@rapella Sounds like a Londoner "tackling" Brighton's inferiority complex and winding up 2 rungs down with an even worse complex of his own Rolled up paper things http://t.co/YqnkixL6? @drgrist Nope, but then there isn't really a word for upwards evolution either. There's a word for downwards... based on a misunderstanding Fish and chips for tea. Probably... The path of least-resistance. Apart from Pizza deliveries. Maybe pizza would be better. Pizza it is. @helacious that's one of the reasons tracing old occult books is so difficult apparently. They cite fictional sources. @helacious Back in the day, "originality" was thought to be a stamp of anti-credibility, so authors would invent sources "who they copied" On TVNZ3 at the mo, is @JohnJCampbell , who is the only person in the whole TVNZ broadcast menagerie to stand up for The Internet.. aka: us. That was a joke btw. FEED THE BABY!!!! Doh!!! I can't actually remember what any of my new year's resolutions were. @leashless this http://t.co/mCTl8TI6 it's so dysfunctional to the medium it's insane. @leashless I think Sky's hilarious new twitter policy is a classic eg of "morally de-synched orgs can't win in a networked environment" idea Leaked EU Documents - plans for post #ACTA insanity http://t.co/StSFu4sv @stilgherrian Ditto, 12.10 Bloke Self-Bullies so people will like him http://t.co/TyqwrloN looks that way to me anyway. @FilmFan1971 What's a Muppet? Hey, @johnkeypm (cc @JohnJCampbell ) The Romanian PM admits he has no idea why he signed #ACTA http://t.co/g05DgC12 Any idea why you did? A potentially serious kick back at trolling "Intellectual Property" extortionists https://t.co/VgoNrf89 Porn may not be copyrightable. @russtik I just got a motorola droid razr - pretty good. And open, unlike anything to do with Apple. Zooey's TV vehicle is on. She's a composite of every imaginary girlfriend I ever had, with the combined annoying traits of all the real ones @JohnJCampbell This guy is talking crap - it was American Style militarized-police theatre, at the behest of the US. Happened to Canada too @JohnJCampbell : the lone voice On The Side Of The Internet... actually asking Qs about the weird theatre of the http://t.co/YCXUyDne arrest Just click anything, sooner or later something will work - it's like the infinite monkeys thing, but with fewer monkeys. The New Zealand TV Weather people have all suddenly started talking to the places they're forecasting for as though they're people. Why? Hmmm... if the Queen's hat had a yellow pom pom, it would be quite similar to an Eric Cartman hat. @stevenljoyce @johnkeypm Really? Doesn't the data show that the best way of improving employment has always been to get rid of National? @normnz Yea - I only use it these days for Video Editing... and checking to see if websites work with windows. @normnz Hmmm... ok. I can feel the distant sound of greatness being thrust upon me. It's a bit trepidatory is upgrading an OS @normnz so what normally happens when you upgrade ubuntu then? Does it force you to reinstall all your apps and wreck your dual-boot? @JohnJCampbell File-sharing is basically radio but instead of paying $100,000 payola to get a Britney single played,you just need to be good @JohnJCampbell Indeed - especially as such disparate radicals as The Swiss Govt and Neil Young say that file-sharing encourages sales. That last link being an effective occupy event targeting Monsanto http://t.co/t9dssVYF Where to next for occupy? Treat corporations as being made up of reasonable individuals rather than evil monoliths http://t.co/t9dssVYF @halseymike That's cool - might be a better convo to have via email... which is on http://t.co/iJDMz4sR Ah "Most Expensive; Worst Value" http://t.co/805SOM37 Where have I heard that before? Oh yea. "Failures of Privatisation" (via @vallie) Nine-year-old suspended for Michael Jackson's crotch grab dance move http://t.co/eDiDVdZi It's not what Michael would have wanted. In Avatar, the helicopters don't have bow-and-arrow proof windows. @ChinaDailyUSA If you want people to think China's human rights record is acceptable, try making it acceptable - rather than smearing NGOs. @x_chemicalism_x yea, that would have been funny. @x_chemicalism_x Yup Arse. I need glasses. Avatar may have been a white-messiah movie, but they sure did understand Sci Fi. Loads of transparent surfaces and blue light basically. Whatever happened to Avatards? I've never experienced an "ass-kicking". People I annoy go for the face... EVERY TIME. @JohnJCampbell On behalf of the whole internet, I'd like to thank you for asking why http://t.co/lqkdW2zC's arrest required Helicopters etc Madonna is on TV. I have been passionately un-interested in Madonna for over 30 years now. Which MPs exactly? http://t.co/dPCDS6WL we need to start making black-lists of anti-internet politicians... and render them unelectable. @ReubenMetcalfe Exactly... frightened authoritarians wanting to ban the typewriter. Politicians scared of the internet, want to "clamp down" http://t.co/dPCDS6WL <Terrorists aren't as dangerous as politicians "clamping down" @KevinCarson1 Well no, a lot of regulation seems mainly to be about keeping small players out of the market. Need a tiered system. Today twitter is a disorienting mixture of fighting and playing games. It's circusy, and not in a good way. We also saw this crafty bird http://t.co/DFobLj1z Anyway, we went up to the lake earlier, and saw these turtles http://t.co/1iWU58Yz http://t.co/ZkZTXBfE Proper wild ones etc. Catsby The Terrible http://t.co/Mhd9gHP5 I know it might not amount to a whole hill of beans... but this is our hill. And these are our beans. @SaraMSalem Should probably be watched in conjunction with this http://t.co/YfVaNw14 which is about the moral framing used in propaganda @SaraMSalem I think his "hold an olive-branch out to conservatives" fails to recognise the profoundly-maladaptive nature of conservitism tho @SaraMSalem The same moral structures underpin all conservatism. Jonathan Haidt did a Ted vid about it. http://t.co/Jl73MNM4 @SaraMSalem They seem to be becoming more amazing by the day.. or maybe there was just a phase in the 70s, where they pretended to be normal @SaraMSalem Oh right - yea. I think he was alluding to "people pretending they were raped". Probably so they can get abortions. @SaraMSalem No... I was slightly worried about it myself. Making jokes about things that aren't the least bit funny etc. Aye well. @SaraMSalem it's still frowned upon in polite circles mind. @SaraMSalem I imagine "honest rape" is where the rapist actually fancies the victim, and isn't just going through with it to be polite. @onetruecathal @leashless it's a kindof Newtonian approach to data as well... I think with AIs the relationships define the objects. Eeek. @onetruecathal @leashless Not saying it's not important, just that it's adjectivy,so ought to live in a layer above the objects it refers to @onetruecathal @leashless Maybe not... I think link and blacklist are meta-layer @monki These ones http://t.co/onmlQYtz District 9 is on. Excellent. It has quite unusual pacing - there's something quite scatty and hyper about it. @monki For the audio thing? Fraid not. It's something I'd be interested in buying etc. I'm not fluent enough with electronics to make one. @leashless Can't be that complicated surely. Something that turns square-waves to sines (like a tube), and a subtle frequency multiplier @halseymike Orrite - yea, kindof... gradually morphing into a cottage industrialist, but web-devvery still fills the odd gap etc. Slovakian Gorilla Protests http://t.co/gTlVICdF < because anywhere in the whole wide world, privatisation=corruption. Does anyone know if there's a thing like a harmonics-multiplier, or exciter etc,that can make digital music sound analogue? Prob tube-driven Harry Potter and the Goblin of Fire is on. Only seen it about five hundred and fifty five thousand times. @kathrynborel You might want to try googling it first. @kathrynborel Ok. Won't be there then. Has it somehow "got into the tv" itself? Can you see it on the screen anywhere? @kathrynborel Is it in the fridge? Found out today that the height-gauge in a header-tank is called a "ball-cock". Who's idea was it to call it that? They were taking the piss @kathrynborel Is it under a cushion? Recently I've been watching documentaries about the lead up to Nazism. It was all black and white in those days. That's the main difference @TVNZnews... so have you ever worked out what % of your program is actually news? I'd put it at about 10%. What do you think? Lapdoggery http://t.co/tAr2ZPKo This will be the same in NZ... hence anti-internet laws passed under "emergency earthquake legislation". Basically because I'm dual-booting windows... if I upgrade and it fucks the dual-boot, then it'll take about a week to recover. Looking to upgrade Ubuntu... but all I can find online are forums filled with nightmare stories of the actual, absolute, exact type I hate. @BR3NDA Do you know who the New Zealand person is that we need to ask for an apology? I'll ring them up next week. He did afterall run on "change you can believe in"... but delivered "similarity that defies credulity" / we know that Obama would not only NOT roll back the bush insanity, but (wherever possible) would extend it. Meet the new boss etc. Couldn't help but feel Obama got a Nobel prize simply for "not being George Bush", who was a chronic headache for the world... little did / I'm just sort of sat here at the mo, waiting for the future to happen. Maybe I should put some shoes on. Or like... trousers, or whatever. @thejoeturner Why can't you just get a mokka wokka chokka latte, like any normal human being? @TVNZnews in corporate-lacky mode... quoting Neil Young's "digital music sounds bad" but studiously avoiding "Piracy is the new Radio" @x_chemicalism_x I gave the jewelery tutor guy some of my golden-mean calipers. Never met him before. That counts as stranger. Anyway, I've just done a jewelery making course and now I know how to make things I never knew how to make before. I've grown as a person. Catsby caught a fantail earlier, which we manage to confiscate/liberate, and now it's twirling about in the tree outside, taking the piss. Right Wingers are thick http://t.co/oBNvwP38 so sayeth right-wing rag, the daily mail. @GieslaAnne best of luck :) @GieslaAnne ok... last hint... if you get rid of "http://collageyourstory.com" from the src url it works, eg: http://t.co/6hb6IhZ6 @GieslaAnne Hang on... nope. That's a red herring. 9am here... I need to go out for about 5 hours. I can fix it when I get back etc. @GieslaAnne http://t.co/wfDBmCXU resolves. http://t.co/sp1zNZZp doesn't @GieslaAnne Not sure how much help this is, but I think it's objecting to the sizing parameters at the end of the url... eg: @GieslaAnne if you dm me links to where the prob is, I can give it a look. See http://t.co/gxeH1SoI it's a universal language Speaking of which, Russian Chav Party http://t.co/3MFEwk1W Parts of Scotland are like that. @ataraxite MegaParty http://t.co/WIHloIFE Hula Hoop Video http://t.co/VEmGFQN7! What goes along, comes along. Eventually. @x_chemicalism_x I wasn't sure about Kill Bill. Largely on account of having a soft-spot for Daryll Hannah. They treated her unkind. The courier font. That is all. http://t.co/7bmp8ng2 @hattie_watson It kindof gives you perspective to see yourself from the outside... and it's ok. Being quiet I mean. @hattie_watson Do a load of drama-classes... so then it feels like you're playing a "quiet" part... which you are, but at least you'll know @larspind mine's for lost-wax molding. Unfortunately I used some sort of sealing wax that you need a blast-furnace to melt. Hmm... On my todo list it says "start a small fire". I wonder how that got there. When Numpties Attack! The Real News Network are after a Salesforce expert http://t.co/50sipFHe @davidcushman @manmademoon Maybe. I think that's one response to a set of environmental conditions that most people don't face @ManMadeMoon The Autonomous Equi-Potent cells are the future. This is what we need to build, in part to counter the tendency to dictatorship @ManMadeMoon Secondly, a distributed-network response... I'm not sure if there's a name for it yet. Sets of autonomous equi-potent cells. @ManMadeMoon Firstly a republic-era Rome style temporary dictatorship. The dangers of that one are worse than most emergencies though Is it me, or are the feds acting as though SOPA passed? http://t.co/wWy7OLvf xylophones http://t.co/I52KlXYv @punkscience eg: the dif' between "stopping teenagers having sex" and "reducing teenage pregnancy" is profound. Same goes for every issue @punkscience Conservative morality is profoundly mal-adaptive, but it's still morality, and it will shape the experiments/evidence sought. @punkscience Semantics will do that for you. Haidt here: http://t.co/Jl73MNM4 Lakoff here: http://t.co/YfVaNw14 @punkscience Oh yea. That. Utopia. Good luck with that - it has been tried though... by people expressing "values" @punkscience Again, not the point. The relative merits of values are not in question. The point is they still underpin evidence based policy @punkscience check George Lakoff and Jonathon Haidt... what you are expressing is liberal/progressive values. @punkscience Yea, sorry - those ARE values. They are obviously, unequivocally values. @punkscience if you start with conservative morality, you'll still have shite laws, even with an evidence based system. @punkscience That's not the point. The point is that evidence-based systems are still predicated on values. "The desired outcome" @punkscience @GarethMP Evidence-based is best because it focuses on outcomes rather than ideology, but "what people want" is values-based @punkscience @GarethMP : So... what you choose to measure... your criteria for success, are all deeply founded on values. @punkscience @GarethMP The greens value the environment for its own sake - and choose the long-view re: $ @punkscience @GarethMP Labour - similar, but will put jobs first, and will put a greater value on the environment. Jobs come first though. @punkscience @GarethMP they'll pretend to also be interested in "jobs", but will do deals attacking labour-rights (like the already have) @punkscience @GarethMP well there you go. Values. National value only money. The environment only figures for tourist $ or NZ's brand. As thanks for that,here's this http://t.co/Y9UdEDiI every inch a national treasure. Makes me think of anzacs + 2nd verse, gale of goosebumps @neilmullanefinn And you Sir, in a weirdly disorienting sort of way, have soared in my estimation. @TVNZnews still milking the Chch earthquake. They've run at least one story every night for about 1.5 years now. It always hits a bum note with me when people go on about "Sweden's underlying social malaise"... based on its fiction, rather than data. I'm very very very VERY very very VERY VERY VERY very VERY very very VERY VERY VERY busy at the moment. Leave me alone etc. @Gary_Bainbridge You could use "auto-tune", or failing that, an auto-tuner. Cool. You run install Win95 on Android http://t.co/PkT4GxJM #waaaaaaytoomuchtimeontheirhands I never really saw what was wrong with being an escape goat tbh The Queen is on TV, wearing a mad yellow hat. The US democratic system is now kindof like the cold-war USSR system, but a fuck of a lot more embarrassing. @TVNZnews still milking the Chch earthquake. They should have just made a whole new program. Or renamed "The News" to something else. Turns out the kickstarter microcopter I breathelessly blogged about last week was in fact bollocks.. Nicked from this http://t.co/UnWEw3Nl Bank loan questionnaire: "what are the greatest threats to your business?". Answer #1: NZ signing "IP" "protecting" trade-deals with the US One of my legs seems to be a lot more hyper than the other one. It's an enthusiasm-imbalance. I get a lot of that sort of thing. Really, the patent system should be abolished because it violates the spirit of anti-trust law. Patents are to corporations what pine-needles are to pine-trees - their purpose is to poison anything smaller, trying to grow. @macengr @johnrobb @KevinCarson1 the plug was pulled (by kickstarter) on that one several days prior to that article. If we had this in NZ, we wouldn't have had the 3-strikes anti-internet bill, passed as emergency earthquake legislation http://t.co/QLDcPAxY Dog Art http://t.co/tQjFx86n Kucinich etc - why people in Cleveland love him http://t.co/scxaa6yI Carbon trading appearing to work http://t.co/4kCt3tXQ @x_chemicalism_x Wasn't she in The Village? I think she's ok as it happens... but then I don't watch any teen fliks This quite cool. Captain Morgan and his Hammond Organ is in it http://t.co/A5JL8zSt @dvice I think when you start finding yourself "adoring" boxes, you've taken a wrong turning somewhere. @punkscience @garethmp but let's do an eg. Someone wants to mine in the Coromandel. How would you proceed given an evidence based structure? @punkscience @garethmp long story short, you prob can't define an outcome outside a metaphorical (and therefore moral) framework @punkscience @garethmp Somewhere between J Haidt's analysis of liberal/Con morality http://t.co/Jl73MNM4 and Lakoff: http://t.co/YfVaNw14 @punkscience @garethmp evidence based policy shifts focus from "why" to "what"... and so too, values. @punkscience @garethmp or copyright. do you want to "reduce piracy" or "maximise the amount of works being created"? @punkscience @garethmp eg: "war on drugs" do you want to "reduce drug taking" or "reduce the harm done by drug taking"? @punkscience @garethmp The first sentence does make sense actually. Think about it. How do you measure criteria for success? Famous people as kids http://t.co/N7ZaOXT8 In a strange bed, with sheets so tight that my feet have to point straight down like ballerina toes. I'm 47 years old. It's undignified. @punkscience @garethmp In an evidence-based system, the values lie in the desired outcomes. For some people, wealth-polarisation is "good" Still... I think we need to show who's boss etc. Or at least try to. Ok - that's my twitter boycott over. Not that I'm entirely sure that they're in the wrong over this - or that it matters. OK - 8am UK time. No tweets for the next 24 hours in protest of censorship. #censorship #twitter Looks like the "nobody buys anything in January" period is officially at an end. A thing on web-design written by someone (moi) in no way qualified to write about web-design http://t.co/KbCgjD0Z ☼ @jordantcarter ♩♪ I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie wo-or-orld... ♫♬ etc @neilmullanefinn The opposite of consensus is consensuslessness Twitter - no-tweet protest day is Jan 28th... I'm timing mine to be the same as GMT. @withheld_in_UK well here's the link http://t.co/Sprp2RXh - let me know how/if you manage to get people to migrate. @withheld_in_UK but I think it's a red-herring. Twitter can't censor us. What we should be concerned about is twitter getting sued @withheld_in_UK nope... but twitter's take on this is that there will be less blocking going on than there was before. @withheld_in_UK Last time I was in Dubai, I was blocked completely. Now? My (banned) tweets would get out, just not be visible in Dubai @withheld_in_UK now you might get sued... even twitter might... but the efficacy of their imagined powers of censorship is pretty limited @withheld_in_UK Yea, but we've seen what happens to that in the past - the whole internet goes into Spartacus mode. @withheld_in_UK with a serious message, that I have doubts about: How hard it is to get twitter to censor you. How easy it is to bypass @withheld_in_UK Yea, but that's not twitter doing that. That's you pretending to be censored. Not really the same thing is it. @withheld_in_UK just as an experiment, see how hard it is to actually be censored by twitter... then see how easy it is to bypass. @withheld_in_UK So is that twitter doing that, or is that you? Pretending you're being censored? @withheld_in_UK Have you tried? @leashless information (and therefore communication) is very subtle and leaky stuff. Censoring a web isn't like censoring broadcast media. @leashless I just keep think of prisoners tapping on pipes. The guards own the pipes, but the communication flows regardless. @leashless + what actuality happens when they actually try it - politically, remains to be seen. One thing for sure, it'll create a stink @leashless They're trying. But the Twitter thing? The actual details of that aren't as bad as people are making out. @leashless I'm not so sure. It's a communication medium with a certain set of characteristics. The root isn't ours, but it's still v useful @Cunthorse Ah - a twonklet or a prannet - a clay-brained wagtail. Guffbeak is better though. I'll have to start using that. @Cunthorse So um... what's a guffbeak? @leashless I'm not convinced that's how it's going to go though. Basically because everyone is talking to each other. A lot. @leashless You seen a movie called Gomorrah? http://t.co/W0Jdgkwp kindof already-there ballardian vision of the future. @leashless Right now, the network medium is begetting centralised structures... but their "centralised" behavior, is forcing us towards P2P @leashless I'm not so sure about that. The problem with communism was totalitarianism... hierarchy. With this, our medium is P2P networks @leashless Must have a look at that. I was playing with this http://t.co/bOvd2gI5 the other day - fairly simple once you "get" the basics @leashless http://t.co/Sprp2RXh twitter alternative - these things do exist, but getting people to migrate en-mass is difficult. At last! Glow in the dark crowbars http://t.co/wR5RKHzB @PhilipBloom Box sets are good - I watched the 4? seasons of battleship galactica during the appendix incident. Here be dragons http://t.co/ehjgQo24 @PhilipBloom In this as with all else, an innovator : http://t.co/4eerIHI4 : See you in NZ @PhilipBloom I think that's the most egregious breach of the "their, there, they're" trichotomy I've ever seen. @jordantcarter I don't think they do actually- they have computers, but none of them are networked. Seem to recall the dude saying last time Everyone knows we have this wrong. Why no change? Facebook asks journalists to sign no-journalism pact at news conference: http://t.co/JlETphzZ RT @journochat @vallie @RichardJMurphy Now there's a question. Or more accurately THE Question. Everyone on the planet is asking it, for reasons-various. I just bought my first ever thing with bitcoins http://t.co/MQikVRXK Twitter censoring by country as required (rather than globally ?) http://t.co/IGCROgEJ Open twitter alternative > http://t.co/Sprp2RXh Nick Smith. He always looks a bit pissed doesn't he? Who the fuck voted for him? @punkscience I've also given up drinking and losing my keys. It's 4.58 on a Friday afternoon in NZ. Everyone who has a proper grown-up's job is only pretending to work. @punkscience Really? I'll give that a go as well... although that would mean... you know... "exercising", which I generally try to avoid If you want something crowd-sourced properly, you have to crowd-source it yourself. So... GOP Debate? From an outsider's perspective it looks like a crank-pot clown-show in which corporations decide who will run the US God I wish more attractive young women obsessed with "brands" would start following me. Have just learned how to use my phone as a pedometer. New Phone = Intensive learning-curve catching up with the 21st C Good for him, but (born-again) benevolent feudalists are not an adequate justification for feudalism http://t.co/R0acnWV2 Update on kickstarter rantette the other day. They've cancelled the copter project without telling anyone why http://t.co/CeiOz5el Can't help but feel there's an architectura/engineering principle here that could be used somewhere else http://t.co/BF8FJcHh @SkinBintin @SuicideGirls I'd recommend some sort of interpretive dance piece. @Bill_Gross Android phones activated per day 750,000 - so I'm guessing the answer to that is a resounding "no". Stop Internet #Censorship! Sign the urgent global petition @Avaaz urging the EU Parliament to reject #ACTA: http://t.co/QD6unYMa @freitasm Far out - I thought NZ was #1 @thatjohn @mikko They didn't make that much money http://t.co/jGoc040f Whole company making about the same as a single Big Content Exec? @GeorgeMonbiot Yus - well I think I'd suspend judgment until I heard his side of the story... because you were totally wrong last time. @bookhling written by Nick Cave, so is a gothic, hillbilly, gospel type thing. Thematically linked to this I suspect http://t.co/1dOyADvZ @bookhling The Ass Saw The Angel is worth a look, if you haven't read it already. Bet you didn't know you could do this http://t.co/bi6MWqEX it only works if you listen to crazy-making music though. 3D Printed Acrylic Composite Furniture http://t.co/Nj1eXYmY @fundypost so now go back to that link I sent you, and try to think about your: "People like", and how easily you've been manipulated. @fundypost Yup, and he was especially chosen from dozens of others, because he was an easy propaganda target. Don't like #SOPA & #PIPA? Then you're gonna hate #ACTA. Sign&Share the @accessnow petition http://t.co/NSRP7V69 Patch the #DMCA! Join @EFF & @bunniestudios in telling the Copyright Office that jailbreaking is not a crime https://t.co/uszcLy9i @fundypost before we move on to the "People Like" bit,and how easily you've been sucked in by the theatre of the http://t.co/YCXUyDne attack @fundypost Well let's be clear about what "pirates" really make first shall we? http://t.co/jGoc040f @Cunthorse There there. Hug etc. Crowd-Sourced Micro-Floor-Atlases. Atli. Whatever http://t.co/M6QhyviE Um... this isn't counter-terrorism, this IS terrorism http://t.co/jb7dbcCn Battleship Galactica is on. It's about people having really serious issues with each other. In space. Maybe I should be nicer to lettuce. Friends is on. It's shit. @KevinCarson1 from the POV of the vast majority of individual artists, it remains the same: A gift economy, or working for tips. @KevinCarson1 Um... don't think so. It's still capitalism, it just reflects radically reduced costs, and the ability to eliminate middlemen. Indications are, that there will be pizza for tea. Bambi Handful http://t.co/ymv1OU88 "Copyright Colony" - yup, that sums it up pretty well I think. Kickstarter from a light-weight investor's POV. A mixture of gushing praise, and bitter complaining http://t.co/CeiOz5el @drgrist because (I think) that will make us talk about desired outcomes rather than ideologies. @drgrist But TBH, the conservative/liberal wedge is not worth pouring energy into. We need to transcend it and focus on being evidence-based From a UK perspective, here's a potted history on Conservative Instincts http://t.co/JaHy1Jpw @drgrist where ever you see a step forward in human morality, progress, human-rights etc etc... conservatives opposed it. @drgrist But I do draw such conclusions. Conservatives are idiots. Their core moralities are maladaptive & their instincts are usually wrong @FilmFan1971 Yea, exactly. From now on if there's a choice between 3D and 2D, I'm choosing 2D. Jefferson, I think we're lost http://t.co/c5Ex7wDw @onetruecathal I had to delete myself from Reddit on account of getting into endless arguments with conservative American teenagers. @Cunthorse I expect it's just another abominable attack on the English language. Bill Dance, The Fishing Guy http://t.co/u4Ya2kkF Sign today to tell George Osborne @hmtreasury (and @Number10gov): no #RBS bonuses! RT #economy http://t.co/XlR6TU1q Rosa http://t.co/bJrSQUGi Micro-Dragon http://t.co/f4jlade7 (still more) amazing origami http://t.co/g9Y0hwHQ Chin exerciser http://t.co/nWzQOOih Radical common sense etc https://t.co/CCEcNy7Q Well that's going to fuck his detractors up :) http://t.co/16hwec7s good on him. I just supported this on kickstarter http://t.co/L7U5cVsV Well I guess if it's an idea who's time has come, then it'll be unstoppable https://t.co/JNAL6pxt < #megaupload @stilgherrian I think that's regarded as "Force Majeure"... or an act of God, depending on jurisdiction etc. Maybe they were attempting to touch his junk? http://t.co/jTpS4hiV Although to be fair, the minister being "grilled" did come across as being a lot more reasonable than the interviewer wanted her to be. The purpose of "The Food Bill" is to price everyone except rich corporations out of the food-chain. Is John Campbell trying to be Glen Beck all of a sudden? @CitizenBomber Yea, that's because the megaupload... um... "attack" was actually theatre. And if you look at US politicians, sure enough,that's what they tend to be. And yet people seem to vote as though "conservative" is a virtue I mean EVERYWHERE outside the US, "Conservative" means, "narrow-minded, authoritarian, disciplinarian, humourless, hierarchical, wanker" I've never gotten used to American politicians trying to compete on who's the most conservative. It's like a race to see who's stupidest. @bjkraal @leashless unfortunately, the MPAA/RIAA are mates with the Romans, and Constantine is not yet a twinkle in anyone's eye. @bjkraal @leashless Well no, the MPAA/RIAA are trying to sell loaves/fishes to Jesus-Disciples, who are also bakers/fishermen themselves. @bjkraal @leashless the basic process of info-transfer is duplication. Abundance is built into its structure. It's a loaves/fishes thing @bjkraal @leashless Cobblers. Information doesn't kill people, people trying to monopolize information for $/power kill people. I've just received some spam for a retractable garden hose. For the first 10 years it's people selling penis-extensions and now.. this? wtf? @toddtate Th' th' that's a... Kitteh? @hattie_watson Yea, exactly. I'm so tough I wear my clothes out from the inside. Ah - here's one small front on how to go on the offensive - US only alas, https://t.co/9DCAv04T @Siouxfire Qabala as reality-map as waffled about by Crowely is quite interesting. I suspect the modern culty thing is arch-bollocks tho @BR3NDA < gives hug etc. Something to go on the offensive with, http://t.co/kGALaZ6P although how, is a little less clear. Minority Report is on - set in a future so monochrome, that nobody needs to wear shades. @punkscience 1/6th of the population getting their voting information from a hierarchy of suits, who are beholden to advertisers = bad. @punkscience I haven't come close to figuring it out yet. The broadcast model is a dangerous anachronism though. Needs to be dealt with. @punkscience Yea, but 650,000 NZers watch TVNZnews every night. I'm guessing they're plonked there, having their tea. It's not for infovores Pro Nuke Shills... Are you listening? Child Leukemia rates double near French Nuke Plants http://t.co/PLjjRe2S @punkscience I'd really like to find away of creating a web-based alternative to TV news - for like... normal people. By them as well. There's a program about Australians on TV. I lke Australians. @GarethMP Well if you need me, you know where I am. Not sure what I'll do mind. I'm a web guru. Sort of. And a gobshite. Grass.... thongs. Or whatever you people call them http://t.co/QPNeJTqB @GarethMP I think we'd have to have some public outrage first wouldn't we? TVNZ is showing a program glorifying the failed war on drugs... doing what it does best, which is fail, waste resources and ruin lives. @wordroot @Cunthorse sorry - that last tweet was a little abrasive of me. I went all shouty etc. Have now settled down. @wordroot @Cunthorse apart from like... "not do any research"? @wordroot @Cunthorse The CIA, the London Met police, AT&T, Stratfor, The MPAA, RIAA, BPI, ACS Law etc etc. What have you done? @wordroot @Cunthorse Anonymous have taken on The Syrian Govt, Visa, Paypal, German far-right groups, Scientology, SOPA,ACTA, BART, News Corp @SenatorSanders Well yes, but what is really needed is to make corporate-bribery of politicians an imprisonable offence. I've drunk too much coffee now. Shittlesticks. @SkinBintin ie: make our own TV news. @SkinBintin in the meantime, I think a kill-all-birds-with-one-stone thing will be to use the web to displace broadcast news - for normals. @SkinBintin Well there's thems (1) that don't know, and (2) thems that do, and are lying. We need to increase 1 so 2 becomes embarrassing @SkinBintin or maybe our energy will simply prevail. Maybe we have all the momentum, and there's no point fighting - on our side or theirs @SkinBintin IMHO I think we should single out a corporation (or a politician) and by whatever means, completely destroy it. A warning shot @SkinBintin The most effective way of doing that is wrapping it up in a secret international trade-agreement, like #ACTA @SkinBintin It's not dead forever - and there will be more threatening acronyms to come, but you can probably change your avatar, yes. There's a movie director named "Oxide". Cool http://t.co/6En4no7I @coldhardtruth and/or (and this will be the one that happens) speed up the web swallowing broadcast model television. Give it 10 years @coldhardtruth That'd be the war on drugs. Fairly simple. Simple to fix as well. Just need to get rid of all corporate-funded politicians I don't have a problem with talking animals per se, but when they're mixed with (real) talking humans, then things become disturbing. @stilgherrian LOL - is that like... "A SANDwich"? Get it? Get it? Did you hear what I said everyone, I said "like a sandwhich", LOL I'm supposed to go to a barbie this evening, but I'm only going to go for 10 minutes because I feel like a crumb and nobody likes me. Beavis and Butthead http://t.co/wcOhgXjf Brian Blessed etc http://t.co/QAO7yJkP Storm over Africa http://t.co/bUvejd3A < though I like the space in the background. That's where I belong. Space. It's a 70s thing. Big mirror - the numbers behind this are fairly staggering http://t.co/M3aBK6R9 eg: polished for 7 years. @punkscience Or they're being misled about their economic interests. My computer-free day is not (so far) going terribly well. Yea, it's entirely possible that The Web eating Television by dilute the clout of corporate $ in politics https://t.co/KZzY8tV1 US Petition to get corporate money out of politics, care of Dennis Kucinich http://t.co/0UBcWG1I Japanese people appearing out of the floor http://t.co/msyDNZPZ @corinthino Shit Happens? That's the thing about old churches - the whole room is basically one big instrument. They're designed for sound. Joke aside, this has an amazing tone http://t.co/Y9AeVyVI Today I sold my first thing via Amazon. Unsure as to whether this represents progress, although god-knows, I could do with the cash. @bobbyllew I'm guessing that you can probably generate a better income engaging with fans directly than what you made from copy-royalties @leashless Far out. Word http://t.co/Hp3SuZCH I totally can't wait for the new season of The Thick of It @x_chemicalism_x Brilliant. Warehouse Scraps are the best. Woohoo!!! Parcel from @ponoko Still vintage cars all over my town. Cool. I like vintage cars. In the future, all cars will be vintage cars. Day 3: Still haven't got it together to switch on new cellphone. It's daunting. Still. Quite funny. I tweeted "I'm ready to kick off", then promptly fell asleep. Bit drunk earlier. Quite out of character. Am now hungover. Lesson learned. I'm ready to kick off I've got the girls in the truck, bout 6 chicks deep http://t.co/mSJWgQsB This http://t.co/umDUbLvP @videojon The lovely video jon... this is the seminal 80s Aus video http://t.co/umDUbLvP cargo-cult rock @leashless You ready to kick off? The ABC of cool http://t.co/bthKKiCy This has changed my life http://t.co/LpWDbnR1 @GeorgeMonbiot Yea. As a freelancer/micro-biz, I can't employ anything except another freelancer microbiz because of the red tape etc. @andybudd you ever worry your professional persona has displaced you actual personality? @MissHighTech http://t.co/ibTp6zTK I'm very very very drunk. We saw that Parsnips earlier. My last girlfriend. She's a lesbian now. An utter and complete lesbian. Jesus. I miss Constantine. I wish there were more movies like that. If I was going to make a sequel, I'd call it "Constantine 2", or "Constantines" Megaupload still here? http://109.236.83.66 registered in Holland. Could be anyone. Pizza for tea. I'm almost tearful with relief. I want to see more of this guy http://t.co/kl4oOscX great story teller. Must figure out how he does it. Black March http://t.co/oBRIC6yC @SkinBintin @angusbhodgson the fundamental question is wrong. The idea that "piracy is a problem",when actually it's "IP" that's the problem @SkinBintin @angusbhodgson That was the depressing thing etc. The slavish, frightened eagerness to be seen to accept the corporate framing. @SkinBintin @angusbhodgson Maybe. David Parker was the only one who questioned the need for "more copyright". Not even the Greens did that @nobledesign Haven't quite figured out how they managed to do that. @SkinBintin I mean there was nothing in the debates to indicated anyone from National had the faintest idea what was going on. @SkinBintin I'm not so sure about that. I think they just don't know what's going on, and are falling back on "listening to people in suits" Day 2: Still haven't summoned up the courage to turn on my new phone. It's sitting there, opaquely. Like the monolith off 2001, but smaller @SkinBintin The servers were in the US and holland I think - and the owners were not necessarily downloading themselves. Too hot. Sitting here like a doomed dumpling of apathy and a haircut like Jack White, that's just kindof climbed onto my head and died there @vallie Snap :) Apple: Mind-bogglingly greedy and evil http://t.co/daUOYRIP < don't say you weren't warned. Calm http://t.co/0vuqhNm0 @IsakGerson the closest I've seen is Avaaz - who can raise millions of signatures... but although it's big, that's a really weak lever @IsakGerson Yea, I saw that (I read the whole internet, me:)) - there's scope for mass-scale unionisation, but I don't know of a focus. @IsakGerson I think we should go beyond web DDOS and DDOS their phone systems as well (for eg:). Occupy protests are DDOS with living people @fundypost @PolarBearFarm Here you go : watch this : http://t.co/jsE6gTpV , and then contemplate "being careful what you wish for" @fundypost @PolarBearFarm but hey "It's not me" right? You (dear boy) embed pirated videos on your blog. Ask not for whom the bell tolls @fundypost @PolarBearFarm That's it isn't it - you want to make an example of someone high-profile. @fundypost @PolarBearFarm Why Pirate Bay? They're not even the biggest file-sharing site any more are they? Or do you want a scapegoat? @PolarBearFarm @fundypost It also involved shutting down an entire site without due-process... who next? Twitter? Google? You? @PolarBearFarm @fundypost The "illegal activity" involving anachronistic, ridiculous laws and ultimately dangerous laws. USA slipping further into fascism. Contemplating laws enabling the stripping of citizenship, without due-process http://t.co/nzniq69g Back-story of that last RT: It was my UK Green Party MP delivering sound economic policy. Greens are better on economics than Tories @io9 It wasn't "smashing into the sun", it was going home. New Zealanders arrested in New Zealand at the behest of the now, quite fascist US state http://t.co/gn7T93QG @HeatherNaya Erm... if SOPA passes then Twitter/Youtube/Tumblr will become hosts to illegality, so face shutdown too. @x_chemicalism_x it's 2am - get some kip. Things will be different tomorrow. @x_chemicalism_x Souls are reborn with each new moon. Fear not. @robshepherd / seemed to stay powerful regardless - usually single generation bounce-backs. @robshepherd Used to be all the rage at one point. Happened to various forbears - usually a type of land-grab, but powerful families/ @robshepherd attainder IFPI claims success: after French govt spent 25M on payment cards, music revenues up... 13M http://t.co/l6BviyeY < corporate bailouts FTW @joshr I'm simultaneously trying, and trying not... to picture the sort of meeting where you're back to back and need extra socks. Preferably a VPN because then your traffic is encrypted and corporate/govt spies can fuck off. Finnish and Dutch govts block http://t.co/P64v3dIF - no worries, just copy 194.71.107.15 into your address bar, or use a VPN service. Famous photos, which you didn't know were black and white in the first place, colourified http://t.co/c2L420EY reminiscent of Technicolor Why can't I just get a smartphone shaped thing that runs ubuntu, that has a program that can make phone calls. Like... skype or something. I have a cellphone that I'm too scared to turn on in. It might be smarter than me. I've never had a smartphone before. It's unsettling. Yes, this http://t.co/v2WidUVS thanks to whoever it came from. @helacious The "hole" is basically pancake mix, which is cooked so it has a crispy, salty surface. So eggs are kindof involved, yes. TVNZ shows "Border Patrol" every night of the week. Um why? I mean I get that you really really really like it, but... why? God I feel neurotic. Maybe I should drink loads of coffee. Facebook now has so much JS running, that when I type a letter, it takes several seconds to appear - like an 1980s thin-client terminal Micro-Rockets http://t.co/pA6irR0Y @tomcoady we're not only talking to congress, we're talking to everyone. @tomcoady The US is more than the people who are currently running it. Guitar Players http://t.co/S6CAZzxN Stop Internet #Censorship-Sign the @Avaaz petition urging Congress to reject #SOPA #PIPA bills #FactswithoutWikipedia http://t.co/vXH3ZBxh It's not enough to beat #SOPA , we need to get rid of the people, and the corporations behind it. Clay Shirky on SOPA http://t.co/rBvSTEzo @Jemima_Khan Interesting theory. Drug addiction is similar - "growth" stops, and doesn't start again until the addiction is cleared. Health and Safety Violation Art http://t.co/ZrV8DmIV The Japanese don't have a word for "Thank You". "Arigato" comes from "Obrigado" - learned from 17th C Portuguese sailors #ministryoftruth I support #wikipediablackout! Show your support here http://t.co/gYXltGlX @edwardvirtually and you don't have to empty the vacuum cleaner bag. @edwardvirtually Yea, but my method uses less electricity. Toad in the Hole for tea. Whoever invented Toad in the Hole is a misunderstood genius. Not good at names though. @edwardvirtually Yea - if they're hovering in front of your nose, a sharp intake of breath is more effective than blowing them away. Fruitflies are a menace aren't they? Yes they are. @27bslash6 You don't work for Stratfor do you? http://t.co/1Ll3pAsU > http://t.co/9nNCYKni @onetruecathal Ooh! http://t.co/2i1m3k87 US Gov demands details of twitterers using occupy hashtag http://t.co/4zaUWduo I'll save you the trouble. I'm Nick Taylor. Google me #occupy Is it possible to deep-fry lettuce? It'd be like healthy popadoms. Software eats everything http://t.co/Eiuu4YD9 < indeed, but SW isn't prey to economics of scarcity, so there's a meta-disruption waiting Titan, Moon of Saturn, photographed with an 1850s daguerreotype http://t.co/HEQZmwmE The weather-reading woman is trying to interfere with my mind using psycho-kinesis again. I don't know why she's always doing that. @_Paul_And_ @corinthino yea, exactly. "Two Nations Separated By A Common Language" etc, or to be exact, the pronunciation of the word "herb" @MichaelPhipps Yea, and google translate. Suing Obama etc http://t.co/1jgySLc1 @jponcepalmieri @rosspruden forget about making music and concentrate on creating a generation gap. @jponcepalmieri @rosspruden Ah go on, think outside the box. From such seeds do classics grow. @jordantcarter ooh dear, gosh, no, that sounds far too technical etc. @jponcepalmieri @rosspruden anger and disappointment are emotions. @nigelmcnie But don't listen to me, I still my old girlfriend's shirt from 25 years ago. @nigelmcnie they try... and maybe succeed, but said t-shirts are already embarrassingly old inside the time they take to arrive. @nigelmcnie Nek minnit is a little too last minnit for that to work. The internet meme-cycle is too fast for merchandise opportunities, alas That's a weird thing about Hollywood - the stars are generally liberal, but everything else about it is true-blue fascist, and getting worse Oh great. 2 Fast 2 Furious has a torture scene in it. Hollywood doesn't make "action" movies without torture any more. @GeorgeMonbiot Monibot - lol, it was almost worth going through it just for that. The Fast And The Furious is on - which is like Young and The Restless, but for utter cocks rather than people perma-zonked on valium @jordantcarter So what were some of the words? @GeorgeMonbiot Not at all George, I found the advice very useful and have lost over 5mg already. @mrjudkins Ah, ok, cheers. Got a friend trying to cut straight from inkscape and it makes everything raster rather than vector. @mrjudkins Or do you mean you import inkscape into illustrator, then send that to the cutter? @mrjudkins In Wellington I mean. @mrjudkins Do you know who set your laser-machine up to use inkscape? Know someone who needs some advice etc. @DtoBrooklyn And the plot of a light-hearted romantic-comedy. It would almost write itself (as is generally the case with LHRCs) @DtoBrooklyn That'd be cool. I'd be like a Secret-Santa of miss-placed pickups. @Afrotonomy Yea - friend of mine's maternal grandparents initially made her dad sit on newspapers because he was a greasy Italian. @DtoBrooklyn Why doesn't anyone ever give my number out as a wrong number? Bah. And with Bitcoin, the more qualified someone is to know what they're talking about, the more wrong they generally turn out to be. Bitcoin has cracked $7 again http://t.co/7zj6iu1C Stories of its death apparently exaggerated. Nobody knows what they're talking about There's a FF movie on tv. For some reason it mildly surprises me that they still make those. @jordantcarter In the time that it took to count 4854 words, you could have written another word. Mr Trebus. Star http://t.co/lokKqDWG Note to self: Remember to take earphones so I don't have to listen to people talk shit. I've gone from being vaguely averse to Command Line Interfaces, to absolutely not trusting any computer that doesn't have one This url has a lightning bolt in it http://t.co/9Jq6gklc⚡dc/ @rupertmurdoch who's "news" outlets relentlessly cheer on economy/life-destroying wars is now wringing hands over "artists". Pathetic #SOPA @rupertmurdoch The Swiss Govt: Sharing leads to sales http://t.co/Nqb1qzfj You know, the place where people like you hide money to avoid tax We saw that "Priest" last night. Absolutely brilliant. @rosspruden Piracy is not an issue, it's a category error based on an anachronism. Oh wow, so now @rupertmurdoch who has done more to corrupt democracy than any human alive, now whining about Google "lobbying" @rosspruden As the Swiss Govt (almost alone) are honest enough to say: filesharing leads to sales http://t.co/Nqb1qzfj it isn't piracy @TwoPaddocks Do you have a link to the anti-food-bill petition? @mikko prob some time after this comes online http://t.co/hjI3kSM8 but the web will have grown as well by then. It'll be mostly bollocks tho @ponoko support saves day again. Absolutely the best support from any company I've ever met in the whole world ever. Far out - you can get a gadget for destroying hard-drives http://t.co/kjoGLtRm Apropos of this http://t.co/4z16X54C What's the point of being British if The US can make up any hatstand law it likes, and even if it's not UK Law, Brits are subject to it? @ReubenMetcalfe It's symptomatic of a type of capitalism - but not all types. It's also symptomatic of fascism, feudalism, monarchy etc. small chameleon http://t.co/XAWdLWSM Home Alone 4 is on. It's got a twerp in it. Year of the Dragon. I'm a Dragon - and I'm going to celebrate it by dressing as a parrot for the whole year. @jordantcarter Ducks are basically just aquatic chickens without the vocal range and lyrical flair. @jordantcarter You probably need to wrap it in tinfoil, then give it a quick after-burn when it stops leaking red... um "juice" when pricked Clean Micro-Nukes with easily sourced feedstock. http://t.co/iyhRDTlJ < If this is true it's the biggest story of the decade. Hopefully. These are breadfruit. They grow on trees http://t.co/PJf64uSO These are the chips http://t.co/FGwcddPO om nom nom etc The best ones are breadfruit chips - it has a porus, honeycomboid structure... so it soaks up butter - like the Brighton Rock of chips Taro Chips for tea. You chaps in England won't have heard of Taro Chips. They're Chips made out of Taro. @rickygervais @brdal @dan_scott94 On a BSA with Balding Tires, He Road A Million Miles etc. Tires are Knackered, Knackers are tired. Genius Invitation Card to my niece's 3rd Birthday http://t.co/lf7wvBEt Penis Fencing http://t.co/yULtUeXq reproducing via a male-on-male rape-fight. Nature is kindof tangential sometimes. @Kiwi05 We're not really friendly, we're just desperate for people to like us. @ReubenMetcalfe We do yea, but 1.3M people in the US die of poverty every year... and behind them are 10s of millions more just surviving http://t.co/Yullx8Fi @ReubenMetcalfe unfortunately (or not) the fine line between tolerable and impossible has been crossed. @ReubenMetcalfe this it the golden-age of slavery, not least of which is due to this situation has evolved where 99% are partial slaves @ReubenMetcalfe No - if you're going to be extreme about it, my brother's cat (Maine Coon) costs about 1500% more than a child slave. Just recounted the plot of Clockwork Orange to my folks - now there is a proper story. Hollywood doesn't really do those much anymore. @ReubenMetcalfe How to measure the worth of a life? FWIW, the shredded packaging material I use costs more by weight than a Haitian slave @yoyoha @Martin_Carr http://t.co/dCJ42DET @Afrotonomy When people ask me to do nude photography, I generally say "I need pockets and things to keep lens-caps in" The War On General Computing - Microsoft trying to block Linux booting http://t.co/Qam6tBEb Cat in sink http://t.co/TgYri0Su Literary Landscapes http://t.co/AncdVS5L Oh Noes! It's the Kardigan #highlander Oldy but a goody - pointy baby stuff http://t.co/FikHFAuj Highlander is on. Brilliant. The original Leatherman Tool http://t.co/PtHhtF1Z Repro of antique GPS system available on Ebay http://t.co/rYAadi2s - cheaper than modern one as well. Almost. @peregrinari7 Couldn't really say. Just... generic handles I think. @rtgarden Have you read Midnight's Children? I think I preferred that to Satanic Verses. Cosmic. Feck. The vandals have taken the handles. Finally! Woolen Spock Ears http://t.co/jFMInGs2 @x_chemicalism_x still - valuable life-lesson learned: If you're feeling dizzy, don't hyperventilate. @x_chemicalism_x Yea - I was on a lake-side beach in the Sth Island. Took about 15 mins to work out/remember what had happened @x_chemicalism_x I did that once - stood up to fast... thought "ooh, maybe I should hyperventilate". Woke up some time later. Synchronised Human Geckos http://t.co/ehSoIiTR Slow Bush http://t.co/ZWRm4eSb Pissing it down with rain at a 45 degree angle today. It means business. $1k Gene Sequencing http://t.co/LnNbWORr? Paper burger http://t.co/yPt1mVJ1 @jethrocarr If you cull me, I shall go down and physically hurl myself into the sea in despair etc. Beautiful glittering day in NZ... drove up from Wellington. My Brother has new art-deco style silhouette windows. Tres flash. You see this guy http://t.co/K2jjLlZN He gives a glimpse of what the (natural) alliance between Liberals and Christians should be. @lucasgonzalez @leashless But hey... it's not about me @lucasgonzalez @leashless Well... I think it's about ego-loss isn't it? Suicidally-Engaged-Empathy is one way of doing it.. Acid another. @leashless My fav acid quote is John De Perm: "I feel sorry for my mum and dad, they've never had acid so they don't know what they're like" @leashless Well, acid is acid. It's a view through another window, but I think in the end that's all it is. Colourful though. Kindof. @leashless So what... you reckon you're a sociopath then? @leashless and every once in a while I get a glimpse of what that really means, and it does my head in. @leashless that is not where real strength comes from. Real strength comes from empathy. That's the killer-app. @leashless Sorry-conversing two-threads-apart etc :) - while I think there must be absolute freedom-of-possibility given to "the random" @leashless Yea - there's not even a poetic groove to that, let alone a moral one. People like this guy, surprise me tho http://t.co/K2jjLlZN @leashless than detaching or transcending... or whatever. @leashless Hum... maybe, but I don't think that's a western path, and I'm kindof western. The people who do my head in, empathise, rather/ @leashless Um.... nope? pointers/links? I've taken enough... to be relieved by the concept of "people who think it's all real". @leashless I think that probably makes me a borderline case. I'm going to wind up joining (or forming) some sort of cult @leashless / but I absolutely cannot be arsed with people and just want to be left alone.I know the path of righteousness.I just can't do it @leashless Not so much a fine line as a wild vacillation. I can feel that the only morally pure path is total, head-below-water empathy / @leashless but then I feel sorry for shower-caps, and binoculars and... you know... "things". Don't listen to me. @leashless It's this concept of "freedom" where you never ever ever ever put yourself in someone else's shoes. Fuck that. @leashless But you know... I thought "The Diceman" sucked... and "Limitless" was basically the same thing, 40 yrs later. @leashless It's maybe a generational thing - but I get this vibe of "freedom without empathy". I put empathy before freedom. Sorry. Just do. @leashless I think he was kindof a bullshit artist. @jimmy_wales I'm with you. Do what you can... and if that involves a blackout, then I'm with you. @jimmy_wales Well I'm from the 95%, so what Americans refer to as "bipartisan" generally means "us-o-centric-partisan",but I take your point Small town man - everyone knows what you look like. No point even trying. You wind up eating condiments. Jesus. I miss living in a big city- where if it's 2am and you're hungry, you can just fucking grab someone and drag them into an alley ane eat them @paulkingsnorth Nothing wrong with an ideal world. Easy too. @jimmy_wales Yea, and 1/2 of them voted for George Bush. Perlease. Do what you do, don't claim to do what you don't @robsog Ing dude, ing http://t.co/HB6mkygJ @paulkingsnorth "should". Missing word. Digital Poo-Sticks for the... forgetful. @paulkingsnorth fairynuf - power devolve to the smallest accountable unit. I have mixed feelings - being Scottish, English and Earthling It wasn't even that loud. @paulkingsnorth You sound a bit obsessed dude (and I use that handle guardedly), what do you actually want? @hirsch_guitar Could we have more pictures of you? Just standing off to the side, in the background,or reflected (dressed) in the polish etc Me (slightly blurry) explaining something with a majestic view in the background, last year http://t.co/J5RzzU1q Anyway, I just sat there with headphones, ignoring the whole thing...and the next day before anyone woke up... I left... and never went back @madhavaji Fair enough. Skip the 1.9% - explain that nobody who uses that browser has $$$, and they'd get better ROI translating into French @madhavaji I've found the best way of dealing with IE problems is simply to not support IE. There's no excuse for supporting IE6 any more. Amity Amity Amity Amity Amity etc http://t.co/E4GEIrUz My Mum still talks (from time to time) about American soldiers who protected NZ in WWII - gave her sweets etc. Last tweet feels v strange Interview with Australian held in American torture-camp http://t.co/78I3aFIy NZ to de-bonkers-ify its intersection law http://t.co/TBDVtpHD Even as a native driver, this never made sense. @paulkingsnorth because it will probably be a hell of a lot easier to create distributed systems while we still have motorways. @paulkingsnorth It's probably better to create distributed systems that obviate the need for motorways, before actually digging them up @paulkingsnorth I think it might be more Networkly-Correct to transcend your infrastructure rather than just destroying it. Food Forest http://t.co/nzudsfda @normnz @Danjite yus - early days for mobile etc... but technically (and vitally) Open Source isn't a "market". We just need the root. You can tell just by looking at it that the stuff at the beginning of this video isn't even proper cocaine http://t.co/ZNHShQnm Bless. Catsby sitting there etc. Sitting on his hind paws, with his forepaws in front of him so he doesn't fall over sideways etc. Stable @Marthalanefox @johngapper Their basic social function is (and always has been) to fund wars isn't it? Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is on. There's an unaddressed gravitational conundrum. If I average it all out, I'm more often relieved that dreams aren't true, than are. That says something positive about reality, I think. Somewhat chaotic Rube Goldberg Machine http://t.co/KHVouvdJ Hexapods and the like http://t.co/AmKIaE5j @ataraxite @umairh exactly - we don't need higher wages, we need lower overheads. Or no overheads at all. It's the only way out. God - there was an advert on just now where a computer cursor moved across the TV screen. I was so disorientated I lost control of my bowels I'm not watching @TVNZNews tonight... because so little of what they report is actually news. It's just a predictable charade London planning the biggest free wifi network in Europe http://t.co/QVbntycK which will cover the most expensive real-estate in Europe. @GarethMP I can alliterate though. @GarethMP I would apply but I'm not particularly cool or organised, and am possibly more pugnaciously opinionated than passionate. Creeping fascism creeps http://t.co/tMqx7F1C Nothing that happens in the US surprises me any more. Hopefully. Yea, they're spending on "defence" rather than "attack" http://t.co/2StKckl4 Maybe you should too, dipshits. Bookshop animation http://t.co/pDQ4QIFg @jethrocarr Actually no - that's a good thing. Good for the garden. Probably. @jethrocarr "still no vim tho" is an anagram for "vomit snot hill". Just thought you should know. Finns ban Pirate Bay http://t.co/C1rGwBHa because nobody should use bittorrent without going via a VPN anyway (eg: https://t.co/aD9HL6Bf ) @peartonjohnson Yea, it certainly doesn't help - with booze though it's often not the taking it that's lethal, it's the suddenly stopping. @peartonjohnson Alcohol abuse increases suicide risk by about 600% - similar with cocaine... 