(via Kieran D Whelan)
Ahhhhh hahahahaha. EditingTheHerald organised a bunch of people to bring some gentle hilarity to the nutjob march on the weekend. Highlights?
- Carly Binding Referendum
- Careful Now
- Advice Dog
Welcome to the ride…
Listening to The System is a Vampire at the moment, very very nice and put together as a proper album that flows along at a great pace. Twin Galaxies is a beautiful track, hoping to catch them at Lake Hawea just before New Years…
Get it here, or on iTunes.
“ We have to hope [the Maori Party] will realise, sometime soon, that no sop the government could give to Maori would outweigh the cost of this Bill to the country (including Maori) ”
Claire Browning - The ETS mess: ACT gets it right | Pundit
If the Maori Party decide to stuff the country as a whole, just to get preferential iwi forestry investment, then frankly my historical support for Maori seats will slide pretty close to opposition.
“ Don’t be so f*&%ing stupid ”
- Sir Geoffrey Palmer (paraphrased)
Group calls for veto of referendum - page 1 - Politics - NZ Herald News
Mr Mikaere released the email in which Mr Harawira referred to “white motherf***ers”
Well, in reality, Mr Mikaere sent an email to Mr Harawira saying he was no better than “white mofos”, and then had the same term used in the reply.
Not a fan of what Harawira did at all, but if it’s the “white motherf*ckers” line that is the cause of the uproar, why isn’t Mikaere getting similar treatment?
(As usual) Brian Fallow is right - the current Government seems to be there only for the middle-aged big business leader. Anyone who will actually be involved in the economy in 25 years time is just a debt-bucket beyond the bonus-led planning horizon.
I’ll ask again, what did Key’s kids do that he’s enacting such a punishment?
In addition to being awesomely heat resistant, aerogel can also hold insane amounts of weight proportionate to the size of the aerogel being used, up to 4000 times, which shames regular air something fierce. To put it in totally nonsensical terms, if air had a party, while aerogel was busy getting hummers in the back, loser oxygen would be making sure everyone was using a coaster. That’s how much cooler aerogel is. Fuck you, oxygen.
BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA…
Right. Removing, ya know, actual savings encouragements to pay for direct cash-moneys tax cuts kinda defeats your point Senor.
Heh.
The Nextmen Ft. Dynamite MC - Round Of Applause
CLAP YOUR HANDS NOW PEOPLE CLAP NOW
Just a fan video! Fozzie Bear, Blues Brothers and Flight of the Conchords. Hot. Damn.
(Great track to remix too)
“The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn’t matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.”
Most intriguing of all - they didn’t tell anyone because it was actually designed to stop THEMSELVES from itchy trigger fingers. If super-death-computer-of-death is going to nuke the US anyway, you can hold off for that extra second.
Oh yeah, it’s still there btw…
Painting a green swathe on a busy road and calling it a cycle way doesn’t make it so. Telling cyclists “hey you’re allowed to ride in the bus lanes with 473 tonnes of steel driven by someone on impossibly-tight deadlines” isn’t a particularly whizz-bang idea either.
But hey look at those! Recycled plastic. No change to road layout. But an immediate pyschological safety effect that might actually see some people use cycleways.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/zebra-bicycle-path-devider.php
via a commenter at PAS
Dizzee - Holiday
As much as this tune APPALLED me at first (from Boy in Da Corner to that in just four (?) short years?!) I can kinda see me dancing to it with a dumb grin on my face late in the day at BDO ‘10.
