4C: Chocobo, Cookie, Cartman & Caffeine, originally uploaded by David.

What? Has he gone mad? Do not worry, this is a test to make sure I can bring you live photos of Anzac Day tomorrow.

Here’s 20 photos of a quick CityCat ride from the suburb of Toowong, along the Brisbane River to the City - I took them with my new camera, and tried out a little bit of special effects work.

If you click here you can see the route of the CityCat, from the Regatta Hotel stop to the Queensland University of Technology - Gardens Point stop.

Incidentally, the Regatta Hotel is famous for being the place where Australian academic Merle Thornton chained herself to the front bar in protest against the law that said women couldn’t drink in the front bar. Thornton later went on to write for the cult Australian TV show Prisoner (the one set in a women’s prison, not the weird SF one filmed in a Welsh village).

You can click here to see this set of pictures on flickr, where you can see them in a slideshow, see much bigger versions, and download them for your own use.

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This week’s Carnival of Cities has articles about:

• Dead people being prosecuted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Shanghai v Beijing?
• Just how many ways are there to find news in Prescott, Arizona?
• Security tips while visiting Rome
• A love letter to San Francisco
• The Keukenhof Tulip Gardens outside Amsterdam
• Martin Luther King, Jr’s early life in Atlanta, Georgia
• Surfing at Folly Beach, South Carolina
• Development issues on the Ribble in Preston, Lancashire, England
• Greek-American sponge-divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida
• Racing Season in Mauritius
• Cold Stone Ice Cream in San Diego, California
• The Seattle Mystery Book Store in Seattle, Washington state
• How to kill your credit instantly in San Jose, California
• The Arena District in Columbus, Ohio
• Earth Day in Manhattan, New York

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