June 3, 2011
Testing mobile posting
May 24, 2011
Hitler is angry about the Wellywood sign
I don’t think anything is gonna top that on the issue.
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April 12, 2011
i am blind
Chicks with Steve Buscemi’s eyes
http://chickswithstevebuscemeyes.tumblr.com/page/3
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April 10, 2011
welcome to the soundtrack for your next half hour
presenting the most addictive and intuitive music interface since ballsdropping
http://mandaflewaway.tumblr.com/post/2057242738
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April 5, 2011
Combust in Unity – screening 9 April @ Wellington Film Archive
An earlyish showing, 4: 30pm.
This will be the last Wellington screening for the forseeable future.
Tickets only $8/$6!
You can see the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE9H4wf2Obc
(If you can’t make it, it is now available on DVD, see http://www.combustinunity.com/ for details)
(Kind of awesomely, screening straight after it are a couple of particularly weird looking documentaries by Werner Herzog, which I would recommend sticking around for too 
)
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April 2, 2011
3eanuts
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters’ expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.
This is staggering and inspired. It is as if Louis-Ferdinand Celine wrote 3 panel comics.
Hugely recommended.
It is well worth plugging through the site; it gains power through quantity. (Also, the current landing page has a bunch of april fools tie in strips that are lesser.)
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March 28, 2011
RIP Joe Bageant
Your bitter humourous sanity and willingness to confront what is will be missed.
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March 9, 2011
get your reptilian hot buttons
Way back we commented on the documentary The Persuaders
This is the full interview with Clotaire Rapaille, by far the most interesting person they interviewed, and coiner of the term reptilian hot buttons. It is probably the most interesting thing you will read about human psychology, communication, and influence in a long time; and why we do what we do, and how this can be accessed and utilised; and how different cultures construct meaning.
Hugely recommended.
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March 4, 2011
info dump before breakfast
Short video explaining how corporations got personhood
The project, called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement, aims to watch over more than 20 million people in Beijing 24 hours a day, local media said yesterday. Wherever you are – whether in the bathroom, on the subway or in Tiananmen Square – the government will know.
Wireless communication experts said the system would be particularly useful not only for following the whereabouts of individuals but also in detecting any unusual gathering of a large number of people.
Documentary on the Kogi: From the Heart of the World
These guys are basically legendary as the coolest tribe ever (also known as the Elder Brothers), and I have been trying to find thiis legendary doco for a while.
How old “old” is depends on where you live.
How bad is bottled water? (link is to giant awesome infographic)
Plus two factoids from Twitter
via @alexsteffen “The world’s most typical person is a 28-year-old Chinese man, makes less than $12,000 a year, has a cell phone but not a bank account.”
via @brainsturbator”There is more information currently classified by the United States than exists in the Library of Congress. Go play outside.”
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