rebeculous blobulation

“…about 176,000 families are on waiting lists across Australia. Almost a third have been waiting for two or more years.”

…about 65% of children of families receiving support from agencies are not attending school. “The system requires families like the Cannons to constantly move in search of stop-gap accommodation from one end of Melbourne to another, making stable education impossible,”

According to the Australian Centre for Economic Studies, in the past 10 years public housing funding has been slashed by 30%, or $4 billion…

http://www.theage.com.au/national/cold-reality-of-the-aussie-dream-20081114-67bz.html?page=-1

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html

http://blogs.smh.com.au/screenplay/archives//020433.html

Dropbox is a good little online, file backup, file sharing service. The client looks just like a folder on your desktop, it automatically syncs a backup on the server every time you use it. Win, OSX and Linux.

GetDropBox.com

Mippin takes a normal RSS feed and spits it out in mobile-happy format. They also host a mobile advertising network, allowing you to instantly monetize your feed with advertising.

Thanks to Mobilista of Mobile Monday.

New startup out of Melbourne, Yabble, lets you write and find bar reviews, built to work on your mobile web browser.

http://yabble.com.au/

http://m.yabble.com.au/

City of Yarra and several other municipalities are following the lead of five bayside councils, which recently moved to clamp down on boot camps that operate on beaches and foreshore parks.

But Yarra has gone a step further and proposed a ban on commercial exercise groups of more than six people from 18 public parks in Fitzroy, Clifton Hill and Richmond. Fitness classes will also be prohibited from exercising within 10 metres of playgrounds or 15 metres of picnic sheds and park benches.

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The Bay City Strollers pay $12.50 each a session to a personal trainer. But under the proposed changes, the trainer will be required to pay up to $1000 for a six-month permit to run one class a week.

Ms Lee said: “We don’t have a problem with the permits, it’s just the cost and what seems to be blatant revenue-raising by the council.”

Yarra councillor Steve Jolly labelled the proposal a “greedy grab for cash”, which he will oppose at a council vote next month. “These types of activities should be encouraged rather than taxed, it’s pure opportunism.”

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Complaints can be directed to Info@yarracity.vic.gov.au

The Age

My housemates have been making some messed up animations. You can see them on pootube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/danieljcross

“All quantum security schemes are based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, on the fact that you cannot measure quantum information without disturbing it,” he explained.

“Because of that, one can have a communications channel between two users on which it’s impossible to eavesdrop without creating a disturbance. An eavesdropper would create a mark on it.

BBC News

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.

BBC News