When Dorks Play Sport

Skype - VOIP - Free Internet Calls

Skype Voice over IP is an awesome little program that is compatible with Mac & PC and enables you to call others using a set of headphones and your computers microphone.
Ideally you want a headset. Check out Skype

NASA Wake Up Calls

Wake-up calls are a long-standing tradition of the NASA program. Each day during the mission, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center will greet the crew with an appropriate musical interlude.

Have a listen to the Flight Day 15 Blue Team wake up call - "Imagine" by John Lennon. And what the pilot has to say after it's done.

Wedding Crashers - Movie Promo

This has to be one of the coolest online movie promos to date.
You can add yourself to the trailer by selecting your character & adding your image. It's as simple as that.


Check it out here

Funk Dancing for Self Defence

This has to be one of the funniest moments of the Simpsons.
From the episode - Secrets of a Succesfull Marriage - Disc 4 - 5th Season

Homer goes to take some Adult Education classes and walking past sneaks a peek at a few classes going on.

Moe's taking the "Funk Dancing for Self Defence" class.

Moe - "Say some gangster is dissing your fly girl, give him one of these."

Moe then breaks out to a breakdance routine that ends with him pulling a shotgun out and blasting off three shots into the air.

Coining a New Phrase

One of my goals in life was to coin a new phrase and here it is...

Thoughts are like money, spend them on the things you want.
John Kappa - July 2005

Now it just has to take off.

French News Reader - Melissa Theuriau

It does not get better than this amazingly beautiful French news reader Melissa Theuriau.

Flags of the world

Flags of the world is an interesting piece of art. After doing some research on country specific facts the flags were used to illustrate some pretty harsh realities about the country.

"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the web sites of Amnesty International and the UNO."

Google Earth

Recently Google's world domination plans seems to have snapped up an application that's been around for a while. It's a 10MB download file that enables the user to point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view.



It's the only atlas you'll ever need, and Google Earth impressed me so much it's earned itself a permanent link here on the Kappa files.

What the BLEEP Do We Know?!

Recently watched this amazing film after it was recommended. It's very difficult to explain and I find myself confused every time I begin to try.

So here's the site.

It's an awesome film that will change your view on things and let you in on life's big secret.

Palate - Bar Restaurant

If your looking for a great place to dine, some friends have recently opened Palate, located on Greville St Prahran, where the old Continental used to be, beneath Boutique.


Great food & wine, perfect for a relaxing early dinner any night of the week.

Tell them Kappa sent you. I won't get you anything, but tell em' anyway.

The Tipping Point

Currently reading The Tipping Point - How Little Things can Make a Big Difference as it was recommended by a friend with the few words, "It'll change that way you look at things". Well, he was right.

The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell is a great book on change. In particular, it's a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does.