Attention, American friends/fam: I just found out that United is having an unadvertised sale on tickets to Sydney. They’re about $1000 round trip (including taxes), and apparently Qantas is price-matching. (Flying Qantas is MUCH BETTER than United.)

Pixel Cookies. Those are AWESOME! (Link courtesy of Snookums.)

Google have release Mobile Sync for iPhone. This is exactly what I was using Nuevasync for, so I guess I can switch over to the official version.

“Wealthy commuters shun public transport.” You know, stories like this make it harder and harder for me to think anything nice about people who live in Mosman. Whack ’em with a congestion charge, I say. If London can charge five quid (or whatever) to access the CBD, so should we. Obviously the Bridge Toll isn’t enough. Then put that money straight into public transport.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go catch my bus.

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Dad!

Obama in Elkhart
I woke up today to an email from my Dad asking how come I hadn’t mentioned Obama being in Elkhart on w-g yet. HUH? (Oh, maybe because we just had a mammoth natural disaster and nearly 200 people are dead? The newspapers are kinda full of that.) But regardless, I was excited to hear that Obama chose Elkhart to try to sell the American people on his stimulus package. I mentioned before that Elkhart – where most of my immediate family live – currently has the highest unemployment rate in the country. The RV industry there has collapsed. Thankfully no one in my family is out of work yet, but several are on mandatory reduced hours. Dad told me that thousands of people lined up to get tickets to the event. (He also scornfully mentioned that someone then tried to scalp one on Craig’s List.) I’m going to try to find some news coverage of the actual meeting…

Of socks and fake deaths…
This is nuts. You think my Knitters Guild drama is silly? The knitting universe was ROCKED ten days ago by the revelation that yet another sock designer had faked her death. I’m not even joking. (The previous instance.) The MO seems to be to set up a business selling yarn and patterns, fleece a whole lot of people, disappear with the cash, and have a “friend” post an obituary for you. Bonus points if you come up with a rare yet believable disease and manage to get people to donate cash to your grieving family.

And you thought we just liked to play around with yarn.

T-Mobile Advert Spoof Closes Train Station. Ha! That’s pretty brilliant. I mean, the original flash mob was brilliant. The copycat event that closed down the station later was lame. That’s my whole problem with flash mobs, really. You can expect every creative and original idea to get run into the ground a zillion times afterwards. But still, I’ve would’ve loved to have been there when the original one was filmed.