20%-30% of urban US suicides are coke users @saniac Happy Birthday :) @peartonjohnson Undertoad - god, don't I know it. I get that incredibly badly with hangovers, though it's actually more of an overtoad I always feel as though I've got stuff hanging over me, even when there isn't anything. I'm not even Catholic. Jeez. So hot here I've finally cracked and resorted to getting a fan to blow on me. @PhilipBloom Speaking of... have you seen the Poop-Trucks vid? http://t.co/VoHMo68c They love big,glam projects. Infrastructure, not so much @Cunthorse ie: google for adminer.php, FTP it to your server... log in, do what you need to do, then delete it. If in doubt, back up tables @Cunthorse Yea, use adminer.php - I imagine dreamhosts probably has phpadmin built in, but adminer.php is a one-file app, does the same. Interview with two of my best mates from back in the day http://t.co/tlZKxhvV The Other End of the Line is on - an East Meets West romance in which 20thC xenophobia is replaced by 21stC looksism http://t.co/SxsDS571 prob the original power-ballad. Being Freddie, filled with odd original touches before the genre was even established Too Fast Too Furious is on - basically The Stepford Wives for people who prefer boy-racers to housewives from 1950s Sears catalogs Whoever invented ctrl-z should get a Nobel Prize Tennis is on TV. It's a game played with tennis balls. I've spent so long on the todo list for "When People Come Back To Work", that now the appointed hour has arrived, I'm scared to look at it. @farmgeek the only thing I can't quite figure out, is WTF stars have to do with it. @farmgeek Although I am every inch a science bod, I have met astrologers (two of them) who did my head in. It's a jungian reality map Spends 20 mins writing comment on some blog somewhere. Clicks Post. Finds that he needs to register. Deletes comment. Fuck you btw. NZ - Manufactured Crisis http://t.co/0mooJnpX Pens http://t.co/m1K9t1wS @BretEastonEllis I think Mia W might be Australian. Guy on TV just dropped his flashlight down a slime-vortex. That's never a good idea. The birds sure are chirpy this evening. So rainy in NZ today that it's almost dark inside. @rinkjustice ... stunning, and earth-movingly motivating at the same time. It's something I feel most in Black Civil Rights leaders, FWIW @rinkjustice Yea - the energy in that level of principled commitment is... I don't know... revalatory. Combine experience and intellect... I've recalibrated my take on Faith vs Atheism. This is it http://t.co/ZfgA7v08 @grahamdbrown Yea, that kindof flies in the face of Freemium being a massive success almost everywhere you look. Pierce Brosnan is on TV. Bond. Smug Bond. Sweary O'Cookalot is on tv. Just given up watching @TVNZnews completely - another tragic disaster, another month of scripted, worn-out clichés. "Our hearts go out" etc I've just politely oozed my way out of going to a party tonight, because I still haven't recovered from New Year's eve. Beautiful Wooden Automata thing http://t.co/SNEVaEqy @leashless I miss London though... and then I get on a tube and remember why I left. This process takes about 30 seconds. Blog Post - about modular robotic toys, kickstarter and catweazle http://t.co/R5GToAbK Fuck me... Bitcoin very much on the rise again. It's tripled its value in the last couple of weeks. @leashless is it your birthday then? Happy Birthday to you etc :) @Cunthorse err.... that's not a sneeze. When this happens to me these days I just say "Bungled Handshake, let's try that again shall we" with a big smile etc http://t.co/o2ZcUXAO @codinghorror @davestone so it's not really about "knowing how to code" so much as "knowing what coding is". So sheeple are less sheeply @codinghorror @davestone I think the idea is, if people learn to code, they'll have a better idea of the biases built into the apps they use Facial-recognition system thwarting hairdos http://t.co/zreLKCUS Catsby's trying to catch a cicada on the other side of the window.He's not going to be able to catch it.It's on the other side of the window Can't wait for Monday to come round so everyone comes back from holiday and I can start making them do things. My folks went tramping today - 15km etc. Now they're back and I'm sitting here wishing I had some sort of smug-shield. Massive Origami-like stuff http://t.co/zjXo7Vlb Time I put some shoes and socks on. Socks and shoes. Whatever - I'll trial and error until I get something that works. Clockwork inevitability: The War On Terror turns inwards http://t.co/V1NgdjAv http://t.co/Rxvg9bPk Privatised Military; Militarised Police @jobeyG No - no disc drives, although my maths teacher had a "stringy floppy"... like a rubber-band in a clear cassette. Weird Mentions NZ, but not the shameful cop-out that followed http://t.co/eqXTjXxp Two parts ignorance, one part cowardice. Not adjusted for inflation. So... 6th day of the first month, year of our Lord 2012, I'm buying a phone with literally a million times the memory, for 1/2 the price My first computer looked like this http://t.co/9sc5zJkR but without the peripherals. Audio Cassette Storage FTW! 30th Anniversary of the Commadore 64 http://t.co/KZVWZDMM < I started programming on the great, great grandparent of this. @bobbyllew Sortof, yes:The US govt has just declared martial-law by stealth,making the entire US a war-zone + legalising disappearing people Top Gun is on... it's an 80s Hollywood movie, which means there's a sex scene. They don't do that any more. Now they have torture scenes I like this guy http://t.co/RgrDXtZY He's a fighter etc. This is what our politicians should be like, not those other vapid cunts Fairly devastating speech from a whistle-blower http://t.co/RgrDXtZY threatened with 35 years in prison. Yesterday was the best golden mean caliper selling day ever. Amnesty anti-guantanamo petition http://t.co/UPITRUs8 Infographic on patents http://t.co/GXbILNzY < scrap the lot. Only parasitic corporations benefit. @Cunthorse If you switch the first two letters of Coke and Puma, you get Puke and Coma. Just noticed that. Thought I'd share etc. @x_chemicalism_x Like a cross between coke, and a very delicate cough-mixture. It's quite nice actually. If memory serves. Falling Skies is on - seems to be about a militarily superior alien invasion being driven out of America with AK47s and roadside bombs Barnet is pretty much the only Cockney Rhyming Slang I use. @TVNZnews participating in the global news-blackout over Ron Paul. Mention in passing, then move on... talk about anyone else. Quickly. God I hope the GOPs don't elect some right-wing nut, who's solution to all problems is "more of what caused the problems in the first place" Reality http://t.co/jaE49cYj Cat Brushing Robot with Bonus Catsby Pictures http://t.co/3gxRM8xP US "Intellectual Property" trade-war now attacking food-supplies of other nations http://t.co/WL3onMp9 #monsanto Ronald Searle. There's The Guardian going all MSM again http://t.co/USSMNXn6 somehow making 4th place important so as to avoid talking about Ron Paul @drgrist INTP - sometimes INTJ. @dylanhorrocks @acarvin I thought "A Tweet Of Two Cities" was rather good. Team America is on later - a special commemoration screening. But then Ron Paul isn't really Republican is he, so he will never be allowed to run. Never thought I'd say this, but if Ron Paul got to run.. I'd vote Republican just to get rid of the execrable bullshit that Obama has pulled Hmm.... @TVNZnews doing crime-stories from the US, but failing to mention that the US govt has just (sneakily) declared martial law. @quinnnorton Yea, exactly. All the storms, earthquakes, riots etc... all compression-artifacts. @leashless If it's any consolation, the 23rd Dec had the 2nd biggest number of US firearm-background-checks ever. People are tooling up. @leashless so it's not impossible that "they" are less like Nazis and more like King Canutes, of the own-koolaid-drinking variety @leashless - particularly in the realm of the web. @leashless FWIW, I hear you, but I've noticed there's an increasingly big difference between "the intent of a law" and what actually happens @leashless I used to know a bloke who'd take to his hair with scissors every time he had an upset. Nice guy. Terrible haircut. @leashless @corinthino As metaphors go, it's not a million miles from the mark. But reality is a hell of a lot less organised, fortunately. @leashless Sorry... bit flippant :) @leashless Why cant you just have a haircut like normal people? @corinthino I think the reveal where you see the pods for the first time is pretty stunning. That's what sci fi is about. Loads of pods. @rickygervais @gedankenloser It's actually short for "Twonklet". Right. First day of rest of life etc. Get head down, and do some serious procrastination. #lessambitiousbooks Where Beagles Dare #lessambitiousbooks The Name Of The Daisy. #lessambitiousbooktitles The Fall Of The Tent Of Usher @solobasssteve @GeorgeMonbiot Well... The Real News network managed to hit its $210k fundraising goal - I punted $100. (Some) People do know Catsby's going mental. He always gets INCREDIBLY excited when people come back from holiday. Van Helsing is on later. It gets more baffling each time I see it. Nano 3D printing http://t.co/VgiZ01W7 According to the MPAA/RIAA this http://t.co/JRYpa3ug can hold 750 million dollars worth of "IP". I jive you not. Just ordered a pizza for delivery - Dominoes "took my IP", apparently entirely unphased by the fact that I was actually ordering via Holland Okay, off to party I go. See you on the other side, peeps. @rosspruden Yea - Eric Von Hippel's take is quite interesting as well http://t.co/2nPIAc0l Massive apple tree has fallen over in the driveway. Heavy rain and about a million apples. Shame. One of the paintings is missing as well. @rosspruden @RobertBLevine_ Maybe - but the richness of cultural ecosystems is defined by low overheads rather than high incomes. Algal Foam http://t.co/RkTW1Rwr Arch Neocon thinktank comes out in support of drug decriminalisation http://t.co/TLa0IlQH Oh well... like a broken clock I suppose... @rosspruden @RobertBLevine_ though I'm guessing production-costs are falling faster than DVD sales, so that might not be the right question. @rosspruden @RobertBLevine_ "As DVD sales decline, what do filmmakers SELL?" Participation, probably. Meta-stories. Oh. Right. Maybe they found each other really fucking annoying http://t.co/6Hjl79qC Congratulations to @therealnews http://t.co/Ajx3mvU6 $100 of that from Moi, worth every penny. Dawn Of The Dead is on... the version where that took place after the plague of teal and orange colour grading hit the world. Jonathan Ross is on TV, but I can't for the life of me think why. This must be the "light entertainment" I've heard so much about. Fucking DO IT http://t.co/G2dDBNhI Self Defence Slingshot http://t.co/EH4MCjhj for defending self. @TVNZnews year in review: If you took out crime, sports, disasters, and cheerleading National in the elections, there would be... err... 0 Doing the DSLR Film-maker Meetup thing in Auckland in March https://t.co/sAZKdIYO Iraq War about as "over" as it was "mission accomplished" all those years ago http://t.co/UtjlHPVW Yea - I have a feeling that Brazil will turn out to spearhead "IP" protestantism... which will give it a huge edge http://t.co/Lum4uGex @ReubenMetcalfe It works for penguins... though to be fair, they respond better to verbal warnings. @ReubenMetcalfe Yea - there is that. That's something gen-tech folks don't seem to get. Just how devastating an invasive species can be. @punkscience Maybe - the traps we use are cage traps, because there's about a 50/50 chance the cat will wind up in it. @ReubenMetcalfe they're welcome to share everything else - which generally arrives in an utterly unmanageable surplus. #1stworldproblems @ReubenMetcalfe trouble is, they steal the avocados - and it takes several years to grow them. Very very slow fruit. @ReubenMetcalfe I feel sorry for them. They're just little fruit-stealing people basically. The last one had hurt its nose trying to escape @jordantcarter Easy come,easy go, little hai, little lo. Rainy in Wanganui today.The twilight-zone between Ch and NY where nothing gets done Actually, I wish I had godaddy domains, just so I could transfer them away #sopa I think this time I'll take it over to St John's Hill (The posh suburb) and let it go there. They have fruit trees and whatnot. Oh dear. A possum trap has appeared outside. Seems like a good idea, until you catch one, and then what? Sudden responsibility. @punkscience and it's rare to have a crim operating in isolation in these sorts of contexts. They're probably part of a power-structure. @punkscience Yea, at the moment... but (current) illicitude has its drawbacks... not least is that it connects you with a crim. @punkscience / those will probably be different, if access to weapons isn't controlled by those who already have the connections/guns. @punkscience ie: gradually gentrifying favelas, and western nations that lose their currencies. The power-structures that evolve out of / @punkscience I'm not imagining places already fucked, so much as those gradually unfucking, and those gradually fucking up. @jobeyG Yea, the new generation of maker-oriented, post web-2.0 tech startups tend to have superb support - eg: @ponoko @punkscience It's (probably, hopefully) not about me, it's about people who don't have access to protection by the law. One way or another @punkscience I think it's a total inevitability. As much chance of banning it as the attempt to ban crossbows in the middle-ages. I've never really got shipwreck (ie: storm at sea) movies. Just seems like loads of yelling and running around and more yelling. Sandra Bullock is on TV. I've always loved her, ever since she was a computer-programmer in a movie once. That was cool. @KaiserKuo The "progressive base" is doing it for themselves. Obama is just a place-holder to keep out overt fascists. No energy required. Anyway - watching Speed 2 - there's already too much orchestra and it's only been on for 5 minutes. Premature Orchestra. It bodes ill. NZ TV 2 ce soir: "Embarrassing Bodies", followed by "Kitchen Nightmares", followed by "Chuck". Match-head-head http://t.co/iodaAtaN RT @jethrocarr Like it actually stops too far out, like wtf fuvk thisfuvkibg fucked up fuckdhit One of my predictions for the future of shit that happens, is a 3D-printed / Laser Cut / CNCed AK47. @leashless You should do it regardless of SOPA. Given the solid wall of green at bitcoin charts http://t.co/7zj6iu1C I'd suspect that bitcoin is more resilient than given credit for Bethlehem Christmas Monk Fight http://t.co/QGMjeIXM They use brooms. They don't overtly say it is of course... but they "open the debate", framed around "OOOH!!! THERE'S A THREAT!!!" "Falling Sky" - more entertainment (like Battleship Gallactica and Stargate) who's central theme is "Is military rule (for Americans) ok?". hear hear http://t.co/CqNLkvXo! we need to systematically go after and fucking break authoritarian over-reach The Embarrassment Of The Republican Party / Ron Paul likely to form 3rd party http://t.co/OeNxfZSB @onetruecathal @leashless It may be that the best way of producing CAGT is to get a microbe to do it - rather than separate it from DNA @onetruecathal @leashless So do you mean the printer itself is self-replicating? @onetruecathal @leashless Where do you get the CAGT? (sorry, prob newb question) @onetruecathal @leashless With computer tech though, Moore's Law of abilities has been kindof matched by M'sL of requirements. So who knows. @onetruecathal @leashless but the needs of scalability change radically in the face of massive distribution I guess. Maybe. @onetruecathal @leashless How much is a DNA printer? Infrastructure is to do with the ability to scale I guess. @jordantcarter Speed, Murial's Wedding and Aliens attacking the Earth while everyone acts like an arsehole. @onetruecathal @leashless FWIW, I think that in this case, a knowledge-imbalance is possibly more dangerous than the knowledge itself @onetruecathal @leashless Brave New World, as you say - personally I'm not against it. But I haven't got a clue what's coming. @onetruecathal @leashless A friend here in Wanganui has a job that specifically deals with invasive new species... new scare over xmas @onetruecathal @leashless LOL,yea, girl I went to Uni with got done for illegally importing a strain of bug-killing micro-organism last year @onetruecathal @leashless Are the 2011 iGEM finalists online anywhere? @onetruecathal @leashless / the type of innovation required. They may turn out to be The IBM of Software @onetruecathal @leashless Certainly hope so - but $600M buys a lot of infrastructure. It may be that Exxon are structurally unsuited to / Ooh - Armageddon is on later... it's that one where the Earth gets hit by a massive lump of cheese. Created by Michael Bay @jordantcarter @Nicolaaarrr that's nowt - I used to work here http://t.co/V1hkF9ns foxes would sneak in... crap... on the 3RD FLOOR (London) I don't know what's on TV right now, but it looks... "unnecessary". Oh... it's an ad for that one where John Travolta dresses up as a woman Falling Skys is on. Aliens have taken over the earth, which provides an excuse for earthlings to impose martial law and be all macho etc. Well I think he's completely wrong about that http://t.co/RtMXe9dn we've seen what corporatised state "security" is like. @BR3NDA @cuchullain Or "Irishperson" or "Irisher" @BR3NDA @cuchullain I think that'd be "Irish" @plish http://t.co/Di4ScYLS @drgrist Driving lost its cool in the UK at least 20 years ago, because it seriously limits your ability to get drunk. @siweiluozi so "ideal" democracy is probably just as impossible as "ideal" authoritarianism... it's just a fuck of a lot less dangerous @siweiluozi any political ideal is an illusion - so what's needed is something with enough looseness and redundancy to provide resilience. @siweiluozi um... probably not. @TwoPaddocks They probably just didn't get much of a tan this year. Solid Yoga Timelapse http://t.co/AjQm7thW @leashless @onetruecathal and the fact that the most powerful and alien technology ever created looks like it's going to be owned by Exxon @leashless @onetruecathal ie: rashes of destructive monoculture due to ecosystemic damage, and proliferation of new uber-competative species @leashless @onetruecathal And I suspect that tech (eco)-systems thinking is the only way through the "biotech situation" @onetruecathal @leashless I think PP defence policy is one of the most important things they can do. They (alone) understand tech ecosystems US Republicans attempting to block student voting because they tend to be liberal http://t.co/iCVRa2Jl RT @leashless Brilliant. PR fiasco http://t.co/SQc6jwt6 Oh fuck. We've got visitors. RT @RWW: Namecheap Will Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transferred on Dec. 29 http://t.co/PfK8v5Xq And what to do about it... and how it's already starting http://t.co/eg6OqRMu On wealth concentration being oxymoronic to democracy http://t.co/eg6OqRMu I've got so much cake in my mouth at once that I can't move my jaws etc, so I'm just having to sit here and digest it like a venus flytrap New Year's Resolution: Get shit together. LOL etc http://t.co/uIenHD5m Christmas Tip: Chocolate Liqueurs are very good for warding off panic-attacks. Christmas tree decoration http://t.co/F4RW7VdL New Bike http://t.co/Jsb7kfcx http://t.co/NPN6w2bF @davidcushman Yea, and 3D doesn't help either. It's good in animations, but "real" green-screen stuff is often a jumble of "odd" parallaxing @davidcushman There seems to be this drift into bludgeoning, violent spectacles... heavily colour-graded etc. 300oid remakes of classics @davidcushman I thought that was alright actually... but then I've seen a lot of really quite terrible movies this year. Octopuses I mean. What are they thinking? I'll tell you what they're thinking: They're thinking "What. The. Actual. Fuck. Is. That???" Octopi http://t.co/JcA46KKr I knew it I knew it I knew it. Facts, figures etc on the decade-long experiment in ending drug prohibition https://t.co/NjNS1vIA By knight of the realm, Richard Branson Toy car rainbow http://t.co/OBae8FAm I'm a problem-solver me. And it was quite healthy in a way - because the mixer for the vodka ran out, so I craftily blended the vegetables. Went to a party last night and got completely trousered, but didn't make a git of myself or anything. Am now mildly hungover, but okish. Chrimbo was a success this year I think. Possibly off to a soiree in a bit. Or not. Depending on whether or not I'm capable of getting there Vid on how they tortured Bradley Manning for over a year http://t.co/0VeJex7W The banality of evil. @jordantcarter I go there alone every time I go to Auckland - have done since about 95. It's a kind of pilgrimage now. @jordantcarter SPQR in P Rd make top Pizzas. And you can (usually) sit outside and watch peeps go by etc. Anyway, this is what I got for Christmas http://t.co/tOFgLds9 because that's the kind of guy I am. Christmas Dinner at Taylor Towers this year: http://t.co/q0kUsvmC . My brother has started replicating. Kindof. Here we are twitter-people. The greatest Christmas Song EVAR http://t.co/mXuGFoGe @waynecoyne @x_chemicalism_x Cheers :). Christmas presents all opened... phase 1 complete. Have now gone back to bed. @jordantcarter Merry Christmas :) @robyngallagher Rebel Gel? @Afrotonomy sounds like this guy http://t.co/Sv1yCfEZ but like... refined Youtube have put snowflakes on the videos 3D Printed Kite http://t.co/9UGGcIym Cool. God I hope they don't fuck it up http://t.co/k0cF45vZ ie: suffuse it with contemporary Hollywood "values", aka toys-r-us or fascism @zooko They used to - I donated a load of bitcoins... then when the value of them hit $400, they reneged and gave the lot to bitcoin faucet What do you reckon? 2 years? 5 years? ... time before there's a booming black-market in ways to shoot these down http://t.co/HRFD5j87 Holy Crap - smartphone uptake over a million a day http://t.co/Ejo3twNI Fuck Apple; Fuck "intellectual property" http://t.co/odFor0cP If "IP" was as out of control as this in the 80s, we'd never have got the web Grass Mowhawk Table http://t.co/XXQqheQD Self-healing circuits http://t.co/cYEsTH2Z @inkblotsart Yea, me too. Side-effect of being a cottage-industrialist. Bigger outfits go on holiday. Mind you, bigger outfits have bosses. Petition : Privatise Thatcher's state funeral https://t.co/pzPoUetQ Bladerunner shot by by shot... containing loads of stuff I didn't know about, even though I've seen it about 12 times http://t.co/s7IHRglL @jethrocarr Yea, exactly - I lived in AKL for a year, and it rained every day in a row for 80 days. Then it had a day off. Donates $100 to The Real News Network http://t.co/48PnCqGm @davidhepworth Actually, I bought those - I'll be hanging on to them I think. Ha ha ha - RIAA use "IP Spoofing" defense that they've tried so long, and so hard to deny to everyone else https://t.co/UmGeEeDZ Cunts. Landmine guy http://t.co/IBGPfHN1 Another ill-advised "corporate culture" video http://t.co/RjVM7DlA… the sound of cash-registers, and souls flying... straight down. The Folks are watching Shrek Christmas Special with extremely troubled expressions on their faces. Humm... Looks like bitcoin's on the uptick again. Last time it did that I made about $3000 out of $200. Entirely by accident. Ban Pepper Spray http://t.co/ougxsDIO @mat_walker Indeed. I seem to have evolved a situation where I have regular partners/clients who pay straight away. Very part-time now tho @mat_walker it's probably more to do with cash-flow than interest... and then the habit of doing it consolidates. @x_chemicalism_x In a 1980s kind of way. Big-Hair, Baywatch-Costume. Virus. @jordantcarter Dinner, dinner on the wall; who is the fairest of them all? @stnick666 @nicronon @savebradley although granted, some govts need it more urgently than others :) @stnick666 @nicronon @savebradley Room? I don't think there's a govt on earth at the moment that isn't due for a major, major spring-clean @Nicronon @stnick666 Yea? Well I denounce the stripping and beating of a gay male whistle-blower as a disgrace @SaveBradley #freebrad @x_chemicalism_x Erika Eleniak was my 1st exposure to Internet Porn. On a boss's PC 1994. A .jpg with a virus in it. I was an IT support bod Right. Time for a calming beer. @TVNZnews still milking the Chch earthquake. Tonight's Story: Somebody going on about something. Repairs probably. Today my mum sorted out all the pegs on the clothesline into their different colours http://t.co/7b2VwEoh Bradley Manning's Cables don't match the Wikileaks Cables http://t.co/2UBsHkfX Libertarianism : Positive and Negative Freedom http://t.co/QHQ4yZ55 < and unintuitively, Postive Freedom is bad. How about a 99% campaign to replace the entire senate? Shouldn't be that hard - they only have a 9% approval rating. A Bug's Life is on. Vaclav Havel would have been proud. The Grasshoppers are the 1% Movies that start at 7pm invariably have too much orchestra in them. An irascible little red. Initial reaction "ooh no, that's a bit rough".. before falling prey to its raffish charm. Then it nicks your wallet The world is a ronerier prace etc Conflict of Interest Diagrams http://t.co/wio8lYgw Skylights http://t.co/fm165D5Q @tomcoady I mean socially/sexually repressive. Covering up table legs. That sort of thing. @tomcoady God yea - one of the most repressive periods in UK history. No wonder everyone buggered off to the colonies. @tomcoady Yea - Civ III is pretty much all slave-based... although there is more of a vibe of "all being in it together". @tomcoady I guess 6 years ain't so great if you've got a life-expectancy of 30. Still... less time than it takes to pay off a mortgage @tomcoady Jesus was misquoted - or selectively edited by an empire built on slavery. @tomcoady Oh yea - anyone who plays Civilisation III knows how important sanitation is. @tomcoady but I think the Victorians just really dug infrastructure. It was their way of doing fascist architecture. Grand Sewers. @tomcoady one man's bling is another man's... well, whatever. Doesn't justify slavery, or a crushing wealth disparity. @tomcoady A type of status-symbol, yea. At one point in ancient Rome it was a status symbol to free slaves... so much that a levy was placed @tomcoady Some of the Victorians managed without the welfare state... a fuck of a lot more, died early, and badly. @tomcoady Probably more to do with (at one point) there being such a thing as civic pride and duty. Victorian, I know. @tomcoady the meta-tragedy of it is, is that it's a perfect metaphor for unfettered capitalism... Welcome to planet Earth. @tomcoady Boggles the mind. How the fuck could they build the Burj Khalifa and not get it together to build a sewage system? The Quiet is on. The review on IMDB uses the word "copacetic". It's got that blonde one off 24 who's always being kidnapped. Bad Santa is on, which against my every instinct, gets funnier each time I see it. Oh wow, the micro-nazi got sacked http://t.co/dUZmnt4U What is it with toffs and nazism? @mrjudkins Hello from sunny NZ! - do you know what wattage a laser-cutter needs to be to cut stainless steel? Oooh! Does that mean we can go back to selling Iraq weapons of mass destruction again? Newt Gingrich wants someone to attack him http://t.co/xDJWFu61 so he doesn't think he's not being attacked. Privatised, corporatised, "health care" http://t.co/VF1oxYV1 Yea, well at least we don't use Comic Sans http://t.co/5VrrMiIg @PunkPatriot although I guess we kindof wrote most of the internet. @PunkPatriot I think the only generation in human history that didn't decide the fate of the world in one way or other, was mine #gen-x @PunkPatriot It's not just low income people. Fucking animals. http://t.co/Oz4AF2B3 Logical flaw with Limitless... if the dude was quadrupling his $ every day, it would take 1.5 days to make what he borrowed off the gangster As an aside, U-Turn is a great movie. Every actor in that film soared in my estimation... and the editing/cinematography etc are inspiring @lordtrilink Well using my own mother as a model... while her gifts and strengths are many and varied, "silence" is not perhaps one of them Good as It Gets is on - which is a Dickensian tale set in Dickensian America, before it even became properly Dickensian. Ok, so that's the past versus the future then http://t.co/ZsKprM0M @punkscience I can tell you from hard-earned experience that vomit (though less pleasant) is easier to clean up than blood. re: closing time violence. Simple - just legalise marijuana, and make it available for an hour after alcohol last-orders. Saw that Limitless etc. Great idea, beautifully executed, structurally flimsy as fuck. 5 separate villains, all of whom kindof evaporate @jethrocarr Just write it all out by hand. The binary I mean. You'll soon get into the swing of it etc. My: http://t.co/hskGUlXG < but fascism does appear to be encroaching - faster even than climate change. Just put the christmas tree up. Catsby has never seen a christmas tree before, and is so excited that he's destroying everything that moves I think the video on this is hilarious - especially the bit where he gets caught by a wave at the end http://t.co/fabp4FJp Well there goes 1/2 an hour. My fav is Guilty Cat http://t.co/nFRKfqOH Still, it feels good to be in control. Maybe I should drink a shit-load of coffee. Goes down market. Gets winded at and rained on. Comes home. Bah. MTV Anti-Fascism Commercial http://t.co/1A5v7HIS @PragueBob Knowledge I should think - should be borne in mind that MSM science reporting is probably more dangerous than the science My fav Chris Hitchens quote is "Assertions made without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence". And "It depends how you behave". Well there you go. Christopher Hitchens. Part time fuckwit, part time genius. The world is a poorer place. It might not be a box - it might be a giant cock... but I would have thought that less likely than it being a box. Occam's Razor etc. The news person on TV has a gesture where she's pretending to hold a box, which she shakes gently for emphasis. @TVNZnews is loving these floods in Nelson - the Chch quake was getting stale, even tho they've milked it every single night for over a year Feline Error Codes http://t.co/4m8eXMMb "codifies existing practice" = legalising that which we were doing illegally up until now http://t.co/O1IDQ3cL < it's good to be king. @GarethMP Were they dangerous green drinks? @GreatScottinc @BKBMG what if you like not working hard? The Golden Mean and the Human Face http://t.co/6S7isDH3 Ok, so not only did Obama fail to close Guantanamo, but now martial law is effectively declared, by stealth? http://t.co/O1IDQ3cL Nice shoes http://t.co/eIMVIMNW @ReubenMetcalfe I don't think they won quite as badly as they won in Vietnam, but the consequences may well be more severe. I thought Newt Gingrich wanted to take America back to the 19th Century? http://t.co/NNnvYaoS The internet according to Sony http://t.co/pU8UCbCX Any Sony (or any other copyright cartel) employees out there? Resign. Now. Obama declares war a success http://t.co/6s0oXOY6 < that's funny, because Nick Taylor has just declared it a catastrophic failure New Zealand Government: Stop the closure of Auckland’s 24/7 sexual violence crisis service http://t.co/xXwLyLFy via @change Far out - wish we could airlift supplies to them http://t.co/LSmFyGuB Lizard playing video game http://t.co/lps3MsUt Well. Fuck. A. Duck. http://t.co/Tcf95swM Louis CK results. John Malkovich is on TV. Suddenly everything is slightly better than it was a couple of minutes ago. The guy on TV at the moment is a great fat nong. Ok, I've read the whole internet now. What's next? @JerryKetel http://t.co/U0py6o52 < there is art being created all the time, but you won't see it anywhere except locally, or the web. Ooh! all of the Jams are on youtube http://t.co/KDfMsaSW LOL cat etc http://t.co/Qbq0Oc3x It's so hot I can hardly believe it. Time itself is congealing. Oh right. "no intelligence, no friends and no flexibility" http://t.co/6B1lugvO and he was dying for a piss http://t.co/k0edYR0k @farmgeek You took that photo standing up? Dude... how tall are you? Flying dog http://t.co/zBypVKyz @andybudd Yea, top word. I read this book about the gin craze - and have always wanted to use "scurrility of tongue", but haven't. Sadly. Anti deep-sea drilling in NZ video and petition http://t.co/ZjCs4Y6U Ha ha ha etc http://t.co/FB1H2gB3 < why isn't it obvious by now that any anti-gay campaigner is fundamentally sexually suspect themselves? Oh right. Well that explains a lot http://t.co/k0edYR0k Hmm... well I appear to have fixed my laptop's chronic overheating problem by pulling it apart and vacuuming it. ~20°C lower average temp @tomcoady coming off is great (for a couple of days). If I could maintain that (or get it in a pill) then I'd form a habit for that instead. @tomcoady Yea - I sometimes drink coke as well. About 1/5th the caffeine content- but I still "come off it". 3 days later the senses sharpen @tomcoady No point drinking caffeine-free coffee, and I don't really get on with tea. Hot chocolate for a month etc. Oy vey @tomcoady but it seems to be cumulative. In the end I feel just as shite no matter what. I like coffee though. Gives me something to do @tomcoady Yea... it builds up over about 3-4 months, then I give up for a month... then I relent, and it builds up again. Only 2 cups a day/ @tomcoady Foolish? Why would I do anything foolish? I'm giving up coffee again. It's really rough for a couple of days. Tom cruise is rock climbing in Nevada with the iko iko song stuck in his head... which must be pretty fucking annoying. Mission Impossible is on in a bit. It's the one where Thandie goes "What are you going to do Ethan? Spank me?" which is the only good bit. I feel fucking terrible. Thank heavens I don't have any responsibilities. Surfing the fatigued gravel-slopes of caffeine withdrawal. This is my cat, Catsby. He's sitting on some cushions http://t.co/Zs8MzizL £8000 / second advertising rates and interns at less than min wage - X-Factor is the McDonalds of entertainment. Main tory clown-in-chief, sitting next to a tiny nazi http://t.co/l4DVb4Np 2 hour power cut. I'll finish this coffee, then give up coffee. It's gotten on top of me again. I feel like about 6 different flavours of shite Well... the sound anyway. "Caesar!!! Caesar!!!" they go, as Caesar runs off not paying a blind bit of notice. If the Benton guy had named his dog "Caesar", the Richmond Park incident could have been lifted straight from that last Planet Of The Apes @PennyRed Well, no - we dealt with the "Philanthropy" question back in the 1920s/30s. It's just a justification for chronic inequality Wow - @umairh has been busy - this is excellent http://t.co/zgQc3rRZ LRAD http://t.co/qvpltOce Catsby's just eaten a load of fish, and now he's tearing about the place with eyes like the dogs off The Omen, breaking stuff. @x_chemicalism_x Yea - crap innit. I'm wading through a billionty twelve episodes of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on YT. Should read a book @x_chemicalism_x Wasn't it on about 3 months ago? I'm giving it a miss because I've just seen it etc. Yea, ok. It's getting to be piss-takingly hot again. @JPBarlow @sciam Isn't carbon-capture basically trying to cure an overshoot by adding another ingredient, also likely to overshoot? President Obama: Veto the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act - Act w/ @Amnesty http://t.co/DxPcl00B I'm officially now into negative boxes. Feel a bit neurotic at the mo. Drunk way too much coffee. @AnnieLowrey I'm not psychic btw. I can't even find my keys. @AnnieLowrey Yea - "Psi Missing-Jag": when people show negative results outside bounds of normal possibility. @CNell_NZ I know what you mean. I'm always getting shooed out of the art gallery. The Auckland one is fine. What the fuck is this shit - NZ Closeup so bereft of things to report, they just aired a montage "about" one of their reporters. This is probably the most exciting gig going on on earth right now http://t.co/ti9vfvOP Relevance pisses all over irrelevance Cool music at Occupy Boston http://t.co/ti9vfvOP @TVNZnews attempting to make The Weather "Interesting" have started preceding it with "What The Weatherman Did In The Holidays". Wakes up.... sheepishly checks out the news to see what fucked up shit, has been laid on us (by politicians representing corporations) today @Martin_Carr which you probably won't want, unless you're a 70s prog-rocker, or doing something weirdly experimental. @Martin_Carr You can use any word for describing whatever you want - but its history (medieval religious art) will prob create a poetic vibe @unsymbol I think it's to do with a kind of arse-covering managerial culture - where "payment" seems to imply "vendor-accountability". @farmgeek Yea - I saw him in London once by accident. My first encounter was live. @farmgeek Bruce Sterling is a genius. A lot more prescient than any other futurist because he gets poetry I think. Something like that. The End of Aptera: The difference between Open and Closed source http://t.co/PfFsjVEa Don Driver made some of the scariest art I've ever seen. The nightmare faced by two teachers in Bahrain. It's why we Write #4Rights @amnesty: http://t.co/MgSWhvGa @freitasm Oh I don't know - from the perspective of an historical artifact, the twitter archive is incredible. Imagine an ancient Roman one Earthquakes are odd - didn't feel that one at all in Wanganui - and it was the same size as the one we did feel before that was further away Well I guess that kindof scuppers my theory that music sales are falling because music these days is fucking boring http://t.co/rl4UQFi8 10 year death map http://t.co/xl4xt6lN though given the average speed of UK traffic, most of these would be boredom and old-age Does it have a caps-lock key? Yes? Then you're a dickhead and you don't know what you're doing http://t.co/bCVUDNm4 NZ First. Party of cranks and crackpots http://t.co/otuPhP1j @rapella Yea - me too. I become more human by the day... which (for some reason) feels slightly entropic. Ooh! A top literary lawyer. I bet that will result in top literature http://t.co/RR2g1QX4 I've been through phases where I have no human contact other than the dilute-internet kind, for months at a time. Easy enough to do. Wow from several different angles at once http://t.co/2VA6Hoe8 I could have done that at one point - probably would've lasted a < month tho Lorem Ipsum http://t.co/IcbKobfQ God I wish I'd watched more light-entertainment on TV when I was younger Plastic bottle tree http://t.co/NOPC0WBN Slightly disturbing chair http://t.co/7YufIEoi synchronised micro-copters http://t.co/FLCSnN3s John Key does that gesture where he mimes picking a cornflakes packet and putting it down down again, about 8 inches to the left. @rtgarden Yea - I used to eat cooking marzipan without actually making it into anything. Back when I was a maverick etc. @marie_clair I do that every time. It's actually a little provincial airport - shed next to the runway. Passenger-processing takes 2 mins Safely back home. Mum's birthday today. I got her a vast hoard of chocolates. And marzipan. Sat in Oriental Parade etc - coffee. Characteristically grimsby day in Wellington. Always feels like I'm escaping from Mordor when I leave Wakes up, none the wiser. @gleonhard I think it's all to do with artificial scarcity now... As in http://t.co/2ZsfeiNI or http://t.co/qH6PkuJO @gleonhard he's right about the problems (kindof), but that's just pointing out the obvious now. @gleonhard 2009 man. Umair is a grumbler. He's all problems and no solutions... Bill and Ted-speak "awesome!" is not a solution I'm fucking annoyed in advance man. NZ Hotels: 10am checkout. Which means getting up at 9... it's so fucking country-mouse. I'm living in a hotel, an 1/2 the people here are permanent. The whole place smells like Hong Kong - kids w' phones sitting in the doorways. @AndyPPUK and personally, I'm the progeny of DR... I think all of our ills spring from the design of our currency. @AndyPPUK he's a lawyer, but a programmer at heart. We're always looking for the Meta. The meta of copyright-corruption is... the process. @AndyPPUK that's why @lessig (who has twit-banned me) went from CC to trying to un-corrupt US politics. @Gary_Bainbridge The weather inside is always an upside to the weather outside. This is why we have insides. Give thanks. Quietly. @AndyPPUK Actually, the real issue is corporate $ in the democratic process. Everything else is secondary. @SkinBintin You haven't already made a massive hole in your ear have you? Don't. Life is long and devious. @SkinBintin Fear of commitment. Flexibility. Morphability, Adaptability. Some decisions are easier to CTRL-Z than others. @SkinBintin Dude, don't do that. @CNell_NZ Do you want to be my friend then? I've got nothing to do tomorrow and whatnot. In wgtn etc. I think I need more friends actually.... ... ... .. . .. Ok. Not more... Some. I need some. Some friends. @ReubenMetcalfe genius? Dunno. Michael Angelo's David is like 600 years old, and is good. "She's leaving home" makes me cry. 1967. @ReubenMetcalfe obviously I didn't say "2" because only cunts talk to themselves in textmessagese, but it's a weirdly emotional song. @ReubenMetcalfe in classical musical terms, and decides it's genius.I played it in my head and decided "fuck this, it's too sad to listen 2" @ReubenMetcalfe I was ruminating on a beatles song on the way here - there's a documentary where some old academic describes this song... @JayMutzafi Keep Kuccinich and the old guy who never stops talking @MichaelPhipps That's not actually true. Beware the glib epithet my friend. Hardly anything that sounds like it should be right, is. @gleonhard Yea... "A Chinese Century" or "Project for a new American Century" makes as much sense as "A New Hapsburg Century". @ReubenMetcalfe Bet you'd find it really hard to define what beatles-caliber-content actually is #therewasonlyoneyokoapartfromcourtney @punkscience The notion of "nation" is not that old... a 350 year old phase... NZ's emulation of the UK isn't an emulation. Same place. dEUS were a good band Life Plan: Make millions of dollars, prob by writing a book or being on TV, then use that to trick someone into loving me. Live Happily ev @BR3NDA ahhh... tired typing finger? @ReubenMetcalfe Coronation street is still going... and it's good, but it's not that good. @ReubenMetcalfe what does my head in about the beatles, is that it was the same time as this http://t.co/e5sE23Js and was over so fast @ReubenMetcalfe The Beatles were a precipitation of a set of economic and social conditions... and this still, fucking odd, genius. @lillianbehrendt @CNell_NZ to be fair, we're more scared of Christianity than Islam. For what it's worth, I can justify fear of both @j4ngis The yings and yangs of outrageous fortune circle and wait... wait and circle... @redeye no If you're selling music, if you think you are...you're probably selling something else. Good luck to you. Go for it. Just don't legislate it Music was never supposed to be a business, any more than talking was supposed to be a business. @zooko Woo - thank you. Dramatic shipping-price droppage. It's a jungle in here. @zooko Coffee was the only thing I could find that I could spend bitcoins on... but the postage was like... more than the coffee. I sponsored the bitcoin conference. I'm gradually extracting my money from Kiva. The art here is fucking dreadful. I could have chosen better than that. They've got no sense of.. balance etc. Maybe I should "offer myself" I'm in Wellington, slightly drunk at 7 in the post-meridian etc. I have a hotel room done out in Institutional-Pale-Yellow. The mighty have @JorgeStolfi Yea - people seem to like it. Hell of a bleak though. Mind you, if I was a small owl I'd be fucking furious anyway. I'd completely lose my rag.Doesn't bear thinking about. Thank fuck I'm a sloth Pet rescue's on. One of the vets is trying to force-feed M&Ms to a small owl,who's having none of it. Don't blame it. I'd be fucking furious tweeting with one hand, drinking a beer, smoking a fag and eating a hamburger ALL AT THE SAME TIME with the other Gov. Scott Walker wants to charge protesters for the pepper spray used on them http://t.co/AX2i5wTP < that's what they do in China isn't it? @Cunthorse Alien V Predator was always going to suck. Both were haunted-house stories. Haunted house vs haunted house is structurally iffy. Yea, well that's obvious http://t.co/kBK2G8F9 the more right-wing a govt is, the more shitting-in-own-nest-friendly it is. Sunday. The folks are going off god-bothering. I don't know why they're always doing that. @BR3NDA They only call it ageism when we fight back. So is this basically a declaration of martial law then? http://t.co/2nUJaBlF Big fast car http://t.co/PFBGi5L8 30,000 little piles of rice http://t.co/PWTjjlEz Danny Huston (who I rate very highly) is on. He has Gunerica. Not sure if that counts as "taste in art" or not. It was on my wall growing up Children of Men is on - set in a bleak dystopian future Britain based on a simple, linear extrapolation of conservative social policy @vallie Yea, a dark day indeed for The Kapati-Coast Card Castle Association. @vallie some people are complaining of stuff falling off shelves, but that's probably because they have precarious stuff. Serves them right. @vallie New Zealand - not a massive one. A cup-rattler. 5.7 @jordantcarter it hit Wanganui about 30 seconds after Wellington, and 30 seconds after that came the first wave of tweet-complaints @jordantcarter 5.7 Ooh http://t.co/TekeFFow @BR3NDA Would have been about a 5 in Wanganui. Felt it in Wanganui. Earthquake. @Cunthorse nah, the best lego toy would be one of these http://t.co/wDfbbLjq that makes lego bricks. @Martin_Carr Dogshit2 is cars man. Catsby The Cross http://t.co/gNwWBTNb 3D Printed Theo Jansen Machines http://t.co/K6D7Zij8 Anti-Piracy Group pirates own theme song http://t.co/Jl12Jy9T < Hollywood backed group in The Netherlands? Errm... fucking fuck the fuck off Permian Gate http://t.co/denAwtl5 How To Talk About #OWS For Fascists http://t.co/vh1MaWkg < so do the diametric opposite of that. Do not accept a single one of their frames Um yea, that's great http://t.co/MN7ROg72 but meantime over a million Americans die each year from poverty. Military budget insanity FTL Catsby's a good cat. Sitting there, eyes closed - not actually asleep, but organised so if tiredness overtakes him, he doesn't have to move Amazing, but possibly quite horrible 3D printed ceramics http://t.co/XZjT29nZ blatant police-state-hood takes another massive leap forward http://t.co/yxpVkp53 I do wish Labour NZ would hang-fire on choosing a leader... to avoid winding up with someone so uncharismatic they're basically invisible Father and Two Sons http://t.co/tKhwp7bK for no particular reason. Looks familiar etc. Immortals : A bad guy gets a weapon of mass destruction, so the gods nuke him, and start a never-ending war in heaven. This is a good thing. We saw that Immortals last night. More crypto-fascism from Hollywood. Hollywood simple does not make action films without torture anymore Childhood stick battles http://t.co/zbM3V6DR < like a psychopath Lowry Goldman Sachs in the EU http://t.co/dDncggU5 Stop Internet #Censorship! Sign the global petition @Avaaz urging the US Congress to reject the #Blacklist Bill #SOPA http://t.co/VJPmo0zu We saw that Machete last night - which as far as I can tell, is an attempt to establish Mexico as one of the great cheese producing nations @JimHedley I bought a 49mm fader off ebay yesterday. Everything connects etc. @x_chemicalism_x "As brittle as an iced daiquiri" :) - ok, not quite as bad as that. That's the look that US new-anchors go for though. @x_chemicalism_x possibly depends on the blonde - that whole 50s-style, heavily hair-sprayed look is kindof brittle. Pissed off face-cat http://t.co/36CSVfQa Little Engine http://t.co/jiNbBBYZ So my words have been lost in time, like farts in a hurricane. That ridiculous singing child with a haircut like a match-head is on TV - somehow snuck into the news. @jordantcarter I'd vote for David Parker - back in the s92A fiasco, he was the only one who questioned the need for "More Copyright" Oh hang on - I missed one. @TVNZnews has actually run 4 stories tonight on violent crime against children. SO FAR @TVNZnews running 1, 2, 3 stories on the subject it loves most, and that's violent crime committed against children. @bookhling The pool is probably people you know/people they know rather than native kickstarter/whoever users. It's not as easy as it looks @bookhling your goal, you get nothing. KS is US only as well. @bookhling Don't know about rockethub... just indiegogo and kickstarter. The bottom line is: kickstarter=more money but if you don't meet / Little jumpybot thing http://t.co/aFkVvbmP Green energy in the UK - subsidies vs value http://t.co/w6udpuJ0 The slide into fascism continueth http://t.co/H5lkjDlH UK's faith in nuclear power threatens renewables, says German energy expert http://t.co/xFzwDtSx < and every greeny, since at least 1979 Vaguely disturbing news, though to be fair, I thought they could do this already http://t.co/SjcL9Lmg We are the champion my my friend #ACTSongs @KaiserKuo As a Virgo I take all that superstition stuff with a pinch of salt. @KaiserKuo Do Chinese have Virgos? I thought it was all Dragons and Tigers and such. @stnick666 In my day we had to make up our own University courses. With rocks and bones and massive black obelisks etc. @stnick666 You seen that talk that the writer did about it? http://t.co/THYpYBFd (1 of 3) @stnick666 Can't remember - I can remember that line though, and thinking "Actually, I think this series might be alright" X-Men 2 is on. I can't for the life of me understand that series. Cool http://t.co/RyezkD1X In case there is anybody out there who doesn't know this - the problem with pop music, is that it's really really fucking boring. Korean Prison Droids http://t.co/muYnWb6L Nuke-Shills admit they're morons, and are rapdily running out of carpet under which to sweep their crap http://t.co/W9wUSN4w @dylanhorrocks Yea - it'd take a lot of pre-7 year olds to balance out a 100 year old. @thinkprogress @dylanhorrocks I think that's the average age of a homeless child rather than a homeless person. @leashless They do longer sometimes as well... some of them do discounts by the month etc. @leashless http://t.co/gqgvIxgY? @Cunthorse Yea, exactly. I once accidentally got diet coke - so added a sugar-sachette to turn it into normal coke. It went everywhere. So what... the markets are basically printing money? http://t.co/reGwdX24 it's just numbers in computers. Made up shit. Teargas etc http://t.co/nmO59Jfz < find out who makes this stuff, publish mugshots of them (and family members) on the web. @x_chemicalism_x Twinkies aren't vegan? I didn't think they were even organic. @farmgeek I thought the highlight of election night was the twonklet who nearly incinerated himself in Cuba Mall. That was brilliant. The TV weather guy secretly believes that he causes the weather himself by miming it. It's magic miming. No weather etc if he gets it wrong @TVNZnews have started the next 3 years as they mean to go on: sucking up to John Key. Beautiful day in NZ today. This guy's a creepy little 18 year old career-politician-in-waiting http://t.co/MCG8khqG < the exact opposite of what we need in politics Yea, exactly. Remember old-people, a NZFirst MP isn't just for Christmas @leashless Anonymous and The Pirate Parties aren't really the same thing. I doubt there's even an overlap. @sarahchats @jethrocarr yea - they're like stepford people. @stnick666 so who shot snot? re: all the bitching and complaining I do about @TVNZnews... this is why. People use the "information" they provide to decide how to vote Weirdly, this is trending on Reddit http://t.co/2Wb3fZju TVNZ's election coverage is now focused on a guy eating fish and chips, in a boat, in a carpark. What the fuck is that guy doing there? I thought he was a TV chef or something? Bomb-blast rocks down-town Wellington http://t.co/KN0FDKJ5 New Zealand Elections. Like watching the slowest car-crash in human history. Vague thoughts about single-iteration-learning. Robots and controlled environments and whatnot http://t.co/hWf5sO71 Voted. Tiny, pretty terraced houses http://t.co/DC0CJTum Female adult supervision suggested http://t.co/vwrrUffS Congressional corruption... or fear of being found out, behind coordinated #OWS crackdown http://t.co/j8AaRZoQ @mat_walker Yea - he seems to have vanished. I do attempt to google him every so often, but... I think we basically imagined the whole thing Snake Plissken is on TV. He's surrounded by hoes. He's checking his watch. He has no interest in hoes. Now he's outside somewhere. @quinnnorton If you like that, you might like Bruce Sterling (too much reverb) calling for a global movement, pre #OWS http://t.co/mHmlwJVE I'm designing a thing. The Media Belong to the 1% http://t.co/KknO4gMV < give it 5 years. The internet is going to eat TV. I dreamed I saw Australian Pete last night - wearing a stocking over his head so I wouldn't recognise him. He wasn't very pleased to see me Animated Bike Wheels http://t.co/QViU4mGA Ah Time's Person of The Year http://t.co/KpCBGBAv that's the one where they over-rule the 99% vote and give it to someone 1% - friendly Lions http://t.co/87vhWyL7 @obelos @LibLime it's a simple case (yet again) of corporate bullying - which when it comes down to it, is what "IP" is all about. @obelos @LibLime "Its" trademark? It has no moral or logical right to "own" ANY word, let alone one that others have been using for years @CitizenBomber Just saw the Stratos thing - cheers for that. That's what all of the tv coverage should have been like. Just had a taped recording of John Key on phone. Similar feeling to having him hovering outside the windows, and lying through the cat-flap Sarkozy worries that without top-down control, culture will disappear http://t.co/ZbAL3bX9 @A2Z We're into the Age of Atemporality man. There is no cool/uncool music anymore because everything is divorced from context. So you're ok But I think a saner America will make for a saner world. The majority of crap going on the world today is down to corporate pyschopathery. Potential list of #OWS demands http://t.co/nngmT68g all of which I could get behind, apart (perhaps) from the lack of global focus. Lessig on Obama http://t.co/7EcmIynA @thisfog You've got to stop sniffing yourself on the bus. @LibLime Just adding to the chorus - your actions over "Koha" are utterly repugnant and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Pathetic. @jonathan_may There's something about the optimism of that that really touches the heart. @jonathan_may tunnels/ventilation shafts etc... eventually got 3 floors up the science block - the last 2 metres of cable was string. @jonathan_may Yea - my Uni - 1980s... LAN installed for 1st time. Switch on... doesn't go... so a jnr lecturer had to crawl through ~1 km of @jonathan_may Borrowed from a true story, tragically enough. @jonathan_may Have you tried using a piece of string? Green Tech provides logistical advantage militarily http://t.co/xsuRdpzk Phil Goff is easily outclassing Key. What a pity there are so many morons in NZ. Benton http://t.co/B1k2q2B2 This is the greatest thing I have ever seen http://t.co/lSIl3zL2 Jesus, why does an ex-investment banker saying "trust me, I know how these things work" not exactly fill me with confidence John Key's smile is wan and insincere. I think Phil has the nicest tie. @BR3NDA It's not so much hard as illogical. God @TVNZnews are besides themselves with delight over this helicopter crash - it's like all their christmases have come at once. Debtor's Prisons in the US http://t.co/jyizJ3Md < why not just make a big prison fence round the whole country. Use the anti-Mexican one. Aus Green Party sticking up for the rights of Julian Assange http://t.co/4v4iPkDT < closest we've got to the party of the 99% That Benton video just gets funnier and funnier each time I see it. Corporation tries to trademark Purple http://t.co/Hy3uhMw6 < let's all wear purple and hang about outside. Anyone tries to sue, we kill them @x_chemicalism_x Everybody has a weird face. Conservative Party "policies" http://t.co/lHC5SzGg < every bit as grim and unimaginative as you'd imagine. So... what did you come as? http://t.co/sYKADX2N < get a brain morans @Siouxfire This is a new set I think - his site has loads of others http://t.co/dRIau4d4 Spooky little diorama things http://t.co/JswDobKg 9/11 fallout still falls - a militarised police-force, created out of panic, attacks the people it is paid to protect http://t.co/5KtUAGqN @joshr @BonfireIM That said, nice one - congrats. Top job etc. @joshr yea - saw that (I keep an eye on things :)) - I try to avoid synchronous coms tho - too much of my time is swamped by the web as is Kudos to @TVNZnews over this http://t.co/PYxI0ijX < if they pull this off, I'll never slag them off again. @rgoodchild @TrevorMallard yea, but Actually-Caring-About-People is communist propaganda. If it wasn't for political parties catering to special (aka rich) interests, we wouldn't have "politics" we'd have organisation. I think most policy should be fairly simple - do what works. The only reason it's complicated is govts trying to put rich people first. Out of blase curiosity, has The Green Party ever been wrong about anything? I know I have... but... have they? Words that should be embroidered onto a boxing glove and smacked into the face of everyone who opposed it. Green Party turns out right again Commissioner for Children, and Pediatrician Dr Wills: The Anti-Smacking law has had a huge effect in reducing violence against children. http://t.co/thoDKVQy. < you can make your own etc. Chief of Police during Seattle WTO Riots perspective on protest, and the militarisation of police http://t.co/o4ux1E72 #OWS Off to see a business mentor in a bit. envelope pushers http://t.co/giJfhPso First the laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they take the piss, then they swing you round by your school-bag til you fall over Is that the same presenter guy that Helen Clark referred to as a "Sanctimonious Little Creep"? Paul Henry isn't doing analysis, he's just shilling for National. Paul Henry is such a creep. Jesus, what the fuck is he doing there. 3D printed coffee cups - some of these are pretty cool :) http://t.co/AqZOyeFd I think all in all, Phil Goff comes across as less of a total cunt. When Key says "Mums and Dads" he's only talking about Mums and Dads with money to spare - that cuts my Mum and Dad out. When John Key says "New Zealanders" he means "New Zealanders with money to spare". A Tool To Deceive and Slaughter still plying it's trade http://t.co/TDr5Off4 not sure how to tell if it's being bought though. Yea, well the internet pisses all over this from a great height doesn't it http://t.co/5Xpmd44T Owl http://t.co/K6EshmqN @LaurieFleming Yea, well if they form a coalition with National I'm voting Pirate after that. @LaurieFleming @NZGreens What's MOU? Memorandum of Understanding? Which? What? etc. @mat_walker Last episode = absolutely brilliant. Classic calm before storm buildup, but instead of the explosion/bloodbath it goes "ping" John Key's Private Conversation http://t.co/anPnPSWW < a secret within a publicity stunt within a distraction within propaganda campaign Catsby's going mental owl http://t.co/pP4yHmNx Looking at this photo http://t.co/665S6JSO and listening to the start of this http://t.co/5JA0m8od and thinking about the 1960s Creepy kid's story http://t.co/1HitA9Bk The story I mean. Not the kid. The kid is fine. Initially. Short film :) http://t.co/J5LYdioE Microsoft Hipsters http://t.co/lJ8ScMUb Modular tents http://t.co/HijbfzhR The Pepper Spray incident. Thoughts on: http://t.co/mcqj5qgj Mind you, It seems that it was one of the journo-twats making the film. It would have been better just being quiet though. FFS My : #OWS response to pepper-spraying incident http://t.co/voSuqdZP < first class bit of theatre. Fantastic. Pity about the journo-twats “We’re building a marketing channel from scratch” http://t.co/vb9BoIXH < and I'm running out of ways to say "FUCK OFF" ripply face http://t.co/369yLmIW @TVNZnews is campaigning for The National Party again. @Afrotonomy meet @ballardian - I'm a bit of a JG Ballard fan as well - a particular angle on dystopia tho. Civilisation going gentily feral Spends morning happily cleaning up and locking down a wordpress hack My http://t.co/KImZ6TwU < probably the biggest own-goal yet I'd say. Still, not quite Kent State yet. meep 7/20 http://t.co/bUwNYSw5 The accusations against Goldman Sachs http://t.co/D0isFD0W @Afrotonomy so Objective Truth gets to be a little tricky to pin down. I studied this stuff decades ago. Wikipedia is probably a good primer @Afrotonomy The gist of Heisenberg (If I've got this right) is that at a quantum level, the act of measuring, decisively alters the outcome. @Afrotonomy Ok - though I'm kindof making it up as I go :) @Afrotonomy Not according to Heisenberg, no - but that doesn't mean subjectivity trumps objectivity. Falsifiablity is kindof a core concept @x_chemicalism_x Don't take chances... and remember, it's better to have 2 500GB drives than 1 TB one. I learned that the hard way. @x_chemicalism_x get another hard-drive and back it up. I've had quite patchy luck with externals. @CNell_NZ There was a load of fuss when a rural pub had to take down an EU flag. Not a national flag so (legally) it must be advertising @CNell_NZ In the UK it is - if it's advertising... which is the default category that everything falls into - for example: NY Police destroying the property the confiscate? http://t.co/vaqtJPFZ #OWS Tech companies that support SOPA http://t.co/ggYrbF0N Apple, Adobe, Microsoft etc. Arse. I'm going to miss the news. There's only one thing more irritating than missing the news, and that's the news. @vallie Not especially, no. Am very reclusive etc. Going to an art-exhibition opening in a bit. God I hope nobody recognises me. Ultra-light nano-metal http://t.co/NcIYDrbG @jordantcarter What? You've got a beard now?... oh... ok... is it for your "christmas job"? @dirktherabbit @AngeliqueSC @comScore A tablet's basically just a big smartphone. @videojon tell him Nick Taylor, disgraced former Wild Poppy is here. @GarethMP Yea, once a tadpole, always a tadpole. I had a business card that said that once. It wasn't mine - it was Ivor Cutler's. @GarethMP I thought mer-people were called mermoids? Eh oop, Corrie's on. @GarethMP On TV :) @CNell_NZ @GarethMP What? In Parliament? It's about 120 isn't it? @johnkeypm Yea, yea, you would say that. What NZers are really interested in, is what you said in the (insanely secret) teagate tapes. FFS holders of the teapot tapes - get them on the internet already. Not just for The Ladies - here are a few simple rules that I always follow as well http://t.co/844Uu1DS SOPA http://t.co/tDmfPlqp Key cancels Radio New Zealand Interview - over questions about the Epsom tea party tape? Gee he must have said something really terrible @EmzGurl What? Catsby? He's good... waif and a stray when he turned up... now a cantankerous well-fed ratbag. @punkscience Nah, humanity is generally the opposite of insanity. Inhumanity is how this particular species of insanity manifests itself Or better still, we get a criminal justice system that recognises the damage that these people do, and prosecutes them. Somebody should just kill these people http://t.co/SvceuYHE How much does a good assassin cost? @punkscience I know what you meant - I think insanity is a broad enough concept to cover groups. Same symptoms, collectively expressed @punkscience Individually maybe not; collectively they most definitely are. I'm talking mainly about Republicans... mainly. All very beige and middle of the road though. Well that was The NZ Leadership debates. Ok I suppose. At least they're not all completely fucking insane like the American ones are. Stop Internet #Censorship! Sign the global petition @Avaaz urging the US Congress to reject the #Blacklist Bill #SOPA http://t.co/0runIy6j Hate to say it - being a greenie etc, but I think The Maori Party is coming across best #leadersdebate @jordantcarter @JCELaw Is that a haircut? I thought it had just kindof... I don't know... died like that. True though Mr Lahey x Mr Burns The Pre-Election Debate is on. God this is going to be irritating. I'm effervescent with ire already and it hasn't started yet. The ultimate mirrored aviator shade http://t.co/W7vcNvr9 @clarecurranmp @TrevorMallard actually, I think the first step is remembering where you left it. @timoreilly That is because they are beholden to powerful interests that do not want the issues that need to be confronted, confronted. @jordantcarter @NZGreens A thing's only a "gate" if there's an hilarious self-incriminating cockup-compounding cover-up afterwards. @CNell_NZ I learned that word from Tintin... or more accurately, Captain Haddock, when he was drunk. John Key does a runner after a mind-failure http://t.co/JCqPPvFw < either you get recursive subroutines or you don't. @bentorkington @nzlemming he stormed out of a teacup. @MutualArising @leashless The Israeli Occupy Variant had a guillotine didn't it? http://t.co/8QAactZG Nice idea, but suicidally bad PR @jordantcarter Yea, bit of a cake-fight really. God I hope it gets worse. Would be nice if people could vote on actual issues though Big spider; big snake http://t.co/yRmSi2qY @MaxDCoyle Well... they certainly go against fluid-dynamics. Logic I'm not so sure. The M25 just spontaneously stops sometimes mind. @leashless As someone, somewhere else said: "To name something is to have done with it" - re: ontologies etc. @insequential Didn't think you were pissed off at me - I think the gate suffix is quite funny. Especially in this instance. @insequential not sure - it was either that or teacupgate. It wasn't me - I'm just copying someone else etc. Ah - maybe that's why National is so scared of teagate http://t.co/SFt0sDbe Where's wikileaks when we need it. @EmzGurl AWOL? Nah... been here all the time. Not even wearing a disguise etc. 90210 is on. Everyone's incredibly good looking except me. Mind you... I'm not actually in it. On TV right now, there's a light-hearted romantic comedy in which everything turns out alright in the end. Just like real um... life... @SkinBintin And I don't even smoke :) @SkinBintin re: "If I can get a job, anyone can"- that's a fallacy which assumes there are more jobs than people. Anyone can != Everyone can @SkinBintin you smoke? Then you will be treated as a non-functional stoner by drug-testing law. How can that be ok? @SkinBintin the majority of people who smoke dope ARE functional, but will still be caught in the stereotype net - if drug testing happens. @SkinBintin Um... you just described a stereotype, then said "no stereotyping". Sorry - what you described IS a stereotype. Army http://t.co/XPYxGlXB @SkinBintin - so National are trying to shift blame for the lack of jobs onto "people who smoke dope", and you're falling for it. Don't. @SkinBintin ... people are unemployed "because" they smoke dope - rather than there not being enough jobs. It's just a fucking lie @SkinBintin You're falling for a conservative-morality lie, which is "poor people are poor because they're immoral"... in this case... @SkinBintin what is a "stoner" exactly? Everyone I know who smokes has a job. Stereotype much? @SkinBintin c) blaming the poor for being poor d) focus on "benefit fraud" rather than corporate fraud, e) the insanity of prohibition @SkinBintin the problem is a) the humiliation and indignity of drug-tests b) intrusion of corporation/state into our personal lives Nerdpod http://t.co/tPFyQJOL < I want a spaceship version of that. I think the "leader" of Syria has the least impressive Movember effort I've ever seen http://t.co/d3lB6o6f Oh - look at that - the organiser of the National Party Poster-Correction Campaign (The NPPCC) is a devout Christian http://t.co/EbHIPYft Lab grown meat http://t.co/8XDM0GEp @MaxDCoyle when I was about 3, in London my folks bought me a matchbox car each week. I used to make traffic jams out of them. All I knew. Ooh look - National want to create jobs by introducing drug-tests for people unable to find jobs http://t.co/zy8JzmXN < stupid cunts. Microcopter view of protest http://t.co/p4ap6g3u @x_chemicalism_x @piratepartyNZ and that it's ok for corporations to dictate policy over social-infrastructure to prop up decayed biz models @x_chemicalism_x @piratepartyNZ it also assumes "work once get paid forever" is ok, that "monitoring downloads" is ok, that copyright is ok @x_chemicalism_x @piratepartyNZ re: No Harm No Foul - that assumes that a download is (otherwise) a lost sale, which is a total lie My - a diaspora founder topped himself. That's sad. Grass things http://t.co/N9hBBCG7 Random bits of art that may or may not have anything to do with the golden mean http://t.co/01SpZLd0 including Dune, Alien and Art Deco Sat next to some flowers at the mo http://t.co/PzsHZFlX < no added saturation etc. They're amazing. @x_chemicalism_x Who needs a self-destruct button when they've got a self-destruct brain? The people who make desktop computers and put the USB ports at the back, don't really know what USB ports are for do they? @BR3NDA I think the "zero damage" argument (ie: we can't get it here, so it isn't a lost sale) is a red-herring. It's not a lost sale anyway @BR3NDA Really? Did you also not use VCR? Or Cassettes? Or Radio? or any of the other things that were "killing music"? Right. So the Olympics now requires the creation of a private army http://t.co/AflHwyIF < what is it actually for again? All "established" parties do is give us fake choices - while doing back-room deals, with non-elected (and sociopathic) power/money brokers. And this (scaled up) is what is wrong with ALL politics. Only the Greens and the Pirates actually reflect the web. The real conversations. Like politicians debating "The Vietnam War" in the 70s, and only talking about what sort of bombs we should use. The main thing I hated about the #s92A "debate", is that it failed to mirror the "real-world" debate. It was an irrelevant subset Well anyway, today I'm delivering leaflets for the Green party (even though I'm not a member) - as revenge for #ACTA and #s92A @BR3NDA Just pirate them. Everyone else does. @EmzGurl Jesus, please don't tell me they named an airport after dubya? Obama and Guantanamo http://t.co/iTVFGp8q < as far as I'm concerned, this is his litmus-test failure. The legalization of torture. @lucasgonzalez @leashless but kdenlive is nicer to use... and can handle h.264 / 1080p. Premier Pro needs proxies or mp4 conversions @lucasgonzalez @leashless ... a fairly fast machine. Kdenlive is for simple stuff... for complex editing I use premier pro in Windows (drag) @lucasgonzalez @leashless I just use what comes out of the camera : h.264 1080p (which is a display rather than editing format) so needs... @jordantcarter and Night-Twitterers. @x_chemicalism_x A zen thing then. Nothing wrong with that. @x_chemicalism_x Appreciate these fast, fleeting pleasures while you can. If taking out the rubbish is a buzz, make the most of it. Perspectives on the occupy movement - that the MSM (in NZ at least) seem utterly incapable of understanding http://t.co/oGayaFTv @Ferrrgle @IanMartin I think I'd start by looking on http://t.co/gqgvIxgY @olleolleolle I'm managing to pick up the gist, with a little help from google-translate :) @olleolleolle So what are the um... non-speaking-abroad voices saying? @lucasgonzalez @leashless Best I've found is a combination of WinFF and kdenlive. I also use FFMpeg CLI (alas) for chopping up clips Short film about a confrontation on a train http://t.co/YRYFPdBY Another foreign corporation trying abusive copyright bullshit in NZ http://t.co/F2UAbYOl < fuck this. Let's just scrap IP. If you vote National, you're going to get a coalition with this guy http://t.co/1R27DjZP Mark Wahlberg's on TV in a movie so heavily colour-graded it's almost black and white. Shades of teal. Hollywood before it discovered orange 20 most innovative startups? http://t.co/qrRJ5C5L < jesus. No wonder "startup" is so last-decade. Only 3 of these make any difference at all I think it's the audio that I'm starting to hate in action movies - the way every movement makes a swooshing sound. Trouser-rustling bass Snow White trailer with Charlize in it http://t.co/EhZAApoM Looks less terrible than it probably is Sweden : Regulate banks, profit http://t.co/afjwPmIS Pig shaped pig http://t.co/1o4zxbQi Don't even point at it http://t.co/LWmJKB0Y Yup - National's Wing-Man http://t.co/pStMZHRP @secondzeit not to mention basic human-nature - regardless of what the nutjobs might think. Empathy rules. @secondzeit Yea - the trouble with self-interest is it flies in the face of 1000s of years of Christian, Buddhist, Muslim etc etc teaching 3rd time lucky. LOL Ayn Rands psycho-eugenic bollocks pulled from shelves because copywriters got their morality wrong http://t.co/i5W3YPer @BR3NDA Oh no - condolences and so on. You take care of yourself. Starts off fun, winds up a nightmare http://t.co/CDcOhGKy < be warned kiddie-winkies. Coke changes your brain.Mother of all cross-addictions Looks like the Russian oligarch didn't get it after all. EMI now owned by a French corporation http://t.co/wTgbQPl7 He's quite orange isn't he, Rambo? Rambo The Orange etc. Agent Orange. Everything he touches turns into a fucking disaster. @danzarrella The original Conan The Barbarian movie was also (vitally) original. That's what made it brilliant. There's quite a big difference between "no flies on such and such" and "no files on such and such". Rambo II is on in a bit, a movie which (strangely) I have never seen. Special treat fer us in store tonight then. @x_chemicalism_x Yea well, stupidity also evolves alas. @x_chemicalism_x re: Big Boy's Toys - I expect they've tried, and found that it doesn't work. CSS getting into behaviour-land http://t.co/6y0dSiZd territory formerly claimed by JS @daughterphoenix @timomcd @edwardvirtually Well that bloke who was President - Martin Sheen... been arrested about 200 times. It happens Preparing for the Farmer's Market tomorrow... caught sight of self and realised "oh christ. I've turned into a villager". 11-11-11 11:11:11 : NZT : Happy Nigel Tufnell Day Perry should've copied Bush: stand there until the radio-prompter visible under his jacket started working. People would still vote for him @Cunthorse 'Skyrim' sounds like loo cleaner.. for people who take "I wouldn't trust you to sit on a toilet properly" to extreme-sport levels Catsby's going mental. Full moon. Guardian of the Hole http://t.co/zbLBjBiT facebox http://t.co/rRsCdE1O Well there's a smug, patronising and dismissive "piece" on #OWS protests by TVNZ. It's really time we started doing our own news-reporting. @TVNZnews still milking the Chch earthquake. Tonight's story "How are students coping with their exams?" About a 8 months later. Is it me, or does @tvnznews really really dial up the crime-reporting if there's an election pending? @jordantcarter Yea - well shooting the messenger is inexcusable. Unless we're talking about almost the entire corporate media. @jordantcarter Oh I can understand people being nasty completely. You are a lot less disenfranchised than the rest of us. Typical. Tory. Wanker http://t.co/LQ1kqEqQ @jordantcarter Yea well - went up to Auckland last week and it rained there every day too. Pissing it down in Wanganui at the mo. Today I will mostly be designing posters RT @Raindance "Get Real"? Here's reality: NOBODY gives a flying fuck about "intellectual property". "Work for free" makes it all so easy. RT @Raindance How To Get Film Work Without Experience http://t.co/4fNtgHEb < ie: work for free. The head of Viacom gets $85M a year Hey NZ People - the medicine I just paid $3 for would have cost $90 (a month) if the US Intellectual Property fuckwits get their way. Ignoring god's existence/non-existence. Why the obeisance? Why the humiliating pose? It's so open to abuse. As memeplexes go it's repugnant I find this quite creepy http://t.co/dSTB4Ggy that image of someone supplicating themselves. There's nothing there. Just a lying priest Ab Fab the movie http://t.co/9wnZiie0 < ill advised I think. Hardly ever (never?) works. @thejoeturner Your ISP might have backups - I do stuff with dreamhosts... they do. Worth asking them in any case. @Afrotonomy How about no student debt at all. My generation didn't get loans, we got grants. I'd happily tax the banks to pay for that :) @techdirt Which Causes More Harm: Copyright Or Patents? http://t.co/2ZB3hClQ < Copyright because it's the pretext for attacking the web. Oh look, the house of lords is corrupt too http://t.co/yNShbP8P @x_chemicalism_x the symptoms go a bit deeper than that I think. I tick all the boxes for proper dehydration. "Intellectual Property" and "totalitarian state censorship" are inseparable. One provides the pretext for the other. Yup. Copyright was invented by Mary Queen of Scots for the purpose of censorship. Nothing has changed http://t.co/fQicZenw @x_chemicalism_x Yea - but it's interfering with sleep, which makes it a bit more problematic than simply drinking a lot. @kaxline @LaiStirland but the real truth is that it's all about selling eyeballs to advertisers.Sex scandals sell more ads that incompetence @kaxline @LaiStirland because the electorate also has a total lack of economic, historical or foreign policy knowledge.Sex scandals they get David http://t.co/Hs8FUC0A Just found out that the illness I'm suffering from psychogenic polydipsia - is a psychological condition, most commonly found in dogs. @LaurieFleming even though they prefer the policies of other parties. But you know.. I think most people are fucking stupid, so there you go @LaurieFleming Unlikely to be this one. From what I can gather, a lot of people support National as though it's a sports team.. their "side" I've got a lot of time for David Parker - in the s92a "debate" he was the only one who actually questioned the need for "more copyright" @IdLtdDotCom LOL - I saw this Punch and Judy in London once - there was a little girl watching with an expression of utter utter horror. @johnkeypm Presumably your "balanced plan for the environment" allows oil-drilling 4 times deeper than that which caused the gulf-disaster Sam Harris on self-defence http://t.co/VvX6fkuS @hjortur @L_e_a_h Most Impressive? This http://t.co/eJV8GDeO #TTOT Watching the movie about the Valerie Plame thing - you forget just how blatantly criminal the Bush regime was. Well @TVNZnews is particularly shit this evening. Crime (especially against children), Sports, celebrity gossip and an advert for Apple @3Politics "Five National MPs you may not know" - unless you saw the disgraceful s92a anti-internet "debate, you despicable tory shills. Eh oop. The vandals have taken the handles Here's an idea - a Rentier Quotient http://t.co/T5KIs5HI where tax is based on how parasitic an income is. She also wants to end drug prohibition, AND is on the side of the internet. Unlike her labour forbear who was pro-top-down-control etc This is my UK MP http://t.co/IZEuJgD9 bet she's better than your MP. Get rid of yours. Get one like this one. Or do it yourself. I'm sitting under the Departure-Information display. People keep coming over and staring above my head with expressions of pure bafflement @MaxDCoyle Yea, that's cobblers too. "Right / Wrong". What's important is "works / doesn't work" backed with "evidence / no evidence" Ooh! hang on, hang on... just seen someone I fancy... panic-stations... oh... wait... no, it's a bloke... no... ok.. no it's an afghan hound At AKL airport, slightly drunk. Am early for plane, but spelled name wrong = passenger-processing-chaos. Twas ever a finely tuned lyre etc. Christ, Imagine getting into a fight with the fucker! And these ones had been freshly charged. "Jakka wakka bakka dakka" they went - jaws moving; noise grating out... "Vote ACT". Errr.. fuckoff I feel both empowering and ineffectual. ACT party canvasers etc. They don't have brains - just LEDs behind their eyes. Battery indicators I ranted at some people in the street earlier. There was gesticulating. Perhaps a little too much gesticulating. Semi-raised voice etc. @thejoeturner the process behind almost all clothing today is hidden behind "brand". They need to distract from the sweat-shop aspect etc. @thejoeturner I think there would probably be a marketing-angle there, yea.. it'd be interesting because it would lay open the whole process @thejoeturner people who are good at it, are really good at it - industrialisation's probably reduced quality by using cheap labour @thejoeturner the art to really well made clothes is as much to do with how they're cut than how they're sewn. I still have stuff made etc. @thejoeturner Nah - mine's the household version. I think the clothing is up to modern standards. Possibly better. @thejoeturner Yea - I've got one of these http://t.co/Az8eLxNF every well-appointed grandparent had one back in the 60s. Kept them as tables @thejoeturner I think I've got one, weirdly enough. One of those cast-iron treddle ones that fold-away into desks. I have a Green MP in the UK - and she's decades ahead of the other parties in every issue - including tech, economics, drug-prohibition etc "only the Greens are jumping on it" http://t.co/VamUZ3b9 < because it's only the Greens who ask questions that actually matter. @rickygervais I think Live/Leave is more a typo-of-the-mind than a fat-finger thing. Your fingers are innocent. @SadekHM Mornin. Fred Gwynne's on TV. Man's a god. @ProtectiveMum I don't really like the word "Earthling". Sounds like Duckling. @ProtectiveMum I'm a kiwi, I know what you mean... although to be fair, I identify more as an Earthling. Cousin Vinnie is on. His girlfriend is excellent. And I'll tell you another thing: Action movies these days are made up of dozens of well-worn cliches, ALL of which I'm truly sick of. We just saw that Conan The Barbarian, LOL. For the record though, 3D does not improve movies. It makes them kindof jumbly. Odd parallaxes @GreatDismal Yea - I think "Flat White" is the species of coffee that was once known as "coffee". Microsoft’s Accidental Abolish-IP Advert http://t.co/dWKOiXwb My taxi driver was from Macedonia - telling me how cool #OWS is - in Auckland NZ. Fireworks are going off everywhere. 2011-11-05 11:53 Out the window people are drying clothes and standing on balconies smoking. TVs and late drinking. It feels like home. I'm on the 15th floor I'm up a massive tall building somewhere. I can hear AC units and people shouting in the street and tooting horns and such. Oh yea, and if anyone finds my fucking phone, they have my express permission to smash it to death with a sledgehammer. Douglas Rushkoff accidentally providing stray evidence to my theory that the current mess is built into the currency http://t.co/kXKqIvy2 At Palmerston North Airport. You chaps in England won't have heard of Palmerston North Airport. It's um... an airport. In Palmerston North BBC Hilariously referring to the BPI as an "arts organisation" http://t.co/zknD0kHJ er.. no it fucking isn't, it's a middle-men organisation @tarekshalaby @NoorNoor1 Yea - trickle-down is the idea that you can increase wealth distribution, by decreasing it. @punkscience They'll probably get him going again with nanotech or something. Rendering video so GPU running at 90°C - every laptop has a serious flaw. This one is that it runs so hot that it destroys the batteries. @punkscience LOL - that's what I was going to say. @Siouxfire Most films have a plot... which you know... they share with most other films of the same genre. Hollywood has about 12 plots. There's a movie ad on TV with the warning "Strong themes and violence". WTF is a "strong theme"? Is that like Anna Karenina or something? Ah, so Sarkozy is in favour of the Tobin Tax? So am I... funnily enough - but instead of it being .05% I'd make it closer to... ooh... 100%. @chrishipkins @Danjite so if The Tories can be described (as I think they can) as "the dishonest leading the ignorant",he straddles the line @chrishipkins @Danjite I've seen one of Nick Smith's performances in parliament - the main point of him was to shut down meaningful debate I'm going on a plane tomorrow. It has propellers and everything. @stephenfry Nah - you'll be recognised and rescued. The Angels of Fame watch o'er you and whatnot. All will be well. @SkinBintin Well The Internet has a record of striking down with great vengeance and furious anger, those who would mess with its brothers @SkinBintin If it's that long, you'll probably need stitches. Pronto-quick. Get thee to a doctor etc. @SkinBintin Misplaced Stigmata Catsby's pretending to eat nachos. I don't know why I bother - you try to bring them up proper, and look what happens. @JephFreak @stnick666 Is that the one where the Christian guy calls Louis a "jack-weasel"? Brilliant. Louis is an accidental genius. "Victims first, through harsher sentencing". Orwellian Toryism http://t.co/7zhmNIwl Honestly, everything they say is a lie of some sort. @johnkeypm Utter rubbish. You don't benefit "victims" with harsher penalties, you do it by creating social conditions that lower crime Earthquake art http://t.co/cpn8EObC @stwange Cheers :) - fortunately I have multiple personalities. It's a fear-of-commitment thing. @GarethMP But that aside, Keas I think. Ever since I saw one trying to break out of an enclosure with a rock held in its beak. Smart birds @GarethMP You are Gareth, you know that :) @natcampaign but then tories operate a simple formula: Ignorance in the service of greed. That's all it is, and that's all you are. @natcampaign Looking fwd to Key saying that selling rich NZers assets they already own so they can rent them to poor NZers makes NZ "richer" It's the venal, greed-serving conservative think-tanks (like AEI) that are the architects of this fuckup. We should bulldoze the fuckers The G20 meta-tyrants appear to think that the fact they're fucking the world is some sort of PR problem http://t.co/1e94k0oy @jordantcarter Because tory govts always deliberately run up debts so they can then turn around and gut social services. @MichaelPhipps I feel quite sorry for that chicken. @MichaelPhipps Which chicken was that dude? Run up the debt, then savage all the social programs http://t.co/XIuScuHD The #G20 is allowing massive companies to buy sponsorship and access. Sign now to stop it! #economy http://t.co/GCi24BTO @cardean45 @TalkNuclear @john_mackay "The New Republic"? What the fuck is that? Some sort of warped neocon rag? Jesus. @john_mackay @cardean45 and when you're done with that, here's a whole flotilla of reasons why nuke is stupid http://t.co/UE8CbQt7 @john_mackay @cardean45 mean-time, here's an art-oriented piece on the 100,000 yr problem http://t.co/I7cBvnNp < factor that into your costs @john_mackay @cardean45 um... you check "fax" - being aware, that nuke-industry PR traditionally doesn't contain any. @cardean45 @john_mackay Yea, the UK's nuke-waste storage is ~1bn£ a year, every year, for ~100,000 yrs. See them Pyramids? Only 4500 yrs old @cardean45 @john_mackay and whatever the costs of green energy, it can't possibly be more expensive than fossil or nuke has turned out to be @cardean45 @john_mackay Green energy may or may not be cheap, but it is a trillion dollar market that WILL happen whether we do it or not @johnkeypm National and Education: I'm a son of two teachers - teachers are always treated with contempt by you lot. They don't vote for you Fracking causes earthquakes? http://t.co/HsRmK3XC @fatcharlesh @fundypost echoing Rowan Williams. Absolute bullshit. The church's inability to deal with sex is entirely its own problem This video pretty much sums up everything I think about conservatives http://t.co/QKqEyvyA Liberals don't do this "Strict Father" shit. @x_chemicalism_x Indeed - that was my tweet-of-inspiration for that little outburst :) @NZGreens we saw what happened to the Lib Dems when they sold out to tories in the UK. If you side with Nats, I'll never vote for you again @MichaelPhipps Sun Tzu's Art Of War is The Little Book Of Calm for people who like fighting. I actually did come last in the school long-distance run (1k runners) once - mainly because I got lost and the bus took ages etc. Mum talking to son on phone; Catsby sleeping on max-cushions at once while sliding onto the floor http://t.co/I21LEsCe My Sister went in the Sydney 9km bridge run w 35000 others - came 47th without doing any training etc. I probably would have come last. Ok - so that €3.5 Tn Greek debt IS just a number in a database somewhere isn't it? Just a number made up by banks swapping other numbers Check out the 2nd paragraph in "Before [politics" http://t.co/fahpY5fZ That's the Prime Minister of NZ. Fucking unbelievable. I think the green-party billboards are nicest. The National ones are all terrible on account of having a photo of a fucking dickhead on them Just because it is http://t.co/MbytfLhK Octopus Cup http://t.co/02OpFMbn It's a Ballchinian @LaurieFleming Nor do I... I don't know anything about that singing child either. I blot all reference to them out of my sensory inputs. Disasterous IP Legislation is back http://t.co/McZn7OVT–-and-it’s-worse-ever I'm programming for profit and pleasure, but mainly pleasure. It's better than crosswords or sudokus etc. @projectsugru is good for fixing the rubber feet and whatnot on laptops when they go missing. And making a keypad-guard. And covering LEDs @johnkeypm re: "Ma and Pa" investors - NZers who can afford shares making money out of NZers who can't, does not make NZ better off. Duh. @johnkeypm I think the most urgent reform we need is to get rid of any government who wants to sell our infrastructure. @olleolleolle If it was just art it would be ok :) Thought-Bubbles about Abundance http://t.co/qH6PkuJO @JPBarlow I think (In the words of Hitch) "it depends how they behave". Iceland hasn't really sunk has it? Sinking seems a bit variable. Well that's fucking odd http://t.co/cT5sRYAd dressed in "gently used" (but fucking FIREPROOF) children's clothing. @LeifKendall Yea - you don't really learn to drive until you've passed your test. After a while it all becomes auto-pilot. @LeifKendall Ah, Nerd-Eyes. Nerd-eyes, meet Cats-eyes. The road-markings that matter have little lights etc. The rest is decoration. @SaraMSalem @Mamoudinijad I think the artificial scarcity of money forces artificial scarcity on everything. Root of all evil. @SaraMSalem @Mamoudinijad /on value we create (eg: the corn-exchange approach) rather than being lent into existence as a scarce resource @SaraMSalem @Mamoudinijad I don't think we need to get rid of money - we need to diversify it. Or create a kind of meta-money that is based/ @LeifKendall You'll probably change your mind at some point... night-driving = less traffic. @thejoeturner You have massively missed the point. Fact. @thejoeturner Oh - ok, the suffragettes were all wasting their time then. Damn. All that protest for nothing. @thejoeturner / ask anyone female here, how they came to have a vote. Here's a clue http://t.co/Xujx81BI @thejoeturner / that there is a swell of opinion that they can represent. This is what usually happens. But don't take my word for it / @thejoeturner By providing a rallying point and by (eventually) forcing the media to talk about it... but mainly by showing politicians / @thejoeturner Our politicians are giving us narrow "choices" which really make no difference.#occupylsx is part of a movement to change that @bobbyllew < 3% of artists signed to majors made over $600 /yr from them, pre-napster. It always was wibbly wobbly. Less so now really. LOL http://t.co/U4mwBxbg @CNell_NZ John Key isn't trying to sell you a car, he's trying to get you to sell yours so the new owner can rent it back to you. Forever. On Trick or Treat night, I dress up too... as Mr Creosote... then when pixies and fairies come to the door, I eat the "one last wafer" Is it me, or are National Anthems a bit steampunk http://t.co/NFKDnUMk @clarecurranmp Yea - I think creating a TV News media that actually reports news, is about 33% of what's needed to de-mess us. Glass house. Needs curtains http://t.co/kBY3ifFl Dots http://t.co/H9W8eQB8 re: The disappointing silence of priests... why the surprise? The Church has been an instrument of the establishment since Constantine #OWS Just went and saw "In Time" at the fliks - and thought it was excellent strangely enough. Proper sci fi with ideas and such. @TrevorMallard #keyholes, LOL. Now there's a deft bit slogo-bombing Off to the movies in a bit. God I hope everything's not orange. dice http://t.co/jV86AjRB http://t.co/niSSQhxa Bikes http://t.co/Xl0O61Kq Exemplary service from @ponoko support people once again. Thank you :) Employees of life-ruining law-firm doing a fancy-dress piss-take of their victims http://t.co/LTfV1vuN Fantastic photos of American military police attacking their own populations http://t.co/8SxTWrE9 why even bother pretending? @Afrotonomy Maybe - in the same way "lack of heroin" is a chemical imbalance to an addict. Trouble with love is we're born addicted. @billmaher Yea - if you remove all the pagan stuff from "Christian Festivals" they'd be bleak anemic little affairs. Pagans have all the fun @SaraMSalem Nobody forgets - they simply don't know to start with. Yea, well obviously Guantanamo has "admission of guilt" built into its DNA http://t.co/DDKc3rnI likewise America's failure to ratify the ICC Classic photo http://t.co/kuDNiovg looks like a 17th Century Grand-Master "action-painting" eg: http://t.co/CdylnGoE http://t.co/X4cGsmgF @librarykris Not normally - they exist in a kindof Protagonist/Villain oppositional, but linked duality. Ying yang, good cat bad cat etc @Afrotonomy LOL - that's fucking excellent. Thanks :) @Afrotonomy Cool - thanks Ron Paul miles ahead in straw-polls http://t.co/fi4Y4M49 but not taken seriously by establishment because he's not a corporatist shill. Intellectual Property as the arch-theft of the 1% from the rest of us http://t.co/wh5Sjg0a < Abolish it all. Abolish the 1% as well. @Afrotonomy don't suppose you could point me to some good dubstep on youtube? Could do with broadening my frameworks etc In addition to having a "To do" list, I also have a fairly substantial "Don't Do" list. If I get drunk, I simply swap lists. @libertyideals @Falkvinge re: "now I'm pissed"- great, except that the assumptions it makes about how education should be paid for are crap How to defend yourself against tear-gas http://t.co/HYEhGBKa On LSD http://t.co/fhXYTz4H @johnkeypm "Future Investment Fund" for modernising schools? What strange new stealth-privatisation tactic is this I see before me? @jordantcarter Yea, and I think a fair few people would vote for him. I think there's a real problem with low-information-voting Last night I went out and didn't get all drunk and embarrassing. It's my new project: Not Being An Embarrassment. Going ok. So far. @BR3NDA @jordantcarter but then I came to NZ just before the last election - and I'm sure the TV people did a subtle(ish) hit-job on Helen. @BR3NDA @jordantcarter To be fair, the only thing I can see wrong with Phil Goff is that the TV stations keep saying he can't win. @FelixDennis @davestone reminds me of Christians saying R. Dawkins is shrill. Seems reasonable... until you look, and actually, he never is @FelixDennis @davestone to be fair, he doesn't seem like a weirdo in videos. In any of them actually. Not one videod instance of weirdiness Far out - it looks like there might actually be a good movie on Yea, you lost me at the first orange-teal colour-graded frame http://t.co/gxqG7mHO @johnkeypm my first job was really well paid - paid well enough to buy a house - but then it was in a strongly unionised industry. I think I'll get coffee... not because I want coffee particulary, but just to... you know... "keep myself going". @farmgeek I don't think we do "grownup debates" really do we? The only things "open to debate" are minor incremental/decremental type things I just order a pizza for delivery etc. It seamed like the reasonable thing to do. Video on the US Copyright Industry's latest attempt to cripple the internet http://t.co/UyEfTkqh @natcampaign the reality is, John Key's govt is weak and unimaginative, biassed towards the rich - working with a weak and collusive media @natcampaign As far as I can see, National puts the interests big business - particularly American, before that of NZers, every single time @natcampaign The hobbit thing was a manufactured crisis - a fiasco in which NZ workers wound up weaker - but that's what National does. @natcampaign really? I thought you'd betrayed contract workers in the film-industry don't have employee rights? http://t.co/O7yRb0ID @natcampaign Ooh neato - "Maybe if we pay people less, there will be more jobs". It's not "work" that improves economies, it's better wages @natcampaign "Starting-out-wage"? What you mean corporations/companies paying people who are already poor, less? @DiscoverFinland Are the banks seperate from the markets then? If you can't sanction violence, don't just resign... FUCKING FIGHT http://t.co/IIczExRs Markets celebrate over Euro deal http://t.co/57pXL6eD Markets? Wasn't it them that caused all this shit? @markleggett @kalena /death due to poverty in the US alone is over a million people a year. Try to figure out why people are protesting, ok? @markleggett @kalena re: "Occupy" and "Grow up"": The suicide rate in Greece has double since austerity measures were imposed / Mana Party Tax Policy http://t.co/h7kQRiCr why is it that the fringe is saner than the centre? @ballardian Yea - champagne swigging shoeless-trapeze-billionaire as Space-Quixote. It's actually rather good. @ballardian Shoes might damage the surface; socks too slidey. Privatisation of Public space - http://t.co/O3raAw6R This is one that needs to be redressed as well. @LaiStirland Yea - recently I've found myself shouting "a-luvvin, a-luvvin" when in the car http://t.co/8thebFO8 @Afrotonomy For what it's worth, most of the time it's not religious faith either. It's ideological faith. Nothing gets through. Weird. @Afrotonomy I don't think it's imbecility that's the problem, it's "faith". People for whom evidence doesn't matter. walkbot http://t.co/SlUNB92x God I wish I had more Mcguffins @psychobdelic I expect it probably correlates with there being a "social order (ie: inequality)" to maintain. @LaiStirland It's like hi-fidelity idiocracy. Cool music-video, celebrity endorsements and zero policy content. (etc) http://t.co/i3eKZ3qw Word in your ear Polices: You're here to protect people, you're not here to hurt people, to protect the property of the rich #ows I think I might need glasses actually - just for credibilities sake etc. Might make me look more intelligent. @CarolineLucas Incididently, that extra-option you submitted to the EU referendum was absolutely brilliant. I've told everyone etc :) I just killed a fly by throwing a ping-pong ball at it, and now I feel guilty. That was a mean thing to do etc. No need. It's that time of year again, when we teach our children to worship satan for candy http://t.co/UeU6EsfZ Cat Picture http://t.co/0z2WMtkb Shouldn't really come as a surprise to find that Gen-X are relatively happy, because we're the generation that rejected advertising. On Gen-X... http://t.co/OZSEXnCA if you can get past the annoying (deeply ingrained) habit of saying "Americans" when they mean "People". Because the "choices" we're being given by the entrenched political parties Are Just Fucking Stupid. Probably suicidal in fact. - Amply demonstrated by The Greens' response to the UK EU referrendum http://t.co/vLqpsB3V We need to start structuring our own choices I think behind #OWS is a basic failing of "the market": our needs/rights are falling outside what the market cynically offers as "choices" The politics of amnesia http://t.co/uTekS2pp @BR3NDA if the pattern is broken, you're basically using one password for all sites. It's a hell of a strong against brute-force attacks tho @BR3NDA so for http://t.co/Cc6WzmRm it would be !@#$%^OOGOGL0989000_etc - "0989000" is Mary Had A Little Lamb. The weakness of this is that @BR3NDA what you need is a "password alogrithm" based on each domain name. eg: "!@#$%^" + 1st 3 letters backwards + last3 + "0989000_etc" @andybudd because every new one needs about 3-5 installations before you get past the learning-curve, and even then... @andybudd Possibly a bit of a rarity as it goes against the economics of installing CMSs... ie: every new one = a hit on the bottom line @zuccottipark @TRoNSHeRaLD the banks aren't just killing more Americans than terrorists did, they're killing more than Hitler did. @zuccottipark @TRoNSHeRaLD never mind about houses, ~1/36 people in poverty in the US die of it - that's over a million people a year. This is my kind of guy http://t.co/jD44luuK Lara Croft is on. As far as I can tell it's about someone who's already rich, who steals stuff. Acrobatically. I preferred the guy off Fargo Felt a bit sorry for @johnkeypm over the handshaking incident. No need to worry though. @TVNZnews don't do "news" anymore. He'll waltz in. if @TVNZnews is only going to be about (fucking) sports again, then I'm not going to watch it. Ok, sigh. How about we just build a totally ground-up open-source iPhone OS, and if anyone sues, we kill them? http://t.co/UcjnWoqg @BR3NDA Do people still use Ruby? @punkscience - and then they lobby for laws to lock up the 80% that WE pay for - the result of these laws is that poor people die. @punkscience 50% of the corporate R&D budget is wasted trying to get around IP restrictions, for the sake of creating more restrictions @punkscience It's from a talk by @Falkvinge I think: 80% of R&D is public-funded, 1/2 of non-public goes cirvumventing the IP of other corps Has anyone worked out how many people die as a result of Pharma "IP"? (Given that only about 10% of useful R&D is corporation-funded?) @SaraMSalem Yea, but "Liberalise" has such a nice ring to it. It's a bit of a weasel-word. Actually means the opposite of what it... means Johnny Fingers etc http://t.co/BMF8mrSD The Solar Panels of Kryten http://t.co/q7iZg2dC @SaraMSalem I'm not sure "liberalizing" is as accurate as "colonializing" - re: privatization etc Your message, hand-delivered to Bank Execs http://t.co/BG9n9Evy Meerkittens http://t.co/bSx0uJAo If you print your To-Do list out, and trim into a long thin column, you can flip one end, then tape the ends together to make a moebius loop @Aiannucci - assuming they don't also want window/aisle seats, in which case the chances are fairly low. @Aiannucci the chances are 2/num of plane-passengers*how-often-a-wire-person-flies*how-often-you-fly... /2 if you prefer window/aisle seats Paper Youtube http://t.co/u3V8Sigd Victorian Theramin http://t.co/qx6tp6Dk @leashless Have there been any revolutions recently that didn't start with mass occupations/sit-ins? I think simple biomass is the lever 100bn Euro to recapitalise banks? Couldn't they just make new, publically-owned, local banks for that? @leashless I think there needs to be both. I think if the establishment isn't attacked head on, they'll "disinentivise" any rural thing @jordantcarter Check this out Jordan - this is the sort of thing we need you to do when you're running the country http://t.co/vLqpsB3V @Cunthorse Is Guff Like A Donkey worse than Farting Like A Wizard? Not sure. Volume vs a kind of olfactory anti-alchemy. @EatMyHalo @Cunthorse - yea, the first time I saw that I laughed so much I had to pause the movie to recover. This is why everyone should vote Green http://t.co/vLqpsB3V None of the other parties even speak our language, let alone address our issues Turn on TV. TV1: advertising. TV2: advertising. TV3: advertising. All channels: advertising. Advertising, advertising. TV off; Internet on ACTA so vague it might not even be legal http://t.co/2jT45aXN which didn't stop the incompetant cowards who run NZ from signing it. Scarface is on - funny as fuck. Policy By Jury http://t.co/i3eKZ3qw Ok, so now all the cheering has died down... http://t.co/k8laqiiV @JerryKetel but it's pretty important that "the pipes" don't know what's going through them. It's a fundamental part of the architecture. @JerryKetel It's a tricky one - I think networks of trust self-evolve, but there's always be a frayed edge to it all. @JerryKetel What? Even in Iran? or China? @JerryKetel STOPPING anonymous web comments assumes we give someone the power to control and monitor everything. Who would you recommend? @studioneat sorry if you've been asked this eleventy billion times before... but do you have any plans for Glifs on non iPhone phones? Study funded by climate-science denying cunts who don't deserve to live, demonstrates what we all, already knew: http://t.co/m1amGJxe @franklinveaux @Danjite yea, true. A while back you could take flint-lock pistols on planes. Early guns aren't as powerful as late crossbows @jethrocarr Have you tried using one of those blue-tooth headsets? @JeremyLeggett @punkscience that's the great thing about solar - we can slash subsidies. With Nuke, there's a gun to our heads, forever Entertainment Spheres http://t.co/Pbu9uCSg At Least I Didn't Make It (retroactively) Legal For The Govt To Secretly Plant Cameras In Your House - #SongsthatdescribePhilGoff At Least I Didn't Take Away NZer's Right To A Jury (without any of them noticing) #SongsthatdescribePhilGoff Vatican embarrassed by bishop believing things that are obviously bollocks http://t.co/VtGmcdJm Mr Lahey http://t.co/Ql9v6ZdM @Afrotonomy but then again - if you're going to be counter-culture, you need something to be counter against. @Afrotonomy Contemporary mainstream culture had a blip... around the 1970s... when it wasn't shite. All other times it has been. @justme38671 the OWS attempting to stop corporate corruption of Govt, so you start prattling on about Hitler and Communists. Beyond stupid. @justme38671 that not only have I not said, but NOBODY has said... on behalf of huge corporations that are bleeding you white. @justme38671 See? Total disconect from reality. You think NZ is the 3rd world, you think I'm a communist... you're arguing against things / Quantum Levitation http://t.co/66qWxx34 They're still vastly better than National though, who basically view society as either business infrastructure, or business liability. I mean who even calls it "IT" any more? The thing wrong with NZ Labour's "IT" policies is they're still seeing infotech as business infrastructure rather than social infrastructure @justme38671 and that's why WE pay less and get a better system than you, which means someone like me is free to innovate/be an entrepreneur @justme38671 Oh, and Public Health does not mean "I benefit from my neighbour's labour" it means he benefits from mine. @justme38671 How can you possibly be so thick as to not understand that someone can both use a laptop AND not want the banks running govt? @justme38671 I'm a director of two companies you prat. Why do you think I want to get rid of the capitalist system? @justme38671 This is why I stopped talking to conservatives - straw-men, misconceptions, half-truths, lies... all backed by "belief" What we the 99% want http://t.co/Adk0MB2S Ok, here we go: The cumulative costs of non-participation are usually greater than the penalties for failure - Nick Taylor. [Insert pithy self-help-oid, pop-pscych, aspirational, motivational slogan here] @Cunthorse twiglet. NZ Labour Tech Policy - http://t.co/ll0k1dV3 < utterly inadequate, tory, (big) business-as-usual bollocks. Old old old. @unhosted @melvincarvalho Well, technically it's actually a complex of records in DB tables, but... phones can do that too. @justme38671 here's one of your "socialist" countries. Enjoy: http://t.co/j5ux3Do2 How are US education metrics going? Ok? @justme38671 but instead of looking at what works, you have these weird little hate-campaigns. You are the reason America is fucked up. @justme38671 60% of US bankruptcies are due to medical bills. I've never paid a medical bill in my life - and you think you're free. @justme38671 Sweden has double the social mobility of the US. If you're American you have serious disadvantage- because of your class system @justme38671 the people in these countries are FAR better off than those in the US, but all you see is "Socialism kills millions of people" @justme38671 this is what I mean about by a disconect with reality. Sweden or NZ or Aus or the UK did not turn into Soviet Russia... @justme38671 That isn't true. The New Deal did not lead to totalitarianism. Countries that have maintained it are FAR better off than the US This is a major reason I'm back in therapy http://t.co/keHgWZ2q the fact I've tweeted it is not symptomatic of improvement Bank Transfer Day http://t.co/Sfn5Jaeo Photo of Madrid Occupation http://t.co/uc0r29IJ rt @punkscience Oh yea, and any politician that puts corporations before people should go to prison. @AnnieLowrey Not at all. If you haven't bought a hubcap on the internet, you haven't lived. Corporation that won't cover the costs of their fuckups should have their assets nationalised by force. We have an army right? mazing film trailer http://t.co/Xy5EcZz9 @x_chemicalism_x Any particular type of terrible? There was a whole bunch of Bucks Fizz / Dollar offerings. UK Daytime TV faire. @leashless I pinched your diagram btw :) http://t.co/2ZsfeiNI and um... "a fair market" probably isn't actually a market. @jethrocarr have 1/2 a haircut. @justme38671 and what has worked best in the past. Here's a brief history of US tax rates http://t.co/uHbKvw0d @justme38671 but the meaning of "socialism" has been totally warped in the US. Really all it is, is what works best in other countries. @justme38671 Well nobody wants totalitarianism, and I'm pretty sure there's no actual socialism on any OWS agenda either. @justme38671 Well that's something we agree on :) - we probably agree on a lot. In fact you probably agree with a lot of OWS goals as well This is my fav youtube character http://t.co/spBDYb2J Key Concept: Optimizing for Scarcity. Or why we need open-source everything http://t.co/2ZsfeiNI @SaraMSalem that said "Anouncements" from our revered western leaders are so hypocritical it beggers belief. I wouldn't put it past them. @SaraMSalem Wikileaks can't really be said to represent "The West" though. I mean technically Australia is East of Egypt :) @SaraMSalem What Julian has said and what he's said to have said are often slightly but crucially different. I'd find direct quotes I think/ @SaraMSalem "twitter/facebook/wikileaks revolution" is (maybe) describing the information channels, rather than the west taking credit. Eventually we all just ran out of batteries. UK Tories linked to American Neocon lobbyists http://t.co/mpV8Ma4V @justme38671 Here are people being arrested for closing their bank accounts http://t.co/U9YVii6T YOU are on the side of th bankers. Bizzare @justme38671 and you are a classic example. So brainwashed you're not even trying to deal with reality any more. OWS however, are. @justme38671 from a outside perspective, the US is finished - not because of "commies", but because of an utter disconnect with reality. @justme38671 I didn' vote for Obama because I'm not American. I'm one of the 99% who has watch the US go insane. @justme38671 I'm not interested in your hate campaign against a billionaire (who didn't fund OWS) just evidence that he did. @joshr I'm on facebook more too, but it's more to do with a personal renaisance in comment-smart-arsery and being in love with my own voice I'm not late, I'm atemporal. A bunch of cunts who should have nothing to do with controlling the internet, attempting to control the internet http://t.co/aJnas7WY That last tweet was blocked if "@3Politics" was in it Key: Goff’s oil drilling moratorium is "pure politics" http://t.co/9wjDNgKD < Actually it's common sense. Key is purely politicking. Hmmm... twitter is dicking me about Blinkable ear attachments http://t.co/nrpRKDvx Brain The Size Of A Planet http://t.co/ovMiVRTf @romotive Finally! Vibrating eye massagers http://t.co/SWyXra6A @jordantcarter @garethmp @bernardchickey ... how much are the trade-treaties that this would break, actually worth? Anything? @jordantcarter @garethmp @bernardchickey I have a bit of a soft-spot for protectionism. So I'd look at it - the bigger question is... Real Angry Birds http://t.co/3m73fSqN Crayon Sculptures http://t.co/HIyJHTZ1 The folks are playing Toddler Insanity Music. Christ. Do kids even like this sort of music? No wonder they're so incontinent. Actually - ammend that. Will only work for Labour if they get us out of ACTA, WIPO and scrap s92A. I just volunteered to work for The Greens. Will also work for Pirates and Labour. In that order. The trouble with The workd of Windows, greed-head software is that everything starts with a threat... aka a Eula. Actually looking forward to getting a new laptop because it means I get a new version of Ubuntu. Something I've never thought about Windows @jordantcarter Mornin :) @MutchJessica Phil Goff with bucket and spade helps more than john key merely spreading cross-party slime, AND planning a deep-water rig. Rent too expensive? http://t.co/LpuwhCT0 How about zero? Why should one human have to pay another human just for the right to exist? Stand with #OccupyWallSt and demand real democracy! Send a message of support to #OWS here: http://t.co/BfDxQFOx @joshr But the whole point of distribution is that it doesn't need $$$ to keep it going. That's where the edge comes from. @joshr well, yea - if it was (at one point) possible to achieve what you wanted with only $10k. I guess it's gone from "project" to "job" @joshr yea, I was wondering that. The initial buzz of diaspora was they asked for $10k and got $200k. Which is now not enough? Micro-Niece getting "see how tall I am" on doorframe measurement, #1 http://t.co/bVCEz3l0 @TrevorMallard in fact I'll go further than that - the ones I do know are some of the best people I know. @TrevorMallard The ones I do know, I really like. I'm talking about the ones on TV. Why is it that whenever I see a politician on TV... who people presumeably voted for... 9 times out of 10 I just want to punch them? @justme38671 - precisely what OWS is protesting against. It is bizarre how you people argue so hard for the people who are ruining you @justme38671 re: "the US failing" - it is very very clear why the US is coming off the rails - corporate corruption of politics. @justme38671 So... someone at an organisation that Soros funds "suggested" a protest... but still no evidence of actual funding then? @justme38671 just because a right-wing think-tank "says it", doesn't mean it's true. @justme38671 The New American is the mouthpiece of this http://t.co/sJC5M5ZK another right-wing think tank @justme38671 re: "funding organisations" there are far more billionaire funded right-wing think-tanks than liberal ones. @justme38671 So - as you don't have any evidence, why don't you tell the world WHY you are participating in baseless smears? "I can’t see why the rest of the world doesn’t see it for the trade war it is" http://t.co/02mt3xrt’-monopoly-must-end-says-pirate-parties/ @justme38671 I have no interest in defending any hyper-capitalist, soros included. What evidence do you have that he's funding OWS? @onetruecathal the monopolisation of these techs by corporations is probably (at a species level) suicidal. @onetruecathal "The Open Source Way" is (in my most humble of opinions) the eventual saviour of humanity (et al). @justme38671 Not that that is very relevant - as you can't make your mind up if Soros is a commie, a nazi or a nation-destroying capitalist @justme38671 What is your actual evidence that Soros funds the occupy wall street journal? I see no evidence of that http://t.co/1Fk2eROZ @justme38671 I'm guessing that evidence of Soros Nazi collaboration isn't as strong as The Bush's funding of Nazism? http://t.co/yxOH0wkv @justme38671 that link is to a blog that contains no evidence at all for any funding of OWS @justme38671 You do realise that calling Soros (one of the most succesful capatilists in history) "socialist", dents your credibility? 14thC Bubonic Plague sequenced, open-sourced http://t.co/KxaFDkMo Furious Fox http://t.co/AyHRRIum Ferrity Werritty. Sleaze is back. Plus ca change. #ACTA will destroy open Net. #EU may be only hope to kill rights-abusing treaty. Tell MEPs to vote NO on ACTA! http://t.co/gTLB4gh3 @jordanclaire weaponization? Context-dependent, true - but a good word nonetheless. Eg: Weaponized Dandruff. @justme38671 hiya - reminder. What is your evidence for your OWS funding claims? You said communists? Which communists? @insequential @VernonSmall @clarecurranmp but one way or another, all that shit eventually ends up in the air/water/soil. Oil is the greatest threat. @VernonSmall @clarecurranmp Green speaking. #rena is still in play. Deepwater Horizon however shows that deep-drilling is the biggest threat Mars timelapse http://t.co/ETxIMngp though be warned, without @Ghostery , you get THIRTEEN tracking bugs dumped on your machine. @justme38671 @insequential I'd be interested to see what evidence you have of OWS funding. The Groupon Discover Deals Button http://t.co/TFVHuimd The whole world's gone mad. @TVNZnews has now managed to combine a story about the Chch earthquake, and the Japanese one. No mention of John Key being a waste of space @TVNZnews still milking the Chch earthquake. Someone (Sherlock?) has said "Buildings need to be strenghtened". Virgin Air deal with Lanzatech - Kiwi Biotech company http://t.co/1GM5LE8M < what we should be investing in, not deep sea drilling @hjortur @pocketvillage Mud #TTOT - made bearable by about 6 hours worth of 2% beer in flimsy plastic cups, and... really strong drugs. Completely meaningless John Key poster http://t.co/rbxjZ6hw begging to be "given meaning". Oh yea, and a "philanthropist" is someone who takes 1 billion of your money and gives some of it back. We went through all that in the 1920s I think that Robert Downey quote captures why I don't care about Hollywood stories any more. They're about people who have already won The Avengers Trailer http://t.co/khUeIgan all the backgrounds are greeny blue, foregrounds orangy. Won't be seeing that one then. Torn between telling @johnkeypm to DO SOMETHING, and saying "please, please.. just don't touch anythine else. Take the rest of the year off" Tried for a couple of days http://t.co/TrkrSKRp < excellent - allows you to see (and stop) what crafty corporate web-stalking is going on This like, my era http://t.co/6MQgebtu When I talk about reinventing blues, this is what I'm on about. Kindof. @phil_goff Quite valiant and all that, and I admire their spirit - but those birds don't look like they need rescueing to me. @Ian_Fraser Because over half of tory funding comes from said cartels. @RichardJMurphy Because tax cheats are the tories' most supportive constituency. Please sign @38_Degrees petition to the crucial Lords vote to properly scrutinise the NHS reforms and #SaveOurNHS http://t.co/ryrYGqDf I think the best thing about The Boston Police Riots is that they're called The Boston Police Riots #OWS #occupyboston Working at the mo. Leave me alone. @stephenfry I don't think @pythonjones is right to be honest,it's just that a lot of attention has been given to religious violence recently Kicking off in Boston- I don't think the US will turn into 1940s style fascism, I think it already is 2010's style facism. It's already here #Rena is basically one single abject lesson: NZ cannot handle little spills, let alone the sort of disaster deep-sea drilling creates Still being fucked around by the UK Inland revenue, 5 FUCKING YEARS after I left the UK. They just can't face the fact I've gone. Touching @mrjudkins Hard to say. They do disappear though. Under beds, behind the piano, down stairs, outside etc. Never to be seen again. @mrjudkins I buy pingpong balls in packets of 60 for Catsby. He keeps losing them. John Key heard from somebody that if Labour were in Government, 3-strikes law would be passed, and we'd sign ACTA #KeyLines John Key heard from somebody that if Labour were in Government, the internet would be paper-based, with stamps and envelopes etc. #KeyLines @CNell_NZ Geeks already treat boxy old computers as romantic relics - eg: http://t.co/Q78sFoSV Fan throws hot dog at Tiger Woods http://t.co/Z3ig7ivr the bun fell short of where Woods was standing; the hot dog went onto the green @videojon I think I've probably got it somewhere - I usually look Dave Newton up when I'm in the UK. I'd like Richard Ramage's though... @yezzer I think you should probably see this http://t.co/dWz3o4Ul @videojon Say hi to Mark for me. Just installed @Ghostery Dude writes critique of book, longer than actual book http://t.co/WmB4oy0m @JorgeStolfi I think Layer Cake is a great movie... took me by surprise - I was expecting Lock-Stock-era laddishness. @insequential Nah - I was engaging more in blanket loud-mouthery at that point. @insequential Is TV3 not a New Zealand TV station then? @insequential in 1984, Orwell described "The News": Crime, Sports and Astrology. TVNZnews is mostly Crime and Sports. See? @insequential Crime Sports and Astrology, just as Orwell predicted, except there isn't much astrology http://t.co/RNlaOMgg ( @3NewsNZ) @insequential I stopped watching the TVNZ news ages ago- there's no point. It's only about rugby - with a bit of crime if they can fit it in @librarykris A pompskite? Various web liberating projects http://t.co/i90RkOvA @evgenymorozov depends - what's the wifi connectivity like in Tuscanny? A great big string pattern http://t.co/khtADFPR Kim's favourite is obviously the pillar http://t.co/k2BTXmvA which is weird, because that's my favourite too. @insequential you might want to concentrate on the substance rather than the style - transcript here: http://t.co/CSyvUCCO @insequential That's just his somewhat OTT presentational style. Everything he actually said, was correct. As far as I can see @CitizenBomber 's banning from RNZ could just as easily have been about his highlighting NZ media corruption Coen Brothers Scripts http://t.co/iqdwy8Mw I have a new niece. @smarimc @leashless because fancy hotels are trying to create billable-events, so optimise for scarcity. @JorgeStolfi Yea, and it was orange. It was the most orange film I've ever seen. Seen it 3 times as well. @JorgeStolfi I'm amazed they got away with it - like ACDC or Motorhead, putting out the same record for 30 years, and still selling out. @JorgeStolfi I think that first Daniel Craig one had a less trad ending. The earlier ones kindof invented the genre/grammar. @JorgeStolfi said reasons being that it's also in Hair the musical, and Britannia Hospital, which is a fairly good film in a 70s sort of way @JorgeStolfi Just kidding. I'm one of those sad people who can do this, sans-script http://t.co/SuL8NXO3 though for the all wrong reasons @JorgeStolfi Hamlet? I thought he was Dutch? With far-reaching consequences for international law? What? We might actually have some now? http://t.co/qf8Xdfne @leashless Really? Far out. I used to read his stuff back in the 70s. @Twit_nut Yea - I think it's... kindof a zombie movie... you know... rather than being a romance or whatever. I Am Legend is on. Isn't that the one where the guy shags a dog? Something weird happens I seem to recall. To the dog I mean. Poldark is on. It's a bit like Pirates of The Caribbean, except written by Emily Bronte. @Loch_Moy Yea, it's amazing - amazingly difficult to photograph as well for some reason. They can be a bit gaudy can blossoms. @punkscience Sack then prosecute maybe. This is a photo of some blossoms that I took from inside the blossoms http://t.co/gEIXS8nm And this is why we can't have people like this running the world http://t.co/Awa3wUEM We need to sack the whole fucking lot of them @JorgeStolfi ...but in the end they were all fine, and I managed to really hurt myself juggling these little leathery balls. Juggling. Risky @JorgeStolfi I did some circus training once (weirdly enough)... all looked a bit scary - trapeze, really high stilts, human pyramids etc... A rant about magic formulas, evidence-based policy, and libertarianism http://t.co/Vr5VtpjP I think that goes for pretty much any "political elite" on the planet. We need to get rid of them all. Quiet plea for improvements in public education has erupted into a wholescale rejection of the Chilean political elite http://t.co/OGf3IC60 Don't ban it cos it's strong, ban it cos it absolutely fucking ronks http://t.co/JSn0MRBi Amsterdam gets a kind of olfactory noise-control. American law goes even more insane http://t.co/Z6aZGqzm You people need a revolution. @normnz yea, I could write the entire thing, on my own, in less time than it would take for them to go through the tendering process. Coffee Detritus Lamps http://t.co/H9rvi4Uj and some handbags A number of toy soldiers http://t.co/dSz5nH0O @secondzeit I mean you can't make it artdeco. Been done. So use Zorbs. Then if there's another quake, you can just go: LOL, We live in Zorbs @secondzeit @OccupyWelly @OccupyChch Build a new one (out of Zorbs) and occupy that. ooh! @OccupyWelly an NZ variant. Brilliant. Adam Werritty ran charity from Fox's office http://t.co/v6RM7UoM < A Foxy Woxy Ferrity Werrity Charity, I expect. Crafty. @JerryKetel Cool. A 20-Lawyer Apartment. I don't think we do need to work more. I think we need to work less - but get rid of parasitic privatisation of our life-support systems. If I was ANYWHERE in the US, I'd be heading for Wall Street right now. I've got a better idea http://t.co/EKUFV1mY how about we just bulldoze "Intellectual Property" trolls into the sea? @Siouxfire Kindof. I wasn't enjoying it as such. It was holding my hand, but I manged to make it last all night. Then I left. Quickly. @brookejarvis Yea, well Guy Falkes was a conservative religious fundamentalist terrorist, if you believe the story, which not everyone does @Siouxfire No - I managed to go out and drink one beer and come home and not wake up feeling totally terminal. @MickDickinson I don't direct traffic to etsy these days... used to. I sell via etsy/ponoko and my own site. The blog is on my own site @Twit_nut Yea - and that's just our people. If you include the enemy ( who aren't actually our enemy) it'd be the size of a football field @MickDickinson Yea, I do - blog here: http://t.co/fHLnaJkv @toddtate I haven't changed my FB profile... because I'm only interested in keeping in touch with people. Outside that, I don't care @jwmoss @TravellerW Or to put it another way, the plural of anecdote != data. Rags to riches stories are crumbs thrown from the table. @jwmoss @TravellerW our excuse/reason is that capitalism in its current form is a heirarchy with limited places at the top. Alan Partridge comes out in support of The Daily Mail http://t.co/TdZFwT4X @joshr Please tell me you didn't tweet the internet for advice on which way to dive out of the way of an approaching car? Too dependent dude Communications Revolution meets Distributed Energy http://t.co/7L4i5GcD < yup, and that is why Nuke is an investment in failure @Siouxfire It's fantastic. If I was back in the EU, I'd never go back to my flat ever again. As an actor, the thing I like most about shooting in anamorphic is that you don't have to stand as close to people. www.airbnb.com is a total game-changer for digital gypsies. Like me. @Swiggs If it's any consolation, being a straight man can be pretty fucking annoying as well. @Afrotonomy But not as primitive as Europe was before the arrival of um... Brown People, I'm guessing. Who knows. @Documentally But corporations are people :) @Documentally I can just see the broad-swathes of history being rewritten, and Steve Jobs becoming The Reagan of The Geeks. @Documentally I'm also not particularly angry. Or angry at all in fact. @Documentally I don't have a campaign. I wrote this once: http://t.co/sbp0oPJp @Documentally As far as environmental upstream/downstream cost-externalisation goes, I haven't the foggiest. @Documentally I wasn't talking about landfil, I was talking about locking down what software can be run at hardware level... aka Palladium @Documentally Not sure I understand the question? Don't who have 100% takeback on product for what reason? But I'm not an Apple fan-boy - so I don't have to quietly ignore how Apple products are made by people forced to sign anti-suicide pacts @Documentally He also implemented Palladium - which is utterly repugnant - more "Bill Gates" than anything Bill Gates actually did. @Documentally Nah, actually it is sycophantic. Apple had more cash than the US govt while people commited suicide in its supply-chain What about those London riots eh? God, that was the end of civilisation, wasn't it. I wish I'd recorded everyone's overreactions now. There's a "North Zealand?". Is that like Palmerston North? http://t.co/LqgrudGa Fight who David? The Germans? The Martians? ... as far as I can see, the only people worth fighting are fucking tories http://t.co/zCGsgm7S "We must pay off household debt" http://t.co/zQUp2b2o Really? I thought 1/2 the national debt was from bailing out (your sponsors) the banks Virgo: Today you'll be trapped for all eternity in the tractorbeam of an old person giving directions. Time slows... life goes on elsewhere Made another high-rise strawberry. So hopefully that will be less of a catastrophic failure than last time. No-Social-Media day yesterday. Feel a lot better for it. Need to actually plan the time it gets, rather than letting it leak into everything @Cunthorse and John Cusack off High Fidelity is a classic music geek. Compulsive alphabeticisors @Cunthorse Here's a geek site http://t.co/BY4jclJ5 eg: "most of us run a small home server 24 hours a day" < IT support work for fun etc. @Cunthorse Yea, that's fine. It's kindof to do with doing things (beyond the call of duty) purely because you're really interested in them. @Cunthorse Geeks have projects. That is all. Oooh! thunderstorm outside. @andybudd PWC estimated the recent copyright extension was worth £3.5bn... to corporations. How is this not a theft from the public? @Siouxfire but it's so common that when a Sarah Palin photo was published sans-airbrush, her supporters complained it wasn't "honest" @Siouxfire I really hate that air-brushed thing. I think there's a program where you can do it with once click. It's really... stale. I made this video etc http://t.co/CVNMCskg @Bronxbomber777 That macing incident looked like punishment to me. @Bronxbomber777 Police can use force. What they can't legally do is dish out punishment... not outside totalitarian communist countries etc Whitebait for tea. The Hundreds and Thousands of fish. @vallie Okay :) @vallie I used to love arguing - back in about 2002. I'm probably a bit of a veteren etc. These days it does my head in @vallie The trouble with arguing, is that a lot of the time you are. Nothing can possibly say will make the slightest difference. @vallie Yea - that was fairly calm because I'd been following you for ages and knew I wasn't talking to a fuckwit :) @vallie Because I've spent A LOT of my life arguing on the internet - it takes too much headspace. He was wrong though. Quite simply. @robyngallagher Haha - I see what you did there. Mine's more of a rebel strap - which isn't some sort of sex-aid btw. @vallie I felt very tempted to wade in and um... opinionate. I managed to confine the argufying to my head this time round though. @robyngallagher I've only ever seen it on me and that girl. Yourr argument is invalid etc. This girl has the same camera as me http://t.co/EdPU5UhL well... the same camera strap. Tiny fuzzy star-wars characters http://t.co/nIGHjmWd There is a dramatic fall in investment after privatisation under a ‘light-handed’ regulatory setting http://t.co/W476NjMO "Double-Dip-Recession" - for me it's been (how you say?) "A Recession", with one big dip.If more bailouts happen it's more a double-mugging Capitalism as a barrier to human development http://t.co/qlGjrCJ4 + neoliberalism propagating at the individual worker level @indy_johar @pch083 I mean really, I think P2P everything is going to happen. The drivers for it are just too strong. @indy_johar @pch083 / need the private platform. It could also be a distributed reputation system... like Ebay crossed with Diaspora @indy_johar @pch083 The essence of it is P2P though I think. It's individuals trading through a private platform... and really, we don't / @indy_johar @pch083 P2P is also (in essence) unregulateable. I don't think risk is the issue, it's monoculture... aka Too Big To Fail @indy_johar @pch083 Monopolistic scaling needs to be catered for via anti-trust law. P2P also caters to high risk. @vallie Your bronxian friend might be interested (or not) in this http://t.co/THYpYBFd @indy_johar @pch083 Exulting the value of "Lenders" over everyone else... um... gives us what this guy talks about http://t.co/THYpYBFd @pch083 @indy_johar I recently read that Zopa now has 10% of the UK market. P2P is a way out of the utter disaster that is retail banking. @pch083 @indy_johar well actually, Regulation is good; Investors don't get this - and that's why the global economy has gone over a cliff @MaryJaneAnsell the tension in the curves isn't quite right. Needs to be more hyperbolic/parabolic etc Leather Nautilus Helmet http://t.co/BM42ufHU Sped up Russian Factory Painting http://t.co/SEeo3X2a @Formulate Pessimists are just optimists who think everything is going to go wrong. Arrrgh etc http://t.co/aVqCT0qd @milesmaker LOL. New Design etc. Work in progress http://t.co/itEdKV5M @milesmaker About $4.75 3D Fractal Igloo http://t.co/21PuF5gy @BrianPaget Yea, exactly - promises much but delivers little. And it's chaos. Takes me ages to sort it all out into its separate components @TVNZnews - re: John Key's popularity - maybe if you people actually did your job, and told people what he does, this wouldn't be the case? @gapingvoid George Lakoff has had a fair shot at it. Dying for a slash / but can't be arsed getting up / oh well, too late now. #haiku @saddet @GreatDismal ie: "low information voters". These people aren't dumb. I've done jury service with them. They just don't know enough @saddet @GreatDismal It's not that the MSM won't cover pet-issues, it's that they avoid ANY issue that people need to be informed voters Judgmental, Inflexible, Humourless, Hierarchical, Disciplinarian, Authoritarian - how can conservatives not like state communism? Absolutely brilliant http://t.co/WNxxaUwL @punkscience Letters pages in newspapers have been a crank-magnet since time began. Proper nerd fun http://t.co/er2orER1! I don't even like the word "salad". @jordantcarter If you're interested in George Lakoff's stuff, this is quite interesting http://t.co/CL5fPOoj Green language analysis + tactics http://t.co/CL5fPOoj Yus - The Web is going to eat television in the next 5 years http://t.co/6SJF9FGI and we need this so badly I'm almost ready to do it myself Rendering. 665 frames, which is disappointing. One more and it would have been the antichrist of renderings. The Mummy's on - the spider/snake/scorpion/bones/claustraphobia scene.. that's the genius of Alien - it combined all those into one creature LOL cat picture etc http://t.co/9EPk8ay8 Escape Pods http://t.co/6AQjoX5U @BR3NDA Maybe a princess is a kind of queenlet? No idea. I wouldn't have thought so, but you never know. Toad in the Hole for tea. And bitchy sarcastic comments on @TVNZnews facebook page, but mainly toad in the hole. I've just written a stock-control program on account of being the kind of guy who programs for profit and pleasure etc. @DtoBrooklyn It took 10 years to realise that "not remembering what you did while having fun" and "not having fun" are kindof the same thing @DtoBrooklyn Yea, I overshot quite badly and am still in recovery, about a decade later. I however don't recognise the legitimacy of any law that results from deals negotiated in secret. Nor the govt that creates them. @jordantcarter I guess. I had a cold-calling job once, was actually quite therapeutic weirdly enough. @jordantcarter So do you actually door-knock then? God that must be absolutely terrifying. @stnick666 Soma-induced crime reduction. Aldous Huxley would have been proud... or at least a bit smug @stnick666 actually - the reason football violence disappeared in the 90s in UK is that all the firms started doing E. True, weirdly enough @stnick666 Yea - ever noticed that with international football matches, the hooliganism mysteriously disappears when it gets to Holland? @stnick666 and yet it's (really) illegal for people to sit round in circles going "Yea The CIA faked the moon-landings man" @stnick666 In Newcastle they actually had "Hangover Hotels"... emergency paramedic tents to deal with all the drunken casualties. @stnick666 a lot more vomit of course - but you should see (any) UK hospital at 11.30pm on Saturday night. It's like fucking MASH @stnick666 For a while I had this theory that you could masively reduce after-pub violence by selling pot for 1 hour after closing time. @stnick666 Yea, it's completely insane. But have you heard John Key on the subject? It's like part of his mind is missing. Snow-blind. @punkscience re: Alternative ATMs... not enough to support an entire city. Looting isn't a solution, it's just what tends to happen. @punkscience Zopa has quietly grown to 10% of the UK personal loan market apparently. The future is P2P @Siouxfire I've been meaning to see "After Hours" again for a while now. @Siouxfire Ooh - two new films for my "Not seen before" list. I signed up to a DVD service - binged on 1970s culture for several months @stnick666 Alcohol for me isn't about winning a war, it's about winning the peace. @stnick666 but weed is not to be underestimated. The most terrifying drugs incident of my life was weed, and only about 3 tokes as well. @stnick666 well not entirely - the worst that happens with weed is what the law will do to you. @stnick666 Indeed. That's the good thing about hallucinogens - you grow out of them. Other drugs you don't, because they stop you growing. @Siouxfire Yea, that's the one. Classic. Classic bit of story-telling as well. @stnick666 It's been about 7 years for me... but these days I find even coffee is quite rough on the system. Chances are I won't again. @Siouxfire Have you seen Tin Men? Absolutely brilliant. That flirty meat-market bar scene is one of my fav ever bits of cinema @stnick666 Apropos of that convo last week... http://t.co/FNt9iJnu This was kindof what I was getting at. 3 times a decade is good. @punkscience at a slightly more meta level, most buisnesses depend on a "float" of credit to pay for inputs before they sell outputs @punkscience If the banks fail, money stops coming out of ATMs, and you're about 3 days away from people having to loot to eat. People going on protest marches should stop dressing up as fucking clowns. Nobody takes clowns seriously. @CNell_NZ You're cute - and fortunately I live A VAAST distance away (from anywhere really)... i'm not sure that distance-cling is possible @CNell_NZ Yea, all right go on. Sigh. What do I have to do? If you were wondering why it takes the tories 9 years to "slightly adjust" the banking sector, now you know http://t.co/TSeemcMU @dedhedzed @yezzer yea, exactly. I'm often gobsmacked by the quality of the graphics outside. The detail is incredible @x_chemicalism_x Don't be - you are excellent, and it's waaaay to soon to say "this is how I've turned out". Felicity, Felicity, you fill me with electricity #haiku @thejoeturner Yea but they're solar-powered and self-replicating. Fush and Chups for tea. @thejoeturner Carrots? I think this might be the first Harry Potter. Harry's tiny. Almost microscopic. @DiscoverFinland It doesn't bear thinking about. All that sort of thing. John Hurt's on right now. The man's a god. Harry Potter and the Magic Pipsqueeks is on in a bit @jordantcarter Well that's reasonably good reasoning. What you said yesterday I mean. Virgo: If you'd written The 39 Steps you'd have rounded it up to 40... made each step slightly smaller to it's still the same distance. @DtoBrooklyn Well... it's the opposite of "waking" and "baking" rather than "waking and baking", so I probably get 5 points for trying. @DtoBrooklyn Cryogenic Suspended Animation. I'll vote for whichever party promises to get us out of #ACTA Watching Stargate Universe at the mo. It's about some people having a really shit time. In space. @1970iowa Cheers :) I don't always. Maybe I should take a restraining order out against someone. But who? Everyone pretty much ignores me. @jethrocarr I used to work for this trucking firm... and the old guy went mental one day when someone wanted to move "a number of boxes" Oh no, the cat's fallen over I think I more or less got away with the atrocity that was yesterday. The whole thing was a bit of a fuckup though. @Siouxfire http://t.co/YePOaGJ6 @Siouxfire Are you kidding me? That's one of the best records ever This is not what I imagined. @Siouxfire This is cool http://t.co/jOsMoQYh @Siouxfire cheers. NSG And you've got to be quick to catch it. I'm pretty drunk. I think I should say something I'm going to regret @Falkvinge I'm a computer bloke so I sit there and soak up the wifi and... code. I don't have that much to do with the girls. I just code @Falkvinge Estonia is my home away from home. Nation-wide free wifi,. cheap beer and the most beautiful women outside Brazil @Aiannucci Once said: "nobody that matters, thinks any the less of you... YET".... and that's pretty much the only reason I hang on. And the thing is, nobody cares Ok. I'm actually vrty drunmk on the internet. I should EMBNAEREASSS myself. Ask me anything etc. @Cunthorse I sold the t-shirts for these guys, and they could sing note-perfect choir-boiyery war-pigs http://t.co/IwkxldHS @Cunthorse Bobby con etc http://t.co/jPfq1Qai (Yes. @Cunthorse Yea. I know. I should probably put it on instructables... or write an app. It is sooo simple. @Cunthorse terminal, to be an acceptable part of life. I don't know man. But it's better than the current "solution" - fines and prison @Cunthorse How much have you had to do with addiction? In some ways its impressive... ie: manageable. In others it's allowing something/ @Cunthorse If I released it I'd probably save millions of lives a year.. or at least give addicts the idea of control. But i lack confidence @Cunthorse ... unlock this small supply of a drug I'm really addicted to. @Cunthorse I've written a program (I'm a geek) to send me (one week from now) the password, to a combo-lock, which will allow me to... @Cunthorse I eat entire packets of mellowpuffs in a single go. (a single evening, not a single mouthful) Cunthorse perspective my friend. The consequences of you eating a wafer are the same as stepping in a puddle (or not) on the way home @Cunthorse Because the pink wafers are incredibly well designed, and you want one, and the consequenses are close to zero. @Siouxfire but die antwoord are now owned by the corporation stared by Napoleon III who have been trying to turn water to oil for decades Siouxfire I don't even know what that is. It's fuckin cool man. Proto-this http://t.co/pSmv4pRi @Siouxfire Check this out. Aussie art rock, with the best backing-vocals in a chorus ever http://t.co/JLe52j2z @Siouxfire re: "The American Astronaut"... yea.. you can come and live in the back yard and start a farm if you want. @Siouxfire The 80s: clean, tufty-haircutty. I'm 8000 gen Scot. The way 80s Scot bands were drug-fiends etc is cool http://t.co/usn8Xikk @Siouxfire Do you remember that Simple Minds from forever ago, when they were from Scotland and did serious drugs http://t.co/usn8Xikk @davidrosam I'd like you to come to NZ and camp in my backyard too. @Siouxfire We've got a massive backyard. You can camp in it if you want. And grow... plants and such. Something sustainable, if you want. @Siouxfire That's absolutely fantastic. You can be my friend forever if you want. @rapella You looked after me when I was little (and you still sometimes do) . It doesn't go unnoticed. @Siouxfire Oh no no.. this is the one... http://t.co/KG1sm8oC and she's from my town... kindof. Gone now. I've moved. @rapella Thank you, btw, @Siouxfire Oh it's so much more complicated than that. @Siouxfire This uplifts http://t.co/yeMoGA0F The bass-line, thru big venue-level speakers is fking cosmic. I'm so going to nick that one day Unless you're 14, and you're a punk and such. Give it 20 years. You'll be back. If you don't understand how... fucjking weirdly um.. magnificent, this is... you probably dont' understand songwriting http://t.co/0HyCCgw1 @Siouxfire but it is already 1000 times more advanced than the beatles had for Sergeant Peppers. @Siouxfire audacity is free music-mixing software... and it will take you more than a week to learn how to use... @Siouxfire It's all about listening to yourself. Get one of these http://t.co/5HYdA6mA and use audacity. Sound-mixer thing @Siouxfire You might like this as well http://t.co/yG3WkHXz windy bird. The 90s. Better band than Nirvanna, almost. Almost art-rock. @Siouxfire Yea - indiegogo is the future. I just wish it got as much attention (and $) as Kickstarter. @Siouxfire We distort. I used to be in a band with the bass player from this http://t.co/NHDE5rNa @robyngallagher Well... I try to combine... stuff. But I don't go back to London without seeing Jack, and getting him to sort me out etc @Siouxfire I hassled them on facebook to make an indegogo thing... and via that, gave them $100. This is how I support it all now. @Siouxfire I don't suppose you like moody nordic rock? This is cosmic: http://t.co/gWgLQfyF @robyngallagher Man I miss my old hairdresser (Jack) in London. I go back every time I go back. Jack. @Siouxfire Nae probs. Listen to it 10 times, it becomes part of your DNA... but you know... it already was. We're of the same DNA @JimHedley Really? Who even clicks on those? I bet 99.99% of people that click on them are just trying to make them go away. Yo Gen-Xers... this is a good song http://t.co/UqCDPZPw @JimHedley so what do they mean? @jordantcarter When I fist moved to W I offered my not inconsiderable tech talents to the Greens. They already kindof quagmired already. @jordantcarter I'd be interested to know why not... but suspect that a tweet is not a suitable container etc.. @JimHedley I bought it in Hong Kong in 1979 from some haggling old ladies. I've no idea what they charged. I walked out with a bargain. @jordantcarter Good night Jordan. Have you ever thought about joining the Green Party? Great band. Suboptimal sound http://t.co/MSzIj2l2 Me in the 80s. Cool watch http://t.co/q4KJ3gRm @mat_walker I think you just need to find the remote, and you can figure it out from there. NZ to sign ACTA this weekend http://t.co/vHkeD3c9 < The EU didn't, but they're not craven cowards like John Key et al. Tonight I get to see my little baby movielets on a big screen and I'm so stressed out I can't code. @utaustinliberal @markknoller because really, presenting it as a percentage is a bit misleading. It's real dollar terms that matter. @utaustinliberal @markknoller Although speaking of lies, damn lies and statistics re: 189% vs 16%... what is that in actual dollars? Hmm... Nice soup. It has objet trouvé in it. @Shadowfoot @GarethMP (ahem, dry-weight) @Shadowfoot @GarethMP But I'm guessing if it grows big enough to have 105kg of wood, just the one. @Shadowfoot @GarethMP It depends on how big they are. @KevinSpacey "What is it that you want?" - that guy off Swimming with Sharks. It's a very tricky question. Bit of a western koan. @KevinSpacey "In defeat, Malice; In victory, Revenge" - not sure. Margeret Thatcher I think. @KevinSpacey "Do only what you can't avoid; Be whatever you can get away with" - Hal Hartley Watchdog covers self up http://t.co/7LxfNsqQ Rendering. I render a lot. I'm a frequent renderer. @yezzer Badgers badger badgers. @robertpopper Wow, that's quite good. It's down to treating a medical problem... or something that's not a problem at all, as a legal problem. It's massive failure on every level It's the way the culture is structured - 99% of the reason there's this vibe that "the police are the bad guys" is down to drug prohibition @solobasssteve I think there is a lot of value in it. Police are so disconnected from their communities. Prohibition is v toxic though. @x_chemicalism_x That's a better question than you possibly realise. Spot of Ellie http://t.co/iKb5iCGn @TVNZNews before quickly moving on to the safety of some celebrity gossip. And them some sports, masquerading as news. @TVNZNews taking extra special care to give the police's POV, and failing to articulate why the police breaking the law is a fucking outrage Jesus - the list of "crimes" that are behind the police's need to spy on us are all drug crimes. Good old prohibition eh? Works like a charm @robyngallagher and populism in the broadcast era is almost entirely controlled by broadcasters. Corporate funding doesn't help this really @robyngallagher Exchanging a populist slant for a corporatist one then. @robyngallagher Ah. Presumably NZ On Air aren't paying for lottery infomercials then. @robyngallagher Really? I thought it was. How does it work then? I thought it was a state-owned thing? Or is it owned but not funded? @robertpopper Absolutely brilliant- almost the same vintage as this http://t.co/XbHdN6hP 6 years apart. God damn culture was fast back then My oh my. TVNZ1 - which unless I'm much mistook, is state-funded, is running a lottery informercial in the prime-time 8pm slot. Yea, well you need a global youth movement http://t.co/n3XOHDEt WE need a global youth movement. @LaurieFleming Yea, exactly. "Onomatopoeia"? Err... not it fucking isn't. Dad's out in the garden, eating the weeds. With a weed-eater. Wall Street Protesters : Work with a journalist http://t.co/3uEwioYb @michaelmeacher @leftfutures I might as well have written to the cat. I now have a Green MP, who isn't a constant threat or embarrassment. @michaelmeacher @leftfutures Remember the ID card fiasco? I wrote to my MP. "I'm not in favour of ID cards". "Oh I am", he replied. @michaelmeacher @leftfutures Ah yes. The wind of change. Unfortunately, the only thing I heard was that Labour want to "license reporters" @LaurieFleming Well yea - good thing. Breaking addiction does have to be on your own terms. I don't think it works otherwise. @LaurieFleming Depends what sort of mood they're in. Most smokers do actually want to quit. @LaurieFleming Yea - and I've noticed that not smoking often makes people look about 10 years younger. US Navy goes green http://t.co/Ufdr8gXt well that's going to baffle the teabaggers. @Cunthorse There are exceptions/exceptional Labour people... but the rest of them are still all very broadcast-era. @Cunthorse Nah - I've got a green MP in Brighton, and she's fantastic. Vote Green... or Pirate. No one else is engaging with reality @robshepherd Hmm... I think I might just stick to biro for the time-being. @robshepherd Oh, laser-removal. I get it. I probably wouldn't do that. I'd just have something tattooed over the top. A bat or something. @Cunthorse http://t.co/e9tpToHc etc @robshepherd Lasers? Nobody told me there were going to be lasers. Thinking of getting a tattoo of myself, tattooed on myself. @nzben @freitasm Isn't the corollary you're corollarising, flattly contradicted in the bullet-point before your... evidence? @nzben @freitasm Are you serious? I know it's quite late, but my understanding of that article is the opposite of yours. @vallie No idea. I bought it when I was drunk. @vallie Mind you, I own www.wankspanner.com and aren't using it. If you can think of a use for it, you can have it etc. @vallie Couldn't have - at least blorf.com is being used. The others have been "owned" but not used - like 99% of domain names. @vallie Like the blorf website http://t.co/4VdyM17U - click on a letter, the colour changes. That's all it does. sigh. @vallie Yea, eventually it just becomes a noise. Like "gark" or "blorf" etc. "frud". "fruddle". All the best ones are taken. @vallie I guess I could have called them "golden ratio calipers", but that's like... one extra syllable. If you use the twitter web-site for example, the ratio of the main-column/sidebar (and sub-sidebar bits) are pretty close to the golden mean @vallie other than that, artists/designers use them. I use them myself for web-dev stuff sometimes. Just for a 2nd opinion like. @vallie It's plastic surgeons mainly. Dentists use them as well - the human body has all these fibonacci ratios built into it. @vallie Measuring the golden mean. I make these http://t.co/M4t5WQFH @vallie More golden mean calipers :) Prototype of a new design. The real ones will be stainless steel. I made these earlier, on account of that being the kind of guy I am etc http://t.co/wM4Gbs0U @normnz "Not a smoker, so not allowed to make baseless, smoker-contradicting assertions, then base life-ruining laws on them". Sauronset http://t.co/6eRyYsyU Corrie's on. Load of old grumblers. @stnick666 Yea, ok, that's be cool. @nzben @freitasm Well it was news to me that it might, and now it's news to me that it might not. Got a cite? (Win8 vs Linux_ @normnz so on behalf of the 495,000 NZers who have tried pot and know that it isn't a gateway drug, I'd say it's a pretty strong argument @normnz No comparison whatosever. It's closer to "I've never eaten cake but I know it fries your brains and leads on to pavlova". John Key Never Smoked Pot, but still somehow more of an expert than the 500,000 NZers who have. @x_chemicalism_x Ok, Liquid spills run off by themselves. @x_chemicalism_x Or magnets. @x_chemicalism_x Velcro. You here that Americans? Your banking industry is killing more of you than Hitler did, every single year. So assuming a linear relationship - the banks driving the economy over the cliff increased poverty by ~50% that's around 400,000 more deaths To put some perspective on our sociopathic trader http://t.co/owoS6ghg in 2000, there were 875k poverty-caused deaths... just in the US. @x_chemicalism_x It'd probably cheaper to make all the floors sloping.. with the ability to increase the gradient as closing-time approached @CitizenBomber but they vote National. I think the difference is, juries are encouraged to think. About facts. Voters are encouraged not to. @CitizenBomber I did Jury service recently - was quite impressed at how sharp other people were. And they were just normal people. @stnick666 Really? I haven't managed to find an NZ source yet... not being the cutting-edge any more :) @stnick666 Yea - that's the other thing of course. Motor-Coordination. Rule of thumb: If you can't write, you probably can't write. @stnick666 and by "light psychedelics", I mean shrooms. You used to be able to buy them over the counter in the UK. And they grown on lawns @stnick666 for me these days, ideal drug intake is light-psychedelics once every 2-3 years... just for a kick up the arse really. @stnick666 I never did get on with THC - though I'm outspoken about legalisation etc. @stnick666 psychedelics provide incredible perspective... the "culling of chaff ideas" needs to happen straight though I think. Because @tv3nz , @TVNZNews ,the Internet is going to eat you. You are going to need us on your side, and right now, you're betraying us So @tv3nz , @TVNZNews , why aren't you reporting this? http://t.co/frqH3ovX Sigh. But we were happy then. Of course in my day, we didn't even say that. We'd just look at people with expressions of dumb insolence and not manage to say anything. My Mum just said "Whatever", LOL - all the cool kids say "Whatev" these days. Or like "What", or "Wh" or like, whatever. Once again I've created an exciting challenge for myself by leaving everything to the last minute. It is weird tht something specifically decentralised evolves centralised monsters, but I think these are blips that exist at our convenience THE killer-meta-app of the web is that it's not owned by anyone. This gives it both a moral and a tactical advantage over other platforms. "The Web Needs an Owner" http://t.co/O6467Yg7 oh let me guess, an American corporation by any chance? I'm sitting with my feet in the sun, so Catsby's come along and sat on my feet. God I feel like another coffee already and I'm only 1/2 way through my last coffee. It's not theirs to sell http://t.co/SBUuvXOd Spotify fuck themselves up by not understanding that actually, most people dislike facebook pretty strongly http://t.co/rANXakZO I mean people lament the dying of journalism etc, but when you pull this shit @tv3nz I really think we'd be better off without you. Well there's some utterly dishonest reporting by @tv3nz making sure we never get an evidence-based discussion on drug law. There's a Jackie Chan prop-fight on tv at the mo. Prop du jour being a bit of rope. @GeorgeMonbiot I'll send you a fiver if I can become A Registered Interest :) @Gary_Bainbridge Exactly. Peas sure sound divine etc. @CNell_NZ I'm an IP minimalist. Another one - Heisenburgers - burgers with plain wrappers so you don't know what they are til you eat them. This week, I'm totally going to get my shit together - starting from tuesday probably. @CNell_NZ Haute Dog Cuisine etc... fashion puppies and food, all combined into a convenient "grab-n-go" package. You heard it here first @robyngallagher Really? I was kindof going on just hating his face, which has arrogant, short-sighted, selfish arsehole written on it. It Fries Brains: John Key http://t.co/235x9fsH Another Schadenfreudgasm. I don't know who this person is, never seen his tv show, but I hate everything he stands for http://t.co/UWWCZSKU I mean if the banking industry is a parasite that is killing its host, the mainstream media are the mental illness making it all possible Ought come as no surprise I suppose - the Mainstream Media are also the enemy - in fact they're probably worse than the banks. Is it me, or is the fact that the revolution is not being televised, turning into a bigger story than the revolution itself? re: Wall St etc @PercyBlakeney63 @TRoNSHeRaLD Fuck this idea of "Individual Consumer Choices" being the problem. It's not, it's fucking corporations. @PercyBlakeney63 @TRoNSHeRaLD Yea... um... bollocks. I'll "front up" when the taxpayer bails ME out and I still get £M bonuses Peas for tea! Actual peas! LOL, hundreds of them!!! @CNell_NZ Each to his own I guess - Alcohol historically has been the most literary of drugs. Opium maybe. Cocaine is dreadful, pot... dunno @CNell_NZ And I think it's worth noting, that my alcoholism didn't really kick in until I stopped smoking a post-pub splif. @CNell_NZ Not on Sunday, no. It's civilised to start drinking at 2pm, retire (somewhat the worse for wear) at 9. Starts out as high-5, winds up as bloody foot-ripping carnage http://t.co/Ohbebbhh @punkscience I don't think so no. In the UK corp tax is lower than personal, so contractors set up as LTDs. NZ not really worth it. @vallie As soon as they come in, with an 8-hour gap for sleep - the 8 hours being 2am-10am NZ time @punkscience Well as far as anyone can gather, the bigger the corporation, the smaller % tax it pays... so not entirely, no. @1970iowa (Random Question) Fall Colour Report from Iowa? Is it still Green? @changeist @leashless I wouldn't worry too much - socialists use Linux. @tomcoady Possibly not quite as glam as that :) @tomcoady The block on the left (and another left of that) is the problem area http://t.co/usUzIMEu everywhere else is fine. @tomcoady These are the only ones I think http://t.co/WCJQPtWB look like they're later - 30s or 40s maybe. @tomcoady Something to do with steel/concrete reinforcing. In my town, hardly anything is over 2 stories high. One or two maybe. @tomcoady I imagine that's the case anyway. @tomcoady this was more 1880-1930 - before that, things were mainly wood, after that... people knew just how bad quakes could be. @tomcoady Perhaps... our biggest issue is that the heritage buildings need about a squillion dollars to earthquake-proof. @tomcoady Yea - I don't think the aesthetic thing would necessarily wash here - with them being the same vintage as the antique buildings. @tomcoady It's um... "over-development". So to speak. Not sure why - it's prob cheaper. Or something we never got around to changing. @leashless Who's Chronic Norm? @punkscience That's funny, because when you walk around a prison, you get exactly the same thing. I haven't watched @tvnznews for 3 days. What's the point?, if I wanted to know about crime and sports, I'd watch @tvnznews Photo I took from car of street earlier, with a completely gratuitous letterbox on it. If you know what I mean http://t.co/5iNFw4hY Trouble is, it's such a mammoth task it's borderline worth-buying-a-new-machine. I'm gradually coming round to the rather daunting possibility that I may have to wipe this PC and start over. It's gotten to be too slow. Zooey etc http://t.co/VIHNrOd0 Borderline annoying, but dark-horse enough to carry it off. One of us though. Kindof. The others never were. Out that article, AirVPN faired quite well http://t.co/MpEdlCKi and you can pay with bitcoins - which is another layer of anonymity. @bestvpnservice - you really ought to remove HideMyAss.com from your listings and issue a warning that they're unsafe http://t.co/87kvEM1N Anyone using HideMyAss.com, stop using it. They squeal to the police first chance they get. That whole "Neutrinos arriving before the photons" thing is probably just down to them leaving slightly earlier. @freelanceadvice In eternal night / JS forever IE / incompatible. #haiku Harry Dean Stanton's just about to get eaten by an Alien. Acupuncture is just a way of fucking up dolls. @JimHedley I went to have acupuncture done upstairs from there a while ago. Then they stuck pins in me so I never went back. @JimHedley I shouldn't have thought it likely Sir. Mind you that Acerola juice from Mad Hatters in Brighton is rocket fuel. Feijoa juice. Marvelous. You chaps in England won't have heard of Feijoa juice. It's juice made out of feijoas This is what I wish my life was like http://t.co/b2DwnRYR It can't be that hard can it? Why not etc? So on TV tonight, it's "Idiots, idiots, idiots, idiots, aliens-that-eat-people, idiots, idiots, idiots, idiots". Bit like being a sheep Alien is on later. The trouble with Alien, is that genius though it is, it's also unpleasant and stressful. @kate_sheppard These days I struggle to find anything Republicans say or do that's not creepy. They're evolving into some other species @BR3NDA No, bit in a way it's not not perl either. The Guaridian's Facebook app is a microcosm for Facebook: "It's an internet within an internet, where you can do less, with no privacy" Beautiful evening in NZ. Sunset in the peach blossoms http://t.co/JQfAReM2 Sic Transit Gloria Monday all over again. On Zeitgeist 3 http://t.co/NHLpZ8vn @DougCoupland (Some of) It has deep-seated moral codes that are adaptations to conditions that no longer exist. Everything flows from that. Well there you go. I can't stand coleslaw. Maybe I should ask for a job http://t.co/qpVQG8hE @MarionTweeting I once had a cat who ate frozen peas. Hated them too, but had to stop the other cat getting them. Catsby's likes donuts. Unbelievable. He's worse than I am. Catsby's watching me eat a donut. Jesus. @CNell_NZ Nice day for a swim? Still searching in vain, for some way of disabling Opera tab-stacking. Yea, but it's not thaaaaat much faster than light, is it? http://t.co/NrMumQDB What is it with "capital punishment is a deterrent" idiots? Can't they fucking count? It DOESN"T act as a deterrent. It's a measurable fact Western spam is all viagra, gambling, scams etc... bottom of the barrel shit. Chinese is useful manufacturing services etc. Hate to say it, but Chinese spam is a lot "better" than Western spam - which is just fucking insulting really. Scientific punch in the gob for Perry http://t.co/LQ724JgU with nice elucidation of the Galileo Fallacy @CNell_NZ I've yet to see any grains of truth in Anne Coulter's rantings. They're driven by a mal-adaptive, primitive morality. @CNell_NZ Yea, well that part is complete shite. His lot crushed Iran's attempted-spring a couple of years back. @CNell_NZ because actually, it's completely true. @CNell_NZ Sure, some of it will be complete crap, but I get the feeling that most of it is just stuff the US et al "doesn't want said" @CNell_NZ Although to be fair, I would be more interested in a bullet-pointed list of the things Ahmadinejad that were actually untrue. Rendering. There's like 4 minutes to go which is going to take another 2 hours @Gary_Bainbridge Oddly enough, I do have an orange rock. Not spare mind. You can have a photo though. Another Brick In The Wall http://t.co/A0L9yVNd So @correcthealth is "physician owned and operated". Hippocratic oaths? You disgusting, reprehensible, cowardly scum? So The State didn't actually kill Troy Davis - they got a company to do it. @correcthealth < this is what fascism looks like in the 21st C Because I have American friends: This is not something that "America" has done, it's something conservatives have done. It always is. Virgo: Coronation St is on. Load of old miseries moaning. On and on and on it goes. These people are never happy, grumble grumble. Maybe I should become more self-obsessed. I'm not going to watch the news tonight. No point. All it does re-talk about a tiny subset of stuff that I already knew, from twitter. War of nerves: Catsby not technically scratching sofa. Just resting paw. Nothing to see here etc, move along. http://t.co/yuDBKSpq God is a DJ etc. Kindof http://t.co/wycR1OhF Had a little kip earlier. Something to do innit. @SubtleBlade @qwghlm If I had to pick one, it'd be the Nick Cave one - but I'm not sure that it's anti exactly.Kin goose-bump material. @SubtleBlade @qwghlm Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle all have capital punishment from victim's perspective songs @amandabee Well, not-killing is to do with empathy and compassion. Rationality is just a set of rules, which always have limited perspective RT @cardean45 Dear Georgia, I'm watching from Strathmore, Scotland. #thewholeworldiswatching #troydavis < And NZ @mrfaulty Apparently not - FWIW, sarcasm devoid of inflection and context is indistinguishable from moronitiude. Still... apologies etc. @dylanhorrocks @mrfaulty Ah... I did scour the prev comments for some humour/sarcasm angle. I missed that one. @mrfaulty I don't do debate. @mrfaulty @dylanhorrocks Notice the similarities? : China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, USA, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Bangladesh, Somalia @mrfaulty @dylanhorrocks "Capital punishment IS the moral & legal foundation of society"? Err... no it fucking isn't. Jesus, get a grip. Blood test this morning. Did it hurt as much as the extraction of a single nasal-hair? No it did not. So what is all the fuss about then? @marie_clair Ah yes. Zee plates... with a crafty gap at the front so you can see how many there are left, like a plate-gauge. Copyright insanity in Italy. http://t.co/GW37OURO the people proposing this law need to be got rid of. The Remsters have retired. My http://t.co/Tak95VKC I envy us, etc. @claireoconnell so money is loaned into existence, with interest. The "interest" doesn't exist - it has to be stolen from the future. @claireoconnell I think it's probably debt. We give debt to kids. Worse than sugar... and the whole currency is a ponzi scheme. Walking things video http://t.co/GKVeUS8t @fastfuture In the case of Wikileaks, #cloudcomputing cut energy consumption by 100% - all it took was a phone call from some US politician @marie_clair So what's that then? A wine-rack? You chaps in England won't have heard of Lamingtons. Kiwi-food... only here, we call it "food". http://t.co/jAHitdp5 Oh great, frozen lamingtons. Mind you, fasting between Dinner in the evening and Breakfast in the morning isn't that uncommon I suppose. It's the principle though,dammit So now I have to go on this fucking 12 hour fast on account of having a load of hypochondria tests in the morning. Bah. It's pretty clear from TV advertising that it's aimed at this strange sub-culture of complete fucking idiots, none of whom I have ever met. @x_chemicalism_x 100km vs 100km is still a lot - but at least the default setting isn't being hit with "1 ton of glass and steel" @x_chemicalism_x I don't think that's a daft idea. These: http://t.co/vR9IGQbh made out of carbon-fibre +covered with impact-dispersing foam @plish Well... semi nice - the slightest breeze and it becomes a unidirectional sail-boat. Hammock Boat http://t.co/cHdpk5N1 @MizRobb @brookejarvis tactics and techniques to that of running a civilised society. Different laws of... brain-chemistry apply. @MizRobb @brookejarvis The psychology of killing (or unquestioningly fighting like hell as a cohesive unit) involves entirely different / @MizRobb @brookejarvis What? You honestly believe that killing people is about "Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?" It's like having someone else's face tattooed onto your face http://t.co/5zbNj8Ld @poploser @insequential it's probably easier to (not quite) write a novel called "Procrastination". @insequential Fraid not. A right-wing religious fundamentalist terrorist no less, but not a bad name for a cat, or like, cats in general. @insequential I kindof call all cats Catsby. It's actually after one of Guy Fawkes' accomplices. But they keep wandering into the kitchen and nicking his biscuits. This aggression will not stand. Catsby is guarding the kitchen against the idiot cats from next door. Ditsy, Flossy and Airhead - don't know whether they're coming or going My. Wikileaks excises US-driven corruption at the top of Al Jazeera http://t.co/KzBIoF3e @x_chemicalism_x it's like people are more likely to buy individual pairs of socks if the sock-herd has a kind of asthetic group-discipline. @x_chemicalism_x Colour-banding. It's what retailers do because for some reason it works. @brookejarvis @MizRobb expecting people who's job it is to be savage, to conform to high-minded liberal ideals, is probably a non-starter @brookejarvis @MizRobb Because a powerful driver in getting people to kill is the way armies tend to coalesce into "us vs them" units/gangs @hjortur Having driven through every country in the EU,we got turned away from the Swiss border due to a typo in our vehicle insurance #ttot @danzarrella But unfortunately dunces also confederate against other dunces, so the whole thing leaves us none the wiser @ikostar @leashless sure, but the internet was created to be very, very resilient. It'll probably be the last thing to suddenly die. @thejoeturner @leashless but we don't have a basic shopping list/construction set for (sub)urban environments. @thejoeturner @leashless At the moment, we're all wired into tightly coupled monolythic systems. We probably have what we need to de-couple @thejoeturner @leashless Maybe the problem is thinking that knowing/doing is the job of one person. Maybe it's just a collation problem. Anyway, I saw my first rocket-stove today. Boils water with a few twigs. @thejoeturner @leashless a bit like the open-source ecology thing, but not attempting 100% and not starting from 0. "Some" is a lot. @thejoeturner @leashless I think there might be some merit in putting together an off-grid toolkit for suburbanites. Same truck, a bit closer http://t.co/udS2e9sR Approaching truck. Trucks totally have faces http://t.co/E7ajmE3A @Pannegroen You could just be a maverick and say "fuckit, IE users need to get used to the internet not working properly for them" This is where I was earlier http://t.co/RxeigEiu God I wish I had more Intellectual Property... I don't actually want it myself mind, I just want to stop other people having it. Doing your accounts involves finding out that you're simultaneously not making enough money, and making too much. I just did my accounts. Am now suffering from mild PTSD This is one of my favourite weather vanes http://t.co/17756sLn Dad's crawling around on all 4s, with Catsby riding on his back. Both Mum and Dad are singing a song about elephants. It's not even midday. @normnz @freitasm and the people who are doing the smearing are actually performing backflips of misrepresentation. @normnz @freitasm actually says, if I look at the actual interviews, he always seems sane, calm and reasonable, and most importantly, right @normnz @freitasm The Assange smears remind me of various smears against R. Dawkins... they seem believable, but if I look at what he / @normnz @freitasm Yea - the Guardian's attacks on Assange are dissmaly transparent and pathetic - esp' after they published that password @cardean45 @demsoc Riiiiight.... although the idea that this result is somehow pro-nuke goes way beyond upside down. @cardean45 @demsoc Really? I managed to get the impression people who vote green do so on issues: http://t.co/t0sw2vuf http://t.co/nqbibVA7 @cardean45 @demsoc As the Greens are up to 18% from 13%, I'd say that was a pretty substantial anti-nuke success. GI Joe: The One With The Nanabots is on. Everyone's orange. With green wallpaper. @terrencewood Distractotainment. And meantime, @tvnznews rupturing itself to try to combine it's twin passions, sports (aka advertising) and milking the Chch earthquake The Emmys is on - staggeringly irrelevant. Bully humour always has someone with a fake, high-pitched laugh and generally involves someone being hurt or fucked over in some way Oh... THAT comedian - that's not really a comedian... he does more of your "bully-humour" type thing. I mean it's like Brighton, UK (justifiably) calling West St "Party Central" when anyone who lives there knows it as "Fuckwit Central" Of course the other thing I find vaguely annoying is the NZ Media's adoption of the term "Party Central" for down-town Auckland @punkscience @GarethMP There y'go - if people vote on issues, Kucinich wins by a mile http://t.co/t0sw2vuf Kucnich being most liberal/green @GarethMP I'm now 47, and I don't feel that different. I vote. I even campaign a bit, but the important questions aren't even fucking asked. @GarethMP In my school, our student body voted for a nuclear-free NZ. The school-board vetoed it. As above, so below. No point participating @GarethMP Kids are basically brought up in little dictatorships aren't they? This idea that we can drive real meaningful change is alien @normnz Yea, it was bullshit wasn't it. The @guardiannews waging this smear-war against Assange dilutes their credibility massively. @j4ngis I drive a Honda. @punkscience No, not really - our currencies are designed to make people who are already rich, richer. This needs to stop. @punkscience I don't think we need to nationalise the bankers :) - just the aspects of banking that are socially useful. Quantum of Solace is on. It's orange - especially at the end. It's even oranger than that Inception - which was very orange indeed. @reggiewatts The trouble with Ron Paul is that he's a Libertarian. Dennis Kucinich has the same anti-war take, and sounder social policies Oh neato. Brown Occasional-Table http://t.co/KDvAvoGu This is my rubber thing http://t.co/rctXwdH9 There's a guy on TV shaving his eyebrows off. Word to the wise: don't shave your eyebrows off. Lens Cap http://t.co/H6w1WCtG yeawhateveryoucanstoptalkingnow @tvnznews doing what only ever wanted to do all the time in the first place - and that's only report sport and forget about news altogether @freitasm I think that might be totalitarian states rather than socialist countries. It's because they need force to be theatrical. Link Latte #21 http://t.co/9bWBvqmA Word Of The Day: "Plura" - The plural of plural You can get life-sized edible brains made out of gummi-bear material http://t.co/MXQnWOvb The building suffered mild scratches etc. It now houses a law firm. The bombing happened 30 years ago. Nothing has happened here since. In the 80s a punk hitched down from AKL or somewhere, walked up to the front doors with a load of dynamite, and blew himself to kingdom come My town has a 1970s Castle http://t.co/FNkFp8Br built to protect the police computer system that could today probably fit on an MicroSD card Innovation having to hack its way around out of control IP law http://t.co/2LD2g8Tr < fuck it, let's just scrap the lot. This is a rabbit that lives on my hill. It sits on the grass etc http://t.co/5FRplITe Metallic Organisms http://t.co/av2jwGPt When I was at school, the definition in the dictionary for "Masturbation" was "bodily self pollution", which did no favours to anyone @ladyniasan @hexayurt Look to Russia, Argentina + possibly Iceland. It depends on how "civilised" society is to start with I think. @1970iowa Nope - taken with a Canon T2i with a little 1970s 50mm takumar lens. Maybe I should start wearing cowboy boots. On the other hand... maybe not. I think I'll just wear one for a while... see how it goes. @ladyniasan If the financial system collapses? ATMs stop giving out money, and then you run out of food, and then the electricity stops. Then beyond that is the sea http://t.co/asSJmRvU @JPBarlow That's what it looked like to me as well. Weird, kingly triumphalism. @Twit_nut Aye. I read somewhere that more people in the US say they want to write a book, than actually read books. @EduVulture Not moodle is it? My main aspiration in life... is to become a celebrity - probably by appearing in some sort of TV game show, or winning a nobel prize. A watched progress bar / creates time in which to write... / a haiku about it #haiku @JPBarlow re: green business - yus, until the atoms form self-replicating organic molecules, then all bets are off. As well ye know. The old lady from next door is wandering around in my back-yard, glaring at the plants. I wonder what that's all about. I shan't inquire. @rosspruden And for the record, If there was a chance that a new season of Firefly only needed money, it'd make millions overnight. @rosspruden Did Ron Paul's last election solicit donations? I got the feeling that it was being driven by social networks. "Money-bomb" days It's Friday, but not in a reasonable, realistic sort of way. It's pouring with wind outside. @Loch_Moy but NZ has this advantage of simply being a small place. Less money + people are more likely to have to look each other in the eye @Loch_Moy Yea as far as social-metrics go, the more "free-market"/laissez-faire the capitalism, the worse the numbers. @Loch_Moy @GarethMP We rank fairly poorly on everything else - a fairly clear correlation being endemic, trans-generational rich/poor divide @Loch_Moy @GarethMP I keep an eye on these things. NZ is the least corrupt country in the world. Does well on press freedom too, weirdly Originator of the term "Jumped The Shark" wins OBE http://t.co/6k8HSmtd Rogue trader costs UBS $2bn http://t.co/ADgm4Mgu < oh don't worry, we'll cover it. We'll just give up the NHS Off to see a play tonight, at least partly against my will, but my mum's in it, so I have to. Golden Mean iPhone app http://t.co/2oKBeVlM @BlackFrankLuntz Yea, the American slaves that work there. @SadekHM it's like "having something to listen to" distracts the part of my brain that won't let me sleep. My mum does it as well. @SadekHM I find that listening to (talk) podcasts eg: http://t.co/qlSzx1xf very quiet... think about something else = sleep in ~10 mins Decaying Cityscape art http://t.co/fIq3m6X @peregrinari7 Were they riding a horse? I played a B for about an hour before, and now I've worn out one of my main fingers. I like this guy http://t.co/XyPgHfP Said site being here : http://t.co/qTrjvys - berlimey, I'm not onto it this morning. I mean did you see those GOP debates? There weren't any facts. That is simply not the terrain that they're fighting on. Rather glam looking site offering "facts" in the face of attacks on Obama. Well and good, but Libs once again thinking facts trump frames Obama renews Cuba Embargo "for Florida votes" http://t.co/4wf922l … < the stated reasons so hypocritical it boggles the mind. I mean accusing Cuba of being a "throwback to the 60s" to justify actions that are "a throwback to the 60s". PS: Bradly Manning @ReubenMetcalfe Seems like a good way of getting punched to me. I generally avoid that sort of thing. Table Cloth Trick http://t.co/d3qLVTr On my todo list is: "stabilize the sundews", between "ring therapist" and "get face-morpher". Which is cool, I suppose. @reggiewatts What? Santa? @jordantcarter I'd have thought "yes, duh" as well. Though to be fair, I thought it was already under their control. Or is that "our" control? NZ Govt Seizes AKL Waterfront http://t.co/Z3OMEVq under powers it granted itself via special legislation it quietly passed recently @InjusticeFacts Imperial Rome spent quite a lot of money on roads and bridges. Mind you, in those days, these were a military technology Colin Powell regrets Iraq war intelligence http://t.co/giVVjRr < the opposite of the others then, who (still) glorify Iraq war stupidity. People were all looking at me etc, probably because they fancied me, or thought I looked a bit odd. I didn't attempt to clarify it with them Managed to go out and do some errands without totally fucking them up. That's a plus, especially as it's quite windy. It's exactly 1pm. That's got to mean something. @1970iowa Amazing. My old sound-man used to say "you see 1000s of bands, then you see someone who can really play, and it does your head in" @ManMadeMoon It's like you need special glasses to take out the 3D and correct the colour-grading. To put things back the way they were @ManMadeMoon I do find 3D to be a distraction - but it's a less-worse distraction than that teal-and-orange thing. @topherchris Everyone on the whole internets who can bear to watch it is already live-blogging. I'd do interpretive dance. Absolutely t brilliant. Gets popcorn etc http://t.co/bD2tkpx I would totally do this http://t.co/afvIxfB Because It Would Be Like Being In Silent Running. Which would be cool. @MaxDCoyle Typical, ugly right-wing tosh in other words. Ideology Before Evidence. Every fucking time. @MaxDCoyle The whole thing reeks of "us and them" - and the proposed "solution" has nothing to do with "the problem". @ManMadeMoon So I wouldn't see it as a fad so much as a separate evolutionary branch. But I think it's an unsustainable branch @ManMadeMoon Chairs/3D - what's happening is that "spectacle" is selling blockbusters these days. Almost a separate thing from movies. @guardiannews Musicians didn't "win" copyright extension, fucking corporations did. Get your facts straight. Mmmm... pie... http://t.co/2Ig94ha @solobasssteve Yea, magnetic media doesn't last forever. @solobasssteve It's completely sane. It's theft. It's stealing from the public, and giving it to (foreign) corporations to sell back to us. @solobasssteve but that's not £3.5bn to the likes of you and me, it's £3.5bn to the likes of Citigroup and Vivendi etc. @solobasssteve According to an MEP I talked to, PWC estimated it to be worth £3.5bn over the next 10 years. @solobasssteve Yea, I had a "conversation" with one of the MU lawyers. It's all about what they "believe" to be right. Shite in other words @PiratePartyUK Well as we're talking about 50 year old music "Recording Industry" doesn't describe it. Try "Copying Industry". I'm so totally going to get my shit together tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. Mildew Billboard http://t.co/QGLXnur Yea... me right now, funnily enough http://t.co/4YaAQ94 ooh - 1080p projector for under $2k http://t.co/loFErAN NIke CEO's stuff collection http://t.co/8rb9ev1 Glassworks http://t.co/2jbfi9I and paperworks http://t.co/Xq5Exe7 http://t.co/LR9Dx7S @rinkjustice Well... I think the nature of the robbery has shifted over time :) they always were about financing wars. Here's a simple banking reform: Spin off and nationalise the parts that are socially useful, and begin fraud investigations/prosecutions Submitted new bunch of designs to Ponoko. This pretty much the only useful thing I've done all day. Life Affirming Motivational Self-Help Statement! But for reasons I can't quite explain, I think it's funny. This is a photo I took of myself sitting in the dark http://t.co/JNszxPS You'll probably think it's a bit time-wasting etc. Virgo: Butters of South Park is Virgo too, which is ok. He's a nice kid. I like Butters. New battery for car. Was evacuated from the battery place on account of a gas-leak just in the nick of time. There were firemen etc. These international "IP" trade deals are just an attempt to privatise knowledge, and privatization as we now know is derivative colonialism US Medical Association Wants Tobacco & Alcohol Out Of TPP http://t.co/Jrv9VYU < well there's a coincidence. I want NZ Out Of TPP Absolutely Brilliant http://t.co/mmHvndf I think the 9/11 "memorials" might have been better if they were like... a year of silence or something. Everyone's gone off and left me and Catsby to fend for ourselves. Blowing a hurricane outside as well. @1970iowa Semi-elevated, in as much as I've been bed-ridden etc. Up and about today though. @samfarrow Wow, congrats. Is this a new one, or one you didn't know about? Pizza for tea. Marvelous. Thank heavens for all that sort of thing. @stevepurkiss Yea. We're Earthlings. Hi. My toe has gone totally purple. It's like having a black-eye on my foot. @ReubenMetcalfe Yea, kindof goodish, though seemingly trapped in a holding pattern. Pizza for tea etc. Bonzer. This is my fave one http://t.co/5Xn69M4 If you put wankspanner into google and look at the pictures, 6 of them are mine. They're art etc. Rather good if you ask me. I ate a nut earlier. @topherchris Yea, you've got to have those though. And when you die, they'll all be forgotten, like gaffes in rain. @inkblotsart The table dropping thing being when I was icily sober, clear of eye and steady of hand. A condition which did not alas, prevail @inkblotsart Sorry v drunk etc. But at least i care... and my toe has gone completely purple after dropping a table on it. @ReubenMetcalfe Yea, got completely trousered yesterday obviously. Came home. Lost car etc. It'll be alright. I expect it's on google maps Well that went quite well - managed to find a hipster hangout in my very small home town, so I am not utterly utterly alone and whatnot. (deletes drunken violence-inciting nonsense from the night before) I eventually lost it to this http://t.co/WP1PdjO http://t.co/rNh8tVx this was almost the first song I fucked to.... but... I had taste, and was terrified. What is that? I don't even know what that is. It's old timers. This is what Richard is l ike now http://t.co/UaPtIb5 Ventually, yer willing to go mad just to have something to do. Lee Sexton http://t.co/DAvMwC5 It's brilliant isn't it Pats? It's like Eye Of The Tiger, but Fleetwood Mac http://t.co/LswHqKy I always fancied that Karen from Birmingham isn't it. She was lovely and had red hair and talked brummie and then we never saw her again @IanMartin I'm not atheist, I just don't believe in a load of priestly bibley shit. And neither do you. Blonde bird, in the wind http://t.co/xxBS2AV Out of all the avatars in the whole world, I think I like @outlandishjosh 's the most. @inkblotsart Sorry - surfing down the down slope again. Oy vay. This is it? come the crash @inkblotsart Have you seen this? http://t.co/jbE6Eie I don't know what it is. I just want to die all over the place. @inkblotsart Well no. You've got me there. @inkblotsart I did a review on collage (kinda) here as well http://t.co/flhGXdC . it's not very good. but... there's no point saying what I was going to say. I don't know about @inkblotsart 's haircut. She looks like Elvis. Okay, I've given up... Have any of you read Keri Hulme and grocked the difference between ok and okay? It's not nothing. To the literate The gogogle ting where you never have to spell anything ever againg properpy is a touch of genius. I still think this is cosmic http://t.co/vESPOKc @IanMartin If they were that indifferent darling, they wouldn't reply Where's the line? Eventually you have to kick off. If not now, when? aprox 18 US Vets commit suicide every day. Let's drag into the streets, and kill 18 weapons manufactures a day. See what happens. - see what happens. If we kill the richest 1%, I doubt that there will be any more deaths in the bottom 99%. But lets just try it out. I just want to kill the 200 richest people in the world. You know, the ones who own the same as the bottom 50%. Let's just kill them - Whanganui flash mob http://t.co/CVq6cMS < I don't know what you're saying, but I'm with you. Ant Blanche, an utter cunt.. after my own heart etc http://t.co/rIVQV2b Ev' Waugh. Star. @IanMartin You sound drunk. Religiousness correlates to fuckedupitude. Look around. Check it out. It does. The things that are really fucking hard, are the things that should have been easy. Whisper, then run. Amontillado - boozy raisins, with just a hint of A. E. Poe. To be fair, I still can't believe they did that. And to be fairer still, 2/5 are dead now. For unrelated, but not that unrelated, reasons. I'm drinking the ancestral sherry to come off the back-end of a mere-12 bottles of beer. Jesus. My old band used to take LSD via their eyes. Virgo: you have a sore toe. Dropped a table on it. You've been warned. Avoid tables. @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Insurance or something. It had a politician I don't like, don't trust and didn't vote for on it @robyngallagher Really? Cool. I was just saying that to be hipsterier... a party that I suspect I may have arrived a little late too. @robyngallagher Never thought I'd say this, but fuck I love Stevie Wonder... well, his early stuff before he became mainstream obviously @robyngallagher http://t.co/8wh8Xku Hello @ReubenMetcalfe , how's things? @DynamyteWalls Yea - that's pretty much what I did too - the real expletive erupted when I banged my head, about 30 seconds later It buffeted the spaceship of a Thargian diplomatic delegation who had traveled 18bn light-years from Thargoidia. They turned tail and fled Anyway, I dropped a table on my toe earlier and swore so loudly that you could hear it from space. Banning Busking for Rugby http://t.co/TIOqJvu <it's like our own little 9/11 where we get to crack down on the formerly uncrackdownuponable Washington Declaration on IP http://t.co/qYRbeZA < a rational and reasonable attempt to reign in out of control copyright bullshit @kalena I prefer to retire to chaise-longue and read a slender volume of Proust. As the wan sun sets over the conservatory. @kalena A Whoop of Rugby Fans. Loads of jumping and screeching and chest-beating etc. With beer. @kalena Rugby on the other hand is groups of people having fun by letting their collective IQ dip to about 1/2 of any individual IQ @kalena Yea, when anything happens (about once an hour) everyone claps tiredly. Lots of strolling about in flannels. Clapping. Slowly IMF: Britain may have to change tack http://t.co/JvO3w73 < yea, how about recognising the IMF as neocolonialism and telling it to fuck off @kalena Now now, it' just a game - like cricket, crossed with fighting, but over a lot more quickly. Bendy Wood http://t.co/4ARc8pf - you know, if you like that sort of thing. @InspectorWinter That's what I generally do post-punch. I've got a fighting technique whereby people generally only need to do it the once @InspectorWinter That's a coincidence - I'm probably the best person to try and fight. Once you've moved up from attacking shrubs etc. Yea, obviously I was into all this before it became mainstream http://t.co/tpfdT9F I bet you never knew right-wing, serial killers wear Lacoste. You do now: http://t.co/jgwgFzz @gubatron Entropy can be reversed by defining the borders of your "sphere" so energy is coming in from outside. "The Earth" is an example @jethrocarr Yea, exactly. Sci Fi computer interfaces always look like they've been made for special needs people. Palm-sized buttons etc Doom is on. It's a movie, based on a video game. Called Doom. @freitasm Holy crap, really? That's like... flying speed. IT"S A GOAAAL... oh... hang on, no... missed. Now one of red ones is kindof... hard to say. Preying? Now they're all in rows etc. Ok Enuff. And one of the black ones just fell over and loads of red ones are hassling him and now one bloke's walking backwards and looking up and... hassled by loads of people and now everyones just sort of standing about and one bloke...AND THEY'RE OFF AGAIN and they're all running about (tweets of rugby commentry) - ok, they're all doing that cluimp thing and now number 14 has got it and is runnign along, and now he's being Bit like The Royal Wedding this isn't it. I know there's more pretend-fighting etc, but there's the same people talking the same bollocks @Prycie Yea - I seem to recall one of the most irritating movies I've ever seen was about some people living in a gasometer. Gasless mind. @Prycie There's a bunch of them in Vienna - covered in brickwork etc, that have been converted into posh appartments http://t.co/Jqa5Zdj @Prycie What Gasometers? I think that's what they're called. There's a load of them looming over Reading. I have never seen a single episode of Friends, all the way through. If it's dressed like a duck, and it's haircut looks a bit like a duck, then it's probably a duck. Poor moose http://t.co/RFik0Cl < that happened to me once, only I wasn't drunk, I was 3. To all intents and purposes, same thing. Poverty-related deaths in the US were around 850,000 a year, before the crash. We should start seeing these people for what they are. Last time I looked EMI was owned by Citigroup- who took $2.5 trillion in secret bailouts, and helped drive hundreds of millions into poverty The EU copyright extension represents (according to PWC) the theft of around £3.5bn over 10yrs. Stolen from us and sold back to us. American Vets commit suicide at the rate of ~18 a day? Blimey - they don't tell you that in the recruitment adverts http://t.co/rwf5fNA @TasminArcher LOL - they were still good links. @TasminArcher fantastic song :) Took me about 25 years to realise it. (and on that note http://t.co/0Ois6Xd ) The assassination of the US postal service http://t.co/MF5Bc5C Just for the records, Ricky Jervais's brilliant idea is actually Beavis and Butthead's brilliant idea. @yezzer I had to quit reddit because I was spending too much of my life arguing with morons. I'm almost argument-free now. COPS is on - it's an entertainment program about (usually black) people having their lives destroyed by drug-prohibition laws. @SpaceHopping - but the pain wasn't where appendixes are supposed to be. "We're going to operate. Right now" they said, at 3am. @SpaceHopping That's prob what I would have thought I was being til I couldn't get up off the floor to unlock the door for the rescue peeps My mum can text faster than I can. It's a special sort of illiteracy I have. @MaryJaneAnsell Benjamin. He was a good cat. Used to come in all hot and fall over sideways on the floor. Stole a whole frozen chicken once @SpaceHopping Last time that happened to me, I had appendicitis and it nearly killed me. You might want to get it checked out @stilgherrian I shouldn't have thought that was necessary. David Gilmour Goes Berzerk In France http://t.co/q9vuHTt @j4ngis Actually that's how my dad plays the lottery- he picks numbers then doesn't buy a ticket. When the numbers don't come up, he wins $5 @j4ngis Well that's the theory, but how do you know until you test it? @j4ngis That's in a Psychedelic Furs song http://t.co/4TAHXth Magnolias http://t.co/jCMMhSw you chaps in England won't've heard of magnolias, even tho that's the colour you always paint your bathrooms @tvnznews taking a break from crime and earthquakes to do what they only ever always wanted to do anyway: talk about sports all night. Scenes from Early 21st Century New Zealand: The Cat Doctor Car-park http://t.co/mrn2hTX bloke riding bike past pencils http://t.co/BqjLZgi @robyngallagher 1970s :) My folks are always talking about changing it... to gales of angry nay-saying. Self Portrait of self http://t.co/PfOjMna Catsby back from Cat Doctor. She said "Oh there's nothing wrong with him... He's just a little bit... silly"... looking at me pointedly. @JPBarlow That ought not come as any surprise - it was under Reagan's tenure that "ignoring facts" became... well... reality. Amnesty Petition thing opposing someone being killed http://t.co/hwesPYj Earthlings http://t.co/RJj2xou Teaparty Brownshirts http://t.co/EcRwvpR @jordanclaire Ah. A map-edger! My http://t.co/kfmbm4I @jordanclaire So is a map-edger a person who edges maps, or a thing who edges maps? And what is map-edging? @anthonyblears in the late 80s - e in the UK was about 20£ a go. It's about 3£ now - but it's hardly ever pure/proper e. @anthonyblears Yea - with e, you get less violence, insanity and bad skin/teeth + shorter "up" period. Still bad + e is often cut with speed @stevepurkiss Far out, in Brighton? That's a bit of a rarity. @stevepurkiss I was in Sydney in Feb. The heat nearly killed me. Blithering heck it was hot. @stevepurkiss Yea, back at the family seat. I think I might try Melbourne next... couple of things to do here first though. @stevepurkiss Yea - people said Brighton was an odd place to come to detox... it's context though. It worked for me. @stevepurkiss Brighton is fantastic. Wish I was there now... but you know... "big plans" are getting in the way :) @stevepurkiss LOL - I moved to Brighton to escape from cocaine. I lived in the Royal Albion for 2 months... then just kindof stayed. @stevepurkiss @lizstrauss that said, I moved from NZ to the UK at 21 to be a rock-star, I'm a startup founder + am working on a feature film @stevepurkiss @lizstrauss I have a feeling that "the end of the day" is that point where objectivity trumps subjectivity. @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss (when I say success worse than failure, I mean fame is worse than obscurity, and $$$$ is more problematic than $) @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss most people who are hell-bent on "success" are really just trying to repair relationships with their parents. @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss / and as far as I can see, success is generally worse than failure. @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss - but this is coming from someone who's never achieved any dream ever - but I know the people who did... / @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss I think small iterations within a long-term perspective is good, but "achieving desire" is never what it seems @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss - yea, there was supposed to be an 'nt in there somewhere :) @lizstrauss @stevepurkiss you can achieve it and move on, and if you find it wasn't what you wanted, you have wasted years of your life. Yahoo for sale? Justin Timberlake should buy it. @clarecurranmp Well... chronologically. @clarecurranmp Nope, I was the oldest. Still am. @clarecurranmp Throwing them hard is not in the spirit of the thing. They need to be big looping throws so they explode everywhere. You can't just go wearing mustaches. They don't look realistic. @clarecurranmp God I miss clodfights. We should have more clodfights Anyway, I'm having to install IE (which I hate), which means booting into windows (which I hate) to fix an "IE issue" (which I hate). @clarecurranmp In my day we had to make our own content. By starting wars with other kids. Catsby's going to have to go to the cat doctor. He's limping all over the place. Has been for ages. Oh god I hope he's not a hypochondriac @x_chemicalism_x Don't cry. Everything blows over. Balloon Diary http://t.co/XVMddQb @johnkeypm so is this how NZ got its ridiculous new anti-internet (and frankly, anti-new-zealander) laws then? http://t.co/aNBOAVn Urge #Burma to free its video journalists. Sign the @accessnow petition 2 be delivered @ #HlaHlaWinProtest on 9/9 http://t.co/N7ZvPIG @milesmaker @MarliseBo In a nutshell: Kickstarter has better exposure and so $, but is US only, and is all-or-nothing. I'm not a user tho Hamilton trying to tone down gayness because of... you know... "rugby" http://t.co/E3wwWEB @jot @davestone @daveph but at least 200k of those don't do anything except wander about, baaing. 