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Six years ago, when I was visiting the south island of New Zealand - I travelled on a remote unsealed road in the Otago region. In the far off distance I saw strange site… it was house shifting to the east on the horizon behind the hills. I had to pinch myself, had I been […]

When I was very young, maybe 8 or 9 years old, I had a very strange experience. In fact, I only recently told my girlfriend recently about it. Its difficult to describe, becuase the experience was quite mundane - though its left an impression on me for some time. Here is what happened:
I was watching […]

I recently did an image search on google (I can’t remember the search string) and found some interesting and twisted work of the Norwegian painter “Odd Nerdum”
from www.spamula.net:
Nerdrum is renowned for his emulation of old-master techniques and textures: there are in his paintings many echoes of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, in particular. Beyond that, his devotion […]

Digg, Delicious and Reddit are all fun ‘news buzz sites’ in which that users rank there stories. I for one love to check out Popurls which conglomerates them all together. Usually the stories are quite fascinating, interesting and revelent. The sites that are linked to the stories often get a great deal of traffic boost. […]

In New Zealand - a bungalow is commonly referred to as a ‘bach’. The are usually scrapped together with materials in often an ingenius fashion. The Atelier Workshop has put together a unique spin on the NZ bach, you can see there designs at Port-A-Bach.com.
Essentially the Bach is created from a shipping container! See pics […]

I’ve added some more isometric/2d game engines to my Isometric Games Engine list list, below are 3 engines new to the list, but these have been around for awhile. Check them out:
GEMRB Game Engine GemRB (Game engine made with preRendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine which was written to support […]

I’ll be back posting in a week or soo, but in the meantime I thought I would share a great photo sharing site (unfortunately/fortunately its by invitation only). Its geared mainly towards arty type stuff - but there are some great finds here if you have a chance. Here are some samples of the unusual […]

Are you left or right brained?

The image on the left was taken from this was taken from Perth Now - its image to test if you use your left or right brain. If it turns clockwise, you are more right brained - if it turns counter clockwise - you are more left brained.
When I used this it was […]

Top UFO sites

I’ve had a peruse around for some UFO sites on this great ‘net of ours. There are heaps of sites out there, most are pretty good - but these are my favourite on the net. These sites have alot of multimedia and a diversity of information that made them stick out a bit more […]

I’ve found a fantastic New Zealand treehouse (Hapuku lodge) as well a couple of other unique treehouses. Click on the image below to go to the updated treehouses of the world blog entry: