The family, from the suburb of Garran in Canberra’s south, were awoken in the early hours of Sunday morning when their pet dog began barking from the garden.Moments later, a kangaroo burst through a three-metre high window of the house’s master bedroom and onto the bed where Beat Ettlin, his partner Verity Beman and their [...]

My Verizon contract is up as of yesterday and I’m jumping ship. So, what cost effective well run mobile phone carrier am I moving to? None. There’s no such thing. Haha, I slay me. But seriously, I’m moving to T-mobile and getting a blackberry. I’m not happy with their pricing/phone availability, but Verizon is even [...]

This won’t be as funny if you haven’t read the graphic novel or at least seen the movie, but:

Alcoa, the biggest aluminum company in the country, encountered two problems peculiar to Iceland when, in 2004, it set about erecting its giant smelting plant. The first was the so-called “hidden people”—or, to put it more plainly, elves—in whom some large number of Icelanders, steeped long and thoroughly in their rich folkloric culture, sincerely believe. [...]