250k more of those won't help. The trouble with avocados is they take years to grow, and then the fecking possums eat them because they're little furry BASTARDS The avocado tree is on the brink of being all flowery again. Spring must be springing. Catsby's a noble beast. In a scurrilous, sofa-scratching sort of way. @MaryJaneAnsell I never wore coconut bras. C'est moi - http://t.co/oo5BKKG fashion guru, even then. Blonde too. God I wish I was blonde now @solobasssteve I've yet to find a browser that isn't a bit jammy. I use Opera and Chrome at the same time these days. @videojon looks like one of the evil things off The Dark Crystal @sleepydog @solobasssteve TV is not educational or entertaining. It's there to soak up conversation that would distract me from the internet @MaryJaneAnsell still,when I was here http://t.co/dYeJi8g supply ships were 4/yr + peeps would have the same dress as other peep's curtains @MaryJaneAnsell God that'd be embarrassing wouldn't it? Standing in a post-office queue and someone else comes in dressed the same. Jesus. Hair on backwards; eyeholes so you don't bump into stuff. In the background, latex-fetishist with eiffel tower hat http://t.co/kV5XF48 @clarecurranmp Yea - for some reason most insane violent people appear bland and boring, but that guy looked quite scary. @joshr Is there Wifis there then? @destroytoday @robsog - kindof like these, but lying down http://t.co/QAEI8ct On low-fi high-art http://t.co/flhGXdC @x_chemicalism_x The waiting is the hardest part. You need to get some sort of hobby. Stamp collecting maybe. @x_chemicalism_x THE POST OFFICE IS GREAT @rtgarden Oh yea. We go back a long way. Down by the river again. Chirps birding, quacks ducking.. people with hats, fishing for more hats. I'm not doing anything. Just sitting here Translation of Guardian's weaselly hit-piece in wikileaks http://t.co/qdXriwh God I hated kindergarten. The other kids were fucking morons. They were constantly eating the play-dough. I bet most of them are still there @robyngallagher It's a fucking disgrace. It's even worse than people calling kindergarten "kindy" I'm not interested in any musical act who's name is prefixed by the word "L'il" Unsurprisingly, the fossil fuel industry hates this: http://t.co/7tSAQIx RT @punkscience De Spiegel : Another example of a country/time where there was no copyright http://t.co/t0GJa6x In light of the US govt attempting to bribe NZ to adopt harsh copyright laws... and this http://t.co/MFUUgBa we need an independent inquiry @thatboyneave but I guess it's ratings-driven... so the people still watching TV actually WANT to see authority crushing/judging people. @thatboyneave It's weird. It's like the more TV is blindsided by democratising power of the web, the more it wallows in authority/obeisance Not sure what's on TV, but there are people standing up, being judged by people sitting behind a table. The ones being judged are crying Jumper is on later. It's about a jumper... much like the one I'm wearing now I imagine. Christ, it's September already and all I've done is sat around complaining. Cool http://t.co/jbE6Eie To have output, one must have input. The bloke from The Clash told me that. Kindof. @insequential against the backdrop of shite shite shite 80s music, this stuff was alive. Rebellion and ratbagitude. Never looked back :) @insequential It was a significant moment, oddly. Oddly in that it was about 20 years late. This as well... http://t.co/boH9R9m @unbrand New Zealand doesn't have citizens, it has loyal subjects of HRH The Queen @insequential That was the first Bob Dylan song I ever heard... in the context of "listening to a Bob Dylan Record" And really - what's the point anyway? I've missed the news... and will for a while. I'm not boycotting it, but until the Rugby World Cup finishes, what's the fucking point? @insequential It was quite weird - I was chomping at the bit trying to make everything faster/louder/harder... these guys were the opposite @insequential Same thing innit :) - I can remember the band though... bass player had a massive fender amp, played amazingly quietly. @insequential Holy crap - my first band supported Galaxie 500 in Sheffield UK, in about 1988 OK forget it... google is my friend, yes yes, I know the drill. @rtgarden In the UK you need 3 types of ID for anything... Wanganui it's more like "It's ok, I know your mum" @rtgarden Yea, that's the way it should be. NZ tends to be like that. Came as a bit of a surprise coming back from the UK after 20 years Today's cockup will be driving all the way down to the post-office to find that you've forgotten to put addresses on all your parcels. Mon. Todo: 1) get out of bed. 2) get coffee. 3) put shoes/socks etc on 4) look out window for a bit. 5) talk to cat 6) look at the internets Somewhat more clued-up analysis on the cablegate debacle http://t.co/RYktJLf In a nutshell, encrypted files are assumed to be public Happy Birthday? @jordantcarter - anyway, thanks for doing the stuff that you do. You're from the future etc. It's good ( RT @BR3NDA) Starts off going on about this amazing RC jet, winds up going on about anger-dancing guitar solos from the 80s http://t.co/sc4tD8V Yea, I shouldn't do that if I were you old chap http://t.co/6f4RWBV window drawbot http://t.co/dTuLFI4 Javascript is actually quite a bizarre language http://t.co/kWnlojW @TRoNSHeRaLD If you remember that you'll remember how scary Ronald Reagan really was. In the 80s we fucking KNEW he'd press the button. @TRoNSHeRaLD But at least he didn't start World War 3. @TRoNSHeRaLD Ronald Reagan was on TV - accidentally bumped into a marine and said "I thought he was going to lick me". It was a bit odd. @TRoNSHeRaLD That whole licking thing... I wouldn't errr... I think I'd avoid... I mean... it's not really... Ronald Reagan said that once @TRoNSHeRaLD God that sounds grim. Like sheep diseases etc. @TRoNSHeRaLD Ticks and fugits. So. All you peeps who made various Grand Announcements re: the London Riots... feel like twats now do you? Now that nothing really happened? @CNell_NZ They did it by hand. @CNell_NZ No it's true - there was this thing where you upload your photo, and it tells you who you look like. Nicole. Similar name as well. @CNell_NZ According to the internet I look like that blonde Australian one -used to go out with the little ferrety one who jumps on the sofa @CNell_NZ Yea - me and Cameron Diaz have the same birthday - I think that's why we're so similar. The American Rugby Team welcomes Maori to New Zealand today http://t.co/3MhamA6 @jordantcarter I've built a massive movie-camera-crane... And the springbok thing is on TV. We won I guess... I guess we won. Kindof. Virgo: Today you'll spill your dinner all down your front. So today from wikileaks I learned what (the fuck) flechettes are http://t.co/Y9FNbjR I'm talking about penguins obviously. I love how the TV people pretend that things become famous of their own accord - rather than because they give them saturation coverage @peregrinari7 if it's under a bowl it's probably suffocating isn't it? Absolutely stunningly beautiful day today. The American Rugby team are doing a welcome row on the river later, will go take photies etc @BR3NDA @jordantcarter (each) @GreatDismal @cobaltfram Yea, I do... and I'm guessing I found out by seeing an advert on the internets. Not sure I'd call it tech mind. @SkinBintin I'm not a doctor etc - but it sounds like an infected sebaceous gland... had one in my arm a while back. @SkinBintin FFS - you should get that attended to. The most painful part of cutaneous/sub-c operations is pulling the plaster of later. @kalena Elliot Smith pronounced it Angelus. That's good enough for me. http://t.co/8OeI6nY And meantime, this is how un-compromised news organisations are covering wikileaks http://t.co/8nE3vr2 ie: Messenger-Free @GeorgeMonbiot Actually, this gives a better perspective http://t.co/GsJHPv0 than the cack-handed hit-pieces coming out of the guardian Dad's gone off to a fishing competition - which he takes so seriously that he camps the night before so he gets the spot he likes etc. Maybe I should buy something off ebay. A possession of some sort. @SkinBintin yea - I suspect there's an entire sub-genre of people who are getting a bit sick of me complaining about. I'm one of them alas. Oh I get it, it's "The Earthquake, A Year On"... talking about the 1st one, rather than the 2nd... the 6 month retrospective only a week ago @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Tonight's story: Hard to say. More interviews with people about "what it was like" back then. Article on how a non-privately-owned bank gives North Dakota a huge advantage http://t.co/rcWuMGU @MrWizKhaIifa @edwardvirtually Wanna hear a joke about pissing? Never mind, it would be way over your head More work on camera crane. Minor injury to thumb. Crane 1 : Nick 0. Just went to some sort of art exhibition opening, but managed to escape before I got trapped listening to speeches and such. @rtgarden Mind you, peanut butter on its own can be a struggle. @rtgarden God. That's way too much information in a single sandwich. I'd have to separate out all the various components etc. I've never understood banana sandwiches. Bread can stand up on its own. There' no need for all this extra insanity. What kind of name's that? That's not even a fuckin... that's just a noise, LOL. Beautiful glittering day in NZ today. Just went and saw Jason. Everyone was rowdy and drinking beer etc, sitting on the porch. Virgo: Today you'll find a twig in your hair."Hmf" you'll think."A twig. How did that get there?"... "Jesus, not another fucking birds nest" @JessGreenwood and people saying he's "unaccountable" is bollocks - he's been held without charge for over 250 days AND faces up to the web @JessGreenwood / than their more faceless contemporaries... and it is because there is an intelligent articulate person to answer questions @JessGreenwood / are benefits to there being "a person" that narratives can be attached to. I certainly feel more positive about wikileaks / @JessGreenwood He is a bond-villain though. There was no way he wasn't going to become the story... and 2-edged sword though it is, there / @malbonster @jessgreenwood Oh well, you know better than I then, I've only seen videos. They seem fine though. @GeorgeMonbiot Yea, I've been driving for 32 years and never "accelerated out of trouble" in my life. Been in about 9 crashes mind. @tvnznews has given up any pretense of "sneaking" sports (aka advertising) into the news, and now just talks about sports non-stop. @JessGreenwood @malbonster But you know... a charismatic misfit geek is always going to be an easy target. @amandatreeuk Thank you :) No worries etc. I'd miss it as well if I could... or at least skip a few. @JessGreenwood @malbonster I don't buy the "weird sleaziness" thing- that's all 2nd hand. In interviews he's always straight-up and credible God, it's too hot here. Sat in the sun innit. Can't move. Even the cat can't deal with it, and has sloped off to kip on a sofa somewhere. @AnnieLowrey I think it helps being unnervingly gorgeous. I tend to get stuck down the back. Behind a curtain etc. Or a large plant. The NZ Health Service should be kept as far away from US foreign policy as possible. It's fucking nothing to do with them. Every time I read any of the wikileaks cables, I get the profound sense that we should isolate ourselves from US IP law http://t.co/T23avB7 @DtoBrooklyn You could make a room in it by piling up cushions and putting a duvet over the top. Not sure why you would though. In fact rents in Wellington appear to be double those in London... and you know... Rip-Off Britain is Rip-Off Britain! Greed and price-gouging still rules in Real Estate. Phew. That's a relief. Ah... I see the catch now. Short Term Lets still not significantly less than just getting a hotel http://t.co/JEYVAe5 http://t.co/BIit3j5 Catsby's ping pong balls have arrived. Catsby loves ping pong balls... but if you give him 60 at the same time, he can't cope. Down by the river with coffee. A pigeon is collecting twigs.For a nest probably.Or maybe it just really likes twigs. Nothing wrong with that So you have to be friends with her. She's excellent etc. Hey world - meet @Suze_Thompson She has 1 friend and hasn't said much yet. I wear her shirt http://t.co/yeN7QvA 20 years after we split up Looks to me like the Guardian trying to hackily hack their way out of a fuckup http://t.co/uOt6mgN Here a typo, there a typo @onetruecathal @leashless the same is true in the US, but 10000 times worse. People aren't voting for policies... and should be. Need to be. @onetruecathal @leashless Something else to throw into the brew, here in NZ voters favour Labour policies, but vote for "tory" leaders. My new bed has wheels - so if I try to sit up, it rolls forward and I fall down the back, with only a pair of legs sticking out. @onetruecathal @leashless @thejoeturner @ladyniasan I think democracy works ok - but only, only, only if corporate money is kept out of it @onetruecathal @leashless @thejoeturner @ladyniasan as an aside, have you seen the UK "rejected e-petitions?" http://t.co/aXawHFe @leashless TheBigComplicatedEuropeanGroup.com. A bit of a fucker to type, but it is definitely memorable... and it is what it says. @leashless web names are tricky because squatters have taken everything except "noises". So I'd go the aussie route... fuck brevity. @leashless if a road is windy it's called "Windy Road". "Sandy Beach" etc. A lot to be said for it. People instantly know what you mean @leashless With my Aussie Naming Hat on... we name everything very literally. Eg: Sue Sausage Shop is called "Sues Sausage Shop". @alexfarran LOL - I think next time I'm interviewed it will be in front of a bookshelf with hundreds of "[Insert Activity] For Idiots" books Radioactive people that light up in the dark http://t.co/D3ZBRRk @alexfarran You do at least need bookshelf wallpaper though - to be interviewed in front of etc. Spy Vacuum Cleaners http://t.co/az4Mh1p @jordantcarter Only because it's a shining example of an industry bigger than music, which doesn't need copyright etc. Cool - so Apple has lost another proto-phone in a bar. Maybe I should lose something in a bar!... oh... hang on... My dying thoughts will be "OMG, I never did learn how to spell 'definately', and you know what? I don't care. HA HA HA, I DON'T CARE!" Imagine what NZ would be like if artistic or scientific achievement got the attention that people running about, playing games did. Auckland Art Gallery is on TV. I wish there was more of that, and not rugby. @MarionTweeting Berlimey. That's inconvenient. @MarionTweeting Well nothing incredibly bad happened... I count that as a huge win. @MarionTweeting Happy Birthday? Give or take a day. Out of control copyright-industry demanding tax on digital media, for imaginary copying that you may or may not do http://t.co/VETlJUa @dylanhorrocks The Japanese version of The Ring is pretty scary. I thought "The Others" was really creepy as well. @jordantcarter but I'm a Geek, the definition of which is "someone who has projects". These are generally worth more than education. @jordantcarter but then I think all this "aspiration" plaguing the world at the moment is a form of mental illness. Not making people happy @jordantcarter re: Every teenager should be earning or learning... really? I kindof dropped out and played in bands. Kindof. @x_chemicalism_x "The Wall" parts in that That Game Of Thrones were filmed in Modern England IN SUMMER. It's actually like that. @x_chemicalism_x The English don't use electric blankets for some reason - and it's absolutely freezing there, all the time. Putting a new bed in today. Chaos. Dust everywhere. Cat getting in the way. Everyone not really helping. Catsby is going mental over a box of harmonicas. He thinks they're mice. They're not mice, they're harmonicas. They seem happy enough though - in a really thick sort of way. I feel a bit sorry about the TV people - going on and on and on and on and on about sports, not realising what a fucking waste of time it is @thatboyneave Laws like that get passed because right-wing govts that put private capital before their electorates get voted in. @TrevorMallard @clarecurranmp It's not rational copyright policy until copyright itself is radically scaled back. Tory Slimesacks attempting to destroy the NHS again http://t.co/0G2ntdA @rapella Vaya, gracias señor @tomcoady and recently laid off a load of people at my mate's work because they're losing money. @tomcoady I'm guessing it's true. My mate works for one of them. They also bought the NZ version of ebay for $700,000,000 about 4 yrs ago. @tomcoady @thedrum Hmmm... wonder if TVNZ will mention it. Bet they don't. Too busy talking about crime and rugby. @karl_larsson Jedi-Food. @paulsilver Nah - I only need about 1000 of them, but they make you buy them in bulk. It's a wind up. Actually I think the term "Maverick" is an American ranch-herder's term... roughly translated as "Annoying Cow". @tomcoady Yea - I just know I've seen it before somewhere. I've just bought 50,000 of these http://t.co/UMGe24x on account of being a maverick etc. @paulsilver Cheers :) It's all go around here. Everyone's sitting around reading books. Wow... stabbery photographed (kindof) outside my old flat http://t.co/AgvHS7D Feel all nostalgic now. Fashion Week opening on TV. Brittlesticks, covered in shiny shit. Cat comes back from vet. "There's nothing wrong with him, LOL, he's a possum". It's actually very, very, very good indeed, and anyone who disagrees IS A BASTARD!!! This is a picture of a cat I just drew with my eyes closed http://t.co/TbHC77t @stilgherrian It may not sound like much, but there's a fairly big difference between "lighting the fire" and "lifting a fire" @marie_clair That is kindof an excellent headline though :) @Aiannucci The bad news is that you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I'm quite glad "written business language" isn't all stiff and formal like it used to be. The internet has conversationalised it. @DecafKoffee Yea - I'm a cottage industrialist http://t.co/ODv6TER Been selling a lot to Pacific-rim Asia plastic-surgeons recently. @DecafKoffee Golden Mean Calipers. I ran out of parts so everyone placed loads of orders at once, and now I have a terrible backlog @insequential @reggiewatts I mean "Industry" is all clanking machines and drones etc.Music is more to do with elves playing flutes/lyres etc @insequential @reggiewatts Oh I wouldn't say it's as bad as that... but then most music isn't an "industry"... which is an odd idea, really. @DecafKoffee Yea - it'll be alright etc. Today (weirdly) I will be sending a lot of parcels to other people. About 30 of them. Privatisation is really just colonialism. We should roll it all back."The value of your investment may go down as well as up", now fuck off @leashless Yea - although the income is a bit too erratic for me to leave the country at the mo :) The only difference between Bush and Obama, is that Obama doesn't have a fucking annoying face http://t.co/mNucfvR @Terence_Hughes Cheers :) Birthday today. CGI Wall-E http://t.co/ASNVqrQ Why is it that whenever I hear the name "Dorries" it's in relation to something fucking stupid? So has anyone figured out if the $billions in damage done by the Hurricane actually saved money, because Wall Street was evacuated? Verity, Verity, has features that are ferrety. Poldark's on. He's just come home and his entire house is fucked up. There's a chicken living in it. @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake, tonight scoring a money-shot... and that's someone breaking down in tears. Essential Television I don't suppose someone could tell me why this penguin is the most important news story in NZ at the mo? I find it hard to find the words... to describe the depth to which I do not give a flying fuck about "people playing games". Like rugby. @seancranbury @danfriedman81 @rosspruden The web acts as memetic radio... and "IP" damages its main source of vitality. @seancranbury @danfriedman81 @rosspruden I think the key strength of the web is that it's not about "getting" content, it's about sharing it @rosspruden @danfriedman81 .... and I'm not sure that it does, but I think it might work better than the risk-aggregating gate-keeper system @rosspruden @danfriedman81 I don't think of it as charity.... but I don't think that matters. It just has to work... @rosspruden @DanFriedman81 and apropos of all that, this is worth a look http://t.co/VKKRmWl @rosspruden @DanFriedman81 I gave Jeniferever $100 towards their EU tour on Indiegogo (I live in NZ) because I love them.No charity required I will confess I resent Katy Perry slightly, because she looks a bit like Zooey Dechanel - and that's OUR Zooey. @leashless Yea - I had one of those. Growing at 90° to the rest. Bit of a drag, but you'll be fine. @davestone LOL. Bit of spare time then? "Hurricane Irene likely to cost tens of billions" < so what's that? About 4 bankers worth of damage then? @davestone yea, that worked Nick Taylor video http://t.co/R83OnwL Excessively serious... Like On a trip to Cirrus Minor, but instead of heading up, it's heading down. @x_chemicalism_x Did you ever see Dr Katz - one of my fav cartoon from the... whenever it was. http://t.co/cZmB2sV @kalena Snow-Spiders. Scarier than aliens. @x_chemicalism_x All of The Thick of It is on YT. I watch it when I have hangovers and can't cope with reality. That and Peep Show. @x_chemicalism_x The Thick of It. Absolute genius. @kalena My bro reckons it's supurb from a costuming POV... but the whole is not greater than the sum of the parts alas. Rendering. @robyngallagher Yea, exactly. My old sound-man was a keen collector of off-colour euphemisms... eg: "Back-Scuttling". Not sure what it means @robyngallagher Oh - I see. I think the correct technical term in that case is "A-hole". Or "A-holes" if there's more than one of them. @robyngallagher Or some frightened tosser at TVNZ deciding it might be safest for everyone if we use the censored version. @robyngallagher Airheads? It's not airheads, it'll be some twat at some corporation deciding it's "safest" to treat everyone like they're 6 Fuck this, I'm going to pirate it. Blanking out the expletives makes it too a-fucking irritating to watch. There, I've said it. Zack And Miri Make A Porno is on, and some fucking worthless CUNT has decided to censor all the expletives. Fuck you with fucking bells on. See? Leonardo The Orange http://t.co/6D8yxx7 And everyone in it was orange. See, I told you Inception wasn't as good as everyone was saying it was. It was an interesting puzzle rather than being emotionally resonant @andybudd God - I know that one all too well. Walking for miles round South East Asian Airports at 4am with a brain at half-mast. @TravellerW I think it depends how old they are. If they're like... 6, I think it's probably ok. New shirt. LOL. I love that guy. Kryton bitching about IE, DRM, Lawyers etc http://t.co/hndXPoi The people in the movie on TV have the same elephant picture on their wall that my grandparents had 45 years ago. @rapella Cheers. The last 24 hours or so has been very difficult. Still... VERY busy day tomorrow, doing proper physical stuff. Down the street the dogs are barkin’, and the day is a-gettin’ dark. As the night comes in a-fallin’, the dogs all lose their bark oooh - Peter Sarsgaard is on later. He's totally cool... trouble is, it's a scary movie, and I find scary movies scary. Oh god. Catsby has given up eating catsby food and now eats sweetcorn. Prob some sort of fad diet. @x_chemicalism_x yea @solobasssteve has rather inspiring things to say about bandcamp http://t.co/VKKRmWl @x_chemicalism_x really I think it's a better idea than... making cafes pay mechanicals say. It does entrench the status quo though @x_chemicalism_x I think "IP" is optimised for scarcity, which in a memetic context is counter-adaptive. An ISP tax does kindof avoid this @x_chemicalism_x I think every artist should indiegogo/kickstarter everything they do. That Astronaut song of @amandapalmer is fantastic @x_chemicalism_x I punted jeniferever $100 on indiegogo - because I knew it was going to them. Being able to talk to the band really helps @x_chemicalism_x I would dearly love a way of paying artists directly - and cutting corporations out of the picture completely. @BR3NDA Yea, I think that was the main argument against :) @x_chemicalism_x to be fair,I can't recall the arguments against. It does kindof entrench the daft idea that information can be "owned" tho @x_chemicalism_x @jordantcarter @KevinHague An internet tax has been much discussed - like mechanicals today. Not everyone likes the idea @KevinHague @jordantcarter @Inventory2 @x_chemicalism_x - whether IP itself needs rethinking I mean. @KevinHague @jordantcarter @Inventory2 @x_chemicalism_x FWIW, David Parker was the only one who attempted to address this in the debate @andybudd Yea - if I was going to live there, it'd be Surrey Hills I think. It's been a vague plan, on and off for a while. @Osolage Yea - I used to be a tower of strength as well. Drinking heavily was one thing I was really good at. Not any more. @Osolage LOL - yea, so I've learned. That was the first time in about 3 months. It's fairly rare these days. @Osolage I'm bipolar... and alcohol is totally toxic to me now. So I was out.. all happy and chattery etc, then came home and it all crashed Catsby is sensing there's something not quite right, and is following me around all over the house etc. @jonathan_may there's possibly at least one - my email and whatnot is here http://t.co/IcNQXVI @rapella Sorry. Fell off the wagon etc. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow etc. I cannot handle booze at all any more. It fucks me up so much. Well that was fucked up. Went to a dinner party thing, drank two bottles of wine, came home and cried my eyes out for 5 hours. @jonathan_may Drupal is a chronic anachronism. It's like asking "is there any steampowered devs out there". Yes, they're old men with beards The difference between suicide and "going-postal" is a matter of blood-sugar. I'm seeing a therapist on Thursday Absolutely brilliant http://t.co/M3W6Gkr best backing vocal in chorus ever @x_chemicalism_x One word my friend. "Toilet duck". One word. One word. You've zigged when you should have zagged. One of the things I love about google is that you can type "steveine niecks storm" and it knows. Fuck search, it's an understanding engine. @rapella Biddy? BIDDY? you promised you'd never tell anyone... that... you know... you called me that. Seeing a shrink on Thurs. They always ask "Do you think about...", before I said "no". This time I'll say "all the time". Am massively pissed btw. Am listening to this http://t.co/keEOb1H which sounds like ryan admams. Went out to a dinner party and my ex-girlfriend tried to psychoanalyze me. I escaped, and fortunately live in a house with a cellar AMA Catsby hates me. Hates me.... and I don't blame him... I can see his point etc. But he is my friend. My only friend. And I feed him. 7.30pm. Right. Time for a riot. Where's my jumper? @andybudd The most lucrative contract I ever had, I eventually bailed on because I could not stand that agile meet-in-the-morning crap. @librarykris They're not blinking, they're winking... on account of beeing sassy, winky-eyed flirts. @librarykris Those are eyes. Not sure why, but I seem to be selling quite a lot of Golden Mean Calipers to plastic surgeons in Pacific-rim Asia. @PhilipBloom Yea - they were healthy times. He's the one in the stripey shirt http://t.co/Bqhjouq @x_chemicalism_x I think The Box Office has long since stopped representing any objective reality. They're not even movies any more really @PhilipBloom My mate Adi was a vegetarian for a year because he only ate chips. @e1iza3eth @tarekshalaby Actually East v West when we live on a sphere, that's spinning is an over-complication. Up vs Down makes more sense @x_chemicalism_x but then I'm in love with Abbie Cornish - an Aussie Valkyrie who does a beautiful Texan accent & prim English period dramas @x_chemicalism_x Yea - when I saw the movie, the first thing I did when I got home was look that one up. Good film in a funny sort of way I have a new mp3 player, which looks like it's made out of red liquorice, but tastes like hard plastic and gnarly electronic components @x_chemicalism_x It would save them converting your assignments to comic-sans themselves... which, you know... they all do. @DtoBrooklyn Give Brighton a go- a laid-back satellite of London. People escape there if they've not done anything bad enough to go to Spain @DtoBrooklyn You should try England then. Everyone wears real shoes in summer. Mind you, they're not really real summers. Virgo: Do you know what you look like? Really? Do you? Go and look in the mirror. Go on, go and look in the mirror. Jesus. @DtoBrooklyn But I'm not wearing flip flops @jordanclaire Most of the 1980s was terrifyingly creepy. Iceland's approach to Neoliberal extortion http://t.co/7HtegM0 I don't see any reason that the whole world shouldn't do this. @hjortur so is this what's happened then? http://t.co/7HtegM0 @lucazen @wadhwa Add to that Law/Finance/Insurance/Real-Estate - juggernauts of aggregated intellect devoted to screwing money out of people Ah, and what fresh jive is this I see laid upon me now? In case no one's mentioned it before - Ponoko's customer support is excellent. @Gary_Bainbridge @Martin_Carr TOP TIP: The John Cleese Memorial Rubbish Dump, PN, NZ http://t.co/H8ORI27 @GeorgeMonbiot Yea - probably a bit obscure etc. It's because the dwarfs in Snow white are "characters"... and so is she, so that's 8. Right, what can I grumble about now? I feel so rubbish I can hardly believe it. @stephenfry Well we need to break up the banks, split the gambling bits from the socially useful bits, and tax them properly. Easy really. 'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder. http://t.co/dTovIeK @Twit_nut Ever been on the bottom-rung jobs-prospectwise? That's the flip-side. I spent my 20s unemployed, or on min-wage. @Twit_nut I've been saying that since about 2005 @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Tonights story: Something to do with businesses operating out of different facilities. South America gets its gold back http://t.co/eNtlvjL @andybudd You should go see if you can get banned from The Crows Nest pub in... Crows Nest. That's what I alway seem to wind up doing Making camera cranes. I am a metal-worker. Have this stuck in my head http://t.co/ZY4wJxL it has a chorus that (when it finally gets to it), only kindof half-does. @JorgeStolfi I see. It's 11.30am here :) "It's a shame you can't eat banana skins" he thought to himself at the morning meeting. In the background someone was talking. It was 9.30am Apart from living under the unblinking eye of a heirarchy with the likes of David Cameron, colluding with the likes of Murdoch at the top Dr Orwell? http://t.co/JzMMGPg < if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear right? @leashless @onetruecathal What Apple's done is what Ernst & Young were trying to do in the early 90s. Before the partners discovered laptops @leashless @onetruecathal against the specific will of every IT dept in the world. The drift before that was towards server-controlled PCs @leashless @onetruecathal "who owns the nodes" always has been what it's about. Corporate Laptops were the corporate mainframe killer @karl_larsson @BadTasteEmpire I don't have a tattoo either. Fear of commitment. I know a guy who does though http://t.co/IL50Jqj @onetruecathal the thin-client+mainframe vs decentralised-powerhouse has been waxing and waning for the last 30 yrs, at least. @onetruecathal I think a personal cloud is... (how you say?) "A Computer". @robsog :) @solobasssteve Canned Laughter is a condiment. @tomcoady but then I do things like re-map the keyboard. @tomcoady Ubuntu is the closest you'll get to that. Generally takes me about 4-5 days to set up a new machine though. Glass Beach http://t.co/hhudRPD @anotherkate @FilmFan1971 it's a fine line between "Moshpit" and "Mopshit". @julesevans77 @alexevansuk Oh yea "Make no mistake" they say, meaning "there will be consequences to not believing the shit I'm telling you" @tomcoady Linux is inclusive and friendly; windows is all about "permission" as dictated by corporate lawyers etc. Everyone's a suspect @tomcoady for me though, I hate windows, because you can't do anything without "signing' some sort of legal threat. @tomcoady If you add up the time spent rebooting windows it balances out pretty quickly. Czech Pipe-Cleanerbot http://t.co/8jxiY9H @yezzer I wear headphones playing white-noise a lot... but... you know... silence? Never hear it. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if everyone stopped talking. Not forever... just for a couple of minutes. Tim Wilson's on TV. I went to school with him. He's orange too ATM. He wasn't orange at school. None of us were. Apart from Ross Jewell. @robyngallagher See? http://t.co/MwH4Xuw those are the people who invented English spelling. I shit you not. I took that photo. Terrifying @robyngallagher Exactly. The first standardised English Dictionary was written at the height of the Gin Craze. Coincidence? You decide. "separate" is spelled wrong. Should be seperate. Ridiculous. @NOTCOT I gave this girl I fancied a 5ft tall inflatable carrot once. Didn't really work out... but god damn it was sincere. Virgo: There are 5 nuts-and-bolts shops in your town, selling (between them) 23,109,830,293,298 nuts and bolts. But no 6mm counter-sunk ones Really? And then what happened? 25% of the time spent setting up a new operating system goes on disabling new features, and trying to recreate the old operating system. Hey @russellcrowe - they'll listen to you. Could you please ask the Hollywood peeps to stop colour-grading everything orange-and-teal? @j4ngis But... there's no need for me to feel "advanced", because I just went to a physical cinema. One other person was there. @j4ngis Yea, my mum reads papers. 15 mins a day. I on the other hand exist in this matrix-like pod, mainlining news-feeds 18 hours a day @j4ngis And when I emerged from the theatre, the sky was beautiful, infinite, deep obsidian black, and not bloody teal. Just saw Cowboys and Aliens. Everyone was orange. 6 Months to the day later, @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake: today's story: "It's 6 months later to the day later" Inner City Pressure http://t.co/qsxZ4bP < this sort of thing is why the riots started. @LanceWeiler I think that might be bollocks actually. The 13yr old solar thing. Classic greeny-blog science reporting. @GarethMP Why have you got a broken nose dude? Kitten with bow-tie http://t.co/SlmgMx5 @julianmark Oh I get it - nope. HTML is fine. @julianmark Word? What are you on about? Short Fillum http://t.co/egCtHAe I find it hard to get my head around the poverty of that... TV is weird... it is so incredibly popular but soooo incredibly inadequate. The highest rating Prime-Time TV in NZ 2 days ago: Police Ten, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings,Random Breath Testing,Coronation Street, Motorway Cops Dad's watching TV standing up again. God that's unnerving. So apparently because the The All-Blacks lost their last game, New Zealand has decided to cancel the entire World Cup. Fascism won't always be this obvious http://t.co/HxG6g08 @BretEastonEllis Boys of Summer... though if it came to buying the album that it came from, Bruce Springsteen's probably a better bet Dear Internet. Stop using fucking PDF. Thanks. @freitasm I'm old enough to remember similar conversations justifying SA apartheid in the 70s/80s. There's no point having this convo really @freitasm They are oppressed, and you are willfully blind to the fact that this is why they occasionally shoot back. @freitasm No... do some research and get back to me. You clearly don't, because you're still seeing this as "two equal sides". @freitasm Do some research into the conditions that are being imposed on Palestinians... in breach of international law. Get back to me. @freitasm If you don't know what's going on by now, you never will. You've chosen a side, not based on objective reality.Good luck with that @DecafKoffee Yea - went into the caf about 1 second before closing time. The caf person was... cross etc. @freitasm The reason no one goes to the streets defending Israel is because they know what Israel does to provoke these attacks. LOL @bobbyllew You should be on television. Biotechery Revisited http://t.co/mwb7G94 Well the back on prozac thing only lasted 3 days. I found walking a couple of km, somewhere different each day helps.Needs to be new scenery Sitting in the sun, enjoying a crossly made coffee. Money from patents going to trolls and lawyers http://t.co/C5EEwsp < get rid of the lot. No evidence they do any good whatsoever. LOL http://t.co/7eWKrBR classic David response at the end :) Language effects how we see colour http://t.co/qnwGLZP Oh great, the internet is being really fucking unreliable again. Can get to the router, can't get to the outside world. Happens every day. But you know... when I was his age, I was mainly into making weapons - hence the eyebrow loss etc. Fibonacci is good for optimisting a passive array in uncontrollable shade conditions. Like trees have. Leaves that solar-track are better /but they've patented the technique, so any further innovation is contaminated - and I'm dubious about the results in any case. Dad's Birthday http://t.co/RUiKTdy bottle of finest @TwoPaddocks plonk etc. Marvelous. @RichardWiseman @bookhling and they made the rats dress up with little capes and swords and hats with feathers and whatnot #fact Top 500 most commonly used passwords http://t.co/qOcLiZN - 79% of people use one of these. @joshr @sizemore @davestone @Whatleydude @s_kilpatrick probably because I all want in the whol wide world is to live in a space biodome @joshr @sizemore @davestone @Whatleydude @s_kilpatrick Not sure why, but these are my faves http://t.co/NgrlDjm @MichaelPhipps Look right from here - card symbols etc. @davestone @yezzer When I was at school, the girls had a daggit-factor, which was to do with how cute they were. @davestone @yezzer I can recognise about 30 robots in that thing. Bet I'm the only person who knows what a daggit is. I can recognise 28 of these http://t.co/o0MLhDc What's the opposite of a learning-curve? The 2 are linked. As you climb a learning curve, stuff falls behind you into into an amnesia abyss Anyway, everyone else has gone off on holiday so me and Catsby are sitting in the sun. @GarethMP Really? I would've thought Steven Joyce was running something more akin to "suicidally stupid" transport...but I'm from the future But our govt basically being Cameron-lite, happily inflicted on us for free, then stood up in the UN condemning these very laws. Advising Kiwis to use a VPN service http://t.co/gQxJCEr - to route around laws that the US govt tried to pay our govt to inflict on us Basically a very quick scribble http://t.co/fxMqquc Arse. The anesthetic is wearing off. @paulsilver Pah - I can remember when all filenames had to be 8 chrs long. @alexevansuk You're great you are, what are you GPS coordinates? @hirsch_guitar did you see these http://t.co/cOVlgr1 @RichardJMurphy My family have just had a big conversation about "pulchritudinous", and we have (perhaps), learned something this evening @Swiggs Maybe you could set up a Letterbox-Destruction-Exchange with people from other towns. It'd be almost untraceable. Perfect crime. @Swiggs New car -> Letterbox. It's the only thing that'll work, trust me. @Documentally If everyone's walking in one direction, go the other way. If they're all baaing, moo. That's my advice. Never done me any harm As above, so below: http://t.co/iXgHjk4 , http://t.co/ktn7Ap4 @edwardvirtually Word is that S&P pre-emptively downgraded the US so it could claim the coming investigation was political. When I'm walking along and go round a corner, I always lean inwards slightly so the g-forces don't make me tip over sideways. @zoransa Yea, but they weren't held back by a browser with a majority share of the market. Conservative bullshit, through the ages http://t.co/8cXBy4i They don't seem to get it - any democratically accountable institution instantly voids its legitimacy when it seeks to censor. I think it's bewildering... how instantly Western police/govts turn into Iran/China when there's any hint of trouble http://t.co/qeD2Vrc @zoransa It'll come - the non-IE thing is a bit of a show-stopper when it comes to commercially funded sites though. @zoransa Not since the last one... that splashy ball one done with webgl. US Energy usage http://t.co/Zrbfpcm Strat-Art http://t.co/cOVlgr1 Even before he knew what he was doing/saying... he clearly sees human-rights as being in opposition to "order". Get rid of this tosser. It's highly illuminating that the first words out of David Cameron's mouth in his post-holiday-riots-panic, was to attack human rights So is this one of those people that the GOP won't tax, because they'd rather have ~1 million poverty-related deaths/yr? http://t.co/QGTq1mr Tiny Origami http://t.co/KMWpsbM When Fanboy's attack http://t.co/9Af1NSJ Virgo: Today you'll steal some gravel from some road-works. Not much - a coffee cup... but in those fast fleeting moments, you'll feel alive @Swiggs Go round to his house and knock over his letterbox with your new car. That's what I'd do. Ok, we've had some fun, we've had a bit of a riot.... can we now get back to fucking up the Murdochs please? Well, there's a shining example of why the USA is not in fact a democracy http://t.co/NuNCneq The TV NZ's weather-woman's attempts to communicate with me through the screen via telepathy are becoming less and less discrete. @videojon Muppet Shit. There's a concept. This is how my cat sleeps http://t.co/J30udJL I think he's faulty. I'd take him back but... he found us. @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake - tonight's story: It snowed there. @JorgeStolfi but then I kindof live in a cartoon world. @JorgeStolfi there's every shade between symbiote/parasite. I was thinking more of something that gobbled something up and spat out the pips From a certain perspective (north to south) Wellington is basically just "Lowest Hutt". Can you get carnivorous plants that are like... vegetarian? It was probably being noisy http://t.co/HGejzGR Looking like RIAA scum will start showing their true-colours and start fighting artists as well http://t.co/ERX2U5K Ink truck crash http://t.co/hFY9yzF I mean really, instead of "coming back from holiday" it would be better if they stayed... or if they haven't yet gone, went. Something that we really need to set in stone as a concept: "the way politicians react to a crisis is usually worse than the crisis" Dear God protect us from post-crisis panic http://t.co/ITNtgM7 My life would be so much better if I had more possession. Sigh. David Cameron: broken society is top of political agenda http://t.co/Lpll5zB Yes, well it's probably best if you just don't touch anything Unscripted lines from films http://t.co/S2RpyNp weirdly inspiring @leashless @Nero I think rather than hunting... vermin... two rival hunts could hunt each other - with lances and swords and whatnot. @RichardJMurphy Charlie Brooker blamed adverts in his last Guardian thing. @videojon God I miss UK autumns... it's the time of year when everyone finally stops arseing about, and gets on with things. Right. I'm going to do fuck-all for the next 10 minutes. Basically because she's working for Mr Ironman, who as far as I can tell, is a bit of a twat. He was better in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Iron Man is on. That one who married the guy from Coldplay by mistake is on it - looking quite henpecked... or in this case, arsehole-pecked Spinning_Danika @doctorow although northern Scots, has traces of Scandinavian. @Spinning_Danika @doctorow I'm 6th generation Kiwi, 800th generation Scot... I think any accent traces are long gone. @Shadowfoot Yea - iffy electricity in Wanganui as well. My dog barks some. Virgo: Today, the price-tags on new mattress will cause you to faint onto a torquezone advanced spring system with dreamfoam comfort layer @phil_goff What NZ really needs, isn't "more work", it's "less time and energy spent funding things that are essentially parasitic" @phil_goff I mean what's it actually for?Rent I mean? It's basically paying just to exist isn't it?It doesnt "produce" anything.Just a drain @phil_goff Although to be fair Phil, I'm not so much interested in doing more work, as paying less rent. That's the trouble with Wellington - nice in principle, but whenever I find myself driving north, it feels like I'm escaping from Mordor For all the Wellingtonians bragging about snow... this is the weather in Wanganui right now http://t.co/IdOWP8l @Afrotonomy veni vidi munchi So that's my thought for the day. A rare moment of lucidity. Back to the (really, quite incredible) webgl http://t.co/y5x34a4 Patents are like a hereditary disease - a parasite passed down through generations of innovation. Proprietary formats are like monsanto seeds with a suicide gene. Life stops, like sterilised flowers. Patents are a similar sort of disease Cos that's the trouble with flash - or any proprietary format (unlike HTML/CSS/JS etc)... it's specifically designed not to be evolvable. More webgl http://t.co/y5x34a4 Chrome-only. I'm not even sure what this means. Other than it's what flash might have been if it'd been open An old internet poem - nostalgia/revivals take about 20 years to come round. It's only a matter of time. Another 5 years or so. Roses are #FF000, Violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you. @jordantcarter OMG, it's a Snow-Jordan. Fines could run as high as $500 http://t.co/ms05kLJ or if you make a mixtape for you girlfriend, $1,000,000 and 15 years in prison Tell @Number10gov NO to shut #Twitter #BlackBerry bc #ukriots. #freedomofspeech comes 1st. Add yr name @accessnow http://t.co/2MDAS9g @solobasssteve / the stinking great incinerator north of Brighton, and trying to do to water what oil-corps did to oil in the 20th C.Vivendi @solobasssteve Yea, but it gets corporatised so fast. Like this lot http://t.co/sIYd0oQ are now owned by the same corporation building / @solobasssteve politics can be stupidly 1/2-baked though... I think it's best just to observe. Good one from 2003 http://t.co/jvh0ZUR @solobasssteve There's the odd protest-type song out there http://t.co/lUECr22 (can't find the studio one) Fuckinell - Chinese protesters/riots http://t.co/NSitX4a @Martin_Carr Ah - ok. That whole Santa Fe train-spotting buzz. I'm with you. @rapella And that really upsets the apple-cart. @rapella Kindof an understatement. The revolution is digitization - revolutionary because everything digitized is loaves-and-fishesable @SadekHM so... radical at the same time etc. Trouble is, they have trouble holding on to the talent... because they're old school I guess @SadekHM ... if memory serves. The BBC are quite a strange institution. Old-School, but a serious talent-magnet for people with principles @SadekHM Mind you, a lot of that was possibly at the behest of Murdoch... so who knows what the future holds. For Blair it was over Iraq @SadekHM They don't have a snowball in hell's chance of doing it - so they attack funding etc. But every govt gets into a fight with the BBC @SadekHM it's common in UK politics for the ruling party (at some point) to want to shut down the (ironically) state-funded news as well All your memories are belong to us http://t.co/yYChpuE < although personally, I don't think something is "safe" until it's digitised Mum's doing another play - the terror of my childhood... when she'd spontaneously go mental "In character" and scare the shit out of us all Pretty, annoying-face bloke weirdly doesn't butcher Teen Spirit on Cello, http://t.co/AEmvtYd apart from having an annoying face. I think maybe if I got myself a better mattress I might be less opinionated of a morning. @gapingvoid but then I'm a bit sweary etc. Someone's got to be. @gapingvoid Never liked the word "F-Bomb". Like this infantalising acceptance of other people's (grownup's) "naughty language". Bollocks etc S&P Preemptive Strike Theory http://t.co/SEriXLm And the impossibility of running a modern economy without taxing the rich. @GarethMP @TrevorMallard and if it didn't? We need something in law to protect us from this sort of corruption. @GarethMP @TrevorMallard I suspect somewhere between "emergency legislation" and corporate-collusion, something criminally corrupt went down @GarethMP @TrevorMallard and makes my blood boil to the extent that I'm of the opinion we should look at prosecuting the people behind it. @GarethMP @TrevorMallard Actually, I'm with Gareth on this one - that bill (and the way it was passed) was an utter disgrace. Stop Cameron's social media and Blackberry clampdown! http://t.co/hFCwh32 via @openrightsgroup Well I guess this is The Oil Industry's candidate then http://t.co/H1qVnd8 Suicidal greed... dragging the whole world down with it. Google fucking things up with Google+ http://t.co/aqs9nfu Google+ is not the answer to the problems created by facebook. Diaspora is. Right... this isn't "The US" in denial about drone-murders, it's a pair of "officials", too scared to be identified http://t.co/DGJABdd? Klaus Kinski and The Golden Mean http://t.co/ToyaY5W Bad Boys II is on. "What's on?" said Mum. "Bad Boys II" I replied. "Oh" she said, and carried on knitting. @IPaidABribe THE most dangerous thing about terrorism is the way our "leaders" use it to impose policies that we'd never ordinarily accept @IPaidABribe Corruption is obviously less of a threat than terrorism. Terrorism is less dangerous than car-crashes, or peanut-choking etc @zoransa You reckon? It's going to be years before HTML5 incapable browsers go away isn't it? Mind you, my own site traffic is only 11% IE @zoransa Mad isn't it? As a mild arachnophobic it gave me a minor heart-attack the first time I saw it. HTML5 and JS. Bet you ain't seen a website like this before http://t.co/1HFPmKG I've set my ardiuno / laptop up so if anyone says the word "wanker" on twitter, it flashes a light. #toomuchtimeonmyhands so, re: BART - the police killed someone, and to stop people protesting they stopped them talking to each other http://t.co/VaaGza8 That's because it's not a planet, it's a hole http://t.co/MrXmNRZ This is actually a large part of why I don't go to the gym http://t.co/ADIW1L8 apart from laziness, and this nagging sense of conformity @satyacolombo @getstoried the sun makes star-shadows. Actually woken up in time to go down to the Farmer's Market today. But won't... I always feel as though everyone's looking at me. Oh Em Gee.... I am so totally getting some of these http://t.co/uxZLgu4 (via @edwardvirtually) Still not enough to make a living on mind... but getting there. My golden mean caliper business has now scaled up to a point where I need to be ordering the parts 50 at a time. They're not leaders - they're not even representatives... they're just embarrassingly inadequate people that we don't know how to get rid of And it's the same in most countries in the world - fucking politicians do not have the moral legitimacy to "control the flow of information" Trouble with Cameron... he's part of culture of expense-fiddling, lobbyist-pandering, tabloid-colluding crooks, expressing "moral outrage" Some Chinese Newspaper cheering Cameron's new-found totalitarianism http://t.co/4qZuKyu $285,000 Nazibot http://t.co/erdNneF @paulsilver Yea. He's not dead, he's resting etc. Funny little critter. A waife and a stray. Came to the door and said "mew". @paulsilver Yea, in that as in all else, he is an innovator http://t.co/w6krmwg Guy unhappy with game http://t.co/YI15lK8 Shoes my Mum has just made for the granddaughter http://t.co/61WvvhS Mum watching Corrie http://t.co/9NplOBr @solobasssteve Nope, from NZ, Cameron is just a predictable set of scripts. I could write a bot to do what he does - in about 1/2 an hour My (retired) mum and dad were just saying how much they miss teaching ( apropos of that, http://t.co/1zk328x ) Virgo:There's a new phone with more buttons than you can count on one hand. It looks at you; you look at it. You don't understand each other Brazilian house http://t.co/EYXrnNI @jon_hirsch But if people drink from them, they must be safe right? @jon_hirsch In my day we used to have to make our own water. Out of turning the tap on etc. Well, my printer has dreamed up a new way of fucking me about - print all pages solid black (using Epsom's Ink, which costs more than gold) Teenage Olympic Sports Person Snitched On By Own Parents Over The 2011 UK Chav Shopping Riots http://t.co/znAYau7 Notice how this law is always "fast-tracked" or "snuck through". That's because it's against the interests of the electorates. Columbia looks to be latest country to "fast-track" fascist copyright law http://t.co/Md0tWL5 at the behest of foreign corporations @solobasssteve Levis Legacy http://t.co/VSNoUGk Is it me, or has the return of the PM and various Tory politicians from holiday actually made things worse? #ukriots Actually, looking at the ole riot-history, http://t.co/slmzWJG there's a hell of a lot of US riots. Why aren't they rioting now? @ninestonecowboy The Brits have been rioting roughly once every 5-10 years for at least the last 800 years @leashless @onetruecathal That anti-nanotech bomb has nothing to do with regulation, and everything to with crackpots thinking scifi is real Cool http://t.co/lM54CBB It's a really strange, disorientating feeling NOT having leaders behaving in the blindest, stupidest, most damaging way they possibly can. My... looks like Christchurch had crowd-sourced rebuilding plans, and they're actually going to do it. @zoransa We do have the distinct advantage of being right... but yea, that on its own appears not to be enough alas. @tauhenare So.... presumably you need to sell a... err... a dildo? You should put it on ebay or something. @zoransa At most, I'm being unfair to pigs. A sustained, 40 year, multi-billion-dollar deep-propaganda campaign, specifically designed to create self-seeking, empathy-depleted, pigs. There you go - this is how America got to be so terminally fucked http://t.co/QiGpDLX @JPBarlow @InjusticeFacts And that's not counting all the times when I've been drunk out of my mind and on drugs etc. @JPBarlow @InjusticeFacts For what it's worth, I've been stopped and search in London twice. You see that guy at the back? That's me that is. That's me on holiday http://t.co/Z4DItpg @jordantcarter see Lakoff (http://t.co/Ua4JUeu ) Because conservatives think it's immoral to help "weakness" or question "strength" Armed, with baby and vampire-womble-dog http://t.co/ls8vc4S @ProtectiveMum @GarethMP Once they're addicted however, their freedom of choice is severely compromised. Ever been in a cancer ward? Bar Association wants lobbying rules http://t.co/AviOOKq My idea: Any corporation subverting democracy is broken up and its CEOs gaoled I mean I've seen pictures of them - and a mate of mine down south has a smartphone of some sort. That's as close as it's got. iPhone 5 leak http://t.co/fbAJvAH which doesn't mean a whole lot to me, because I have never actually seen an iPhone @robshepherd Yea. Today is going to be a