Same problem I have with OpenDNS - being from Australia, the physical location of the servers is an issue here.

Besides, my ISP doesn't do anything evil with its DNS servers.

Can't see the point of this Google.

From what I see they are just for transient things such as Twitter or blog posts - why would someone permanently link using one of these services?

When will Antarctica get their turn? *brrr*

iPhone 3GS in Australia on the 3 network, on a mobile broadband plan, tethering still works on 3.1. I don't know if 3 officially support the iPhone but I don't believe they offer it on any of their plans.

On an aside, I'm no smartphone expert but this iPhone beats the crap out of my Nokia N95. I could get something with more geek cred but I don't have the time any more to customise every single thing on all my tech devices. Happy to have something that works well and does everything I want it to do without much fuss.

"Are we not human? If we pick do we not bleed?"

Reminds me of the leak of the Windows 2000 code base, the subsequent analysis, and all the special cases for apps that relied on bugs or undocumented behaviour.

This could be averted by having a mirror attached to the bike, pointed at the ground.

I believe this would cause the cyclist to be annihilated in a flash of light, but at least the rest of us would retain our eyesight.

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Foundation and Earth, where Golan and his friends land on Solaria, and the Solarian robots' definition of "human" exclude the protagonists. The robots in this situation are quite willing to dispose of them.

You could just class the enemy as "not human". Pretty tricky to do I imagine, where do you draw the line - maybe a Bayesian spam filter :) I'm not going to volunteer to help train that one :)

Disclaimer: Thought experiment only.

My huntsman experience was not quite as bad... as a teen, I hadn't made my bed for a fair while. One night I lay down to sleep - put down my hand right on top of a huntsman. Instinctively picked up and threw.

Oh, the other fun thing is having a huntsman riding on the outside of a car. That's freaky enough, as they seem to be able to cling on despite the air flow, but one time it ended up right on top of the driver side door. After stopping the car I opened up the door and dived out as fast as I could, in one motion, the spider dropped onto the ground behind me and went on its way. Phew!

Gratuitous Chaser post for some Aussie humour: Tourist ad campaign