Briefly: Lidl Coming To Australia, Doom 2 Speedrun, Top 10 Life Skills

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Lidl supermarket poised to enter Aussie market, get a 14-inch Acer laptop for $214, 10 skills that are hard to learn but pay off forever.

  • Budget supermarket brand Lidl is coming to Australia. The popular Aldi-style chain has proved immensely popular in the UK and it looking to replicate the same success downunder. B&T has the story.
  • JB Hi-Fi is selling the Acer ES1-411-C1WD notebook for $214. The Windows 8.1 laptop comes with a 14-inch HD Widescreen LED, an Intel Celeron N2940 Quad Core CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD. Click here for more details.
  • The Plutonia Experiment is one of the toughest sections in the video game Doom 2. After 18 years, someone has finally completed a speed run of it.
  • The best things in life may be free, but that doesn’t mean they won’t take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire. That’s especially the case when it comes to learning important life skills.

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