There is another Australian INfront meet this friday night, 6th July 2001 at Hotel Williams, Corner of Yurong and William St, East Sydney. Also INfront in conjunction with Flash Kit’s FK01 Conference launch the Flash Response 02! :: Get involved in Australian creative communities, visit Australian INfront ::: www.AustralianINfront.com.au & also Design Is Kinky ::: www.designiskinky.net.

A group of broadband users, campaigning against Telstra’s data download restrictions, is looking to take out a full-page advertisement in a national newspaper and have already raised half the cost of the ad. ::: www.zdnet.com.au/news/telco/story/0,2000020799,20235975,00.htm

Senior Analyst Ben Macklin explains that the greatest value in TV and mobile device content is its ability to get internet users to buy online via their PCs, in a recent article Content Across Platforms: PC, TV and Mobile Device.

Global Opinions on the Future of Technology: A recent study shows that 37% of worldwide consumers believe that the Asia Pacific region will be the world’s high-tech leader by 2025 ::: www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/wireless/20010628_rscg.html?ref=brw.

The Call for Entries in the 2001 HOW Magazine International Design Contest has begun, and any original graphic design project created between January 1, 2000, and September 1, 2001, is eligible. The contest is open to graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, etc., from anywhere in the world. ::: www.howdesign.com/compete.

Here is a useful resource website on web-safe colours for colour-deficient people ::: http://innovate.bt.com/people/rigdence/colours.

A massive Thank You to the girl who lent me those few extra bucks for the bus today, as I left my wallet at home. I owe you big time!!! and I’ll see ya tomorrow :)

It was a sad day for me today, as I said goodbye to my online family of nearly 4 years at ninemsn. It’s been truly an amazing ride, full of fun and incredible bonds and friendships. Community for me is something I’ll never ever forget. If any of you all out there have a spare few moments, go check out ninemsn community and visit the Lounge, Espresso, Cleo, Casino, Sidewalk ::: http://chat.ninemsn.com.au. – Freqnc

I like this hehehe Owen Briggs’ ‘Design-O-Matic’ ::: www.thenoodleincident.com/toys/designomatic.html. And this is pretty cool stuff by Brooklyn’s Redrick deLeon ::: www.acute.org/red/reveal.

The University of New South Wales, the Imperial College in London and Mahanakorn University of Technology in Bangkok have changed the future of education with the launch of their virtual learning laboratory ::: www.unsw.edu.au.

Microsoft’s promotion of Office XP, includes the ‘Demise of Clippy’; the Office Suite’s paperclip helping hand in previous versions of Office. Well, guess what? Now you can get rid of Clippy forever. Visit the game, which incidently is a very nice scripted and designed Flash5 movie, and poll at the Microsoft Office clippy homepage ::: www.microsoft.com/office/clippy.