Michael Paine - Sydney Australia

Discoveries!

Automotive Safety

• Vehicle Design and Research Pty Limited engineering consultancy
• Road Safety Web links
• Publications and reports - road safety and science (52K PDF)
• Youtube videos

Astronomy & Science

• Australian Spaceguard Survey - the search for asteroids and comets which might threaten the Earth.
• Tsunami from asteroid impacts - plus Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and risk to Sydney from tsunami + Tsunami Survival Guide for Australian coastal communities
  
• Index to my "Rocks in space" series of articles.
• The Planetary Society Australian Volunteers
• Science Conjecture - life on Mars and other topical science issues
• Greenhouse gases and climate change - links and news
•  Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit from the book Demon Haunted World and Carl Sagan's warning about the reptile within us
• Perpetual Motion and the Big Wither.

PCs & Internet

• PCs and the Year 2000+ old news but still interesting.
• Australian Open Access User Group  - DOS software users group with all sorts of PC tips and tricks - with a dig at Windows and a tips page for Apple Mac OS X.
  
• TPG - my commercial service provider
• A quick introduction to HTML
• World Clock - (external) current times around the world
  

Hobbies & local issues

• Madly Daily - spoof on our "local" newspaper
• OzGreen (East Timor project) and Manly Friends of Oecusse
• GEMFIND mapping shareware for Australian gemstone fossickers and Darwin's Natural Selection - simple, dynamic illustration of natural selection at work (competition for limited resouces) 
• Red Hill Preservation Society
• Warringah's Environmental Hotspots
• Urban Villages, SEPP5 retirement villages, Warringah's new LEP.
  
• Humpback whales perform migration spectacle [near Sydney] (BBC slideshow) - I have suggested that all Japanese tourists arriving in Sydney receive complimentary tickets for a whale-watching tour.
  
• Australian Snow Statistics for skiers
• Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia - magnificant scenery, geology and astronomy.
• Looking for one of the best Australian TV dramas - "Heartland" with Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo? It was re-marketed in North America as "Burned Bridge" and is available on Region-free DVD from CD Universe. Brilliant performances from a young Cate and Ernie. Update 5 Jan 08: Burned Bridge now on Sydney Digital TV Ch 44 at 2pm weekdays.
• My 1974 Engineering Thesis on surfboards
  



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Last update 7 Aug 2012.  Started in 1996.
email: mpaine aT tpgi.com.au
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