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The Rat Race ver. Melbourne
While perusing the Docklands website for a great place to eat, I chanced upon a great urban competition that will appeal to the adventurers-at-heart. Called the Rat Race, it’s the first time the race...
View ArticleThe Student Housing Action Co-operative!
Because landlords, real estate agencies and governments have worked to increase rents in Melbourne and make it as hard as possible for those on low incomes (such as students) to live, and because...
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Children of conflict zone jump aboard for Skateistan
But in war-ravaged Kabul, she found that aside from security concerns about a Westerner being out on the streets, its streets were too badly bomb-damaged to lend themselves to gliding along on a...
View ArticleBushfire Disaster, 84 and climbing
It is one thing suffering through a really hot day but another when a bushfire devastate an entire region of Victoria. At the latest report, there has been 84 accounted deaths but there could still be...
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Google Maps Typography
Rhett Dashwood sent me a very cool Google Maps mashup he made of typography around Victoria. Rhett spent time between October 2008 and April 2009, clicking through Victoria searching for places that...
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Follow Friday: Melbourne Places
I’ve really warmed up to Twitter and one of the great events on the site is #followfriday, where users recommend interesting people to follow. Well, in the spirit of “Follow Friday”, how bout I...
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Melbourne: Flu Capital of Australia
Melbourne has been called the cultural capital, the sports capital and the coffee capital of Australia. Well, now we can add another title to Melbourne’s fame, the flu capital. I’m unsure as to what...
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CTCV tags appear over Melbourne’s world-renowned graffiti
One of the things I love about Melbourne are the amazing graffiti pieces we get. Apparently, we’re known internationally for it, in certain circles. We have a thriving and skilled population of...
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Beware of Mullets
Club Wah caught this typo on The Age’s website last week. Not only was it in the by-line but the error was also repeated in the article.
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Google Maps adds Traffic Information
Google Maps has just activated real time traffic information to its maps. Information is taken from Intelematics, which you may recognise as the company behind the SUNA live GPS system that provides...
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