

An Interview with Dan Slater, The Trail Running Mastermind Behind The NUTR.
On ANZAC Day this year, Sydney-based trail runner Dan Slater will be taking on an extraordinary challenge by running around the small Pacific rock that is Easter Island. It's not a race and no-one else is involved, although the event does have a very appropriate title - The NUTR. Why is he doing this? Just because. Tell us a little bit about the event. It's basically an off-road run clockwise around the coastline of Easter Island. It looks like being between 65 and 70 km all


Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
[Short of time? Read the haiku instead] I’m writing this in an airport, one of the most gigantic wastes of time ever invented. I’m in Brisbane waiting for an onward flight to Sydney, a three-hour wait which until recently would have been dead time: listening to music, reading a book, browsing the magazines in the newsagent. One can kill a few hours in this way, it’s just enough to keep from going insane, but beyond say, three hours, some other sort of distraction is really ne