Do you want to celebrate Australia Day without looking like a neo-nazi or a Patagonian? The Enthusiast provides an alternative to flag-capes and Southern Cross tatts.

Gaze into The Enthusiast's back end, as we reveal our ten biggest stories of the year as voted by you, via clicking and reading.

Like Sam Cooke, we didn't know what a slide rule is for. But we had even more to learn, for this totem of mid-century nerddom is just one of the quirks in the fascinating history of mechanical calculation.

When is an answer not an answer? When it is "It is what it is". Confused yet? That's exactly how George Bush, Britney Spears, Al Gore, Brad Pitt and countless football coaches want you to feel.

Much of the outrage over the Hey Hey It's Saturday blackface skit arises from the feeling that blackface is a racist embarrassment from the past. But there's a difference between masquerade and mockery.

After years on death row to formulate some truly memorable last words, some executed criminals still got it all wrong.

At one crazy stage in the recent celebrity carnage, Jeff Goldblum and a host of other stars were reported to have died too. What does our response to deaths – real and fake – say about the cult of celebrity?

Where did that horror-movie thunderclap noise come from? Or that hospital PA? Or that ridiculous scream? We investigate the uses of some classic stock sound effects.

Last weekend an ATM card skimming device was found attached to a Bendigo Bank ATM in Sandringham, Melbourne. Could you have spotted it? We ask the banks for some tips.