‘Video conferencing on steroids’ a giant leap for research
A $600,000 “video conferencing on steroids” set-up at Melbourne University proved its usefulness almost immediately at its launch yesterday.
On a five-metre-wide, super-high-definition screen, Melbourne neurologist Professor Graeme Jackson swooped and dived through a 3D video model of never-seen-before deep structures in the human brain, showing off his latest research.
(2008-JAN-17) [The Age]
Fast data link for researchers
World-best collaborative research between Australian and United States universities has taken a giant leap forward with the successful launch today of a 1Gigabit per second data connection between the two countries.
The ultrabroadband optical-fibre link – roughly 250 times faster than the standard broadband connection offered in metropolitan Melbourne – was demonstrated at the University of California San Diego and at the University of Melbourne today.
(2008-JAN-16) [The Age]
The desktops and gaming areas of gaming industry movers and shakers
I’ve had a pet project I’ve been working on for years, three of them if my memory is right. It started as a simple idea: You can judge a lot from a person’s desk. I bet you could judge just as much from their home entertainment system. So I decided it would be fun to try and track down some pictures from the work desks and home gaming set-ups of the people who work in and cover the video game industry. Simple right? Not so much.
Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming’s Greatest [Kotaku]
The Derringdos
The Derringdos – Ideas for everyday family adventures.
Geocaching, gaming, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, pith helmets … I can relate to these guys 
