Gliider: An Online Travel Planner

“gliider is a digital file that lets you hold on to all of the interesting stuff you come across when you’re researching and planning a trip. Find a cool hotel you don’t want to forget about? See a great restaurant you want to try? No matter what website you’re on, just highlight whatever you want with your mouse and drag it into your gliider. Photos, text, whatever!

gliider will then bring you deals related to what you’re interested in. No spam, no overload. Only the good stuff and just the right amount of it.”

GeekMyRide

Open-Source Automotive Hacking

GeekMyRide is a collaborative effort to develop and use open-source software and cutting edge computer hardware to take automotive computer technology to the next level. Our goals include understanding, reverse-engineering, documenting and modifying existing automotive hardware & software, along with the development and installation of new technology.

More from GeekMyRide

2009 Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lecture presents Shai Agassi

Electric Horizon

Founder of Better Place, Shai Agassi will share his inspired vision of freeing cars from oil, reducing harmful exhaust emissions, and ushering in a new era of sustainable transportation.  He will discuss the economic factors, industry dynamics, geopolitical pressures, and mounting environmental concerns that are combining to drive this profound change, as well as the challenges we face in realising this vision. Described by TIME Magazine as one of its Heroes of the Environment 2008, Agassi will share his
 vision inspired by a profound question posed at the World Economic Forum in 2005, ‘How do you make the world a better place by 2020?’

22 July 2009
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9015 7501
Cost: Free – RSVP essential: climateandinnovation.com.au or 03 9015 7501

More information: State of Design

Brumby cancels CONNEX & Yarra Trams contract

CONNEX has been dumped as Melbourne’s train operator, while Yarra Trams has lost its contract to run the city’s trams.

In a major shock, both transport operators were dumped with French group Keolis to run Melbourne’s trams while Hong Kong’s MTR will run trains.

Premier John Brumby announced the decision this morning, and the companies will take over operations from December.

More from the Herald Sun.

Visit the Other Britain

“Visit The Other Britain” created to help whacked tourists find whacky things to do. Yes, darling not the type you’d think England attracts with the Queen, Cups of Tea, Madame Taussauds and even fish & chips!

Not sure about the music but hey…

Have you ever been on the Tour of Beauty – squatfest request.

It’s been three and half years since SquatSpace first conducted their now infamous REDFERN-WATERLOO – TOUR OF BEAUTY.

The next tour on May 31st is part of the exhibition There Goes The Neighbourhood at Performance Space in The Carriageworks (Sydney).  Squatfest normally loathe to do a gallery piece about Redfern, which of course was the original impetus to instead take people around on the ground in Redfern.  However, in addition to a tour, Squatfest has come up with a great idea to create a giant photo mural from all the pics taken on the tour over the past few years!  Something like “A thousand pictures speak one word: Redfern”

So if you have been on any of the tours over the years, we are looking for your photos! They need your digital file and they’ll do the printing.

Please send by May 8th,  to info@squatspace. com, or upload them to Flickr, or other such online photo management and sharing applications, and send the link. Thanks!

Bikes Move Us

(BMU) is a growing community of like minded individuals who share a passion for bikes whether it’s fixies, mountain bikes, single speeds, BMX, road bikes, recreational riding, excercise, modifying or racing.

Website:
http://www.bikesmoveus.com

Australian petrol price finder

This one is generated off the pages of Cars Guide. Simply choose a fuel type to find cheap prices by suburb or postcode.

Pretty nifty and seems to work offering up-to-date prices and location maps.

Try petrol price finder

How would you run a whole country without Oil?

Shai Agassi at TED2009

At TED2009, Shai Agassi, Better Place founder and CEO, shares the company’s plans and says it’s electric cars or bust if we really want to eliminate tailpipe emissions.

It sounds far out, but Shai offers some great alternatives and presents solutions.

Ted 2009 Video

www.ArrivedOK.mobi – your happy landings

www.ArrivedOK.mobi – your happy landings

Instantly notify your friends and family when you arrive to your destination in the airports worldwide. Make them 100 percent sure you landed OK – with ArrivedOK, your personal flight arrival tracker.

Automatically alert others by SMS, email, via your weblog or Twitter about your safe landing.

Your children traveling alone? For your piece of mind get notified they arrived at the moment they turn on their cellphones after landing.

Save money on international roaming charges. ArrivedOk alerts are 3 to 8 times cheaper than calling or texting from abroad.

Set up your account, create your Arrival Records and we’ll track your cell phone when you arrive anywhere in the world. Your recipients will get your ‘Arrived OK’ message immediately.

http://www.arrivedok.mobi/ – your happy landings
http://www.arrivedok.mobi/video/1/landing_1.html