In an effort to stay on top of the latest posts page I present to you cashless monopoly -

In a deal with Visa Monopoly (the board game from Parker Brothers) will no longer come with money but with fake credit cards. These mock cards are designed by Visa and look just like real credit cards. The banker is equipped with a scanner/calculator which he can scan through transactions for players.

Gone are the days when you could slip money from the bank whilst nobody was watching it (come on we all did it! Or is that an ENTJ thing?)

You all know the scenario. It's 6PM and you've just gotten home from Work. Your phone rings, and it's from a silent number. That's right, it's a telemarketer.

You're expecting a poor-quality international line, and the caller on the other end is bound to have a poor grasp of the English language. It's like sitting in a lecture at ANU.

Ah, but this time, I was pleasantly surprised. It was a crisp line, with a cute-sounding 20-something year old girl by the name of Clare on the other end.

When I went to the WWDC a few years ago the Australian delegates and I were sitting around eating lunch and as nerds do we started discussing Pi. The number pi that is. We theorised that since Pi does not repeat then presumably every combination of numbers would appear in it atleast once. If you converted Pi to binary then we would have every combination of numbers possible.

A question that's been plaguing me recently is that of organ donation, and why the rate of donation is so low. I have a family member on a waiting list for a kidney (he has long suffered from a genetic kidney disease) and the medical community can not guarantee that he will ever receive a kidney.

There are a number of factors that contribute to the situation but overall Australians seem to be averse to donating their organs.

I was walking through Harvey Norman the other day, when a friend pointed out a "nice looking" fridge. I responded, "Yeah, but its not a Westinghouse", which earned me the label "brand snob".

Until last year, if you'd asked me the names of manufacturers of fridges, I would have said Fisher Paykel or Kelvinator. Westinghouse probably wouldn't have made the list. So what's changed since them to give me a sense of almost loyalty to a brand I've never even owned?

Many people I know criticize me for not running a virus scanner on my laptop or desktop computers. I haven't used a virus scanner in over five years now -- and haven't been infected once.

Why? Simply because virus scanners aren't worth the money you pay for them, nor the CPU cycles they waste, if you have a properly configured computer, and being a little smart about files you receive/download. By properly configured, I mean secure.

For as long as most of us can remember, there have been advertisements on TV. It's these advertisements that allow broadcasters to purchase content from producers, and broadcast the content for free to your TV set.

Indeed.

One of the much-touted features of Firefox and Safari and the likes is that they automatically block popup windows out of the box.

Unfortunately, popups is a moving target (and a fast one at that). Advertisers are finding ways around popup windows only months after you thought they were gone for good.

Even more concerning is the growing prevelance of popup floating divs. As far as your browser is concerned, this popup div is simply part of a site's interactive content.

I once saw a movie called 'Undercover Brother'. It was a black spoof of James Bond (or indeed Austin Powers). It would have to be the most racist film I have ever seen. The majority of the movie is spent lampooning white people. From our smaller stature to what's in our pants, this movie used every possible stereotype and racial slur against white people. Yet this movie was released. If you reversed this movie and used white people lampooning black people then it would be shot down as a racist film. Why can one situation be okay but then when you reverse it it becomes bad?