Google Earth is now available for Mac OS 10.4 and up.: Update: This is the Target store near Springwood. In this day and age of terrorism, I think that’s just asking for trouble. Target’s target My place from space!Image © 2005 DigitalGlobe

I went into the field with Kat again yesterday, doing some more crayfish work. You can read more about her work in my Crayfish tracking post. Kat’s been training a sheep to help her track down crayfish, and it proved to be a complete success. Kat’s crayfish-tracking sheep earned its keep within the first few [...]

Once again Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld and delivered some impressive (albeit somewhat forseen) announcements to the Mac community. The new iMac has an Intel dual core processor in it, with each core running faster than the PowerPC processor in the previous model. That makes for some serious performance. I [...]

Rick Segal recounts how he recently got upgraded to a first class seat just by being nice to the stressed out ticket guy.

A study published in the British Medical Journal has sought to answer the age-old question of “where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?”.

I’ve just has a quick look at the RSS feed for Improbable Research. Here are the highlights for me: Individually marked ants Silver loining Sweet dreams are made of cheese Bugs in the system

A 21-year-old British student has made a small fortune by selling advertising space on his web site. Selling advertising space on web sites is certainly not new, but in this case pretty much the only thing on the web site is advertising. Thanks to Steve W for forwarding me the story.

&tLast night I had a robust velvet gecko (Oedura robusta) outside my window. That in itself is no surprise, as there are heaps of them in and around the brickwork of the house. But this guy had managed to catch an insect, and proceeded to scoff it down in front of me. A robust velvet [...]