How we spent last year online
If you think your email inbox is overflowing each day, consider this: last year 107 trillion messages were sent via electronic mail. Yes, you read right,…
Valentine's
Doughmail is a clever little company that combines electronic mail with old-school sentiment. By visiting www.doughmail.com.au customers can send a ‘cookie card’ to a friend or lover…
Take a trip down memory lane… literally
When one thinks of Navman, we think of the handy little device in our car that tells us precisely when to turn left, right, or around.…
NGV dresses up for two huge parties
Coming a long way from a small exhibition space at the Victorian State Library in 1861, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) now boasts two architecturally…
Dance party tours, doing its part for flood relief
It was initially just one dance party in Melbourne, being hosted to raise money for the Queensland flood relief fund, but due to overwhelming response to…
God is in the details
Social life was once defined by filial, feudal and religious servitude, then by our relationship to the material means of production. Today, our social existence seems…
The world's greatest skating in our own backyard
Vans Bowl-a-Rama is approaching rapidly so you might want to get excited for the week-long series of shenanigans surrounding the titled skate competition. Unlike some amateur…
The very fabric of good design
With the ongoing saturation in our local furniture market of mid-century knock-offs (think about the unavoidable number of faux Arne Jacobsen egg chairs existing anywhere you…
Gaga proposes nuddy new album art
Most of us had better things to do on New Year’s Eve than get onto a social networking site. But not Lady Gaga; she was busy…
Top travel trends for 2011
Suffering from wanderlust as you return to work weary from the Christmas break? As though they already knew, TravelManagers Australia, the operators of a network of…
Cute Japanese characters soon on exhibition
The Greeks have their mythology, Indians have their myriad gods, and the Japanese… well they have anime and Hello Kitty. Since the 1950s, the Japanese cartoon…
Wine label gets street smart
Just thinking in generalisations we would never imagine to pair a vineyard with urban lifestyle and culture. It’s kind of like popcorn and icecream – at…
Green shopping bags not so green after all
With everyone harping on about global warming, pollution and all things environmentally evil, the biodegradable plastic bag was eventually introduced and considered revolutionary, and then the…
