…how far it was from New York to Syndey?

http://www.nztraveller.co.nz/distance/distance_calculator.htm

Leave it to New Zealanders like me to come up with nifty ideas like this calculator. Speaking of New Zealanders, it’s been said at work that by having a mullet I’m carrying on the legacy of Hamish, the previous employee in this position. He had a crazy mullet (and serious fu-man-chu for a while).

Found via Rob Barac on his Ensight comment.