struggle. He's sleeping on the shirt I was going to wear as well. Having to sit in a camp chair today because Catsby has got the armchair. @vallie for what it's worth, I'm (also) from North London - my Mum and Dad taught at Crowland School in Tottenham. @vallie But everyone with a political axe to grind is saying "see, told you so", over something they know absolutely nothing about. @vallie No I don't. The Student riots (in the UK) were part of that. This latest thing isn't about politics... it's just fuckwits, looting. @vallie but you won't find a single clearly articulated political statement from any of them. @vallie there are less police about, and everything's a bit viral these days... and different because they're shopping-riots. @vallie Because it's kids being caught up in a buzz, and then nicking crap. England has always had riots. These ones are bigger because @vallie Yea, they are - but London probably isn't part of it. London is just kids kicking-off, and nicking... well crap, basically. The Shopping Riots of 2011.... in which a great deal of Chavwear was stolen - ie: things that 2 years later will be worthless. Having lived through IRA campaigns,poll-tax riots, Notting Hill Riots, Thatcher/Miner riots, it all seems very soul-searchy and hand-wringy @leashless I don't think "the poor" want their share - It's just a load of people primed to kick-off, kicking off. It's all about the buzz Sheep Pellets http://t.co/LPRJFYq Why the fuck do we have people like Simon Power who appear to be proud of their ignorance making laws governing the web? Greens, Labour questioning National on their fucking stupid anti-internet bill http://t.co/hAP0wPz @TRoNSHeRaLD Got coffee. Went to post office, posted something. Went to bank, paid for steadicam prototype, recorded music. Answered emails I've done two useful things today already. This tweet was one of them. Although personally, I don't have a problem with GM... just the "IP" that comes with it. That is pure, repugnant poison. @JPBarlow What's the deal with Singapore? Or um... Luxembourg? Both islands mind... I don't know if they're oligarchies or not. @JPBarlow That's cool. I know a guy called Mary Mary as it happens. This one http://t.co/SSwxiMZ back in the day, @umairh I think you were just idly theorizing to be honest - and now you're idly (and prematurely) drawing conclusions. @jordantcarter Lovely day in Wanganui. Coffee by the river. Cars, ducks, people, dogs, all going about their business. Pie for lunch BREAKING NEWS - FROM GREECE http://t.co/6Rms8nU @robshepherd God - it only just occurred to me that's where "Broken News" comes from. "Coming up, more to come. Stay tuned" I've got this Elliot Smith line stuck in my head "It's a long time since you cared enough / to even be discrete". Over and over and over. I don't suppose anyone knows of rental accommodation in Wellington... for about 1 week each month, which isn't stupid expensive? @PaulGrahamRaven I don't know - it could just be a growing pain for trends headed in a good direction - because the long term trend is good @robshepherd Why? Are you thinking of nicking a train? @PaulGrahamRaven Chin up old boy, we've got a loooong way to go before it gets anywhere near as bad as last time. @Twit_nut And sadly, I do happen to know that drosophila (for that is their name) are useful for genetic engineering because of eye-colour @Twit_nut Jesus - hasn't tempus fugited since the days of Blake? These days an hour IS a fucking eternity. We've fucked time. Fucked it up. @Twit_nut Ah - infinity in a grain of sand, and eternity in an hour. Fruitflies. I'm not convinced by Fruitflies. I'm not convinced that I can see the point of them. I mean what is the point of them? @metiria @uriohau ... from my own bar experience - someone else having responsibility for saying "you've had enough" would've been great @metiria @uriohau Really? Rather than being extra free security? I mean it is a total outrage... depending on how it's spun/handled but... @metiria @uriohau That's a relief. If they'd said "drunk pakeha" I would have just known they were talking about me. @newsbrooke @jasonkitcat Yea, Surveillance is (it turns out) an explicit failure with respect to the Peelian Principles http://t.co/R9pdimH @marmadukedando @paulkingsnorth nah - the fall of Rome was the barbarians turning up, and finding there was fuck-all there. Some goats etc. Virgo: / leave the top off the toothpaste. For those few fast-fleeting seconds you'll feel... alive... alive. Virgo: Today you'll look in the mirror, and something will snap. You'll riot... right there. In the bathroom... tip over a shampoo bottle / I blame video games myself. They've seen these games with rampaging zombies and decided they want to be them. Obvious. @firstsearch - timeline of the last time we did all this http://t.co/UsMBBid "what worked last time" is absolutely not talked about in MSM @firstsearch / deliberately corrupting govt and the 4th estate is the problem. Neoliberalism (what fascism morphed into) is the problem @firstsearch In this context, both are both. I think it's simpler than that - Power Corrupts. Capitalism isn't the problem, corporations / @firstsearch And the way out? Easy. Tax the rich. You know, like we used to. @firstsearch So sayeth a reprehensible tory rag. Last time I looked however, it as socialist welfare states bailing out capitalism. @FilmThreat re: "everything we believe turns believe turns out to be wrong." - a product of "believing" things, rather than thinking them. @leashless A narcotic of dread Bambuser for publishing straight from phone to the web http://t.co/D4uDctE God riots are distracting. Kudos to @ChrisLilley http://t.co/9FRIYh2 Though it must be said, I find is characters absolutely terrifying. Actually Turkish people keeping the peace would figure - I used to get drunk with Turkish guys. They would not put up with this shit @rorybremner Aren't they all on holiday? I'd have to guess though is that it's because the govt hasn't figured out what its "message" is yet Leisure Centre http://t.co/fq2yffT (rt David Shrigley) @jordantcarter ...although 24 hours later, it looks more like people simply nicking stuff. #londonriots @videojon We all squatted in those days. Chapterhouse had a squat in Kensingon. Toffs etc :) Quite impressive though. @videojon It was the same phone that Batman had in this http://t.co/RUmgCJ3 though not recognisably batty to the untrained eye. @videojon As a really long-winded aside, The Swervedriver/Wild-Poppy squat managed to acquire a looted batphone from the poll-tax riots Out of control copyright industry sues 200,000 bittorrent users in the US http://t.co/CC5MSaU Anti death penalty in the UK petition http://t.co/OkidUkC Shelley Duvall saying hello http://t.co/0wNWyzJ @madeonjupiter I need to make these http://t.co/7ZSTfjQ I have the Raising Arizona Theme Song stuck in my head. For those who don't truly understand what this means, it's here http://t.co/t0vDFXa @jordantcarter not that I've ever been in one myself. Been punched a couple of times though. Well, quite a lot actually. @jordantcarter Summer riots are kindof an English thing. We've always done it. In a weird way, it feels positive. @jordantcarter but I think it's basically people who feel disenfranchised taking the opportunity to kick-off. By attacking their own.. hood @jordantcarter I'd like to think it was what happens when police try their "tactics" on people who aren't middle-class. They deserve it Space The Final Frontier is on. @andybudd But don't mind me, I'm Scottish. @andybudd Time was, 75% of weekend crime in Prague was drunken brits. The myth of the well-mannered Brit, is a peculiarly British myth Unfucking a cockup. @videojon Sugared Virgo: Today you'll eat sausages with a knife (instead of a fork) like they used to in the middle ages, and it'll feel good. Damn good. Micro Graffiti Building Art http://t.co/KapN53O < pretty much the only constructive thing I've done all day. @madeonjupiter Not sure if I've got my wires crossed here... do you know where I can get wood CnCing done in NZ? Another face of 21st C fascism, this time Cisco. Sometimes when "they come for you" it looks like this http://t.co/Hs5Plvo @RamonaSiempre thanks @davetenhave Cheers :) @KaiserKuo And there's 3 of them. Incredible. Normal people can't do that. Hmm... seems to come from here http://t.co/nXKkf4m My. A whole load (more at side) of people, for reasons unknown, pretending to be superheroes http://t.co/E4lgUrO @tomcoates Thing that I've found most interesting is micro-power-cells http://t.co/qZaf55z - photo at the end of a little butane burner @RamonaSiempre don't think that link works. The burning flats one I mean. @jordantcarter Yea - Auckland is secretly a very rainy place. Wellington is publicly windy. Wanganui is nice, but no one comes here Of course when I say "making latte"... actually my dad makes it for me, while I sit here complaining about the weather and having a sore leg I've taken to making latte in cardboard takeaway coffee-cups. The acoustics are better. Anyone know any good CNC woodworking places in NZ? Privatised police, corporations writing legislation http://t.co/ba6Wq79 this is fascism. It's here. But without the canine moral-code. And unfortunately if you get a bunch of geezers together, all out for a fight, the collective IQ is about the same as a pack of dogs. re: "no justification for violence"... I don't think that's true actually - but there is no justification for tactical/strategic ineptitude @ManMadeMoon Have you seen Serkis in Sugarhouse? The guy's fucking terrifying http://t.co/q0mfIPP can easily out-arnie, Arnie @rosspruden The only scarcities that abundance creates is in dissolving businesses that exploited the scarcity with monopoly rents #infdist @Nero @MelissaTweets @leashless The more socialst/welfarey a state,the better its economy.What's failing is socialism bailing out capitalism Knitted stop-motion http://t.co/ANwB4Ka @Twit_nut (Wife to Roman) "Fuck off Roman, you're such a cunt". (Roman) "You get to shag Johnny Depp. (Wife) "ok then, LOL" @Twit_nut (Roman to wife) "I'm making a new film - and I'd like you to be The Whore of Babylon. I think you'd be good" @Twit_nut What? Roman's missus? Looks like a bit of a stroppy cow. Still... "How to win friends and influence people, LOL" @Twit_nut That's probably just a safety thing - to stop you taking screengrabs of the pages and using them yourself. @Twit_nut It's got a weirdly great ending. That whole walking up into the light thing @Twit_nut Really? What was that? I quite like that movie. rainbow ants http://t.co/VYZxvCF R fn T "Checking cross browser CSS comparabilty is a real pain. Also, booting into Windows to do so just adds insult to injury" @unsymbol Nuclear Implications for China's High Speed Train Wreck http://t.co/CnvM6fB @russellcrowe is on TV - State Of Play... in which he has the same haircut and not-shaved-recentliness as me. God damn he looks cool. Virgo: In a caf today a hipster will come in and spot another hipster, dressed the same. They will both faint. Then wake up, and faint again Word to the wise kiddiewinkies, if you're going to riot, do it in Knightsbridge. Christ, imagine how appalled "the media" would be over that And if not, the fucking deserve to be - although the victims seem to be local shop and car owners, which is kindof a fuckup. I'd guess that Tottenham riots are a direct result of police trying their bullshit anti-protest tactics on people who aren't middle-class And the lies only ever go one way- benefiting the agendas of the corporate class telling. It's not freedom of speech, it's false advertising I think the meteoric American decline is a direct result of their "News" corporations trying to strike a balance between truth and lies. NZs New (human-rights-breaching) 3-Strikes Copyright Law (that the US tried to pay our govt to impose) in flowchart form http://t.co/7GJtXdl @Documentally Absolutely brilliant. Saw him play in London back in the day... didn't realise what a genius he is until I saw this. Accumulation by Dispossession http://t.co/JhxRDHu From the sound of this http://t.co/S6CZwOK any nation engaging with the US in any kind of trade agreement covering IP, is committing suicide When Patents Attack http://t.co/S6CZwOK podcast on how insane out-of-control-IP law has become. @leashless But I think "a state" is just an historical circle on a map, the inmates of which are taxed to "defend" against other circles @leashless but this interpretation of state isn't based on anything like divine right. Specifically the opposite in fact. @leashless he didn't last long... and lost the lot, but people had gotten a taste for it, and the enlightenment was here so... it spread. @leashless I think the state as we know it owes a lot to The Napoloenic Code - established when he overthrew old empires http://t.co/v89dExZ @leashless Caligula was before his time in that respect, but nobody believed him cos he was clearly mentally ill. Diocletian clearly wasn't @leashless I think the Western lineage of divine right was created by Diocletian out of the Roman deification of dead emperors. @Martin_Carr You can actually remedy smelly (but not noisy) people by taking your earplugs out of your ears, and sticking them up your nose @Martin_Carr Why have you got a broken face, dude? @tauhenare Three bears came round and drank it all? @ProtectiveMum Strange is the new normal... which is to say, it never really was that strange. People get drunk. A lot. Always have. These people are grownups for fucks sakes. Get a grip you people. You're a disgrace. Right now though is some sort of reality game show, in which all the contestants cry when they lose, apart from the winner who also cries. Keanu is on later. I like Keanu. @ProtectiveMum But you haven't lived til you've seen a departure lounge of any UK hospital on Saturday night. Like MASH. The pissed episode @ProtectiveMum Oh that... that's simple. It's that we learn at 16 that alcohol is a cure for shyness. Trouble is, it is. They've given it an AA+ instead of an AAA. I'd have given it a "too corrupt, dysfunctional and frankly stupid to survive" rating Mildly amused at the wave of "messenger-attack that S&P have provoked by saying "ooh, I'm not sure we like the Emperor's new shirt" What to do about the current crash http://t.co/7acX4VQ On burnout http://t.co/2gnoCin < oh shit yea. It's almost crippling. @hellbox This was a law to close a violence against children loophole - it got framed (by the media) as "anti-smacking". @hellbox the question was so heavily loaded that a web-site taking the piss was popular for a while http://t.co/gnMbDrO @hellbox .. was a recent referendum over a violence-against-children loophole, which was a piss-take poster-child for how it can fail. @hellbox As far as I can gather, California already has this system... and it's a basket-case. The swiss have it I think. Here in NZ there.. Epic Aussies http://t.co/vAZnxAd < prob the best Aussie band ever. I don't care what they say, Virgo: is it a sex thing? Are you being stalked? A message of some sort? And it's not the first time is it. No. No it's not. Idiots. Virgo: this morning you'll find that the night before, someone has pulled a condom over the wing-mirror of your car. WTF? Why? Why do that? @leashless I mean Italy itself was a set of principalities before he turned up... and the rest of Europe was largely dynastic empires. @leashless Really? I thought The State was largely created by Napoleon? @filmrant Watch Apocalypse now... leave the others for another day. @hellbox here are some laws governing corporations from the 1800s... when people knew how dangerous corporate power was http://t.co/a35KfWn @hellbox Lobbyists (and murdoch) are corporate corruption... which needs to be gotten rid of, rather than ceding all power to corporations @hellbox @wjkno1 Or to put it another way, you can't have referendum-democracy and media conglomeration at the same time. @hellbox @wjkno1 If you're going to ditch representatives then all that power is ceded to the 4th Estate... So um... be aware of that. @rosiesherry Yea - disaster... especially as one of the things involved losing about £2000 @rosiesherry You think you've got problems. I have a todo spreadsheet, and this week I wound up doing the opposite of it. @MaryJaneAnsell http://t.co/hqJkFM2 Mirrors Mirror http://t.co/H4HVJnu @HelenClarkUNDP Hi Helen. Would you like to come back to NZ and be our Prime Minister? I think you'd be good. @solobasssteve I'm totally going to do that from now on. Predator 2 is on. There's this guy who's freaking out over nothing. Apart from this alien. The trouble with John Key is that when I see him talking to the US President, instead of some sort of pride, I feel embarrassment and dread. Robot Roundup http://t.co/d3ybP1k The Green Party is vital - to keep us up to date with the idiocy and incompetence of mainstream politics... which really just needs to stop End to seed exchanges? http://t.co/jWtUC5D Any chance you politicians could just "not do anything else" until we get someone competent in? Ok, so why don't we all spend $25 and issue bogus infringement notices against the stupid cunts behind this law http://t.co/dzSpJSQ NZ govt entering a 30 YEAR IT contract http://t.co/FypQ9T7 < either amazingly stupid, or amazingly dishonest (via @normnz ) Metropolis http://t.co/Y60dRuZ @thatboyneave but then I'm an opera user so I was taken in completely :) @thatboyneave I thought an average of 90 was a bit low... means 1/2 are less than 90. That's kindof dysfunctional @gleonhard re: UK Copies - the right direction, but still accepting the reality-agnostic/dangerous idea that information can be controlled I think the funny thing about the great Browser IQ Hoax is that everyone believed it. For a day or so. @GarethMP @InternetNZ they just went along with what the corporate lobbyists (and the US govt (same thing)) wanted. Utterly clueless @GarethMP @InternetNZ Yea, well the reason there's no govt education on 3-strikes is because they don't really understand it themselves. @jordantcarter Sunstrike. In the paper today. Sounds like a great idea. "I was walking along, then had sunstrike and fell over into a bush" The Golden Mean and Margins of Error http://t.co/p1bWWwf Virgo: Today you'll realise that the photo of cherries you've been using as a desktop background, has a mutant cherry in it. Another gob-smackingly gorgeous, glittering day in NZ. It seems to alternate between great and crap. GreatCrapGreatCrapGreat etc Darth Vader, Mona Lisa and The Golden Mean http://t.co/rcBApT0 It doesn't advocate breaking the law - but I do. Get a proxy http://t.co/R0fnjOa and do what thou wilt. Website of advice over NZ's new human-rights violating internet law, bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists http://t.co/P2gERa9 @rapella Yea, that happened to Tony Blair as well. Becoming a world leader is like falling prey to a sea of micro-vampires. Virgo: Tonight you'll look up at the stars, and remember how you used to look for UFOs. They never came. Inside,TV is on, with the sound off UK parasitism soars to record levels http://t.co/K17VDL0 Oh you are funny Darth Making videos, now thoroughly traumatised. There is soo much setting up, and a constant threat of someone talking shit and fucking it all up A day much like any other http://t.co/NACNL6C Japanese nuke agency + utilities tried to manipulate public opinion http://t.co/2C2FddZ < No shit sherlock. They all do it, not just Jpn He accused the media of stalking him after he was spotted urninating on a tree in Takapuna http://t.co/NAJIBaa Attempting to use a Linux function - the genius writers of which have supplied a 10,000 line man page without a single example Richard Stallman on The Cloud http://t.co/dPQgYCs < yup. It's a mainframe in the sky, with all the dangers of a mainframe. Matt Damon talking sense http://t.co/1zk328x < alternatively, you could be a pre-80s teacher and be relatively well paid. Wish they'd stop calling it a "Debt Crisis". I wasn't. It was a Republican Extortion Crisis. And it hasn't gone away. @novacut @jgderose that page reads "The is the heart of dmedia" which for all my earnest struggling, I can't seem to make sense of. We don't need to crack down on piracy, we need to crack down on corporate interference in democracy - by whatever means. @JMRooker @GreatDismal ...erm.... that no matter who you vote for, you still get Republican policy? Sign the petition in favour of in the #publicinterest against #feralelites: http://t.co/DGhb3SL @rapella Ah yes, I remember now. @BlackFrankLuntz re: "how" - back to Lackoff I think - don't talk to the right at all, frame things so you're talking to the left in people UK Cinema - more money made than ever before; fewer films http://t.co/M8qRVcl Analysis of latest attack on American people http://t.co/KoN6zCK Dreamhosts totally save my ass again. They do database backups. That you can access yourself, easily. Rowdy Rug http://t.co/97ZcnyB I always found Wizard of Oz to be a bit creepy to be honest. I don't really understand anything that happened before 1964 @tnznews also crowing over their successful campaign to make yet another drug illegal, blind to the incredible damage prohibition has done @tnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Tonight's story: kids going to the same schools that they went to pre-earthquake. So if Bush's tax cuts for the rich cost $3tn and the response is to cut $1tn from public funding. The biggest heist in history matures Tyranny of Bondholders http://t.co/mSD7rbs < when trade agreements are used to attack democratic sovereignty, we should scrap them Mirrored Mazes - the psychology of The Shining http://t.co/Hx54PFP Catbsy 2.0 radiating pure malice at someone photoing him, rather than just opening the fecking door http://t.co/hw0nB7M I'm inside; the cat is outside - looking at me through the glass door.. and at some point one of us is going to get up and open it. But who? Virgo: Today you're just sort of sat there. You had a banana for breakfast. Hurray for bananas etc. You know where you are with a banana. @andybudd Eh? Is there still radio? This (about 20 mins in) is one of the most powerful political things I've ever heard http://t.co/AMV2kQG (thanks, @BlackFrankLuntz ) @tomcoady Yea - my general knowledge is broad but shallow, like the ponds that form in pub car-parks after the rain. I have this nagging doubt that I've been tricked into watching a musical @ThisStarChild @Twit_nut Bring them all. Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them. @tomcoady and while Cypraea Maculifera isn't the only latin I know, It almost is. And it is the bit I like best. A good word to say out loud @tomcoady Pretty much. You wouldn't know to look at me, but I (probably) have one of the best Cowrie-Shell collections in NZ. @ThisStarChild @Twit_nut I say we go round and camp on his lawn until he relents. @tomcoady Yea, heh heh. Cypraea Maculifera etc @Twit_nut @ThisStarChild Yea? WTF? What happened? @tomcoady And the said thing is, with the possible exception of Al Jazeera, UK TV news is by far the best I've ever seen. @jethrocarr @splatdevil I first saw that at the Chinese place in LA... which (it must be said) is not quite as amazing as that AKL cinema I don't know why, but this just sort of generally makes me like people http://t.co/2pcnVeI LOL. @zoransa Yea - I think it's actually a 3-part thing... as in ying, yang, yong - the third one being where you plant clover for a season. @zoransa Yea - it's a ying-yang thing. Sustainable. Problems don't really become problems until other people get involved. I think the main problem with TV broadcast news, is that it's for people who don't know what's going on. And it doesn't really tell them. Kebabs for tea. Marvelous. Oh, a <airquotes>gramaphone</airquotes> http://t.co/kZSMieI Smart dust; space dust http://t.co/ULhMx6R Superman Spaceship etc http://t.co/TpPJrNj @tauhenare http://t.co/rXRPpNV @tauhenare I think Julia Davis is better than Catherine Tate. Julia Davis is fucking scary. Her characters are a lot sharper. The obvious answer to the rise in youth knife-crime is for everyone to have knives, so they can defend themselves. @BR3NDA You'd be breaking T&Cs rather than copyright - cos you ain't copying (kindof)... but who would know? Or complain? @BR3NDA sign up to a VPN service http://t.co/gQxJCEr bypass regional restrictions, and be invisible to corporate/govt IP snooping @x_chemicalism_x Yea, that's only 6 hours sleep. Legally you're owed at least 2 more. I'd go back to bed. @x_chemicalism_x Kudos for the 1st 10 minutes of the day apparently starting a 2pm. [ahem, now with link] USAF to stop using Nazisim and Christianity to train its people in the ethics of launching nuke weapons http://t.co/nzpm0fb @TrevorMallard Well there may have been a hint.. a dash, of piss in there, yes :) Still. Long way to bike. 1/2 way to Palmerston etc. Sanson @TrevorMallard 20km? I'm trying to get my driving down to a couple of km a day. Walk if I can. Or just sit there. More efficient etc. Beautiful glittering winter's day in NZ. Photons flying everywhere. Leaves and birds and cats in the garden. Sea in the distance. Oh oh. Drama. Someone's put sugar in my coffee. @BlackFrankLuntz But anyway, you're obsessed with seeing everything thru the filter of race. You might want to get some perspective on that @BlackFrankLuntz I have also been to Kentucky though where people were so racist it was fucking mentally disorientating. @BlackFrankLuntz I have been to the US about 9x. The coastal places I've stay in have probably been better racially integrated than EU/NZ @BlackFrankLuntz - namely a lack of expectation - which isn't just held by white people. @BlackFrankLuntz people of a certain race not finishing school though is symptomatic of a much wider (and deeper) cultural malaise - @BlackFrankLuntz and you are making a massive leap of faith and extrapolating it up to an entire race of an entire country @BlackFrankLuntz Maori eg: probably applies to the US as well. Your example is some random cranks doing something that is probably illegal @BlackFrankLuntz / that aren't to do with the argument. @BlackFrankLuntz I'm not trying to justify anything. You have an argument going on in yr head that you're superimposing over conversations / @BlackFrankLuntz but re: Only one Maori guy staying until his final year - that does matter, in fact it matters more than rigged elections. @BlackFrankLuntz Oh I don't doubt that the tea-party are crackpots... or at least extremely sheltered. I think I met some back in the 90s. @BlackFrankLuntz What? You don't have racial discrimination laws? @BlackFrankLuntz where/when I come from the prob isn't compostion of the student exec,rather that only 1 Maori guy stayed until the final yr @BlackFrankLuntz I didn't realise it was a prescription - in that case it's probably illegal. Even in the US. @robinturner http://t.co/5O1wQEF Bug splats http://t.co/nfZFI6h My. It's actually quite a nice looking site http://t.co/NzOGaXD . What could possibly go wrong? via @leashless Horrifying Irish Hobbit Metal from the 80s. http://t.co/SIhsdpI Oh great, the Cat's faulty. This is my 70-something mum. She's not laughing with me, she's laughing at me. http://t.co/9rlCoWe Photons and electrons and such. Various developments in energy/coms, loosely connected http://t.co/qZaf55z @BlackFrankLuntz but I don't think it's quite as simple as "white people don't vote for black people" (or women for that matter). @BlackFrankLuntz I think you'd probably find similar ratios anywhere to be honest. Certainly NZ. You'll prob find them sexist as well. Gun Helmet Angel http://t.co/350oECY Slaughterhouse 5 banned in US school by someone named "Scroggins" http://t.co/JuRkor2 I've still got the woolly-hat-guy's song stuck in my head. Why does he write so many waltzes? Man's a crackpot. Yea, this is how I feel about Google who simply cannot understand that I'm not German http://t.co/BlH2oVS See that shirt in my avatar? I bought that in Camden, London in about 1992. It's my 2nd to loudest shirt. I dress quite conservatively, which is to say, not only wear the same clothes I did 25 years ago, I wear THE SAME clothes I did 25 years ago @JPBarlow What, you honestly believe that clean-energy isn't going to be THE biggest industry in the next 50 years? You invest in it dude Join Hunter S in the sky http://t.co/Q9r5EM4 Is that too obscure? Because a "desperate" population is good for business. Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off. Especially not with a load of leathery-skinned billionaires who have created a fake crisis to drive an ideology attacking their own people Looks like Barack's "#compromise" campaign lost him 36,000 followers. Nobody fucking voted for, or fucking wants, fucking "compromise" @JPBarlow Well signs are, that the world isn't dying, but does seem to be sliding into some sort of dementia, possibly alzheimers So stop using IE people http://t.co/dqVXUyP The GOP are willing to drive the economy over a cliff... so they can promote an ideology, which is to drive the economy over a cliff. Paper skull http://t.co/VPcYuY3 On corporations being bigger than govts http://t.co/aJd9SV6 We need to properly go to war with these people. There aren't that many of them @leashless That combined with Doug Rushkoff's angle on the industrial revolution... how it made people worse off in many ways. @leashless I'm quite interest in the 500 yr circularity that digitised rapid-fabbing possibly makes possible. eg: http://t.co/CaoSe9F That is a quite a long way from the sea... with really big hills etc. Check this out. All this used to be under water http://t.co/2PSUnQW fossilized seashells about 100km up that river http://t.co/GgERxPz @leashless But I'm guessing you're looking for people using new, enabling technologies? There's a fair bit of full-circling going on. @leashless luthiers are often small-run type bizes that haven't really changed in about 700 years eg: http://t.co/z7U5wVf @leashless I also know a guy in Brighton who's just started doing mini-guitars http://t.co/oLtXHJS - produced elsehwhere mind. @leashless Cool - a mate of mine does custom effects-boards for rock-stars. Not sure that I'd call that manufacturing mind. Moon TV is on. Jury is out - but I think it's hilarious. The bloke in it is talking to UFO enthusiasts. Movie Lore : whenever there's a chase in a jungle, someone will escape by going over a massive cliff with a river at the bottom. Steak, egg, beans, chips etc... http://t.co/iwb8eeP @robinturner Damn - I was imagining something like this http://t.co/ev7xF19 @novacut :) There's a rich guy on TV, lying. @Swiggs It means you're a Straight-A student :) pachube sells for $15m, which IMHO is peanuts http://t.co/TLN1wnF At last! a glow in the dark dog-clone http://t.co/KRFtRSl Robot thing cake http://t.co/Vm2FRqv @jordanclaire Stripey on top, spotty underneath. He's a bengal tabby. etc http://t.co/s7QWHoT Never known a cat that likes sleeping on his back before. @nobledesign @robyngallagher - funny critter. Probably the most badly behaved cat we've ever had. Sleeps oddly as well http://t.co/OyGPcOI This is what I have to put up with, every single day http://t.co/VYdP5nR @leashless Hmm, yes... Hippos. The world's least discrete shitters. They spin their tails and it goes absolutely fucking everywhere. @edwardvirtually Well you know... "they have less of a burden" sounds like a good thing. "they contribute less", not so much @jethrocarr I had a car like that once - a vapour-trail of blame always pointing back to the car making all the smoke. It was a $75 car. @nathanhjb @edwardvirtually fwiw, using "burden" in ref to tax is a conservative frame. It's not a burden, it's a contribution. I've got the wooley hat guy song in my head again http://t.co/CyTSu4m it waffles for 50% then turns into The Beatles... on a good day. @BlackFrankLuntz re: bring down a nation - the economic system is part of the fragility. @BlackFrankLuntz mainly because they have to pretend they're something they're not, and that points to power actually residing elsewhere. @BlackFrankLuntz Cool. For what it's worth, although the forces of old and evil are entrenched, I think they are kindof fragile. @BlackFrankLuntz That sounds like good news. Is there a plan to unfuck things? @leashless @re_present That's what they say, but really hippopotami's closest living relatives are other (somewhat uncouth) hippopotomi. Google still thinks I'm German. @rapella and I think he's absolutely right. Partisan news media betray their duty to the democratic process. Should be an oxymoron @rapella the 2nd word in that last tweet should have been "way", btw. @rapella the (certain) media is all-for or all-against a politician rather than just reporting, poisons the way politcns relate to the media Tony Blair is on NZ TV, actually saying one thing that is true, and makes sense. Tony Blair is on NZ TV, bullshitting us. @umairh Ok. Hypothesis traditionally arise from observations though... any observations? I'm not seeing any signs of what you're saying. @umairh So are you trying to flush free-thinkers out of the undergrowth by making daft evidence-free assertions? @umairh Evidence? @umairh Stats on political engagement http://t.co/nquyqwX - I'm not seeing any evidence of people being afraid to challenge dogma at all @umairh People on facebook are more than twice as likely to have attended a political event than those who aren't @umairh re: "social media" - I'm not seeing an evidence of that at all... do you have any? I think it's cobblers. The opposite is true. I broke my month-long coffee abstinence 2 days early, and am now as wired as fuck. And noticeably chattier as well. Sigh. @robyngallagher Yea. A flawed masterpiece etc. Parts of it are excellent. I never really recovered from the use of the word "lavatories" @serafinowicz The thing about that song is you can sort of see the point at which the acid kicks in. http://t.co/kZFUUT0 A warning I think. @serafinowicz Good morning starshine, The earth says hello, You twinkle above us, We twinkle below. When I finally did go back, there was no trace of it... like nothing had ever happened. Dust in the wind dude, dust in the wind. 35 years later in Brighton UK, I drunkenly wrote that poem on a pavement in marker pen. For the next month I embarrassedly avoided that spot Upon the upland road / Ride easy, stranger / Surrender to the sky / Your heart of anger. / Alone we are born / And die alone / Yet see the red-gold cirrus / over snow-mountain shine. / James K Baxter lived at the commune.Sometimes he'd walk past our house all covered in dust, and drop in for coffee. This is a poem he wrote: It was down the road from a proper 60s Hippie Commune, and these were some of the hippies http://t.co/uAnGObr When I was 6, I went to school nr here http://t.co/5yCHDov and a girl named Wai Wai gave me a little black goat, who I called Ali Baba @BR3NDA I think as long as it's smaller than your daughter, you'll be fine. Well... looks like @novacut are going to do it http://t.co/Iwp86Jz God damn this has been stressful... and it's not even my project. Hmm... don't think I'm going to do the film-school thing after all. Not really what I need at this point. I need an internship. Or friends. @insequential I think Paris Texas would get my vote for that one #saddestmovies If any of you peeps are into film-making, punt some money at this http://t.co/5q13XTr - they've got about 3 days to raise 4k @jstrachan (and while reading said rules, suffered mild sense of vertigo over how incredibly strange this convo would have seemed back then) @jstrachan Yup - just checked my own rules (c 1975, made in NZ, under license to Waddingon of Leeds)... and there's the Auction Rule. Ok not their letterbox. I feel sorry for letterboxes. They have feelings etc. They just want people to like them. Well I like them. Well I say we find out where the Fonterras live, go round with a bulldozer and fuck their house up. And their lawn. And their letterbox Somebody on TV just called Louis Theroux a Jack-Weasel. Brilliant. It's like a Wylie-Coyote version of a Jive-Turkey Fuck. A. Duck... http://t.co/Ca3iRl1 is this for real? I thought this was illegal. Like unconstitutional or something? Catsby 2.0 at rest, pessimistic-sudoku pencils in the foreground http://t.co/3dkhpms My town at night, in the rain http://t.co/fq3u7ph @JoMangee They don't call him "Coffee-Pond Joe" for nothing. You can fly under the radar by getting several cups at once. That's what I do. The weather in NZ is being quite dour and belligerent at the mo. But somehow that doesn't seem to be enough. U2 are being interviewed on TV. I've put them on mute. @BlackFrankLuntz Cheers. There's a guy on TV talking about the risk of avalanches. Well there you go. Managed to do something useful today, and now feel quite faint. Tomorrow I return to higher-education. As an inmate etc @jordanclaire At last! Vegtables you can smoke. Wrongulator http://t.co/8Ua5d7Q Mexican ex-President calls for drug legalisation http://t.co/H4B3VlR < 30,000 lives too late I suspect. Should have said that when in power If any of you peeps are into film-making, punt some money at this http://t.co/5q13XTr - they've got about 3 days to raise 5k @novacut @jordanclaire Is that marijuana? And so begineth the day. @BlackFrankLuntz my comment re: "talent" before was out of order. I was feeling all passionate etc - sorry about that. @BlackFrankLuntz actually an education delivered 140 chrs at a time could be tricky. My email is here http://t.co/JumA0rb if you want. @BlackFrankLuntz that Michelle Alexander / Jim Crow video is the reason we're friends by the way :) @BlackFrankLuntz I will :) @BlackFrankLuntz Well I'm on the web, point me to some of these comments. Because I haven't seen any. Race doesn't come into it @BlackFrankLuntz So what, you're saying the reason Obama's support is flagging is liberal racism? Rather than continued bush policies? @BlackFrankLuntz And I don't think his flagging support has anything to do with race either. It's ideals, and promises. @BlackFrankLuntz but this has nothing to do with Obama's flagging support. Obama's ex-supporters would never be tea-party people anyway @BlackFrankLuntz The reason there's a tea-party is that people feel disenfranchised, and a well-funded right-wingers are providing answers @BlackFrankLuntz You don't know what I'm talking about either. You're arguing in your head with someone who's talking about something else @BlackFrankLuntz unfortunately, the way America behaves makes its politics, the world's business. I would far prefer it were otherwise @BlackFrankLuntz For the record, I don't think for a second you're ignorant... I didn't say that and I'm not in any position to think it @BlackFrankLuntz has fuck all to do with it. @BlackFrankLuntz loyalty to a figurehead, it's loyalty to ideals. Look up Jonathon Haidt sometime. Liberals rightly feel betrayed. Colour.. @BlackFrankLuntz because if you're talking about people "no longer supporting Obama" - you're missing what drives his base. It isn't,, @BlackFrankLuntz Do you have a cite on the numbers of white people flocking to the GOP? @BlackFrankLuntz Something that you possibly don't realise is that the world isn't as insular as the US. We know more than you think. @BlackFrankLuntz "Race shaping everything" has nothing to do with anything that I'm talking about. @BlackFrankLuntz Ha ha ha - you are so provincial. The rest of the world knows they live on a planet. @BlackFrankLuntz The reason it's a circular argument dear boy, is that you're attacking your own side. @BlackFrankLuntz As to "default democrat", LOL, I'm not even American. I'm UK/EU/NZ. @BlackFrankLuntz so you respond to "not sticking together" by attacking your own side. Think that might work somehow? @BlackFrankLuntz "don't stick together" - unlike Frank Luntz, you don't understand what the moral underpinnings of your side are. @BlackFrankLuntz as Chomsky says, Obama represents a constituency of the ruling class that ordinary people historically fare better under @BlackFrankLuntz Here's a take on Obama's loyalties re: constituency http://t.co/eujk0Sg @BlackFrankLuntz You're a classic example of why your side is weak. Instead of concentrating on progressive framing you attack your own side @BlackFrankLuntz Luntz does not sit around slagging off Conservatives does he? Nope... and me calling you on it is not the same as doing it @BlackFrankLuntz Yea, everyone fucking knows that the GOP is owned by corporations. The dems are as well. Next. @BlackFrankLuntz but do tell, who is running to the GOP? @BlackFrankLuntz and you Sir, are attacking your own natural allies again. You're nothing like Luntz. You don't have the talent. @BlackFrankLuntz WTF are you talking about? I was answering a comment about why the tea-party is "heard" vs anyone else I bet Hitler would never have guessed that within living memory, Nazis would be calling Socialists "Nazis" to try to discredit them. @BR3NDA so is 5c per GB high or low? This is a concrete mixer streaker that I saw earlier http://t.co/5F2Pzpi @hjortur beach photo? I've got a beach video :) http://t.co/le4QqZD - my local beach. So I log into FB via a VPN and they're all ooh, we need to verify you... please "identify" these people in photographs. Fuckin Spys-R-Us @x_chemicalism_x Cheers :) Well there's our revered prime minister on television being a stupid ignorant cunt. What the fuck is he actually for? Given that the US dollar is going to drop in value to about 15 cents this time next week, I'm surprised bitcoin value isn't spiking again. @BlackCanseco @ravenb @joanwalsh @BlackFrankLuntz the reason the tea party are heard isn't down to any superior "will" but fox news, et al. Virgo: Today you'll route all your internet traffic via Hong Kong, on account of needing a holiday. @robsog Yea, although to be fair, the consequences of the last one saw me making a visit to hospital several days later. @librarykris Cheers :) It has (so far) been the fight of my life, but in the last 10 years I've gone from being drunk once every 3 days, to once every 2 months New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked http://t.co/JzVFzfq Norwegian terrorist possibly not so Christian afterall http://t.co/47PUHoL Eat your heart out google. 3D pixel maps of china from Baidu http://t.co/eEtBXD2 @billybragg Although to be fair, in his one and only tweet he did extol the virtues of "belief" over interest. Look at that funny little face. Bless http://t.co/35fzMEQ @JPBarlow re: president who isn't lacky - if people vote on issues, Kucinich wins by miles http://t.co/UeK81sj Danny Huston is on TV... who I think I might rate actually - he's been in some of my fav films. One of which is Ivansxtc, oddly enough Insane advertising, from The Golden Age that Conservatives always seem to be pining after http://t.co/WNIFopV Norwegian Right Wing Crackpot http://t.co/dPq1zRS linked to Mexican Drug Gang http://t.co/6a6NP5T My Mum and Dad are off to see Harry Potter this evening. In the rain and hail etc. Tension in the Taylor household as I point out that Breivik is prob not insane, he just had a belief system founded on something fucked up. Right. To Work... perchance to get paid. But wait. Some procrastination first. But what sort? A photo of the cat maybe. @librarykris Oh that - yea. You'd alternate between a searing blaze and total darkness with every roll. Normal eyes can't cope. Exxon + Koch paid to write laws http://t.co/CMKriHP < this is what fascism looks like, and it's every bit as dangerous as the old model @librarykris Is that what what is? Is that what what what what is? What what what what what etc. Sigh. @librarykris Exactly - proper spaceships have screens/projections rather than windows anyway because bright vs dark-side is too extreme The reasons white terrorists are called "lone extremists" is because organised right-wing terrorism looks like this http://t.co/2QI3Pi7 Hailing. @LaurieFleming depends how far back you go. There were left-wing cells in the 70s. These days "left wing" actually means "normal people" Down by the river, sitting in the car, with such ferocious weather outside, that I can't see out. But have laptop etc. For a window. Although this time, admittedly, it does require some fairly gymnastic contortions to get anything to spin. So anyway, having been a bit flawed (fuck me! it's a white guy!), partisan wankers are spinning tragedy to serve their usual axe-grinding Today I will finish the job that I've been killing myself to get done for the last week and a half. Then I shall go outside. Into the garden @jordantcarter Hmm... ok. Challenge there then. Boots? And more socks. You can never be wearing too many pairs of socks. Sharing, Piracy and Human Nature - it was never (and never will be) about the money http://t.co/jXrarA1 @jordantcarter Wear socks dude, that's my advice. Wear socks. Dumps vitriolic rant on some think-tank twat at The Atlantic defending scapegoating muslims, while defending fascists http://t.co/lwdyR5C @jonathan_may @LouiseMensch +there's no such thing as "IP". It is a limited monopoly, which has become functionally illogical and impossible @jonathan_may @LouiseMensch "Intellectual Property" is being used as a trojan horse for state/corporate control and censorship of the web. Zorb Houses http://t.co/FVNDVPl < new building codes imposed in the wake of recent earthquakes. Virgo: On TV tonight will be one of the people off The Wire, and it'll seem wrong. Just wrong. That happens with Firefly sometimes as well. Catsby 2.0 plotting revenge on me for putting photies of him on the internets http://t.co/h95TKVV @solobasssteve ... although some people are more hell-bent on wrecking themselves. I've had 4 ex-band-members go. Gradiations of accident @solobasssteve "Luck" I should think... JT's imagined take on some surviving while other's don't. In the end that's all it is... @alexfarran :) . God I wish I was back in the UK. @leashless @onetruecathal @Dymaxion @justinpickard Maybe, but it's better to make govt trustworthy, than to have more bullets flying about Little baby earthquakelet. @filmrant Yea, but she was OUR smackhead with a good voice. Catsby 2.0 http://t.co/2sLVcYA @johnallsopp @stilgherrian that would be brilliant. "carried across the finishing line while reading the paper" (or playing angry birds etc) @alexfarran So which castle? Lewes? @alexfarran @karinyoshida Holy crap! Did you get married then? Congrats etc. @stilgherrian @johnallsopp needn't be fatal. He could just lose interest... yards from the finishing line. It could happen.You know it could @marie_clair Well, it is beneficial in terms of motivation and commitment etc, to be subject to a higher power. @marie_clair Happy Toasty Boat. African Land Grab http://t.co/yV0Byg0 @leashless Yea, except that THE group of people likeliest to use them are nazis themselves. Whether we're still fighting the last war,or not @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher and just because I know someone who reads tabloids, doesn't make me culpable. I'm not part of that "we" @leashless sure, but that's narrowing the (narrative) focus and ignoring the bigger picture. And we live in the bigger picture. @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher I don't accept that publishers are some ethics-free force-of-nature, beholden only to the market. @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher None of my family or friends read Womans Day, but I reject that logic. It's publishers not readers @leashless - mad with a gun, doesn't seem like a terribly rational or measured response to me. I mean what could possibly go wrong? @leashless - he was talking about the panic over 9-11... where govts attacked their own people, but giving everyone guns when someone goes - @leashless To paraphrase Le Carre, if we're going to live in open, free societies we have to accept that we take a few hits every so often @leashless Oh I don't know - I've lived my whole life in "some guns" cultures,+ they've been fine. I'd say it's a gradient rather than poles @leashless Does that include a list of people who were shot, but turned out not to be "a threat" afterall? @leashless America is really bad example to use if you want to arm everyone. Switzerland maybe... but it's still very theoretical. @leashless Even with a gun-death-toll increased by 80, I'd guess that's still less than in the US, which according to this theory is "safer" @leashless Really? have any of Americas gun-rampage-people been shot by civilians. I think yer getting into theory-land here. @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher Bollocks. You could just as easily say "we're mammalian" or "vertebrates".Draw a distinction where it matters. @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher "We" are not the majority - if that is the case, which I doubt. I don't buy into this "we" shit any more. @homebrewcrew @robyngallagher "We" didn't portray her as a junkie. A bunch of people working for news (aka advertising) corporations did Oooh! Someone I'm doing a website for is on the front page of The Guardian. Holy crap - you can infect latop batteries with virii http://t.co/KV4xXWi World Leaders Condemn Violence http://t.co/3nMk35a < really? They should stop doing it then. @thatboyneave My fav thing from it is this http://t.co/OEkrmsS @thatboyneave It's from this http://t.co/LoncOG4 Kindof His crime wasn't taking b̶i̶t̶s̶t̶r̶e̶a̶m̶s̶ time, it was giving it away http://t.co/fpBnllU @solobasssteve quite - our revered (but quite creepy) NZ PM immediately used it for political capital - justifying us being in Afghanistan. Hovering Art Directors, http://t.co/DQsEe0M LOL @thatboyneave They amaze me these people. From the backwaters, but they've got a really hip take on timbre. @thatboyneave Folky music http://t.co/I4kyj3P genius. @jonathan_may That said, I haven't really sorted out "where I live" yet. Everything is in perma-temp mode, and has been for about 4 years @jonathan_may Once a year (for a couple of months) if I can... but prob not this year alas. I have a movie to make :) My website is so gorgeous I can hardly stand it http://t.co/JumA0rb . It won't get me any work mind, but then it didn't before. @MaryJaneAnsell What the Euro thing? If it's going to mean banks doing to the EU what the IMF did to Sth America, it's more like ammunition RE: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests" < yea, religion is an age-old military technology. @umairh So what do you think of this take on the Euro then? http://t.co/icG3Kvl So according to this, The Euro is a neoliberal project than... http://t.co/icG3Kvl Cake for tea. Marvellous. Only 8 days before I can stop wasting time and go back on coffee again. 80 :( My whole family is upset and horrified. At least with a right-wing-arsehole attack, western govts (for reasons unknown) feel less compelled to attack their own civil liberties Rewrites own rss-aggregator so it looks like Opera's single-feed display. Gets up. Has breakfast. Starts work. Flea bot http://t.co/UQLfp2l That one where Vikings attack America... back before the McDonalds-Eaters came is on http://t.co/VwcuwAq one has hair a bit like @davestone @kalena Probably not in "reality" no. @kalena Ah - ok http://t.co/8cIWkcN Is it me or was "pop" better in the 70s. Even the shit was reasonably good @kalena I seem to recall Fernando being #1 for about a year and a half. Replaced by dancing queen, and then money money money @GarethMP You may not have rated highly in there, dear boy, but out here you're a star. And like... we're the future. @kalena They haven't always been fashionable Abba.At one point everyone hated them apart from the millions of peops who bought their records @kalena SO FAR!. It's a bit like Abba singles in the 1970s Top 10. As soon as one goes away, another takes its place. Constant Abba. @tvnznews sly habit of sneaking sports (aka advertising) into the main news seems to be based on whether they can spin it to be about money @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Bets on for them still running stories every single night by christmas. @GarethMP What did they say? The trucking lobby I mean. @normnz I would have been nastier as well. Makes my blood boil. @jordantcarter or alternatively get a vpn and use one of the foreign services - with the added bonus that it renders #s92a a waste of time @jordantcarter There www.fatso.co.nz - but they do work by sending you out plastic discs. They're not simply war criminals, they're fools http://t.co/48lDE1s My. criminal mischief :) http://t.co/hvUQR2Y Slightly tasteless response from Murdoch-the-billionaire's Times to phone hacking http://t.co/iip7tNi @umairh re: Startup Act... riiiight another jumping-through-hoops-contortion effort to do anything, anything other than roll back tax cuts DNA based Neural Network http://t.co/mYCpSrg @tvnznews Yea, the reason Murdoch's wife is "an overnight sensation" is due to cowardly news orgs doing ANYTHING other than ask questions @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. People complaining about historic buildings being demolished rather than repaired. @marie_clair That makes it even more of a bubble :) $100M being trumpeted, $82M of which is imaginary bubble-money @marie_clair Really? Someone paid $100,000,000 for this? : http://t.co/2kwPZ7c buuuuuubbblleee @novacut That's cool. So does KS know that they're hosting a competitor? :) @novacut so what... you take a cut of that? @novacut Sorry, the context being "business model" - so um... what is it? @novacut so that blurb says "optimizing for how profitable artists are when using it". How? IMHO hacking and bribery is a lesser crime than poisoning the US political discourse to the extent that the US no longer functions @Twit_nut Apocalypse Now is probably my fav film of all time. @Twit_nut In fact the working title for my own film is "Apocalypse Now; Deliverance Later". It's kindof a hybrid. If I get it together etc @Twit_nut Is that the one with the long French bit in the middle? Wasn't sure about that bit. I've seen the other one about 12 times. I started programming computers the same year that Apocalypse Now came out. That kid who used to be ET is on TV. McAully culkin or whatever. Went off the rails for a bit. Feeling mildly pleased with self for use of variable name $chaffCount - for the enumeration of chaff etc. Sons Of Anarchy is on, with a graphic torture scene, because the US entertainment industry simply can not make action fliks without torture @robyngallagher I read recently of devs so disenchanted with the ceremonial meetings that they were doing their micro-reports as haikus @robyngallagher The thing that tipped me over the edge was being "fined" 1£ if I was later to the "ceremonial" morning meetings @robyngallagher Yea - I found myself doing "agile development"... which basically meant being micro-managed by a goth. I lasted a week @BlackFrankLuntz Good luck with telling people not to be "emotional". You might want to re-read your namesake on that one. @BlackFrankLuntz You're attacking Obama's base for caring more about values and outcomes, than a figurehead. Virgo: According to new pedometer, eventual recovery of lost of keys requires ~1.75km of walking frustratedly about the house Right, off out into the daylight. Brrr... @BlackFrankLuntz Liberals don't care about leaders. We care about what they do. "loyalty to leadership" is a conservative trait. @BlackFrankLuntz you're attacking your natural allies by valuing a figurehead over the values he professed to represent #theprofessionalleft Israeli Spies in NZ? http://t.co/cYf5GvU err... fucking why? God I love having a sly, deceitful, secretive PM. Google thinks I'm German. Virgo: Today you'll try to throw a banana skin onto the neighbour's roof, but it'll get stuck in a tree instead. Total fuckup. Unbelievable. Actually, listening to this, it seems unlikely that America will survive "Intellectual Property" http://t.co/oGV0RDn The reason Murdoch is hated isn't due to hacking, it's because he's the propaganda-wedge for neoliberalism - what fascism became after WWII @CouchDB @novacut For me a wrapper is a vocab-simplification thing, eg: $db->add(), $db->row(). Saves me C&Ping. Like jQuery does for js @callumvalentine you still wanting to talk to NZ bitcoin users? It's probably more accurate to say "there are 10 types of people in the world, those who start counting from 1, and those who start from 0" Cameron looking shifty and devious http://t.co/vd5vMxs Transformers is on. Everyone is orange. @NathanaelB @x_chemicalism_x I don't think the 21stC is in the 21stC yet. It's like 1911 thinking they're 20thC. Erm... nope. Not really @novacut Well the idea is to release it into the wild. Trouble is I've got 4 planets in virgo, so "things are never quite ready". @novacut .. playing with a process that cuts down both. So each time a location is visited, photos/footage is taken 'growing' the storyboard @novacut ...meaningless. It's a matter of winging it, with plot-points / arcs that have to be hit. Trad storyboarding is crazy... so I'm... @novacut re: storyboarding... a drag-drop Wordpress plugin, a bit like a wiki but with photographs. My cast aren't actors, so a script is... @novacut I do web-devery - server-sided stuff... have been freelancing for about 12 years now. @novacut despite what it says,it's a subset of a relational DB,but the 2-way syncing is the thing. Nearly lost my mind doing that with mysql @novacut First saw it last night - and being a tragic geek, was compelled to write a wrapper-class for it on the spot. So they've arrested Brooks? God, I hope she doesn't turn supergrass and bring down the entire empire, especially Fox News. @davestone re: domain squatters - yea, something needs to be done. Parasites have unexpectedly "bought" the whole dictionary. @novacut Cool. I'm of the opinion that distributed multi-directional-synching DB is a key planet-saving thing. Weirdly enough. @davestone The latter - groupthink is worse than simply cocking things up. @novacut out of curiosity, will Novacut be something I can run locally (ie: 127.0.0.1) in a LAMP environment? Or is it a web-app? @novacut The software I need most is an editor that I can use to trim the junk from raw h264 clips and re-save losslessly @novacut re:proxies... yus, but the rendering needs to happen with non-proxies doesn't it? @novacut the rewards should be $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 etc... unless you're doing a specific physical product that's between these. @novacut I doubt that anyone will interpret that as tongue-in-cheek. It's a waste of space in any case. I'd advise losing it. Thoughts on Novacut http://t.co/GHvgXBE Their kickstarter thing is here - worth a go etc http://t.co/5q13XTr Epoch-spanning scissors. http://t.co/Q8SJC9t thoughts on makerdom vs rapid-fabbing @tauhenare mmmm.... Pollock.... @videojon They follow each other I imagine - people identify-farm a whole mass of spam accounts and cross-follow them for cred. @tauhenare Sci Fi nerds (which is all nerds) actually voted it the greatest sci fi filmic-thing ever invented.. even better than star-wars. @tauhenare It's actually rare for movies not to be mixed-genre these days. Scifi-Western (eg: Firefly) is some of the best. @AmericaFreeTV That's what they did with the Last Samurai battle-scenes as well. Loads of cameras, one take. Lots of sound overdubs @Aiannucci I thought the PM was supposed to meet with The Queen first? @AmericaFreeTV Well I'll be dipped. Sort of thing you want to be filming with a LOT of cameras at once. The bit in Con Air where they crash the plane in Vegas just happened. A bit like the 9/11 Pentagon incident, but the plane doesn't vanish. Letterbox on my street http://t.co/zP7C1BN Must admit that I'm utterly gob-smacked by this kickstarter thing http://t.co/c1bo6S8 fuck the lottery. Invent something. FAR better odds Con Air is on in a bit. Brilliant... It's the one where Nick Cage fucks up the entire planet to rescue a small dog. @edwardvirtually Indeed. Something needs to be done about that really. @edwardvirtually Why? What are they going to do? Criticise them? America is engaged in several illegal wars and runs torture camps. caution http://t.co/nzCGCzA @edwardvirtually Well that's the thing about Diplomacy - it's the fine art of not telling other countries to fuck off. Punted @Novacut $25 on Kickstarter http://t.co/0vUhKA2 cool interface http://t.co/Jpx6vZB similar to what I'm playing with for storyboarding @Shadowfoot I get Printer Tourettes. My local cinema is currently showing 9 films, only 2 of which aren't suffixed by a number. "Bad Teacher" and "Bridesmaids". The rest sequels And so it goes. Off now to get roped into doing all sorts of "favours" that I really have not the remotest interest in doing. Cos air-head little cat from next door was more interested in having a wash in the sun,oblivious to the fact that it was actually in a fight I had scrambled eggs - and the air-head little cat from next door came over so Tae had to see it off the premises, which was not mean feat 15000th tweet. I was incredibly skeptical at first as well. "WTF?" I went, "why would I want everyone to know what I had for lunch?" Arab Spring kicking off in Puerto Rico, in response to conservatives channeling money away from people to banks http://t.co/WNMVVum Singing Sex Toy http://t.co/zd11hSE And it looks like there's a tiny gorilla wearing sunglasses in the pram. Schoolchicks on bridge, person with pram http://t.co/OheMiaC Person walking by river in my hometown http://t.co/Kvbgiif Charlie Gilmour's "disrespect for the war dead" (a concrete thing + a flag) in the shadow of Whitehall's total contempt for the war living Twitter's javascript slows typing down to the point where it resembles 1980s telnet terminals... letters appearing a few secs after you type "Brooks says she feels 'a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt'" - as a week of Brooks/Rupert grinning photos attest Article on how NZ's 3-Strikes was paid for by the US http://t.co/B68Psfx just before both the US and NZ condemned 3 strikes laws at the UN. @mat_walker Stick them in a cupboard at work then craftily sell them on ebay. That's what I would do. @mat_walker A cab from London to Brighton costs about 100 quid I think. Used to back in the 00s. You should nab em. Make phone calls etc. Total Recall is on. The 80s were so 70s. So a couple of tabloids go, a deal falls through... really we need to get rid of this http://t.co/Nq1dYiA by whatever means re: #murdochempire - it helped provided a propaganda wedge for the disease of neoliberalism. Even if it goes, we still have the disease. I can't believe they still have teletext on TV here. I mean what is that? DOS? It looks like it's written on a machine from 1985 People on TV are getting excited over nothing to a degree I find hard to watch even with the sound off. @jobeyG Nogbad the Bad :) @edwardvirtually I don't think such a thing exists - if your system has PR though, at least your party gets a voice. UK/US don't alas. @jordantcarter So why #boycottDB ? @ksuyin @librarykris I'm happier to pay higher taxes as well - but the vibe-of-the-world seems to be corporations not paying theirs. Gogoyoko is a good music site I think http://t.co/KN7O15R < whole radiohead album listenable here. @JorgeStolfi I'd be inclined not even to say "copymonopoly" rather than "copyright". France tracks down 18M file sharers http://t.co/FCSFc3F what is that? 1/3 of the population? Let's just destroy the copyright cartels. Bloke blows nose near rift in time-space continuum http://t.co/m7PZOWu @videojon This was pre-web, when there were 2 (count them) ways of being heard about. 