Extreme Weather - Sydney's waterfalls flow upwards

The last couple of days weather has been bad here. Causing a luxury problem: I had to drain the pool preventing it from overflowing, today. I know, terrible!

Winds battering southern Australia over the last 24 hours have been so strong that spray from waterfalls south of Sydney has billowed up into the air.

Nearly a month's worth of rain has fallen on the city in 24 hours, and wind speeds have reached 120km/h.

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Vegetarian Spider

The only known vegetarian spider in the world, is called Bagheera kiplingi, and prefers to eat the leaf-tips of an acacia plant in Central America, instantly making it the black sheep among the 40,000 known spider species, most of which are strictly predators, feeding on insects and other animals. B. kiplingi is about the size of a person's pinky nail.

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The Goat Man

A few weeks ago on the bus on my way home from work I saw a man walking his dog .....and 2 goats near the shopping center at Broadway. And it's one of those things when you say it to people that haven't seen it, they look at you funny and start asking you what you have been drinking this time?

Anyhoo I have proof now. I saw him again a few days ago near my TAFE college in Ultimo where I go for my evening classes. And only because I wasn't on a moving bus and had the present of mind to take my phone out and take 2 quick pictures. You would think it might be some nutter that walks his goats, but the man actually looked quite decent.

And the other day I also spotted Bill Granger in the ABC Building in Ultimo. I always go through it because it is a short cut from Central to TAFE as I come off the train from work. Quite amazing really because normally I wouldn't recognise a famous person even if I would trip over him/her.

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Speed Cooking

A Chinese cooking competition.
These cooks are cooking so fast you wonder if they forgot something?
(not for the squeamish)

Willard Wigan micro Sculptor

Willard Wigan, a genius who creates detailed micro-sculptures that fit on the head of a pin or inside the eye of a needle.

Domino Day 2008

Highlights of Domino Day 2008 in the Netherlands where they set a new world record in falling dominoes. 4,345,027 in total apparently. More information here.

The Show Must Go On

This DJ carries on his broadcast even though fire is breaking out all around him, relying on his colleagues to put out the flames.

Beijing Olympic Village

World Record cardstacker Bryan Berg has recreated the Beijing Olympic Village using 140,000 playing cards. The Olympics in Beijing are now a mere memory and so are these house of cards, I reckon.

Extreme Fishing

The things people come up with.
But if you have a chopper at your disposal, why not?

Optical Illusions

Always nice to look at now and then (even when you have seen them a hundred times in emails before)

MUTO

A nice piece of wall-painted animation.
And as a bonus it also gets rid of some of the horrible graffiti that was on it before.

Train running through a Bangkok market

Next Saturday we are flying to Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit (Bangkok,Thailand) for a four day holiday and after that we will be flying to the UK and Holland. The main reason being that Sue, Caroline's sister, and Scott are getting married on the 14th. Anyway instead of reading the Lonely Planet guide about Bangkok I decided to look on the web and came across this little clip about a train running through a Bangkok market.

Will it blend - Modern Marvels

Not sure why you would like to blend a plunger a mobile phone or even 50 marbles, but here you go.

PS: Add the ''It's amazing'' and ''But wait there is more.'' as you go.

Around the World in .....

Around the World in 80 Days..... No make that 6 minutes, thanks to Google Earth.

The Candle Cannon

See the worlds largest air cannon in action.

America Got Talent Magician's Act

One spooky magician's act!

Tooheys Extra Dry

Derren Brown - "Paying with Paper"

Derren Brown, psychological illusionist manages to buy things with blank paper????
Unfortunately I haven't seen this show on the air yet, but I will look out for it.

High Voltage Powerline Inspection

We'll be moving to Australia soon and with it comes a new job, but I think I will have to pass on this one if it' s offered to me.