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Fans of certain genres of video games, especially first person shooter games, will be familiar with the phrase "screen cheating". For the uninitiated, these games generally involve splitting a television screen so that each player…

"Don't Look Back In Anger" is a song by the band Oasis, famed for their many hits like "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova". It's also some pretty sound advice, up there with "don't drive when you're…

Some things can never be reversed. There are terrible actions that one can commit, words that can never be unsaid, deeds that can never be undone. These events may change lives forever, alter a field…

Ever had a really dirty rear windscreen on your car? Or a super-full boot stuffed with luggage piled up to the roof? Under those sorts of circumstances, it's pretty tough - if not impossible -…

A camera takes a snapshot of the world and preserves it forever in a still frame. A photograph allows you to access a moment in time, even from many decades ago - a window into…

Things from behind can take you by surprise. There's a reason the word "backstabber" has the connotations it does - it's not just an attack from an arbitrary position, it's specifically dishonourable because the victim…

Want to show that a creature is alien or somehow otherworldly? Easy - give it eye stalks. This simple anatomical alteration seems so strange to us humans that it will clearly signal the extraterrestrial, or…

'Verse' has many meanings. It can mean a stanza of song or poetry, or the concept of poetry in general. In some circles, it is short for 'universe', and is thus used to mean 'world',…

Black ice: This is when a thin, transparent layer of ice covers part of the road. It’s extremely tough to spot, and can make your vehicle skid or lose control on the slippery surface. This…

The other day, I drove into a narrow lane off a main road. I didn't want to reverse back out onto the busy street, so I had to do a billion-point turn (or that's what…

Being able to reverse and parallel park without using a camera is not required for the VicRoads driving test. This says something interesting about our society. We've reached a stage of technology where it's understood…

Parallel parking is hard. I know, this might sound obvious to some, and false to others. But the truth is, unless you have a lot of practice - and sometimes even then - it'll often…