1) radio/tv (no chance) 2) the press.. Viva l'internet @videojon ...they politely declined, and became press-slag-off target #1. The whole build-up -> trash cycle was pathetic. Once we'd twigged @videojon It was all "sonic cathedrals" etc... and then they wanted Chapterhouse to dress up as elves for an Xmas front-cover... @videojon That's what the shoegazers thought (or would have, if they weren't like... 12) until it turned on them and fucked them over @tvnznews Oh Great! Some celebrity gossip!!! - any chance of some astrology as well? @tvnznews and a photo-op for our revered PM being his usual bland and irrelevant self, while dying inside in his longing to sell our assets @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake. Today's scoop... a sly-advert for a bank's project to rebuild a bowling green. @lordtrilink the d-shaped thick-string diminished is one of those ones where the same shape in any order/place works - like spooky jazz @lordtrilink Far too high-tech for me. I just make a triangular D-chord shape, but play it on the thick strings. Munster Music ! @lordtrilink I've noticed that arpeggios of diminished chords make cats feel uncomfortable. Straight majors/minors are fine. Skynet law changes still violate human rights: http://t.co/y4y1vIk < we've no idea what govt does until the Green party comments @GarethMP New Zealand Politician refusing to swear loyalty to The Queen of England http://t.co/UodUmG1 Makes me feel slightly teary. @JorgeStolfi Strange - link works for me. Takes a couple of hops to get there mind. American Legislative Exchange Council : http://t.co/7aCS9d0 a bloodless coup by any other name. Unless you count debt-suicide etc @JorgeStolfi re: plutocracy/oligarchy... probably the latter - things really turn to shit when $ controls the monopoly of violence @JorgeStolfi So um.... what's ALEC? @videojon re Vital Music Docs - that goes without saying. NME are tossweeds... or were 20 years ago, I doubt they've changed. @JorgeStolfi According to Mussolini, Billionaires and Corporations controlling govts was called fascism wasn't it? @Johnny_Marr we see the present through the lens of the past... but retro is a love of the past definitely. It's brilliant. @jordantcarter Yea - LOL... In the last couple of years, I've lost about 1/3 of my income to the rising NZ dollar. @joshr What you need to do is go down to Barclays with a yellow spraycan... spray the letters C U on one door and NTS on the other. And the same old usual-suspects. Fucking "Vivendi". We need a global law where no corporation can own other companies. Like we used to. Oh FFS - can't we just take these anti-net-neutrality cunts out into the pub carpark and beat the fuck out of them? http://t.co/yfgjlAD Greece-a Dress Rehearsal for the USA http://t.co/hTTVuZs or you could go via the Iceland route. But you'll need to destroy corporate power @peregrinari7 What article? oh. That article. Fair enough. Fossil-Fuel is a huge exercise in cost-externalisation. Needs to be taxed. @peregrinari7 If you're borrowing between paychecks (or have no income), then $10 a week probably isn't doable. I've been there. @clarecurranmp #copyright "demands of right holders"? Why are corporations in a position to "demand" anything? The hell with them. @hattie_watson That photo is very golden-ratioy. @AnnieLowrey The Swedes speak English better than we do, so you could charmingly say words to that effect :) Playing with kdenlive - it's not bad actually. Better than Premiere Pro in certain respects. @umairh "Awesome" is a little vague for my tastes... ever thought that it might not just be about reversing entropy? Value I mean? @evangineer @phillip_blond Most people I know were in favour of AV. If Murdoch's lot had come off the rails earlier it might have passed @evangineer @phillip_blond but here in NZ, we have PR - so you don't have to do that "strategic voting" bollocks. @evangineer @phillip_blond Yea, I know. I voted for them once, abandoning my Green roots. But you do what you must to de-torify @RichardJMurphy The US has a double-whammy in that so many jobs (1/4?) don't pay a living wage. McJobs, basically. @evangineer @phillipblond ... not represented by any of the political parties in any of the countries I come from. @evangineer @phillipblond I'm 46, I tend to look at decades as well. It's neoliberal corporatism that's done all the damage. The Left is... @TEDNews @evangineer if you're talking about UK, Blair continually outflanked the tories on the right. @TEDNews @evangineer if by "left" you mean "the people that came before and gave us free education, health - then they did give prosperity @TEDNews @evangineer if by "left" you mean US Democrats - they're actually more right-wing than any mainstream right-wing party in world Europe can't allow three private US enterprises to destroy the euro http://t.co/me64A8i Well yes, Mercantilism really has come a long way @SadekHM Cold and wintery at the mo. Been blowing a raining here for a couple of weeks. Meantime, I'm writing border-box-model-agnostic HTML @SadekHM Mornin Harper Seven is possibly the coolest name I have ever heard. @RevRichardColes @LaurieFleming Just extending the metaphor like. I don't really look up people's togas. @RevRichardColes @LaurieFleming actually, the cheap seats at the Colosseum were the best because you could see up people's togas Check it out! it's a 10 hour version of The Badger Song http://t.co/K5LrrWl Virgo: Today you'll have issues with those little rubbery things on the end of earplugs constantly coming off. And it will rain. @JPBarlow Looks like you can get it online as well http://t.co/xoGAEGT @TradeMe @normnz So what exactly is "intellectual property rights prgramme" because it sounds like 3 strikes to me, but with only 1 strike. @getstoried @DanMezick When confusion is bliss, tis great to be the only one who knows what's going on. @TradeMe @normnz I mean Android is a bigger market-share than Apple, so is arguably more important right? @TradeMe @normnz How come you don't have a rule not allowing products that can easily be mistaken for Android products? This is what it's like in NZ at the mo http://t.co/er3DKWh @johnkeypm Cool. Did you smile and wave? Jellyfish Swarms Attacking Nuke Power Plants http://t.co/l8LpOIo @getstoried @DanMezick Try choosing 5 cards instead of 1. @getstoried @DanMezick I think it changes all of the cards. Instead of choosing one, choose 3. 1/5 Californians without health insurance; The CEO of a major health company is paid $150m a year. That is violence. It's already violent. And on that note http://t.co/cOJRktf This cannot carry on. The thing that amazes me about the French Revolution, isn't the bloodbath, but how much pain the poor accepted before it became a bloodbath @GeorgeMonbiot Can't recall what it was exactly, but @GeorgeMichael has actually been a hero before. That's quite freaky http://t.co/1ITK5RE @leashless Assuming we have learned nothing in the last 10 years etc - and "we", I mean "they". @leashless I think the correct headline is "Gaddafi threatens attacks in Europe : Europe Responds By Attacking Self" The great thing about having a Green MP is not having to constantly send pleading letters cause you know she's already there @CarolineLucas @nickwilsdon Holy Crap! 14%? - I expect I probably did most of those. One Eye On The Line http://t.co/Rc8gONJ @Shadowfoot Only if you want New Zealand to be like LA. "Jaywalking" is a set of rules, with a set of subtexts we do not need. @jstrachan Mmmmm.... FUD..... Fast and Furious is on in a bit - presumably about people breaking the speed-limit, crossly. in 2010 One of America’s biggest healthcare providers, McKesson, gave its CEO, John Hammergren, a 190% pay rise $150m http://t.co/GUOL5m4 @JPBarlow or in the case of News Of The World, immediately after dishonour. @JPBarlow Yea, exactly : rm -rf /* Before Dishonour. Virgo: Look at those little sparrows out there. Hopping about etc. Do they ever get lonely? Sigh. @tvnznews still tirelessly plugging the Royal Donnie and Marie Roadshow, which really nobody gives a rats about. Ooh! Murdoch's company hacked 9/11 victim's families? http://t.co/VAXJSfi LOL John Keys on TV saying "Refugees are not welcome". Bless. Anyway, I finally found an engineer to CNC a prototype for me. @Shadowfoot "Jaywalking": Peculiar American concept. Avoid. Where I come from, we call it "crossing the road", and it's a basic right. When I say "enter it", I mean type it in. "entering it" sounds like going into a tiny, very disappointing 140 chr version of Narnia. Down by the river again - sans laptop, so I had to write this tweet on a piece of paper and enter it when I got home. @GarethMP or Why was Gareth the only person who appeared to know what he was talking about? Go on - ask that one. I dare you. @GarethMP or Who the fuck was that woman who kept going on about boxes and wires? Was she someone's mum who had wandered in or something? @GarethMP Ooh ooh ooh... how about Why did we have people who clearly have no idea what the internet is, deciding the fate of the internet? @GarethMP or Given that there is no evidence file-sharing hurts sales, why did we implement a law that the US govt offered to pay us for? @GarethMP s92A is clearly an ill-conceived farce that is now probably illegal under International Human Rights Law, how do we get rid of it? My new startup: "The Completion Agency - We finish projects that you start, but never seem to complete!". I might do that tomorrow etc. The public is being forced to pay the gambling debts of the rich, based on the lie: "rich people gambling, keeps the economy afloat". @JPBarlow And the sad thing is, he wouldn't even need to tax the hell out of them. Just taxing them would make a difference. @stwange I think you're colossally missing the point. Why should the public pay the debts of a private bank? Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks http://t.co/XEdW4W2 @leashless me too - Facebook is basically an address-book... and I don't like the way any app does images, so... twitter and FTP it is. @leashless I don't think it'll take that long to get your head around google+ - it's facebook with circles. Hey, look at that. The out of control copyright industry has started censoring google http://t.co/IEYtgwH decent, hard-working NOTW journalists http://t.co/NYPyMmx Awkward 404 page http://t.co/UKBKJdn It's got that whole "guy finds shopping cart... guy looses shopping cart... guy finds shopping cart again" thing going on. I think my main achievement last week was writing a short story about a guy and a shopping cart... who fall in love with each other. Just emerged from the studio with first proper track I've recorded. I think I need to redo the echo on the vocals. Some things never change Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets http://t.co/LsYiVVq Herbalism mainly, homeopathy.Prob explain why they're all dead now Damon The Occultist. Brilliant http://t.co/7ZodpDH Copyright Lobbyists and Child Porn http://t.co/ZoBeXs8 Much to the surprise, of absolutely no one @vallie That Assange/Murdoch link ain't hapnin. @Shadowfoot You're still thinking in terms of optimising for scarcity. @Shadowfoot I have 2 different Non-NZ home-away-from-homes. Both have blanket free, wifi. Both are tech-hubs. Both get it. NZ doesn't. @Shadowfoot You're still optimising for scarcity. How much does Cafenet charge these days? Still $20 for 70Mb is it? Ten years later? @piratepartyNZ @GarethMP & that this fluidity is a basic right? Estonia won't ever have 3-strikes, because Tallinn has blanket, free wifi @piratepartyNZ @GarethMP how long can 3-strikes last if the population gets used to the idea that 1IP address != 1 person? @Shadowfoot But you're thinking about "benefit" in the narrowest terms possible. @Shadowfoot User-pays is optimising for scarcity. I don't think that's a good idea with information-infrastructure. @Shadowfoot and this is an initiative that creates a change at a very high-level, strategic level. @Shadowfoot We're not talking about bead-stringing, we're talking about information (and transport) infrastructure. @Shadowfoot and saying "I don't like taxing people who can't benefit" is projecting "Me Me Me-ness" onto them. "We" benefit. @Shadowfoot it's also fucking up 3-strikes policy, it's also making NZ as a whole smarter, it's also, it's also.... @Shadowfoot It's also spreading "free wifi" as a normal natural thing (see Estonia etc), it's also optimising information-flow for abundance @Shadowfoot That's a really narrow way of looking at it. It's also an experiment to see if free wifi increases public transport usage @Shadowfoot @GarethMP This idea that I pay taxes for "me" to benefit is a peculiar American idea. And it's destroying them. @Shadowfoot I'd happy for it to be provided where I'd never use it, yes... because "we" benefit. @GarethMP @Shadowfoot @GarethMP For the record, I'm happy (as a tax (or whatever)) payer to pay for public transport/places to have free Wifi Oh, so Murdoch's travelled to the UK has he? Gee I hope a flower-pot doesn't fall off a windowsill onto his head or anything We (Brits) don't need regulation of the press, we need CEOs of companies that break the law to go to prison. Like they used to in 1800s US A swirlying spiral of rot, trying to change the law so it can make more money while producing precisely zero in value. Get rid of them all. Corrupt Wall St attempting to Corrupt Govt so it can be above Corrupt IP law http://t.co/igxxrNu Quite a good Julian Assange interview http://t.co/gZ1iPvd @GeorgeMonbiot @mark_lynas We're living in the age of fire. There's no better advertising than censorship. @GeorgeMonbiot @mark_lynas Maybe.. but most of the people who hear about the book, will only have heard about it because of Amazon's actions New website design http://t.co/JumA0rb you get to see the wallpaper in my bathroom. It doesn't support IE7 or less. @MaryJaneAnsell Mine's down to 1 page, and looks absolutely fucking gorgeous darling. Not sure that it'll get me work; not sure it ever did @MaryJaneAnsell I'm SEO-Lethargic @videojon Oh please God don't tell me it's one of those Princess Leia costumes... @videojon So... like... what are you dressed as dude? Philadelphia saves two million dollars in a rare attack of sanity http://t.co/LPx24qN @videojon Yea... if you can see one doctor who, it generally means there are 7 or 8 others nearby, hiding. @videojon Why? Isn't it about 6am where you are? Are you at some sort of conference where people dress up as Klingons? @videojon Yea - Saturday Night.. Grand Designs with Kirsty Allsop is on. I've escaped going to a party, and it's blowing a hurricane outside @videojon nope Actually speaking of SEO, as a web-developer.. I don't actually want clients that have found me via google, only via personal recommendation @vallie @paulstpancras Yes. Suddenly I find myself involuntarily redesigning my website. @BlackFrankLuntz anyway - enough. I have no interest in making enemies with natural allies... just want to say, that is what you're doing. @BlackFrankLuntz Or do you think Daniel Ellsberg should have been tortured without trial as well? You're on the wrong track, trust me @BlackFrankLuntz Kohlberg dude, Kohlberg. And it's actually closer to the Pentagon Papers. @BlackFrankLuntz no offence like... but you're on the wrong track with this one. You're attacking Obama's moral base. @BlackFrankLuntz Yea, well yr approval of Manning's Pre-trial punishment betrays a Kohlberg-scale of someone else who might need to grow up @BlackFrankLuntz Do you even know what has happened to Bradley Manning? He hasn't been tried. http://t.co/wAn95IQ @BlackFrankLuntz he's also the worst persecutor of whistle-blowers ever - see Bradly Manning, who has been TORTURED for about a year @BlackFrankLuntz For the record, Barack Obama's administration granted immunity to torturers, guaranteeing it will happen again @BlackFrankLuntz He failed to deliver on the things that were important to us. I don't see that he's even fucking tried. @BlackFrankLuntz the reason I don't back him is because he has legalised torture. Race has nothing to do with it. He fucking sold us out @BlackFrankLuntz Why? Would have have closed Gitmo, ended the wars, stopped patriot act, etc etc if we'd backed him? Said it before; say it again - the cloud is basically just the mainframe model, with all the inherited dangers. An anti-internet model. ... is not "getting better regulation" or "having an inquiry", but getting rid of him completely. The "scandal" with #NOTW is not phone-hacking, it's that Murdoch has had our representatives over a barrel for 30 years. The opportunity... @MaryJaneAnsell painty things http://t.co/rN9pQkH @GeorgeMonbiot It can get much bigger. I'm really hoping that one of the arrestees goes super-grass on the other tabloids. No shit Sherlock http://t.co/qLik7Ua @davestone @cham Detox, Retox, Botox. I know that probably means something, but I don't know what. @wikileaks @sourblaze ... well technically it's their money - you just pay them back at the end of the month. The Work-Ethic of Evil http://t.co/j2QQ2ew Crime and Maggie Thatcher only sleep 4 hours a night. Flying yacht boat http://t.co/MP4V47c It'll never ever happen. Cool though. @swearyanthony @AIannuci The way I see it, reality has a weird way of rewriting itself to follow The Thick Of It. Well that was a weird little week. Caffeine withdrawal obviously; missed-connections, scraps, general discombobulation. Nothing achieved. Nobody knows what I'm talking about. This guy : http://t.co/3n5uDdH Far out! It's the "Warriors... come out to playyeeee" guy! Arnie's on TV. This isn't going to end well. @GeorgeMonbiot Oh well, if Nuke is as safe as you say it is, I'm sure we'll see the nuke companies underwriting their own risks won't we. @GeorgeMonbiot Stickiest moment for nuke shills is the 1/4 trillion $ cleanup bill for Japan - which is why UK tax-payers underwrite risk And that's ignoring the recent uptick in investments and Moore's law. Germany has 19% renewable; 23% nuke http://t.co/WrRRMVn at current rate of increase renewable will cover nuke-loss in ~10 years. @GeorgeMonbiot and that dear boy, is why I don't hold much truck with "debate".Cherry-picking, spin and misinformation to back up "beliefs". @doctorow without a causal-connection. Heisenberg in other words. That's all there is to it. Everything grows fractal-like from that point. @doctorow we understand/model the world via reality-maps. The magic happens when the map affects the reality it's supposed to symbolise... @doctorow so the key to hacking old magic is to distill out the impossible assumption, and rebuild it from there. Easy :) @doctorow But you know... "impossible" is a moving target. Heisenberg is "impossible". We just happen to live in middle-earth @doctorow ie: it starts from an impossible assumption, out of which grow interesting reflections of the "real" world. Mainly psych-related @doctorow "Magic" - ie: the Western Tradition is a lot like the field of mathematics involving the square-roots of negative numbers. Tell you one thing wrong with Bitcoin - the forum is filled with fucking idiots I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my ducks #replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck @inkblotsart I've never seen a single episode of Big Brother either. NOTW is not "in the business of holding others to account", it's in the business of selling people to advertisers- based on sleaze/envy/hate @jonathan_may HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH HA HHAHHA HA HA Hugh Grant soars in my estimation even more. Brilliant. He was the bane of my life at one point as well. Riiight... NOTW exits stage-right. But Murdoch's empire has been a cancer on the world for at least 30 years. We need to get rid of it all. Hugh Grant soars in my estimation http://t.co/rqITYD6 weirdly enough, after all these years. ur ur http://t.co/NvApVPY @x_chemicalism_x Sorry - I take that back... terrible thing to say. Poor puddles etc. There's nothing wrong with them. They're great puddles @x_chemicalism_x Hamiltonian puddles are the worst. @TRoNSHeRaLD LOL Only 5 networked cars could create a traffic-jam so bad the whole planet locks up, and day/night slows 50% claims Opel. http://t.co/zApPO0k @jordantcarter to be honest, I still haven't really got the hang of feeding myself. @jordantcarter Yup. I have international phases where I do it 3 months at a time. After about a week wind up yearning for simple boiled rice @jordantcarter if it's good enough for Hemmingway, it's good enough for me. @jordantcarter Cuba, I usually have Pizzas at Scopa - but then I'm unflapped by being in restaurants alone. Did it for a whole year once. @jordantcarter Walking distance from Backbenchers etc. @jordantcarter Where are you? This is good - tucked away Italian etc http://t.co/dNQHXTL Egregious thought the latest Murdoch bullshit is, it is NOTHING compared to the damage he's done to America, in broad-daylight Handy Free Golden Mean tool http://t.co/b083LWe Well, I find it handy. @larspind And someone's nicked your bike seat dude, what are you going to do? I'm never going to call culture "content" ever again. ♪ ♫ "nooe not this time" ♪ ♫ humming to self,updating Wordpress "are you going to fuck me up,fuck me up,fuck me up. Are you going (etc)" to tune of London bridge falling Renewables surpass nukes http://t.co/kbn47Bl which we all knew already, but still... in case anyone missed it. @normnz @che_tibby Yea - weirdly, the corporate-cloud-masters insist on imposing a species of creative-commons license on everyone. @normnz It's arbitrary and ill-thought-through. But I think it's where I'd start. It's to do with creating ecosystems rather than monolyths @normnz - level where communication becomes about hierarchy rather than unspoken human-human social-contract. @normnz Yea, I stared at that number for about 5 minutes. I think it's because Peter Drucker or someone said that that's the organisational- @normnz sorry... bit ranty. As to CGT, I'd waive it on investments in companies with less than 60 people. @normnz I'd rather have something state-owned, than foreign-fucking-bank owned. Democratically accountable, and $ doesn't get siphoned out @normnz they need to be state-regulated, but controlled at a local level - similar to how schools are. Bring peer-pressure back into usury. @normnz So yes - I'd make banks socially-owned & run. Distributed..set up so the proceeds of usury go back into the societies that host them @normnz ..the value that banks extort is almost genocidal, and that's without getting into bailouts, and the chronic over-valuing of lenders @normnz Take a look out across your town sometime... all those houses. All those mortgages. Imagine the money that banks are sucking out... @normnz because if you're investing in a "business" that is largely parasitic, and you just want $$$ for nothing, I'd call that gambling @normnz Yea - we kindof need two words for business. One for small companies that do things and employ people, and one for cunts, like banks We can't have fucking criminals running publicaly quoted UK companies. Murdoch's empire needs to be (forcibly) broken up. The Chipping Norton Set. LOL http://t.co/5SUDQjN @JPBarlow So... you paid for a patent on a technology that was paid for with your own tax? What are patents actually "for" again? ooh! - just sold more golden mean calipers for bitcoins. Say what you like about BTC, it does feel better using them than evil-empire money We need to destroy the whole idea of "intellectual property". Selling copies of information - defies commons sense, and reality. Embedded videos on your blog? You could go to prison under proposed laws from the out of control IP industry http://t.co/xyNXrw1 @umairh That would be a fiasco. Have you actually talked to "unemployed youth"? I used to be one. Checks and balances? LOL We Were The Champions - #pasttensesongs I Loved You Just The Way You Were - #pasttensesongs Ooh is China attempting a neoliberal colonisation of Aus then?http://t.co/vOT55Ig @Terence_Hughes I'll go have a look tomorrow - in NZ these things are almost always war-memorials, as in WWI, WWII Rocket Cam http://t.co/FWlW0uf Sorry, that should be Learned==Fait Accompli. Or ===. Whatever. Everything I do is fairly rough because I'm more interested in learning how to do something than actually doing it. Learned=Fait Accompli This is a movie I made driving in the rain today http://t.co/8wB3C0G it's the start of a proper big film or somethng, but then it just stops @AndyPPUK It also has the biggest percentage of under 30s in the UK. I feel sorry for The Sons Of Anarchy- they seem to have gone on holiday to this parallel-universe Ireland where no one has a sense of humour New word : echolalic - pls RT Rendering. I've started water-cooling my laptop. @jordantcarter ference whatsoever in terms of this legendary "disincentive" we're never going to hear the end of. Just part of the terrain @jordantcarter When I was entrepreneurialising in the UK, and CGT was going to take millions, we were all "Really? Whatever". Made no dif- @Prycie I think it's near Hamilton actually. @tvnznews is still fighting the failed war on drugs by running ANOTHER piece on a legal THC substitute -as it's done every night for ~a week So all you people getting in a huff about Casey Anthony, why aren't you getting in a huff about this? http://t.co/FNA6d9O Power cut. Well that's bogus and annoying. The main street of my town. It has a weirdly ugly bit of sculpture from yesteryear in it http://t.co/DZcRzEi Down by the river again. There's a massive silver orb, and it's pissing it down with rain http://t.co/EvM30yA @normnz @jordantcarter - real-estate capital gains should be separate from value-creating C.G. A harder sell though due to complexity. Maybe @normnz @jordantcarter I was once owner of a company ostensibly valued at £16M. I'm not making any such assumptions - in a way, I agree - That's um... cool/uncool http://t.co/7xo7LaM wonder if they can be used for desktop laser-cutters @phil_goff bet it's not that bold :) - bet it avoids touching on the majority of issues my constituency (the internet) feels are important @leashless Brilliant - have you seen this guy http://t.co/F2q5QGD @normnz @jordantcarter Really, if you want to radical and sensible and make the world a better place, just get rid of the real-estate market @normnz @jordantcarter Risky Investment? I thought it was a reward for investing in property - something that creates no net value. That'd be good excercise, I suppose. @leashless Yea - the "advice" that often flies about is to hit up family and friends. Which as far as I'm concerned is the same thing. When Bots Fuck Up http://t.co/bk9bTEt I'm afraid I can't allow you to do that Dave http://t.co/HtomoZQ Fantastic Elf House http://t.co/OECQ8Rb @umairh @Jayga What? Saving the world via individual consumer choices? LOL. I think we need something a little more direct than that. @leashless always go over 100%. Nervous at the beginning, then everyone piles on... or they don't. It's a very herd-based thing. @leashless I've invested in 3 things if yer interested. I saw this distribution of % success - if a project gets over 25%, it'll almost - @leashless unlike social-media say. There have been some quite good articles, eg: http://t.co/PD1mskF http://t.co/YLCLTr3 @leashless I don't know of anyone specifically devoted to it... the whole thing is still evolving fast - we don't know how to use it etc. @leashless I have a 1/2-arsed go at it, but I'm kindof meta, and distracted. Ponoko.com / shapeways / fabbaloo.com... kickstarter themselves @leashless the rapid-fabbed rubik-cube guy does fairly crazy things : http://t.co/Z4EHQMs @leashless The glif thing went off like a rocket... and they did it again with a spongey ipad stylus. @notthatandym http://t.co/DqTorKp Japan's cleanup bill is 1/4 of a trillion dollars. The waste needs to be stored for 100 million years. @robyngallagher I've been duped. Again. It was so easy. @robyngallagher Bah. @leashless I knew America had taken a wrong turn when it's planes went from this http://t.co/0hb8k4J to this http://t.co/dBB6MrX @leashless Another case of "Hans, are we the baddies?" there. Holy Crap : Cochella 1969 flyer http://t.co/kypt6CZ rt @leashless @hjortur if you have a double, put it sideways, forking the snake. Blanks can join to anything. The idea is to run out of dominos first. @hjortur dominos divided up. Someone puts one down, next person puts one down... matching the # of dots... so it makes a snake... @BR3NDA @clarecurranmp @phil_goff In a way, the care/detail people give to blog-design is a return to illuminated text - killed by the press @BR3NDA @clarecurranmp @phil_goff I wrote something about that a while back in fact http://t.co/CaoSe9F Lots of pictures :) @BR3NDA @clarecurranmp @phil_goff So The Pen is probably due for a comeback - but in a really weird way. @BR3NDA @clarecurranmp @phil_goff Yus :) The internet is doing to broadcast, what the printing press did to The Pen, about 500 years ago @clarecurranmp @BR3NDA @phil_goff Politically, I think the real winner is perspective, and this big pool of cognitive support. It's fun too. @clarecurranmp @BR3NDA @phil_goff the plus-side: you get an army of researchers - and you get to talk to people free from media-filters. @clarecurranmp @BR3NDA @phil_goff It can backfire if you're not true to what you say you stand for.Transparency doesn't work for everyone :) @BR3NDA @phil_goff @clarecurranmp Yea - engaging is a totally different (and far more powerful) dynamic than broadcast. Two-edged sword tho @BR3NDA @phil_goff But being on-all-the-time means having to deal with an avalanche of cranks like Nick Taylor 24/7. @BR3NDA @phil_goff Really? Why? What would you have done? @phil_goff Despiste the heckling, thanks for being here. It is appreciated. #goffchat @phil_goff if "copyright" is so important to creativity, why does the fashion industry (10x bigger than entertainment) not need it at all? @x_chemicalism_x @phil_goff the #s92a bill was a complete disgrace - everything to do with corporate interests and zero to do with creators @Shadowfoot What, lab diamonds and cubic-zirconia? Nah - I just really really like glittery stones. The queen's ones are fantastic @Shadowfoot It looked like this http://t.co/hOS4FbC I also have a black lab-diamond from Russia that I bought off the internet for about $20 @Shadowfoot It seemed like a great idea at the time. @Shadowfoot I gave a $100 Cubic Zirconia the size of a baked bean to a bouncer in Cuba St when I was drunk once. Does that count? @phil_goff Every country in the world is attacking it's own citizens' privacy, and civil/human rights using the excuses you gave #goffchat @phil_goff @GarethMP They may all be rife, but creeping state authoritarianism, secrecy and unaccountability are worse #goffchat @jobeyG Yea, I didn't manage to sit through her entire speech- had to cut if off after about 3 seconds in case I wound up breaking something @johnmcdonnellMP The trouble with Robin Hood is that nothing changed. How about an Oliver Cromwell Tax? Egregious spying-on-NZers bill passes http://t.co/AKg0eay I bet @tvnznews don't even report it - celebrities, earthquakes and crime instead Capital Gains Tax on "investment property". It needs to be said loud and clear, that rent is financial parasitism. It creates zero value Statue of Reagan in London http://t.co/zvPet4s the guy was a complete cunt, I know, I was there. Could someone pls destroy this statue? The Face Twitching Guy discovers laser-beams http://t.co/MsbHgIB The Green Party is the only party that actually represents New Zealanders http://t.co/kssNsat The others are creeping fucking fascists Well... I finally used the Technical Drawing skillz I picked up at school, 32 years ago. Still haven't used calculus mind. @GarethMP So who's my Green Party person in Wanganui then? This woman seems to have an unfeasibly thin neck http://t.co/icGSPzB is that normal? Not around here. I come from the land of the fat-necks @GarethMP Get one of these http://t.co/R0fnjOa then enjoy the warm, smug feeling of telling would-be censors-by-country where to stick it. American IP law even more out of control than it already was. Let's just get rid of this bullshit http://t.co/6foBaWv @robyngallagher Cheers. It's a pretty foldy :) A rare video of Nick Taylor working... almost exactly as Alvin Toffler said he would, about 30 years ago http://t.co/VcRqYjh It has HD. @jordantcarter - and the weird thing is, he makes lines spellbinding by delivering them in a really flat way. Very strange talent he has. @jordantcarter I think he's a bit of a genius tbh - he can take really banal lines and make them spellbinding. But yea - evil intelligence @jordantcarter I really like that movie for some reason. Find it "restful". An EU thing I think. John Malkovich is fantastic. "Secret Ballots" v important etc - but to preempt leakage, I always vote Green, unless I need to get Tory/National wankweeds out of power I find that being caffeine-free makes perceptions softer/sharper as well. Like the difference between 1080p and badly compressed video. God I feel so much better for being caffeine-free - a constant pressure on your system - and it feeds into sleep-deprivation and dehydration @RhyvenNZ @normnz but attempting to legislate reality so the information is inherently scarce (which is what "piracy" implies) is... evil @RhyvenNZ @normnz "demand" is a factor in an equation to do with selling-copies-of-information. Sure. If you can get away with it, great @normnz @RhyvenNZ the idea that you can sell "copies of information" is at odds with physical reality,and with the memetic nature of culture @normnz @RhyvenNZ re: "Piracy / criminality" - nope. It's a category-error based on a profound and deliberate, mis-take on what culture "is" I think this is the problem I have with TED talks. So many of them are variants of this http://t.co/npQmj3w and then fuck-all happens. @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot - than grand, one-hit "solutions". @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot ...alisation is what we should be investing in. It has compound benefits. It's about creating ecosystems rather - @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot like calculators... over 5 years... smaller, smaller batteries - then they ALL went solar. That level of decentr.. @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot Well, I think that, like fusion, is worth pursuing as an option... but the holy grail is solar (inc bio-solar) @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot ...presumably why Exxon have given Craig Venter $600,000,000. Still less than UK's annual waste-storage bill mind @jostlehim @GeorgeMonbiot Well, if the technology does what you claim it does, then sure... but I'd say that gen-eng algae is closer... Well thank fuck for that http://t.co/76epV9O Personally I couldn't give a toss either way, but I am so sick of hearing Royal-Suck-Up stories @Ceasefire_Mag re: 2 - that has not been my experience. Virgo: You're totally going to get your shit together next week. @Ceasefire_Mag what we saw when the 1/4 trillion$ Japan nuke meltdown was happening was a fucking flood of "facts" trying to play it down. @Ceasefire_Mag What you'll get from the nuke debate, is endless cherry-picked "facts" about nuke safety coal/nuke dichotomy echo-chambered @Ceasefire_Mag In principle yea. I spent about 7 years arguing on the internet and I don't think I saw anyone change their mind once. @Ceasefire_Mag So I don't think the "debate" over climate change (or nuke) is a debate. I think it's largely a PR campaign. @Ceasefire_Mag I just got back from Aus... they're still "debating" - and otherwise intelligent people think it's a "scientific conspiracy". @Ceasefire_Mag So now we got this situation where scientific evidence is trumped by people's fucking opinions. We didn't have that with CFCs @Ceasefire_Mag Nobody says to "sit around". Somebody (me) said that's what has happened over climate change. Apart from rape people I mean. I really don't get how the head of the IMF can become the president of France's Socialist Party. Don't these people know what the IMF does? @JayMutzafi @novacut re: pledge-levels, check this: http://t.co/PD1mskF people heavily gravitate towards multiples of 2, 5, 10. Over 100 detainees died during U.S. interrogations, dozens due directly to interrogation. Gen. McCaffrey: "We tortured people unmercifully" Obama Administration Legalises Torture http://t.co/mcVEVKv @BR3NDA Yup - you chop the spuds up into thin sticks like cuisenaire blocks, deep fry, then melt cheese over the top. Chips n cheese. Genius Caffeine withdrawal http://t.co/dOOLrox beautiful day, but it looks like a thin blue-blaze over black glass. I feel like shite. Daffodils in the back yard who totally shouldn't be there already. http://t.co/365v7DR It's the middle of winter @Ceasefire_Mag as I said elsewhere, faced with ozone-holes, we killed the CFC industry. Climate change we sat around "debating" for 20 years @clarecurranmp eg: http://t.co/zs6sZsw @clarecurranmp Instagram is a phone-app that allows you to upload to the web, but makes your pictures look like they're from the 70s Middle-Eastern revolutions vs Corporatism, and "bailouts" http://t.co/grNGr8g @JayMutzafi @novacut re: novacut/kickstarter... what would you do differently? @psychobdelic For the Ozone layer, we shut down the CFC industry. Climate change? We sat around and fucking "debated" for 20 years. @psychobdelic It's not a question of "giving up", it's a question of stop-talking and start doing. All this talk has just created doubt. @psychobdelic re: 1/2 life vs sea-levels. It's not an either/or situation, but if it was, radiation for 100,000 years is harder to adapt to @psychobdelic I think I just pulled it off the web - I used to live in Brighton though... so... maybe. Chart of EU nuke/renewable dependence here http://t.co/5wdsAHG some countries moving faster than others. @Osolage But Germany is not just investing in being self-sufficient, it's also investing in being a leader in the technology. @Osolage German renewables account for 17% of total... nuke is about 23% - but they've just shut 8 plants so that will have changed @Osolage Germany is investing quite a lot in solar - though less than the UK spends just storing the nuke waste it already has. @Ceasefire_Mag eg: http://t.co/E3O6aW7 "debate" is just a broadcast channel. @Ceasefire_Mag In my experience climate-change deniers love "debate" because it gives them a platform to propagate propaganda @Paulkenny79 that's why I'm not that interested in "debate" because it'll just be a rehash of safety lies, and the fake coal/nuke dichotomy @Paulkenny79 That has always been my argument - there are about 6 different reasons why Nuke is bad. Pro-nukers only ever (badly) address 2. @Prycie Photo: http://t.co/2Wr45Tf New Bjork track etc http://t.co/ZeRjLBg reminds me of San Jacinto a bit http://t.co/fDivmIG @cardean45 I visited Calcutta airport once. I was frisked. Similar sort of thing I imagine. @cardean45 Marcus might have been in the US at the time. Dunno. Elvis visited Prestwick? Got straight back on the plane again. Sigh. @cardean45 Mind you, I can't really remember the 90s. Mainly coloured shapes and... smoke etc. @cardean45 Don't know which gig it was... and (as I gather the saying goes) if you can remember it, you weren't there. So... who knows? @cardean45 and he also managed Oasis and various former Smiths etc - miscellaneous Mancunian glitterati @cardean45 Best gig I've seen in my life was Neil Young- London in 93. My manager said it was the best gig he'd seen since The Doors in 69 @cardean45 The Sumerian Rapture? It might have been Mayan actually - although Aztec Rapture is a much better name for a band. @michanzi If you get desperate, I think I have one on an old Laptop somewhere. I did a project about 4 years ago... @cardean45 11 years out? I'd put money on gen-tech/solar completely eclipsing nuke in that time, not just in Germany but everywhere @cardean45 so we don't get conversation, we get repetition. We're having "a story" pumped at us. And (alas) George M has bought into it. @cardean45 largely because there are only 2 axis of conversation, and the pro-nuke side doesn't seem to take on that they're based on lies @cardean45 but I think what we're getting is info/memetic-warfare disguised as debate. And as far as Nuke goes, it doesn't feel like debate @cardean45 but yea - when the stakes are high (as the saying goes) there are two choices, conversation or violence. So debate is crucial... @cardean45 There's a fine-line between debate and memetic-warfare... which is what broadcast conglomerates tend to deliver. My, this has been an argumentative evening. Not what I wanted at all. Kindof leaves a bad after-vibe. Apologies to all etc. I mean no ill. @cardean45 in the 30s, J.P Morgan attempted a coup in the US http://t.co/UsMBBid a few days ago, their ex-risk-assessor became IMF treasurer @cardean45 "America" (and by that I mean USA) has suffered a corporate coup de tête. The corporations are global; Americans, sidelined @psychobdelic @jobeyG I mean do you really think that the "debate" over climate change has been anything other than a propaganda campaign? @psychobdelic @jobeyG ... does little more than establish the disinformation as at best "doubt", at worst "fact" in people's minds. @psychobdelic @jobeyG and "debate"? Tends to be little more than endlessly debunking corporate/establishment disinformation - which... @jobeyG re: electricity reducing oil.. sure. But nuke alternatives will be available in less time than it takes to build a single nuke plant @jobeyG Which link? There was this http://t.co/92lyKzM and this http://t.co/DqTorKp - only the latter being mine :) @jobeyG and while we're on the subject of ridiculous statements, "oil" is not generally used for electricity generation http://t.co/92lyKzM @psychobdelic "Debate" is American for "propagate corporate disinformation". Sorry... we've been over this a million times. @Ceasefire_Mag Sorry... are you calling me a climate-change denier? @jobeyG See what you have done is set up a fake dichotomy. Nuke / Oil. Green alternatives are currently adding more capacity than nuke @psychobdelic @georgemonbiot nuke is a stop-gap with waste that needs to be stored for 100,000 years. Ponder how long that is. Catsby 2.0 resting http://t.co/OyGPcOI @GeorgeMonbiot :) @GeorgeMonbiot 100,000 yr storage costs; Japanese cleanup looking like 1/4 of a trillion $. This is what WE are up against. @GeorgeMonbiot In fact George, I wrote this specifically for you: http://t.co/6DQCspi Bet you don't retweet that. @GeorgeMonbiot what we get from nuke-shills is a bland acceptance of industry lies about safety and the fake coal/nuke dichotomy @GeorgeMonbiot You think there isn't any thought in that position.I wrote this a while back http://t.co/yV3p9BJ 6 reasons why nuke is stupid @GeorgeMonbiot No - we're about as interested in debating nukes as we are climate-change. It's done. @librarykris Maybe that's what I was doing. Retracing my steps. But before that? And that? It's a never ending fractal-pattern of amnesia That's not what I did... well... not exactly, though probably closer than I'd like to admit. Like cats do mid-wash. Wash, wash, wash they go... then they stop with one leg up in the air, all "WTF? Oh noes... I'm a fucking cat!" I've forgotten what I'm doing. @cedr @Novacut so is Novacut actually for Linux then? Having to boot into Windows to edit video is a total pain. @robyngallagher although you could look at it in terms of economics. It's cheaper to treat addiction than it is to criminalise or ignore it @robyngallagher enjoy http://t.co/5lZZcEE @robyngallagher Well, that's what you do if you actually care about people. Portugal decriminalised all drugs 10 years ago and the number of addictions has halved http://t.co/tPy0C3U @rtgarden Yea, but it's like THC-free grass. Bit aimless. Not that THC doesn't create aimlessness of its own, but at least there's a point I think this is what Ed Milliband was channeling earlier http://t.co/4L64l3J @yezzer Accidentally tipping over backwards in a chair always works for me. I think Ed Milliband has just rendered himself unelectable http://t.co/kbl7ccf You know how in movies people always shelter from gunfire behind car-doors? This is what really happens http://t.co/JhxHMRk Like paper. Cyclops shark http://t.co/wkysj89 Probably the best guitar player I know http://t.co/QmUtSLF - knows enough to break frameworks etc. Can play bum notes and mean it. Fred playing guitar, while someone smoking a cigarette outside watches him through the window http://t.co/zTe02w9 @leashless Teach people how to make MDF? @accessRipe Yea, I do this quite a lot (http://t.co/FlMs9LS). Coke (1/5th the caffeine of latte) kindof eases it. @LeifKendall Get well. Mum and Dad are laughing at the cat. It doesn't seem right. You shouldn't laugh at sleeping cats. He sleeps in batty positions though. @tvnznews sports (aka advertising) snuck into the main news. FUD over teenage drug "problems". News-Bingo going well tonight. @tvnznews milking the same crime story they've been milking for months. Then on to the mining disaster. Earthquake-milking still to come @jordantcarter This will probably seem like a strange thing to say, but it is incredibly reassuring knowing that you're out there. Thank you I've given up coffee, so now I'm eating beef-jerky - which I've never tried before. Like meat-crisps. Made out of leather. Giving up coffee for July. It's 9am on the 1st, and already the headaches etc. @hjortur I think Florence is the best place for Renaissance-era stuff. That which hasn't been nicked by The French and British. @hjortur But be careful about leaning against the back wall in St Marks. 700 years worth of accumulated hair wax... about 1/2 cm deep. Weird @hjortur and generic EU advice - try to see cathedrals when the choir is going off. They're basically massive stone musical instruments @hjortur It's worth seeing glass-blowers. The cafes in the main sq used to be set up specifically to rip off tourists. Might not be any more @marie_clair Yea, exactly. Rolling Stones gather no moss. Unless they want moss, in which case they sit still for a bit. Watch TV. Bitcoin tediously stable at about $16. So basically, one of the worst catastrophes possible happened to it, and it made no difference at all I have to go out tonight, and I don't want to go out tonight. I. Do. Not. Want. To. Go. Out. Wake up sheeple http://t.co/UxP14FG @jordantcarter - someone who's actually on our side (which seems to be the Green Party) comments on what's going on. Raw Data is not enough @jordantcarter a major problem with political transparency is waffle-translation/ramification divining. We The People are in the dark until- I'm totally the best looking person apart from the waitress, who's like... young enough to be my cat or something, so that's an issue. Down the caf. I'm totally the best looking person in this place, and I'm a 46 year old slob who can't be arsed shaving. Drove 200 miles to attend a @ppnz meetup. Did not find anything resembling a @ppnz meetup. Went home etc. @BlackFrankLuntz re: Indemnifications / reparations for the war on drugs... LOL. I'm with you on that one. Hell of a tough sell though @BlackFrankLuntz If you're interested (while you're talking policy) here's some 1800s laws governing corporations http://t.co/im7BBvs @jordantcarter ... country in the world. @jordantcarter ...the level of incompetence and dishonesty that's likely to be doing the "deciding". And that's in NZ, the least corrupt @jordantcarter ...able to control and monitor information flow just isn't thinking... and remember, we saw the #s92A debate. We know... @jordantcarter ... but in the 20th C, govts rounded up and killed 160 million of their own people... anyone who advocates govts being... @jordantcarter Sure, criminal damage is criminal damage. Identity theft is identity theft... we already have laws for these... @jordantcarter ...reject the legitimacy of any govt trying to impose "law" on the internet. They have neither the honesty or the competence. @jordantcarter "Solution" implies "Problem". The internet is not "a problem". Government is the problem... and I (and I'm not alone here)... Wellington Pirate Party tweetup - today at 19:30 to 22:30. Come before the Backbenches... http://t.co/b9YFU3S Thoughts on Stuxnet http://t.co/mnge6FP This would also provide shade for sheep etc - so long as they promised to to fuck with the mirrors http://t.co/8nkunuN Maybe not this election... maybe not the one after.... but one day, The USA is going to be run by a crazywoman. Oh sorry - not @tvnznews this time - but it's embarrassing younger (perennially conservative) sibling, "Close Up". @tvnznews trying to drum up as much Fear & Ignorance over "Kronic" as possible - ensuring we're stuck with stupid, damaging prohibition laws Eating mango with a screwdriver, because I cannot be arsed to go and get a fork. I think I might start channeling Sartre actually. That would be a laugh. Would it? No. Probably not. Whatever. Tennis on TV - some sort of game where people run about etc. There's a ball. Then they're interviewed and say absolutely nothing of interest Sometimes I feel sorry for @tvnznews - but then they give loads of screen time to brainwashed twerp Jordan Williams http://t.co/4m8JIMp @gubatron I knew a guy who was using wind->compressed air for energy generation in his back-yard back in the 70s. Harry Potter movie that grossed $1bn "loses" $167M http://t.co/zTbBtXk these are the reprehensible lying scumsacks attacking the internet Low-fi wifi with 45 mile radius http://t.co/sXcsI3v @umairh last time I looked, 1950s US corporate tax was ~60% of the budget; now it's ~6.6%. The groupthink is that this is creates prosperity @umairh re: groupthink - another worthy, soul-searching piece with the usual contortions to find a "solution" which doesn't tax the rich @edwardvirtually Bet it doesn't. It's a very middle-classed sort of humour. Like 4 Weddings and a Funeral opening with "fuck fuck fuck" @edwardvirtually Humour's a social release-valve... where the "thought but not said" is said... so only non-abusive parents will like it Sitting in the car down by the river, drinking coffee etc. http://t.co/qe5HTnI - only it's totally raining atm @rtgarden My hobby is to go down to the ocean and gaze at the thundering breakers with an ashen brow @rtgarden Yea, well the doctor postponed on me, so now I'm at a total loose end. I shall have to take up a hobby of some sort. Privatisation = "getting into bed with people who are only in it for the money". @piratepartyNZ don't suppose you could retweet the meetup in Wellington Tomorrow? Time/Place etc? @danzarrella Yea. The only time "Awesome" is acceptable is as a gen-x-oid hat-tip to Bill and Ted. Not a big deal. All of my family have anti-melanoma opps... particularly the men. They look like pirates sometimes.. cutlass-scars and such Off for my first ever anti-cancer opp in a bit. You didn't think we were going to get away with trashing the ozone layer did you? @x_chemicalism_x Should have won a car or something. Or a home-entertainment system. Dedication innit. Professional. @x_chemicalism_x It is quite odd. I wonder if there's any scope for a reality game-show in which the contestants commit burglaries etc. And of course 30% of "The News" is Sports... which in NZ=Rugby - basically a cross between soccer and fighting. CSU=Serious Crash Unit, ,CSI=Crime Scene Investigation.. in between all those is "The News", into which is stuffed as much crime as possible ie: The Force,SCU,Criminal Minds,Castle,City Homicide,Shortland Street,Miami Medical,Rd Cops,Kalgoorlie Cops,CSI,Nurse Jackie,Hawaii Five-O The only thing on NZ TV this evening that isn't about either Crime or Hospitals is "Desperate Housewives". I'm having supply-chain issues. @remixeverything re: "Multiple Discovery" = "Morphic Resonance", or so I was led to believe. 4pm. Sun is peering narrowly through the clouds, like the Eye of Mordor with hangover. Henry Waltz. Fantastic http://t.co/1WpA8Jr Just spilled coffee. It wasn't my fault, it was the coffee's fault. @edwardvirtually I think the main lesson from the hacking incident is not about security, but centralisation. So yea. Agreed. @CitizenBomber Typo-Alert dude. "sort", "contemtues" Lesson learned? Suits and "professional pundits" have no idea what they're talking about. The hacked bitcoin exchange is now trading again - with rates stable at $16... about what it was before the big spike, 3 weeks ago. This is what you get when you let capitalism into education http://t.co/6fNDHeT My - less than 11% of the traffic to my golden mean caliper site is IE - of any species. @SenatorSanders I don't think it's time for wealthy corporations to "contribute", I think it was time they were broken up and reigned in @SadekHM Yea - I got trapped for... oooh... 10 minutes... on an un-airconditioned airport shuttle in Dubai once. Nearly expired. @SadekHM You get flu in Egypt? I thought that happened in wet, dreary places like England and New Zealand? @SadekHM Your nose is ideal. Don't worry about your nose. @jonathan_may Yea - in some ways I hope you're right, in others I wish you were wrong. Peak Attention. Want Drug Prohibition Sanity? Vote green http://t.co/vlJHS2x Little Baby Planelet http://t.co/4vRvoZd Attempted legalisation of self-driving cars http://t.co/LiSIgzn @vallie Hard to avoid. At 18 I figured out that an aura of eccentricity provides a level of social-cover. Then you get stuck that way. Bah. @vallie Well... I spent two entire summer holidays in a darkened room programming computers in basic when I was 16. Solar Powered 3D Printer http://t.co/MYlBHQR @vallie Geek it is. I'm more of a rudderless hippie... although the reality is a little more complicated than that. @vallie You're probably not a nerd http://t.co/heobTWV @vallie My family are readers. Always have been - TV was banned from the house until I was 15. @lordtrilink In a Donald-Duck sort of way. @lordtrilink Indeed - a really noticeable difference between LA and London is that in LA, people sing in their cars. Much more "up" place I think maybe one of the purposes of television is to relieve people of the strain of having to talk to other people in the same room @jordantcarter but the problem is not "not enough jobs" the problem is broken income/outgoing. Taking a long-view, like @jordantcarter ... and one initially recognised as being a type of servitude... that's drifted into being "the only acceptable solution" @jordantcarter There are hundreds of thousands of people who's income/outgoing is broken. "Jobs" are a relatively new development... @jordantcarter Or to put it another way, there seems to be an assumption that (high) cost of living is a constant rather than a variable @jordantcarter Personally I think "jobs" are over-rated. We don't need more work, we need less rent... less interest. Less parasitic expense @clarecurranmp @LulzSec IP law is just an illogical aberration used to drive censorship -so there's an overlap, but it's not the core issue @clarecurranmp @LulzSec I think the counter-balance to cybersecurity is institutional-transparency rather than IP law @clarecurranmp I think @LulzSec is about more than IP - it's about institutional illegitimacy. Creeping unaccountability of power. @rtgarden I'll see what I can do :) @rtgarden pretty rough- I kindof need to learn how to play it before recording it properly. Mind you, polished version always lack something Jesus, check out the voiceover on this. It's like a not-terribly-convincing satire http://t.co/AJfUJSc Skittery Cattery. Me doing the boxes, with a little bit of music I wrote http://t.co/XfhuoOM This is amazing http://t.co/UZ4Hasr Who'd have thought that littering and arson could be so beautiful Enemy At The Gate is on. "Hans, are we the baddies?" etc. Brilliant. Catsby 2.0 is playing with Lupita's Doll's House - re-enacting some sort of Catzilla movie. @piratepartyNZ re: 50 years - Crossroads by Robert Johnson is still copyright-crippled - and he died 73 years ago. I rang up and asked. @stewlee Have you got bread? Bread's basically just raw toast. You can make one with the other. Simple recipe etc. Rendering takes a long time doesn't it. Moore's law has a shadow which is always 10 steps ahead. @stewlee Mornin. Down by the river, eating sushi, watching people pack up their farmer's-market tents. Simple peasant folk, with very flash cars. @rtgarden Yea, well. I wound up on a stage in London, playing electric-guitar with a violin bow :) @rtgarden High art it aint, but to me it was like fresh air. And fun. @rtgarden and meantime, this was going on the the big colourful exciting world... elsewhere http://t.co/lTfho7Y (link fixed :)) @rtgarden Maybe a childhood thing. My folks only listen to classical... and we lived in the country without TV/Radio etc... @Osolage Ok - will google etc. @rtgarden I'm sure in terms of virtuosity/passion, there's nowt like it on earth... but it feels like there's not a lot of room to breathe. @bestvpnservice I think that the service you provide (or at least talk about) deserves evangelising about :) @Osolage got any links? My ignorance precedes me on that one alas... I'm not sure why western stuff makes me feel claustrophobic. Does tho You've got to expose yourself to the elements man. The elementals. Twilight of the Gods innit http://t.co/tI9JGIS I was never into the whole scatter-cushion Hippie Josstick vibe when it came to LSD Classical Music= soundtrack of oppression. Never liked it, never will. Apart from Gotterdammerung, alone, at night, on psychedelics. Mental Any government that attempts to control the internet instantly nullifies its legitimacy. Wonder what daylight looks like if you're nocturnal. It must be terrifying - far scarier than the dark is to diurnals. Hectic, chaotic blaze VPN Providers http://t.co/4e8G9SY Corporate coup d’état : http://t.co/VUhCHHk @marie_clair it's actually all muscle in fact. (NT still recovering (believe it or not (after 3 weeks)) from a massive allergic attack) @marie_clair @showgizmo or in other words, people spend more time on iPhones because it takes longer to do stuff. Probably. @marie_clair @showgizmo Ever tried to do 60 WPM on an iPhone? Every time I tried to tell you, the wordth jutht came out wrong; tho I have to thay I love you, in a thong. Meantime, pro-nuke shills carry on going on about how safe nuke is. That's why there's a news blackout. Nothing to see here, move along. US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant http://t.co/HM1odzH News blackouts over wind and solar not required. But meantime every single "news" organisation that reports it, reports that value has crashed to $.01 - so um.... why? Now that the dust has settled a bit... it looks like bitcoin trade is gradually shifting to Tradehill (and others), bitcoin value unaffected MSNBC: Deranged Stepford Wives defend party against 'anti-women' charge http://t.co/5JAoOy0 Just bought a center-punch. It has course-knurling for a positive grip. Police theft of entire Instapaper database http://t.co/MewMScU In other news, the wardrobe in the local thesp-society doesn't fit young people.. because our obesity epidemic is also a chubbiness epidemic Of course this would never happen in NZ, because helmets (that haven't reduced injuries) are compulsory http://t.co/IxchJPc @stwange actually, on the subject http://t.co/xzpRnQR My bro's cat is a fishing cat as well. Maine Coon @stwange http://t.co/xViFMJw http://t.co/tgcZjZL and so it goes, I guess. UN: billions suffer increased poverty, hunger & unemployment due to bank recession http://t.co/E31vwZu +rich got richer http://t.co/Q1hPDRW Yea, so there was this one time where I sat down and ate an entire packet of fortune-cookies in one go. Man, was that ever a busy week. @robyngallagher yea - and it's a look that kindof self-maintains @robyngallagher Oh it's not me - if that's what you were thinking. I'm a bit shabbier http://t.co/DKi1nqk @sqoo "natural cola flavouring" it says. @robyngallagher http://t.co/m9wmNap @robyngallagher What? Like this http://t.co/nRGbfxh ? @sqoo There's a species of kiwi-cola that's quite nice. Honey flavoured. Communist probably. @alexfarran LOL - yea. I've been on protests and find them dismaying... they are a vital part of the equation... Just not the whole equation Pepsi. It's not quite right is it. @hjortur http://t.co/ZHbpOpe :) @hjortur NZ up mountains in winter at sunset... for me that's the one - high snowy places in twilights. Nothing like it. I'm into altitude @hjortur (ahem) Niue and Pango (glittering in the dark)... plane banking over Thai rice-fields at sunset. Spanish light... @hjortur Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gate @hjortur Probably Norway - Bergen Fjords etc. Southern French Alps in Summer. Rio from the top of Sugar Loaf after the rain. @edwardvirtually Vietnam. All that. @edwardvirtually As I say "pacifism" is what power chooses to deal with when it's backed into a corner by (one way or another) force. @edwardvirtually I'm not btw advocating assassinating elected officials - totally sacrosanct. But don't tell me violence isn't effective @edwardvirtually Bollocks. JFK was not in any sense non-violent... and "bad pr" is an utterly lame consolation. @edwardvirtually Yup. Stories well told, play to both sides. I'm more concerned with what actually happens. @edwardvirtually So forget hypothetical-scenarios. Let's talk about reality. How effective were right-wing nutters at silencing JFK and MLK? @edwardvirtually Once piece of hypothetical, tactical stupidity doesn't automatically make every tactic stupid The Star Wars version http://t.co/hmMoqUf @edwardvirtually You're coming from a point of faith rather than evidence. It's something you "believe". Well I don't buy it. @edwardvirtually As the great great grandson of colonialists, I can tell you that is utter bullshit. @edwardvirtually http://t.co/n6R46WE @edwardvirtually just a thought like. We don't have Magna Carta because John was impressed by peaceful-protest. Leverage is the thing @edwardvirtually Or we could just kill the future-destroyers. "Pacifism" is what power makes deals with when force backs it into a corner Time. Sugar-hits and immersion and just a load of vague, untogether thoughts http://t.co/StXrW4g @GarethMP will it be online anywhere? Your piece I mean? Down the local Tescos at 8.30am, bobbing head to the supermarket-muzac, can't remember what I'm buying. Long conversation with checkout girl These are amazing http://t.co/iB5lKpT http://t.co/qGsN4tj That's how I'd dress if I was a chicken. And absolutely coked off my tits @edwardvirtually Much as Libertarianism dis-impresses me, I'd like to see Ron Paul given a go - just to clear various log-jams. @rtgarden Yup - been there for a while http://t.co/X2h3NRW On Ponoko as well. Resonance http://t.co/xRejLY0 it's a full-screen thing. Oh god... that's the least appropriate thing I've laughed at in a long time http://t.co/MKdnm3E RT @russtik @Twit_nut I've still go the seashells. One of each of these: http://t.co/FpeLrPG http://t.co/V9rw5En and 2 octopus lures http://t.co/H9oEHOS Catsby 2.0 has fallen down the back of the sofa. That's a fuckup. I think I might buy him some more ping pong balls tomorrow. @Twit_nut actually, come to think of it, that might not be true. Anyway, this is it http://t.co/vNvfaE5 swapped it for seashells in the end @Twit_nut LOL - we used to have a fiat bambina on Niue http://t.co/r2XVNmf when it started up you could hear it anywhere on the island Gerbiling http://t.co/QdC1fPR @JPBarlow basically offers the potential for adaptive/networked/hands-free micro-farming. @JPBarlow I wrote this http://t.co/xy8jmbk recently about Green-Rev 2.0 - that thing at the end about pachube and chillies blew me away. No. No no no no no. That's not what they're supposed to look like http://t.co/q8c7zlw they're supposed to look like this http://t.co/atqtasS After all, John Milton (who also wrote Paradise Lost) went to prison for campaigning against state censorship. If they're going to subvert our democracies, then we have a moral duty (to those that fell before) to bastille the cunts http://t.co/h5gMILX 80% of UK homes worth less than five years ago http://t.co/nb8XE6M < 100% of which still represent a lifetime's debt to 90% of people @Budzaya I love you. Virgo: Today you'll spend 4 hours making a business facebook page... then you'll quickly delete it before anyone notices it only has 1 Like @videojon It's always winter where I am man http://t.co/3LKt9Jo Makes Facebook page for stuff http://t.co/v8QbPiG if this works out, I'll have basically gotten my old factory job back again. Christ on a bike I feel wired. Think I need to go out for a nice quiet walk. Culminating in a fight, and then a kebab. Television : The Thinking-Man's Idiocracy. Tarts up website with new photos and such http://t.co/MewMScU @stilgherrian I think the important thing is to contradict yourself on each network so you kindof cancel out. People respect that. @nzlemming though I've learned more about web security in the last week than in the previous 12 years :) @nzlemming Yea - I'm kindof expecting a "skype of bitcoins" at some point... because not even geeks are that good at security. @nzlemming When I've tried to "play the market" I've lost, so I'm just sitting tight - see what happens - but "investing" in it as a project @nzlemming I was an early adopter of bitcoins by accident... kindof. I sold about $100 worth of stuff back when they had USD parity. @nzlemming Yea - I'm inclined to see it as a vaccination... and you can't really have resilience without attack. Smart networks gotta learn @nzlemming Yea - not over yet... not even started really, but the recent hack of "the market" was a major blow. Or vaccination mayb @nzlemming Ever come across cellular automata? http://t.co/DxEsz8c that's us that is. Smart dust in the wind dude. Same grinding inevitability of Roman Republic turning into what it "knew would ruin it",a decentralised currency is fucked by centralisation The internet is weird - deliberately/specifically built around a decentrisation=strength philosophy, still generates massive centralisation A sharp uptick in trading on the UK Britcion exchange in the wake of the MtGox node going down. And the price is holding by the looks I've got "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Beegees stuck in my head. Oh... WTF? No - it's stuck in my hair. Jesus. That's even worse. Loads of boot-space http://t.co/Bgyettl @rosspruden Because I almost certainly would have bought one for my niece. Works fast dunnit. @rosspruden Really? You make wooden toys? Are they online? @midmagic ever heard of "Kohlberg's stages of moral development"? You sound like you're still at the most infantile stage. @midmagic That's the trouble with bitcoins - you're on the radar of.. people with weirdly limited perspectives. Sheltered Libertarian cranks @midmagic Sorry - you sound a bit retarded. No. The reason I donated to the EFF was so they continue to fight/stand for internet freedom. "A Hierarchy Of Old Men" is always going to be at odds with anything resembling 21stC democracy. It's not a solution to anything. Tunisia reinstates web censorship http://t.co/WmyWk8r If yr going to have in internet revolution, you can't go back to old cunts in charge @midmagic @eff I care what they fucking do with it. Why do you think I donated in the first place? Go on. Answer. @LulzSec It's from this http://t.co/mSzx7Th Re: Lulzsec hacking the census. Is this the same census that some of us boycotted because the UK govt got US arms-dealer Lockheed to do it? Doing the boxes http://t.co/A1VqLvz tempus fugit innit Rendering, rendering, in endless night. It would appear, that thanks to @EFF, I've donated about $500 to Bitcoin Faucet. Errr.. thanks a fucking lot. http://t.co/HftuEm9 Voice like a Klaxon. God damn these people are loud. