Our pick of the Net for today:
Stupid robots. The Baca RoboCup is a competition for robots that are completely “useless to society”. Check out these trashcan-bots doing, well, nothing (but nothing in an amusing way).
Street View in the Top End. Google Street View has come to Kakadu and Darwin. You can check out your favourite spots from Australia or just take a trip down the highway.
100 goals in 100 weeks. Ian Usher, the Perth man who sold his life on eBay, is now attempting to complete 100 goals in 100 weeks. I’m guessing we’ll see him here next year.
Drunkenfreude. What do you do when being drunk isn’t fashionable any more? Don’t ask us.
‘Tis the season to be incredulous. Christopher Hitchens’ look at the moral and aesthetic nightmare that is Christmas.
