The adorable cuteness of being

Baby Squirrel from Daily Squee

First floods, then dust storms, now fire - NSW North Coast braces for further troubles in 2009

Brooms Head fire on the Clarence Coast

By late yesterday afternoon, there were 18 fires still listed by the NSW Rural Fire Service on the North Coast - thirteen of these in the Clarence Valley, two in the Kyogle area, one in the Coffs Harbour district and one each in the Richmond and Tweed Valleys.

Heartfelt thanks to those Firies on the frontline and other emergency service personnel. They may be very busy this summer.

The Daily Examiner Clarence Valley fire photographs

NSW RFS fire safety information sheets - Prepare, Act, Survive

Bright winding ribbon discovered at edge of solar system - it's the Universe waving Earth goodbye

This week NASA announced the discovery of a bright winding ribbon within the heliosphere surrounding our solar system.

One jaded local (tiring of the uphill battle to get government to do something about actually reducing national, state and regional carbon emission levels rather than just talking around the problem) suggests that this ribbon is the Universe giving one last wave goodbye to an Earth choking to death on greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

A bit of Australian leaders trivia from the Internetz

Our Kev has now racked up at least 338 tweets on his Twitter account, KevinRuddPM.
He has about 444 pics up on the account's photostream at Flickr and around 661,787 Twitter followers listed.

By comparison Truffles has a credit of around 665 tweets on his own Twitter account, TurnbullMalcolm.

He's uploaded about 23 pics to Twitpic and somewhere in the vicinity of 16,514 Twitter followers are recorded.

Sorta mirrors the divide between percentage points in the opinion polls - Kev winning just by being in the chair and Truffles running furiously on the spot trying to catch up.