Postcards In A Frosty Bottle

Seasoned travellers often bookmark their adventures with memories of their favourite beers, reports Willie Simpson.

Buzzword: Quel

Suffix rife among storytellers vying to prolong a singular success. Once upon a time, Jaws begat Jaws II, but such linear limitations have cramped investors who'd rather deal in prequels (as those vengeful Siths) or threequels (visit Middle Earth) or even interquels (where an auteur can flit amid backstory and the public's bookmark to tell an intervening tale). An interquel may see J.K. Rowling padding out her multiquel by devoting a novel to Harry's raunchy spring break between Phoenix and Goblet.

So Many Words

While your best friend is curled at your feet wondering why you're reading rather than going for a walk, you can keep everyone happy with a Dog Breed Bookmark. Everything from the Australian terrier to the Bichon Frise.

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By the bookmark

Corrimal Mum's Novel Notion

THE successful commercialisation of inventions like a revolutionary bookmark designed by Corrimal mother of two Elida Madonanakis has ensured Wollongong continues to live up to its reputation as a City of Innovation.

The Waugh Of The Words

MARK our words, next month's guest for the Australian Red Cross Bookmark Series will have sports fans in a spin.

Bookmark Another Date

ABC anchorman Richard Morecroft was forced to cancel his Newcastle visit yesterday due to a death in the family.

An Agent Of Change Bows Out

TIM CURNOW has been watching Bryce Courtenay in a big bookstore chain on national television news, promoting the new government campaign to get more people reading. He's unimpressed. ``That program is preaching to the converted," he says. ``They're offering bookmarks. Who needs another bloody bookmark?

Search No More

enter TEN years ago, a forward-thinking librarian in the US began adding useful reference sites to her Gopher bookmark file. Three years later, Carole Leita's 'bookmarks' made their debut as the Berkeley Public Index of the Internet. In the truest tall-oak-from-little-acorn tradition, M

History Repeating

Finding your way back to sites you forgot to bookmark is easy, writes Helen Bradley. Netscape's History list is a great way of tracking sites you know you've visited recently but have forgotten to bookmark. Every page you visit is recorded in the History file for a specified period before it is r

Panel Fan

Do you backtrack, sidetrack, bookmark and open multiple browser windows while you surf, just to keep tabs on all the links you simply must visit? Now you can junk those techniques and use BroadPage instead. This beautifully crafted browser lets you open multiple panels within the browser window s

Don't Court Bookmark Disaster

YOU may as well face it: life on the Internet has become inextricably tied to the personal list of saved website links that you've spent months and years accumulating. Internet Explorer calls these saved links `favourites'. Netscape Navigator calls them `bookmarks'. Your stash of favourite we

Groovy Granny Is No Dope

Seven-year-old Jessie of Thirroul was delighted to receive a parcel from her Nanna in Orange through the post last Friday. Her parents were a little less enthused with Nan's choice of present. At first glance the enclosed bookmark look harmless enough, but a closer inspection revealed it was d

Brought To Book

EVERY surfer knows that his or her bookmark list is an invaluable document - a map with which to retrace the path to the interesting and useful sites discovered among the virtual crap out there. For those too bewildered by the Web to set up their own bookmarks, the Australian company Internet Tech

Get Your Free Olympic Souvenir Today

SCORE yourself a free Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Mascot bookmark. Collect it from your newsagent today, courtesy of The Sun-Herald. Featuring the three mascots for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Syd, Millie and Olly, the bookmark is a great souvenir. Tomorrow is International Olympic Day. It focuses on

Bookmark

When I flicked through my second-hand copy of The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff I found that its previous owner had left a dried flowerhead wedged between pages one hundred and seventy and one hundred and seventy-one a

Your Choice - Readers Name Their All-time Tv Greats

WHEN we invited Green Guide readers to reply to Jim Schembri's list of the '57 Best TV Shows of All Time' and send in their own lists of the all- time greats, we were not sure what to expect. A few dozen letters, maybe . . . We got a Matterhorn-like mound of responses - bookmark-sized bites, the

A Half-hour Book Show Is Bound To Make Its Mark

YOU may be able to judge a country by its prisons, its cuisine or its public toilets. But a culture also reveals itself, says Andrea Stretton, in the kind of television book show it produces. The host of SBS's new weekly half-hour book program `Bookmark' has a prized collection of 20 videotapes