle that pumps blood around the body. And while emotions do have a bio-chemical nature, and as such, are things we genuinely feel, they’re still controlled by the brain; which itself has an electro-chemical nature, and as such, an equally genuine physical presence.

Heavy. +

Big Giveaway, Real Prize: RuffBook Water Resistant Laptop!: Ilker obviously heard I planned to give away a (single) movie ticket (Australian residents only) to mark the tenth anniversary of disassociated, so decided to up the ante and give away a water resistant laptop to celebrate the the FIRST anniversary of The Thinking Blog instead! That’s not a bad contest prize at all. +

Australian PM’s Election Woes: only because it is Election Day in Australia, and the fact I had to get up extra early (for a Saturday) so I could re-elect our rock star of an MP, Peter Garrett, to Parliament.

What caught my eye though, the other day was the byline of a Time Magazine article about Australian Prime Minister (as of time of writing), John Howard.

Not only is his own government facing defeat on Saturday; John Howard is in danger of losing his own constituency to a media star.

Ok, so Maxine McKew, his primary opponent, isn’t exactly a “media star”, she is in fact a former TV journalist, I still thought the byline was highly amusing. Happy Election Day Australia. +