The time to make the In an ABSOLUT World "vision" a reality is drawing closer, as voting for most popular of the five possible visions closes in less than a week. I originally voted for the ski field at Bryon Bay, in NSW's north, though the Sydney Harbour Reef (image above) has been growing on me since. ... Read full entry

The Value of Being Incomplete: What Are Your Goals for 2008? possibly the most enjoyable post I've read at Dosh Dosh so far. The year is coming to a close. When December finally changes into January, I will inevitably get a bittersweet feeling of starting over again, as I anticipate the opportunities yet to come in 2008. Here is another chance for me ... Read full entry

7 of the smallest hostel and hotel rooms in the world: and why not. When you visit a far away place surely only having somewhere quiet and comfortable to sleep is all that really matters? Think your last apartment or hotel room was small? Believe it or not, there are a lot of contenders for the dubious title of smallest hotel on the ... Read full entry

The Hobbit Goes Hollywood: Peter Jackson will act as executive producer in the upcoming production of the movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book, The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins is finally progressing on his most fraught journey - landing a leading role on the big screen. After three years of legal wrangling and public sniping, director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have ... Read full entry

Let me hear your standards body talk: further to the ongoing discussion regarding the W3C and the rate at which web standards are produced. The W3C is maddeningly opaque and its lieutenants will sometimes march madly into the sea, but it is all that stands between us and the whirlwind. The whirlwind being the chaos that would ... Read full entry

Overdoing accessibility: possibly something many well intentioned designers are guilty of. Sometimes when people first learn about Web accessibility they look for quick ways of improving the sites they build. This often leads to misuse or overuse of certain HTML features that are meant to aid accessibility, but when used wrongly have no effect and can actually have the opposite ... Read full entry

Australia's world first 'smoke free' city: and that could be the South Australian capital city, Adelaide. Only for a day though. The Tobacco Products Regulation (A Smoke-Free Adelaide) Amendment Bill 2007 would ban smoking in Adelaide for at least one day of the year, with maximum penalties of $200 to go to the Cancer Council. A kind of smokers' version of Earth Hour ... Read full entry

Leopard is nothing for Apple to purr about: the new Apple operating system isn't pleasing everyone it seems, if users are already Googling "downgrading to Tiger"... Why was I looking up "downgrading to Tiger"? Because I'm considering it. And it's clear from the search that plenty of other people, having upgraded to Apple's latest version of OS X, codenamed Leopard, are doing ... Read full entry

Font Creation Case Study: Joules: an in depth look at the font creation process by Alec Julien. Many years ago the thought of creating a font set appealed to me, until I realised just how much time and effort the process requires. I simply wouldn't have the patience to see such an undertaking through. +... Read full entry

Human Evolution Speeding Up? Apparently so, but the changes vary from continent to continent. Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. People are evolving more rapidly than in the distant past, with residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one ... Read full entry