Enjoying: Frank Hurley penguin picture

This is a great picture taken on a Mawson expedition to the South Pole between 1911 and 1913 by the legendary Australian photographer Frank Hurley.

The title - and they really went to town on titles back in the day - is:

This Camera Caricature Shows Some Moulting Adelies Which Have Become Cluttered Up With Snow during a Blizzard

LOLing: Newstopia clip - politicians and body language

There's - uh - quite a bit of swearing in this clip - but it's piss funny :)

Enjoying: old Planet of the Apes action figure ads

These are just slightly before my time but growing up with action figures (not dolls :) , I can relate. The Planet of the Apes series of films - particularly as you get further into the series and they just get weirder and darker - are well worth a look too. (Start out with the first film - Planet of the Apes - for context and make sure you see Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which has this whole apes as slaves in the 1990s thing going on. )

Making: a game about how to play games

Getting very meta with this one but as part of the previously mentioned game, I realised that there are a lot of people out there who have never played 3D games before and who could use a bit of detailed instruction.

This is the first part of the "how to play 3D games" game. (As ever, made in FPS Creator and recorded using Fraps)

Updating: the second lamest FPS ever

Been putting in a little work on a game that I mentioned earlier - to be honest though, a lot of the work has involved learning how tricky it is to use the no-doubt practical but confusing FPS Creator software. There are thousands of forum posts in the community with handy advice but searching is tricky as when you put in a query that gets more than 100 results, it says that there are too many results to display.

Anyways, this update adds more game elements to it - rules, challenges, goals and competition. Gotta press on now, still need to put something more substantial together for the how-to-play-the-game game.

Growing: A moustache for Movember

This is perhaps one of my slacker posts, it's largely about me not shaving a portion of my face and cutting and pasting some content from the Movember website because they tell it better than I do. Anyways, here goes.

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I'll be growin a Mo. That's right I'm bringing the Mo back because I'm passionate about changing men's health and the fight against male depression and prostate cancer. Why...

* Depression affects 1 in 6 men...Most don't seek help. Untreated depression is a leading risk factor for suicide.
* Last year in Australia 18,700 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 2,900 died of prostate cancer - equivalent to the number of women who die from breast cancer annually.
* Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 5 years less than females.

To sponsor my Mo please go to http://www.movember.com/au/donate, enter my registration number which is 139517 and your credit card details. Or you can sponsor me by cheque made payable to the "Movember Foundation" clearly marking the donation as being for my Registration Number: 139517. Please mail cheques to: PO Box 292, Prahran VIC 3181. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. I'm also more than happy to take cash off your hands directly and sort out the paperwork guff for you

The money raised by Movember is donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue - the national depression initiative, which will use the funds to create awareness, fund research and increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer and male depression.

For those that have supported Movember in previous years you can be very proud of the impact it has had and can check out the detail at: Fundraising Outcomes.

So far the mo is coming along fairly nicely, only five days and it's pretty apparent already.