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away http://t.co/HFyinXy Guess that's where Blondie came from http://t.co/HFyinXy Oh. So this is the guy that's going to play Jeff Buckley? http://t.co/oV7ncTj Well that's got "wrong" written all over its face. Nebraska #Nuclear Plants on Alert Following Missouri River Flooding. http://t.co/Zj2Qptu Windmills and Solar, Not On Alert, or even... wet. @Dymaxion Citation for what? The UMG / Napoleon III thing? There y'go http://t.co/rm92U98 ( @lordtrilink @solobasssteve ) One thing REALLY noticeable about bitcoins, is that pundits from Suit-World have absolutely no fucking idea eg: http://t.co/EcTdwfQ I don't know if this is true http://t.co/dEeCXBj but if it is, the recent bitcoin hack/crash... hasn't affected the market rate... at all. @terrencewood My. Well that is elegant. Baffling to noobs though. @terrencewood So what does that do then? A Russian oligarch or a US bank responsible for mass-homelessness and a major depression. The New Masters of Culture: http://t.co/bN8EPqS Well I could have told you that - cocaine is the mother of all cross-addictions http://t.co/GQIykHY @solobasssteve @lordtrilink Did you know that Universal Music was originally a water-company set up in about 1850 by Napoleon III? @jonathan_may LOL - work? what?.... oh... that. @jonathan_may Experiment "lazy"? Whatever - tell that to Kofe Annan http://t.co/AbWH38C I have more faith in experiment than debate @jonathan_may I think it's a matter of experiment rather than research.. eg: Portugal. One thing for certain: prohibition is a disaster @jonathan_may Aye, well that wasn't the interpretation that I took away from what he said, having read the context. @jonathan_may Are you quoting from Boris's book, or are you interpreting it? Having not actually read it? @jonathan_may here in NZ we have a really bad drink/drive problem. We have high-penalties, frequent road-blocks, TV advertising, billboards @jonathan_may ... a health problem is stupidly expensive, and counter-productive. Nobody was talking about letting anyone "rot" anywhere @jonathan_may as to Boris's inanity, you'll have to take that up with him - but the principle isn't inane. Drugs as "legal" rather than... @jonathan_may I'm Brit btw. Some of the worst things I've ever seen were in the UK, and because of drugs - but prohibition made them worse @jonathan_may ... cost about 1£ a day if they were legal. Addiction-driven crime happens as a result of prohibition. Just ask Boris. @jonathan_may as Boris Johnson said in his autobiog: 70% of the crime here is caused by a handful of people feeding addictions that would... @jonathan_may driving whilst drunk needs to carry a heavy penalty... extrapolating this to "not driving, but still drunk" doesn't make sense @jonathan_may Drinking and driving->death = manslaughter by car. Mugging->death = murder/manslaughter. We already have laws for these @jonathan_may and now there's about 1.5 million people locked up in the US, for what? At least my simplistic statement isn't... insane. @jonathan_may so... if the punishment should be MORE than the "potential" harm done to others, then what's the penalty for beer? Death? @jonathan_may Indeed... But simplicity sounding ridiculous is (in some cases (and this)) a pointer to ridiculousness elsewhere. We seem to be in this bizarre headspace where "people breaking rules" is our main source of entertainment. The amount of crime shown on NZ tv is absolutely staggering. It's beyond obsessive - bordering on social-engineering. NZ has 3 terrestrial TV channels, prime-time - about 15-20 programs. If you took out crime, sports and soap-operas tonight, you have... Zero It's fairly common now for mainstream websites (eg: twitter, ebay) to be so clogged with javascript that it actually breaks the browser Park bench http://t.co/MhXlhlS And that's not taking into account the long-term (30 year, year in, year out) decline in the cost of solar-electric. Coal-parity in 10 yrs Mind you, at a $bn a go, it will still cost less to give (yes give) solar-electricity to every house in Aus, than the Japanese Nuke Cleanup Greeny though I am, seems daft http://t.co/iDEcslw Centralised solar-cell farms. Wouldn't just putting them on roofs use less wire? The great bitcoin hack of 2011 - teaching PHP devs everywhere how to create secure authentication systems. Catsby 2.0 has put on 2kg since he turned up at our door with a plaintive little meow a month or two ago. He's now 3kg :) @jonathan_may and drugs-law isn't about justice, it's about the creepy, insidious Blairite notion of "sending a message". @jonathan_may Yea, maybe, but in principle, a law that does more damage that whatever it's supposed to fix, is wrong. @jonathan_may re: web-based consensus. No, more like the mid-east. It's a lot bigger than twitter. Ask Kofi Annan or Jimmy Carter @jonathan_may I don't think the breakdown of the family will change drug policy - prob the (web-based) breakdown of consensus that it works @jonathan_may hospital any Sat night - and see the "potential" damage done by booze... bust yourself accordingly next time you have a beer @jonathan_may I'm only one example, but I can extrapolate to almost everyone I know. But you talked of "potential" damage.. so go visit a UK Japan: Citizen measured radiation > than "official" info http://t.co/tDuZOnb elsewhere, nuke-morons still believe what Corp/Govts tell them So what have we got? A system of "justice" that's doing a fuck of a lot more damage than the thing that it's supposed to remedy. @jonathan_may nutshell: the entire concept of "punishment" in this context has been an abject failure... but... the severity? It's insane @jonathan_may the damage I've seen drugs (ie: crack) do "to others" (in this case, kids) would be compounded by adding punishment on top. @jonathan_may Right - the effects "on others" of me smoking dope in my 20s, 30s, was precisely zero. The effect of me taking crack, "worry" Ah, there you go. Favella-Chic rebelocrats Die Antwoord are now owned by a mega conglomerate originally founded by Napoleon III. Cake for Tea. Marvelous. You can never have too much cake. @bergin What don't you agree with dude? Ron Paul wins the straw-poll... with 2x the votes of his nearest rival. The Guardian ignores this and splashes with #3, Michele Bachmann @rosspruden @Buzzsonic @DannyDee if your whole town was replicated, how would you know it had been stolen? http://t.co/4qEUq1W Flying SwarmBots http://t.co/CQv1uPg Product idea: Heisenburgers - burgers with unprinted packaging so you can't tell what sort you've got until you've tasted it. US Govt would rather lose weather satellites than think the unthinkable: taxing the wealthy at sustainable rates http://t.co/2aCEBEO @hjortur Yea - it was still communist when I was there. Hopefully the tourist trade hasn't hollowed it out too much. @hjortur Far out - nice one. I visited Dubrovinik in about 1979 - before everyone went insane... or... during a brief patch of non-insanity Moribund Western legacy-institutions forcing the continuation of oppressive (and failed) drug-prohibition http://t.co/M0xs6pg Found one of Catsby's ping-pong balls. Catsby loves ping pong balls. Makin Shit, update http://t.co/9FcRYG5 Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself Invest in this http://t.co/s1XWOgi so you don't have to keep buying flimsy ear-phones. Bargain. Worth every penny etc. I don't owe any money to an Inland Revenue, anywhere in the world for the first time in about 5 years. @fastfuture The IEA are nuke-shills who I daresay neglected to mention Japans 1/4 trillion$ nuke cleanup bill Looks like bitcoin is primed for its weekendly dump and pump cycle, brought about by legacy-banks not working on the weekend. Spiraling rents hit new record high http://t.co/Gu1Mbgt < adding no benefit to the economy whatsoever. Shifting money to landlords and banks Trying to use Autodesk 123D. Christ it's difficult. Things that should be simple take hrs of fruitless clicking. Why is 3D so fucking hard? Oh. Em. Gee. Catsby 2.0 has caught a mouse. I didn't think they did that any more. It's such a cliche. Bitcoin exchanges cave in to The Man almost instantly http://t.co/Er8xdhO Yea, well this guy can go directly to hell, do not pass GO. http://t.co/BoH0dpH < we do not need rich old cunts policing our "morals" petition @Number10gov to Support EDM 1913. It's time to axe the act. #DEAct http://act.ly/3t9 RT to sign Lego Camera Roundup http://t.co/6DBx3gh? Banks, Tax and Greek Austerity http://t.co/Aw3eIhX Why an internet tax for copyright is bollocks http://t.co/ZelcgDc @PennyRed writers love that sort of thing. Regret nowt. @BitCoinReporter erm... 2 US senators does not "The US Govt" make (re: someone or other wanting to shut down bitcoins) @videojon used to work with this old guy in Aus - if he saw a traffic warden would bellow out the window WHY DON"T YA GET A FUCKIN MAN'S JOB If yr a geek, and interested in bitcoins, this is really interesting http://t.co/A8cLynB and a major dif between open/closed source currency It's sooo much better for motivation writing a list of things you've done, than things you intend to do. After the histrionics of last weekend, Bitcoin has become almost piss-takingly stable. @leashless re: follower-count... nah, you're upping your signal-to-noise ratio. I used to hang on everyone's every word. Now I miss stuff @joshr This was the girl I was totally in love with at the time http://t.co/yLPWCoh - all ended incredibly badly, in an unending sort of way @joshr I used to sell ostrich eggs once. http://t.co/Su4eaQe See? All that other stuff lures people in... then they buy the ostrich eggs @joshr You can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs... sometimes you don't even want an omlette. You just want to break some eggs What televisual feast awaits us tonight? "Big Fat Family Challenge" or "Bones". Two extremes basically. Fat/thin, fat/thin. What's it to be? Messing with Autocad 123D or whatever it is. Quite complicated CAD programs... If Adobe could just extend fireworks it'd be simple @BlackFrankLuntz Yea, something needs to be done about that really. @BlackFrankLuntz I think one of Thatcher's/Blair's most subtly damaging legacies is that "working class" is no longer a badge of pride. @BlackFrankLuntz I think everyone's pretty confused about what class they are. And that get's exploited. I think it's the same in the UK @BlackFrankLuntz Jesus. If anyone said that here (NZ) they'd probably go to prison. Personally I think it's the ugly(er) end of class-war @GarethMP Well, we now live in the world of rapid-fabbing. How about a 3d cartoon model of Steven Joyce? @BlackFrankLuntz So um... for the benefit of a satellite... what is the nealboortz episode? Catsby's going absolutely mental inside a tube of rolled up carpet. Clear evidence that cats have imaginations. And fun. @edwardvirtually and now we've got Obama... who's behaving exactly the same as Nixon did, but with you know... "different words". @edwardvirtually Good for perspective because (eg) the sainted JFK told the same lies as everyone else... different heads on the same beast @edwardvirtually seen this? http://t.co/iYmNAeU an hour or so - good for perspective. Edible RFIDs - real-time food tracking http://t.co/0NzPlDb GIGO It was so obvious that the news-clip of dusty, be-suited men texting families post-earthquake, were actually all playing Angry Birds instead @edwardvirtually Republicans didn't ruin it, corporations corrupting Republicans (and Democrats) ruined it. Well... damaged it. @edwardvirtually Yea, and when the USSR collapsed it turned into the archetype of it's own anti-western propaganda. Fund this on Kickstarter : IRONBUDS - modular, durable earbuds : http://t.co/EcXxXRK < still less than my 2-monthly earbud bill. Bargain After the histrionics of the weekend, bitcoins seems to be kindof stable for now... ie: the last 3 days... at 20x what it was 3 months ago US copyright cunts attempting to use UK/US anti-terror extradition law to imprison UK student for linking to videos http://t.co/k6IZbHz Teaparty group suing copyright wankers http://t.co/hmYDoyO Back in the 30s, the likes of JP Morgan attempted a military, fascist coup in the US. Today the same sorts of people are simply buying it. Let's just find out who's funding these fucking lobbyists, and destroy them. Yet another fucked up IP law. Now "industry" wants jail-time for youtube lip-synchers http://t.co/ZGH84lS < let's just scrap all IP Setting aside the weirdness of auctioning a lunch-date with a communist, if I was in the UK, I'd def' have a go at this http://t.co/zXmvuHN @BR3NDA a mattress in the back, a periscope and a really long steering wheel. You've probably seen me "stopped" at the side of the road @BR3NDA I'm a van-driver. It does require some organisation. US, NZ, Swedencondemn 3-strikes Internet laws http://t.co/cVzcfS2 < Though NZ just passed a 3 strikes law, that the US offered to pay for @BR3NDA that's cheating. Mind you, I save heating by never getting out of bed, so I guess we're even. @BR3NDA I've been working from home for about 11 years now. It's a LOT cheaper. Mind you, I haven't actually done any work yet, @BR3NDA bet it wasn't as huge as your commuting bill when you didn't work from home. The blew up The Chicken-Man in Philly last night http://t.co/zs2fhsh Mind you, he's been in about 10 movies a year, every year, ever since. Bet the kids at school never thought... Yup, there goes a movie-star. Sons of Anarchy is on. Coronation Street for Bikers. Good to see Ron Perlman is still around... since Name Of The Rose I mean. "Inside New Zealand-24 Hours: Police" (which compares NZ/AUS/US/NO 2am) - absolutely fascinating. I recognise myself in every fuckup's eyes I like the way Norwegian accents say "dogs". Cured! (raises glass to Western (socialised) medicine). The drugs that cured me cost $2.40. Doctor visit $24... in the UK it'd be £0 I always find myself feeling a bit fucked up after violence-inciting blog-posts... but listened to this http://t.co/7DpI3bV and now don't Bacteria Bricks, and an unhinged, violence-inciting rant http://t.co/9dxqEIP Tuning into @tvnznews for the evening's Crime, Sports, Celebrity-Gossip... and... (well it is the 21st C), Natural Disasters. Woohoo!. 6 YEARS after setting up a spreadshirt shop, it's finally generated enough revenue to make the minimum withdrawal. I wonder if this guy knows that his "vision" is never, ever, ever going to happen http://t.co/EmZ84i2 Catsby 2.0 http://t.co/CVaO6j5 statuesque etc. @JerryKetel LOL - Everything starts with an E, as they say. Or used to... back when they could still talk. @JerryKetel but I am a mere minnow in a name-dropping pool of giganto-saurs. Out there is someone who actually IS Robert Plant. @JerryKetel I met Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in about 95. Robert said playing Reading Festival was terrifying. Ok... time to make the phone calls that I've been dreading for ages on account of them probably making me less popular than I already am. Win for Save The Wales? The Japanese have made them too radioactive to eat. Probably http://t.co/qZ6OSCt @GarethMP I was under the impression that the main reason dictators anywhere were in power is that the west liked doing business with them @Martin_Carr "It"?... "IT"?... You mean you don't even remember its name? Bloke controlling massive machine by doing Jedi-Mind-Trick arm-waves http://t.co/UWDG6SK 3D Printed Antique Machine http://t.co/ERa56zq Successfully replaces screen of Canon DSLR... which those fecking highwaymen at Canon "wouldn't let me do myself" so they could charge $140 @BlackFrankLuntz That needs/wants thing is one of Lakoff's things. Necessities vs Services... and Necessities should not be privatised @normnz Apparently placebos have been known to work even when people know they're placebos. My ones are antihistamines though @BR3NDA @GarethMP Sita? I find this vaguely interesting http://t.co/is5ThGc Back from the doctor's. He doesn't know what's wrong with me. He gave me some tablets and such. "Take these" he said. @leashless Cheers :). Off to the Doctor's now. Another Scottish Kiwi. We get everywhere. Blood-test results back. Nothing wrong with me... apart from looking like I've been sunburned all over, with swollen lymph areas etc. 100 billion dollars for Facebook. Why stop there? Why not a trillion? Why not just swap it for the national debt? #mickeymousemoney @GarethMP The Tunnel (aussie prod) has an interesting model, but they're all IP-retentive when you scratch the surface @GarethMP I'm intending to do something along these lines myself - ie: make a feature-length film and make all the raw footage available. @GarethMP I don't think I know any open-source feature movies to be honest. And I have a specific interest in such things. On behalf of the Internets,the ONLY point to republican debates is to squeamishly filter out the ear-poison to hear the Ron Paul bits So is the US Republican Debate on? Let me guess: A slimy parade of millionaire cranks, ALL of whom are having affairs? Apart from Ron Paul? Laser light from gen-eng cells http://t.co/a8R2uvC My. Or more accurately... the more people talk, the more they don't know what they don't know. Despite what they say. Fucking haybales of waffle I think the most important thing I've learned from recent Bitcoin events is that Nobody Knows What They're Talking about... @kalena So why do they do that? Is it good for ratings? The Brits are particularly bad at it as well. @kalena @3NewsNZ ... "Capturing the moment when someone breaks down in tears" is something they find absolutely irresistible. @kalena @3NewsNZ I've got this whole TV-News-Bingo thing... cliches they do every night, which aren't actually "news"... @kalena @3NewsNZ It's actually very rare to not have a night where grown men (or people) are crying. I think they think it's good television Flying motorbike from Australia http://t.co/QucpPKJ @jordantcarter http://t.co/N1PAj1H works for me. Repraps on indiegogo http://t.co/qVLGeCX An experiment in an alternative currency is something worth *donating to* in any case. The fact that it's also an investment is incidental. So my advice would be to buy a couple of thousand dollars worth, and just forget about it. See what happens in 6 months. I don't think day-trading works with bitcoin though because it's sooooo slow to get money into it. You need to be using MtGox as a $ bank. Well bitcoins appears to be rallying, after the weekend's crash... volume is usually $1M a day. The rally had a volume of $2M in a day. @rands and on the "foot" serifs, make tiny little shoe-laces. Go on, you know you want to. @rands half-serif. Only serif the bottoms of letters, so they don't fall over etc. It makes sense, you know it does. God preserve us from tory politicians interfering with education http://t.co/QVQYfyT why do people vote tory? They must be fucking stupid @Noetical Yea, but the detail you get with DNA is incredible. Just had a blood-test. Christ. Usual fainting and dizziness etc. And that was just walking up the steps on the way there. I'm not a coper @fitzthemighty Were you dressed up as a wizard? @fitzthemighty If she was beating your ass with a sword, at least one of you wasn't doing it properly @librarykris I hope it goes away on its own and the Doctors say "it was a virus, and now you're immune". It's happened before. @librarykris re: feeling better - better than this morning, but I'm still red all over. Like sunburn. The doctors were very vague. @librarykris I don't think they were prepared... but it wasn't that big a deal... so maybe they were. Would have had a lot of provisions @librarykris The 70s were great. Probably the best decade of the 20thC. Mind you, I was 6, and sleeping in the car was great too @librarykris Ah. Landslips etc. We got trapped between 2 once. Had to spend the night in the car. It was the 1970s. @librarykris why not in Whanganui? @jordantcarter More open govt would make no difference to the Kiwi Media. Sports, Crime and Astrology (and earthquakes) leave no room for it @rtgarden Yea. Bit of a wind-up to be honest. Not painful (touch wood) but kindof debilitating. @jordantcarter yes Much to nobody's surprise, "Intellectual Property" is being used by corporations to avoid tax http://t.co/4u8URMD LOL http://t.co/HEuKSHY Ian Puddick etc. The Streisand Effect in action. @x_chemicalism_x last night I dreamed I bought two porsches, de-wheeled them + stuck them together like a giant walnut just to annoy people I'm just sort of sat here at the mo. @rtgarden I think it might be a viral thing. It's upped it's game now anyway. Swollen lymph areas. Doctors involved. They look at me sternly Back from hospital. Nobody knows what's wrong with me. "Something viral" they say. Back tomorrow for blood tests. @rtgarden Hmm... I don't have those symptoms though. Just this massive prickly-heat situation going on. Really temp-sensitive. @rtgarden Really? I don't think I ate a lot of wheat-things to start with... apart from... ok. I'll try that. I think I should form a committee. No one else, just me. A committee for one. Then I'll.. I'll um.. I don't know, watch a video or something I wonder if I'll feel normal ever again @SoundCloud Don't know about the last, but weirdly (weirdly) this is the first http://t.co/DRZxLz0 If this allergy thing doesn't go away I'm going to have to see my doctor again. He'll say what he always says: "LOL, what happened to you?" @tom_watson @Jemima_Khan Aren't drone-attacks already covered by other treaties, eg: "don't be bombing other people's countries"? @tvnznews trying to create a moral panic over (and giving priceless advertising to) "Go The Fuck To Sleep". Christ you people are pathetic. Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars. Out here there's fuckin big bubbles http://t.co/PE52sZQ Magnetic ones 100,000,000 miles wide Watching all the Bitcoin neophytes panic-selling. It's a long and rocky road my little friends. Bet on the long-term. @JPBarlow There's a legendary story/image of Bobby Gillespie & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra going "ah don care who y'are, ye soand shaite" I keep expecting this woman to finally snap and tell the hyper-nerd in the background to SHUUUUTT THEEE FUUUUCK UPPPP http://t.co/9e1SRIN Holy Mother of Moses this guy is good http://t.co/UcVKWIo @reggiewatts Astronomous, man. CafePress : $80M IPO - http://t.co/NCuItWs < I've got a "shop" with them which after 4 years has STILL made too little money to withdraw I think later I'll put some shoes and socks on... take the DVDs back... maybe get a coffee. Or maybe I'll put my socks on first, shoes after @charltonbrooker You should try living in the back of a transit van in London... you get about 1 attempted break in a week. US Republicans waging 80s-style destabilisation-warfare against own country http://t.co/P9jO441 @russellcrowe Some rituals and traditions deserve to be mocked. For reasons I can't quite put my finger on, @russellcrowe has soared in my estimation of late. Good on yer mate. @hirsch_guitar There might be people copying him now, but initially it was one guy. He even kindof gets Stevie Ray's guitar sound right. @hirsch_guitar LOL - whoever does these is as clever as fuck. I think it's a guy from Sweden or Denmark. @hirsch_guitar I always thought this was pretty good http://t.co/jGYyOWb Virgo: Your folks will bring back fudge from a craft-fair, but your entire body will be engulfed in a huge rash and everyone will freak out. God I wish I looked like that now. When I was 3,I had to have a weetbix box between me and the toaster, because my reflection made me look like Cartman on acid. Eating weetbix @Prycie You think you've got problems. I had a shower earlier today, and now I've turned completely red and stayed that way @Prycie Not in any sensible way, no :) @Prycie That's like asking if "all male women are born men" - No... not all. Have suffered some sort of allergic reaction to something and have now gone completely red. @librarykris And it's slobbery and gross, and that's the sort of thing dogs do. We don't go in for that sort of thing. Everyone has foolishly gone off on holiday and left me and the cat to fend for ourselves, and we don't know what to do etc. @TRoNSHeRaLD don't fall. Sit down. Or lie down. You probably weren't going to fall anyway. Narco Tanks http://t.co/SD2GzaL @normnz @mjasay - but ultimately "cloud/mainframe" is an authoritarian structure. Exactly what Apple are about in fact. Control. @normnz @mjasay "Cloud" is just another name for "Mainframe". We've vacillated between thin-client/smart-peer in many forms for >40 yrs @jordantcarter Yea, well if National Socialist = Nazis, then Libertarian Socialist = Lizzies. Almost. I'm Hank Marvin http://www.doggelganger.co.nz/ When you start messing with bitcoins you really get a handle on how stupidly fucking slow normal banks are. I think I need to organise my life so I don't get put in situations where I can drink. God damn it screws me up. Fuckin mess man. Thank fuck for that. Another evening of titanic drunkenness where I seem to have unwittingly escaped making a total arse of myself. Quite pissed actually. Round at Alan's place. Playing notes. The problem with Libertarianism is that it's eugenic moral philosophy applied to economics - and pretending to be social policy Hmm... a major problem with bitcoins is that it appears to be a magnet for right-wing cranks @rhysiedarby and this DVD (paid for by an American company) is now being used to propagandize children? @rhysiedarby So um... you appear in a DVD supporting a disgraceful law that breaches human rights, which the US offered to pay for? Antimatter trapped for 15 mins http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antiatoms-alpha-1000-seconds @gayyy sorry - I meant avast http://www.avast.com @gayyy Try Avista - or Clam AV. @charltonbrooker unlike this guy, who you've made famous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9dzLxLvxc kindof @charltonbrooker And there you have the crux of content optimised for scarcity. You can't effectively evangelise about it. @charltonbrooker - and pre-napster, only 3% of artists signed to major labels made more than $600 a year. We're less fucked now than we were @charltonbrooker sure there will be (business) casualties, but there are more musicians able to give up their day jobs now than ever before @charltonbrooker It's not fucked, it's just shifting from business models optimised for scarcity to models optimised for abundance. @robshepherd I have an Oasis plectrum. @robshepherd Frames is kindof visual. The one I bought is of a bloke looking at a map. @Martin_Carr Really? Congrats and and whatnot! Russian Fighting Hamster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhO-qMeMjtA @robshepherd not sure if this is what you're after, but the film I go on about here has an excellent model http://bit.ly/m5lb0n @ikostar @jordantcarter @georgedarroch that's the problem with Libertarianism. Its "schools" are specifically experimental-evidence agnostic @ikostar @jordantcarter @georgedarroch evolutionary leapfrogging probably = guided mutation/variance. Experiment is the great leveler tho @clarecurranmp @jordantcarter @georgedarroch Genetic algorithms http://bit.ly/iM8To2 simulated evolution with "designed" inputs/constraints Western companies helping middle-east dictatorships spy on their own people http://bit.ly/j0pXOE we should reduce these fuckers to rubble. Catsby 2.0 has lost 3 ping-pong balls in 2 days. Christ knows where they go. We've looked everywhere. @futurefeed @jhagel re: democracy/liberty, wolves/sheep... only in the minds of sheltered game-theorists. What Actually Happens is different Jewish Nazi Youth Club http://bit.ly/mMvMoj Truly frightening stupidity. @gubatron Bitcoin is a learning-exercise I think. The most import thing about it is to teach us that we can do it. Bypass fiat I mean @gubatron It'll be prone to stings etc. Even with a reputation-system it won't be hard for the police to pose as sellers. @gubatron Silk Road (being reputation-based) is actually a pretty good idea. Delivery is a major problem though Da Da Da etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSwJ2rjUSdc @themediaisdying NYT is trying to optimise for scarcity - which badly misses the point - information has most value at the point of sharing @IdLtdDotCom Google are about sampling the fire-hose rather than controlling the flow... which puts them on the right side of the info-wars @Falkvinge did you see this? http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11950.0 HMRC says that bitcoin trades are only taxable when turned into £ - which is very good news for bitcoiners. Not instantly illegal @IdLtdDotCom I wasn't using google - tried them a while back... their traffic was a little unfocused I think, and I can't be arsed with SEO @IdLtdDotCom I think online advertising mainly works for businesses with rip-off margins, or those wanting to establish "brand". @IdLtdDotCom The majority of clickers are after curiosity-satisfaction. @IdLtdDotCom That's why I think I can't afford it. I'd need a conversion rate of about 1/10 Dabbling in adverts. 1 / 145 people who my ad is shown to clicks through... which is very good I suppose. Not sure I can afford it tho Right. Tomorrow is a bank holiday, which is a fucking waste of time.. but that aside, I've seriously got to get my life together. On Tuesday Ooh Look! There's a total cunt on TV! At any given point of time, about 15% of the human population is wishing another 15% would stop talking. @bruces Still... kudos for knowing how many mics in yer average acid-tab :) @bruces silk-road is (as far as I can gather) a reputationally-based system though... so like ebay, if you rip people off you go out of biz Catsby 2.0 is a good cat. Not well behaved.. the opposite really, but that makes him a better cat than the ones that sit there like cushions @topherchris Everybody has gum my friend, everybody has gum except you. And you're not getting our (precious) gum, oh no. It's ours. Ours. The thing about bitcons is its still a small geekoid currency - doing about $30,000 a day. Fantastic, but if you want to make a $bn... nope. Bitcoin breaks $18. My prediction that it would hit $10 by the end of the week was a little pessimistic @videojon when I first saw "Morons" the teaspoon on the forehead bit made me laugh so much I missed 1/2 the movie. @yezzer Court Appearances. You don't have to be charged with anything... just... "Appear". Lee Sexton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_huBDHyoSWE @Twit_nut Fortunately it's almost all someone else's words :) I just transcribed them. Knowledge is Porridge Bitcoins now at 16 USD. There seem to be these "points of reluctance"... mulitples of 5 and 10... but when they break, it's like a floodgate Image stabilisation worries http://www.bodg.it/2011/06/image-stabilisation-worries/ with video of my cat being a spaz-chariot. Country Calendar is on. It's the 2nd most popular NZ program... televisual comfort-food. Like creamed sweetcorn out of a proper tin etc. You Cannot Own Free Speech http://bit.ly/mGHp74 Today I have mainly been polishing steel. Good old Apple http://networkedblogs.com/iHhqQ Thank heavens for benevolent dictators eh? @laurenonizzle @MMM well if you like that, you'll love this http://vimeo.com/7652564 @rtgarden yea - I'm a cottage industry with suppliers in China... current exchange setup adds about 25% to the small scale I operate at @rtgarden that said,bitcoin does have a killer-feature: instant, free international transactions. Doing biz with BRIC countries a lot easier @rtgarden but to really be driven re: exchange, I think it needs to be in an environment where normal money is failing. @rtgarden Yea - it's value as storage is based solely on the fact that it's appreciating... but that's also holding it back re: exchange @rtgarden trouble with bitcoins at the moment is that there's a heavy bias towards using it for storage rather than exchange. @rinkjustice It was up to 14.2 earlier. @joshr Well, you used to work for MS didn't you? They probably implanted a chip in your brain. Or... you know... "a clippy" @rtgarden I think the potential of Bitcoin is that is teaching us that we can do it. It's breaking the sacredness of top-down money More RIAA corruption of democracy insanity http://bit.ly/lL75Mv < we need to get rid of these people. @jonmatonis @Gareth_Lodge @Falkvinge State-back-currency dysfunctionality is one of the purposes of alt currencies http://bit.ly/13dJy Woohoo! New Client. @filmutopia delighted to be of service Sir :) I'm really interested in what you're up to. Film-wise I mean. Bitcoins just broke $11. Small volume of sales though. There isn't billions to be made yet.. although if there is, the time to start is now @edwardvirtually ... just selling them as medicine is now regulated. Something that quack-medicine sellers obviously hate. Hence the article @edwardvirtually but that article is full of lies. Taking herbal suppliments isn't "illegal" in the EU, and never will be... @edwardvirtually these things are tiny... smaller than a human hair diameter. Probably won't survive digestion. @edwardvirtually That's not how it'll be used.. they'll prob be read via smartphone on intake - part of personal real-time health monitoring @edwardvirtually How could it be abused? @edwardvirtually Another one of those Very Bad Articles I think. Paranoid, science-misunderstanding nonsense. Better > http://bit.ly/jy4Ghd @nzlemming I made it myself :) The Rapture. Everything went wrong http://bit.ly/kPw28O (hat tip to @filmutopia for manifesto etc) @DecafKoffee If you're a virgo, then tomorrow you're probably going to dress a bit like Kurt Cobaine. Checked shirt, jeans, sneakers. @DecafKoffee I'm talking about Virgos everywhere. I'm a Virgo in a 12-hour-ahead timezone so I know what's going to happen in advance @peregrinari7 What you say is, "listen, I know it's only 8am, but do you fancy getting drunk?" Virgo: New haircut. Barely recogniseable. Lacking courage to confront yourself in the mirror, you'll resolve to sit here until it grows back @themanwhofell @charltonbrooker I think you'll find that most conspiracy theorists (who are also libertarian) self-identify as conservative @leashless Cool :). I've just swapped some for a hippie-house building course http://bit.ly/lHTtSD on account of being a maverick @Falkvinge Yea... I think there was a "double-figure" barrier that people were reluctant to break. When it fell, it fell with a surge. Well, bitcoin's finally cracked 10. 50% increase in a single week. Virgo: The haircut you'll have tomorrow, will leave you with too much face. Trapped. Caught in the too-much-face trap. Nightmare. Copyright Industry Jeckle->Hydes Litigation Industry as The Past goes out of control imposing itself on The Future http://bit.ly/k6DRaq @leashless Have them things I sent turned up yet then? Motel checkin guy said "ah...a laptop. We have wifi. Do you know what those trees are?". "Aerials?" I said. "No. Pines. That's the password" Exactly. Confetti is basically just tiny littering Yea, but the US can't legalise drugs without letting about 1.5 million people out of prison all at the same time http://bbc.in/mucpdd @x_chemicalism_x There's about 8 things they do every single night (to avoid... (how you say?) "reporting" ). You can play Bingo with them @x_chemicalism_x Yea - you can't make a whole news program about crime + crafty sports-snuck-into-main-news stories can you? Oh. Hang on... @tvnznews still milking the ChCh earthquake - tonight's story : a dispute about cleaning up the garden. Facebook based on Pigbook? That I did not know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFNaIlLS-6E 150 yr old alphabets for kids http://weburbanist.com/2011/06/01/h-is-for-historic-2-incredible-19th-century-alphabets/ Anonymous targeting the IMF in response to its attack on Greece http://bit.ly/iQYijX @LevinsonJessica re: corporate political contributions - here's a small list of laws from the 1800s http://bit.ly/iKDMQg Law-suit mad Copyright Maximalists attack education http://on.wsj.com/kBfzCK < fuck them. Scrap all IP law. Is Asking A Question, the new Making A Statement? Virgo: Everyone at the physiotherapists today will think you're an airhead. Still... whatever, LOL. Trying to "own" culture is like buying a restaurant's aromas, and trying to charge people in the street outside to inhale Catsby 2.0 ascending tree http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/cat-tree.jpg :: In tree http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/cat-tree2.jpg @tvnznews doing what it does best, which is turn violent criminals into celebrities. You could pay for the amount of publicity they're given @jordantcarter because humans bungle about - get drunk in public - always have. The privacy/public Q only gets real when power is involved @jordantcarter Yes, but the tenet "transparency for power; privacy for individuals" needs to be... sacrosanct. Serco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsQ1tLp6yk < this is what fascism in the 21st C looks like. Well, it looks like those sly, money-grubbing cunts from the National Party are privatising ACC afterall http://bit.ly/jgMF8Q If it was some sort of Alien species pulling this shit (and a lot of other shit, come to that), we'd kill them http://bit.ly/j3fNRz bitcoin well into 9.2 to the USD. I'm guessing it'll be 10 by the end of the week. Copyright Cartels busted for massive copyright infringement http://bit.ly/jzlRNn @julianmark Yes, that would be mad. Fortunately I was quoting Winona Ryder off Edward Scissorhands etc. I'm immune. Kindof. Inbox Zero. I am alone. I am utterly, utterly alone. @videojon god that clip's nostalgic. I feel all torn up :) @videojon but yea - dm me his email or whatever. @videojon Yea - he kindof took us under his wing when we first turned up. Dave Newton as well. Very user-friendly place back in the day. @videojon Dick Damage! I often wondered what he was up to. Virgo: Coronation Street will be the best thing on TV tonight. What happened? Where did it go? You used to fight on neons. Sleep in capsules Boxing on TV. It's not really a sport is it? It's basically just getting into fights with people. Like 2-a-side rugby, but without a ball. Copyright undergoing a "crisis of legitimacy"... because it's purpose is to prop up corporations who have been exploiting artists for years @tvnznews still milking the Christchurch earthquake - today's story: local outrage over an insensitive newspaper story. @EUinnovation @gleonhard Yea - the telegraph is a right-wing, establishment-shill paper. Warped conjecture. @jordantcarter Do you have a sleep-meter then? I'm quite interested in that sort of thing. Going to be big in the next 5 years or so. @anthonyblears You want a socialist puppy? That's kindof... I don't know... fair enough I suppose. Have you tried bees? FUD http://bit.ly/m02OGy A militarists mandate to attack his own population. It's not "out of control", it's "out of YOUR control". Good. Ooh! A new terror-drug http://bit.ly/jUedT1 MORAL PANIC!!!!... quick, crack down on "socially threatening" people just before The World Cup Bubble 1) http://tcrn.ch/l9ArY0 2) http://bit.ly/lnvIUb I think maybe we'll need bitcoin etc because fiat is doing what fiat always does Strangers etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewMG7M2go4 Drifting in an out of consciousness... 16 hours here, 8 hours there. A history of copyright bullshit http://bit.ly/lfHEeV < scrap it all. @videojon It kindof fell on me. @videojon That's ok, I accidentally read Boris Johnson's per-mayoralty auto-biog once. Don't think I bought it though. Every time I do the same thing again, I swear I'm never going to do the same thing again. Somebody just rung me up JUST to tell me that they dialed the wrong number. WTF? What's the point? Why? Why do they do that? CHRIST!!! Flik-Coins http://www.bodg.it/2011/05/flik-coins/ < Alt currency based on crowd-funding movies. @tvnznews as Orwell predicted "Sports, Crime and Astrology". 1st and 2nd headlines tonight? Violent crime. Why? Why the fuck do you do this? @tvnznews -no The David Bain Case has not "captivated the country", it's captivated YOU - because you're "captivated" by violent crime. When Sexbots Attack. @jordantcarter The changing exchange rate is a killer - my expenses are NZD, my income is GBP / USD -> real income cut by about 1/3 @peterflom @edwardvirtually Extension of patriot act, Guantanamo still open, wars still going, tax cuts for rich etc etc. Plus ça change. @peterflom @edwardvirtually "Got" Osama? You mean extra-judicially murdered? Both Bush and Obama ignore the law. US Corporations now allowed to bribe politicians directly http://bit.ly/mRNDOc < so what's your threshold? @videojon I want it... but can't use it alas. @Falkvinge I think I'd advise putting some % your savings into bitcoins, rather than all. Single-points of failure and all that. Be diverse. Spooky Flamenco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2TgojQouZE Security Guards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ3SZLj5yo Dipping my toe into the waters of paid ad-campaigndom. Google adwords a total waste of time, so going for proper design/art-weirdo sites. Rearranges web-site. Web-design that possibly owes more to tetris than anything of an aesthetic bent http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/ "You cannot own free speech" - John Perry Barlow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Nl2Xnmd5g @jordantcarter Yea - trouble is, I've seen the NZ govt at work during the #s92a "emergency" debate - we'd have to be stupid to trust them @jordantcarter If it's negotiated in secret, who is going to make it impossible? @jordantcarter So what's your take on this then? http://bit.ly/iCGzTF @jordantcarter The political right opposes MMP because they have this patriarchal world view where those "in charge" don't need to listen @unsymbol Yea - kdenlive, and winff/ffmpeg for fast hacking/conversions. There's nothing like Premiere et al though @Falkvinge if you're using jquery jQuery.isFunction(function-name) will do it. Otherwise typeof(function-name)=='function' I think I love this guy http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/tv/episode/b011j8wz/ genius. (if you're outside the UK, sign up to proxy service) Pope's advisor on child-rape inspired reforms arrested for child-rape http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2072613,00.html The Insider is on - whistle-blower as hero, as they are. And corporate lawyers as reprehensible slime-sacks. As they are. The thing about earlids is that they need to be visible - to say to people "I can't hear you". Shut up. @larspind That's that low-money-motivation thing sn't it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc social/self-capital rather than $ Lupita (2) has come to visit. Whenever she hears the words "Peanut Butter" she pisses self with laughter. ROFPMSL etc. LOL. I don't get it @jordantcarter "What I Did At The Gym" - By Jordan Carter. Scary Spider Art http://vimeo.com/24069938 < far out. Thought I'd found a crafty way of making £20 selling bitcoins between markets... but it's all rising so fast I lost £60 by not holding them Coffee, JesusChristOnAbikeThankFuckeryFuckForThat. Coffee. Up in the morning. Coffee. Of course tax-cuts fail to create jobs. Jobs are a pre-tax expense http://bit.ly/lBRcYB Neurons cleverer than (other neurons) thought http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/brain-in-a-dish.php inbox zero America molests self. Terrorists win http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/why-is-the-tsa.php Google trying to escape from the web http://www.google.com/wallet/ or the web is breaking its cell-membrane and leaking into everything @tvnznews still milking the earthquake. Today misc suits talking about how it might be like San Francisco. Or New Orleans. Or neither. First Quantum Computer (100sq ft!) sold... http://bit.ly/jLgDB8 to famous and popular weapons manufacturer. This is how Catsby 2.0 sleeps http://bit.ly/k1xM7Q on his back, on my backpack, front paws crossed. My first Kickstarter investment http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/crowd-funding-open-hardware-building-blocks/ Me, waiting for the rapture the other day http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/coffee3.jpg @jordantcarter I can give you a website. What do you need? DM me etc @jordantcarter As an ethereal weed, I'd have to say Rugby, followed closely by the idea that being "down to earth" is somehow a virtue. @GarethMP In my experience a crucial part of the "sleeping rough" experience involves getting really drunk with people who want to rob you 20 snacks to make you sleepy http://bit.ly/haZXzZ and fart like a wizard etc. Inessential Diplomats n.pr/lyIVyc who do Inessential Diplomacy. That's the great thing about inessential diplomacy, you can do it anywhere "It's a last-frontier thing," http://bit.ly/kYmi9U < Jesus, Hollywood is so out of ideas. And frontiers. @tomcoates the photos I have are about .24 of a mm. Dif photos will have diff paper though @videojon Because something that's snuck up on the brits, without anyone noticing... Hugh L. is now a huge US star. @videojon Ah - that explains it. I have a saxophone but find it utterly impossible to play. @umairh There y'go, little speech for you http://bit.ly/iJKea1 Well that was an odd, angsty sort of a day. I think I need to get some early nights. @jordantcarter @clarecurranmp LOL, Clare hates abbreviations Well thank you, @GarethMP , you're a star etc :) #skynet the bill should be scrapped, the people responsible should be sacked, and copyright should be abolished completely. #skynet the conversation should be "how can we scrap copyright"? #skynet Copyright is NOT important. The Fashion industry doesn't have it and flourishes as a result. #skynet you can avoid infringing notices by using a Proxy service... eg: http://perfect-privacy.com/ not a bad idea anyway. @Kiwi05 most artists get their inspiration from things they see on TV, and a thing is "Art" if at least 3 people agree that's what it is. #skynet re: human-rights, freedom of expression / speech is a human right, and the web (increasingly) contains all communication media. @clarecurranmp Yea, exactly - we should be doing for the internet (like Iceland) what we did for nuclear-free. #skynet the environment has changed, and corporations will go out of business. That happens. They do not have a god-given right to exist. #skynet it isn't as arrogant and self-entitled as the corporate idea that they should be able to change the law to control information-flow #skynet I think "if it's not available, I've got a right to download it" is a red-herring tbh. It's seems very self-entitled, BUT... #skynet @GarethMP Question: Do you think ANY government is competent or trustworthy enough to control the internet? #skynet love how your using the euphemism "notices" rather than "accusations". Guilty on accusation in other words. #skynet carrier/intermediary liability needs to be got rid of. #skynet No - we should not be talking about "punishment" at all. We should be scaling back copyright to something moral/workable. #skynet our skepticism wasn't helped by the staggering incompetence on display either. #skynet 3% of major label artists made over $600 a year... pre-napster. Artists weren't making money from "selling copies" anyway #skynet and the assumption that corporations have a "right" to own our entire culture, and warrantless wire-tap everyone to control it. #skynet part of the prob with ANY talk re: "what level of punishment is appropriate" is that it assumes there is a "crime" in the 1st place Tidied up etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/weirdsky @jordantcarter And you have no idea how much I appreciate what you're doing. There are UK versions of you. Dave from Blur, @tom_watson @jordantcarter but you know - I wrote this about you last year http://bit.ly/9LErmD don't get me wrong etc - I'm one of your supporters @jordantcarter the ONLY political party where I don't feel cynically fobbed off, is the Greens. Fortunately, in the UK I have a Green MP. @jordantcarteras to paying attention to (party) politics? What's the point? We just get ignored, or worse still, cheated- eg: s92A (UK / NZ) @jordantcarter and I'm old enough to have seen both parties in power, multiple times - very little difference between them. NZ not so bad @jordantcarter Thought you might say that. Still, there it is http://bit.ly/lfnyDS I'm NZ/UK/EU and feel entirely disenfranchised. @jordantcarter ...so they can get on with the serious business of shifting as much money/power to the already-rich as possible? (not you) @jordantcarter Do politicians expect anything from voters? Aren't they just an inconvenience that has to be appeased once every 3 years?... Spanish Revolution manifesto http://bit.ly/jKrtty @rinkjustice went mental trying to play the guitar parts to this http://bit.ly/l137Mk Sequenced guitar parts. Nightmare to copy.I quit early @rinkjustice But deafness isn't so noticeable as tinnitus... I've got this high-pitched ringing. Don't normally notice it, but it's there. @rinkjustice A bit deaf in one ear... probably due to my own band. MBV were the loudest I think. I was in a band with Debbie MBV briefly Space Plane. http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/skylon-spacepla-1.php God, our space-tech is so antiquated, even before it's launched End the war on #drugs! Join the global call for #decriminalisation, and #regulation. Sign now: http://t.co/QJWW3CL Yea, fuck off global corporatism. We do not consent to be governed http://on.wsj.com/lIVuzD @rinkjustice my band and their's shared a house right at the beginning, before they got signed. When they moved to london, so did I. @rinkjustice Yea - they had their moments as well - I think they're pulling much bigger crowds now than they did back in the day. @rinkjustice Yea - I went and saw them in Aus back in Feb. Very very very strange feeling. Hadn't seen them play since about 1994 @rinkjustice Nah - Swervedriver. I played on one of their records once, but mostly I just drove the van and sold t-shirts :) @rinkjustice Cool - I persuaded the band I was van-driving for to tour with Janes Addiction. Totally took my head off when I 1st heard them @rinkjustice It had it's moments - Loop and MBV were the best... The Thames-Valley wave were just kids... got a bit fucked-over I think. @rinkjustice really? Who were you into then? The alt types that I knew were all very inclusive etc. @rinkjustice and say what you like about shoe-gazers, they were a friendly bunch. Quite self-effacing etc. http://bit.ly/9jApcx @rinkjustice SSS hit at the same time as the Bjork/Sugar-Cubes. UK Goth/Soho Glam was past it. Sonic/Shoegazing art-rock was coming through @rinkjustice ... but I was a new immigrant, and from a new generation coming through. I found that whole scene to be quite cold and snobby @rinkjustice :) - 1/2 the people I know are from the music biz... I never know if I might be shooting my mouth off inappropriately. @rinkjustice in a way they were badly timed... an extrapolation of a load of cultural traits that were... old, and fairly irrelevant. @rinkjustice That's putting it charitably - 15 mins of fame consisting of going from monster hype to monster joke. No offence etc :) @rinkjustice I'd be mildly surprised if their making money (if they did) was a market success... so much as taking EMI for a ride. @rinkjustice Really? All I remember of them was that they were hyped to the sky, then about 12 people turned up to their wembly debut. Astoria dissolution http://tinyurl.com/44vzfc2 < Sigh. Glam-Rock night, 1990s... take LSD + asphyxiate with hilarity at the poodle haircuts @rinkjustice Yea - and that irritating singing child. Mind you, the "Ga Ga" trick doesn't always work - eg: sigue sigue sputnik @JPBarlow Why should the internet have "an economic model" at all? @gleonhard That "how to succeed in music" thing is classic nonsense- like something from the 80s with bits of (ill-understood) web tacked on @JohnRentoul in the 21stC "[something] and balanced"="give credence and airtime to really damaging (but officially sanctioned) stupidity" Cake Zoetropes, om nom nom etc http://vimeo.com/23854203 RT @tomhimpe Ha ha - yes, that's exactly what I was thinking, LOL - spot on etc, my thoughts exactly. "Can you imagine me thinking the Internet could be controlled." - Sarkozy < Yea? What was Hadopi then, you hypocritical cunt. @JPBarlow There isn't anyone in the whole of Europe as anti-internet as Sarkozy. #eg8 @JPBarlow Yea, well... the G8 itself is the fly in a much bigger (and frankly, better) pot of ointment. Just got one of those "Windows Fixer" scammers on the phone. I always try to engage them in conversation... still don't know what they want @GarethMP Bet if people voted on issues rather than party, they'd be a lot more than that http://www.dehp.net/candidate/stats.php Just got back from studio. a) knackered b) wired to the gills on caffeine. Don't know if what i've done sounds good or not. Sound-blind. The National Party Budget http://bit.ly/l4PKKB < lock-stepped with global trend: corporate-friendly = dishonesty hiding behind incompetence And maybe celebrity-scandals. A lot of @tvnznews political reporting seems more akin to celebrity-scandals than it's duty as the 4th Estate Orwell's take on News: "sports, crime and astrology" was based on statism rather than corporatism/fascism. Astrology should have been PR. @pounder They've become cloud-based. I've forgotten what I'm doing. It's when your brain becomes so committed to procrastination that it actually starts to self-delete. @mikkohypponen Yea - I get an "unusual traffic warning" error message @jordantcarter having seen how #s92a was passed, it's not "crazy" we need to look out for,it's the dishonest leading the staggeringly stupid Spending 20 minutes trying to print out a single fucking label. Fuck I hate printers. Always have. "Processing Page 2". What fucking page 2? Bliss it was, 2.0 http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/bliss-it-was-2-0/ @DarkWolf80s because you instinctively know it's the future. And it's... you know... the rebel-alliance. Anyway... picked guitar up en-route to studio. Put back out. Now housebound. Am now stuck doing proper computer-work @JPBarlow would also work for keys, glasses, wallets, cellphone-remotes etc etc. It's the same things that are always getting lost. @JPBarlow Yea - proximity alarms for laptops. Need to be a (tiny) rfid stuck to the latop & a keyring that goes beep.. tells you where it is @normnz ALL law-making should be evidence-based... retroactively applied to the statute books, with all prev faith/lie-based law deleted @rapella The rapture is still coming dude, we just didn't believe in it enough this time. Hey @tvnznews - here's are some numbers re: your lust for crime-stories, and the damage you do http://bit.ly/jJEZ4I @videojon But not as good as the moustaches in Alatriste. Or as good as um... anything in Alatriste come to that. Viggo. He the man. @videojon I mean Thor and Tron were kindof the same movie. @Falkvinge No problem :) @rapella as well you know, dear boy :) @rapella I wasn't referring to a continent, I was referring to a catch-all (and commonly understood) title for US exceptionalism Checks to see if he still agrees with the blog post he wrote (but can't remember writing) this morning http://bit.ly/joew43 Yea, kinda @rapella no... I was talking about "an idea' tho... which only knows about the rest of the world as a vague abstraction Just sold two more sets of calipers for bitcoins http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com It um... works. I actually quite like the Wellywood sign because it seems to be winding so many people up. Tinkely inkely winkely tonk it goes. Inkely winkly tonkely etc marvelous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjpYHhfRyI Jesus... the pope was just on TV. Have you seen how he waves? He's got a gay-wave. The spiritual home of homophobia is headed by a gay-waver Crowdsourced Hydroponic Loops http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/crowdsourced-hydroponic-loops/ Tiny camera http://hackedgadgets.com/2011/04/28/tiny-awaiba-naneye-camera/ Using the music of the present to drown out the music of the past. @MissHighTech Well I'm terrified of commitment, so tattoos are out. I went through a phase of drawing beetles on my knee with biro though This is a travesty http://wlcentral.org/node/1780 American Justisce at Guantanamo. America as an "idea" is finished. @charltonbrooker Superinjunctions. Exactly. An Arsehole-Fight. Like Bumfight etc - but with QCs. @Twit_nut Dude, nobody knows what you're talking about. @davestone You got £275? Arse. I only got $100. Trouble with the things I sell is that the adwords return doesn't justify the expense. @kalena More or less, yea. Most of England is like that as well. @kalena We've already had the rapture in NZ. It was mayhem. Fires, floods, sky turns red, people running round in their underpants etc @tvnznews still milking the Chch earthquake 3 months later. Today's "story"... a former supermodel visits. @BlackFrankLuntz "prophesy" pretends to be clairvoyance but is really memetic seeding. Prophesy-strength is its power to self-fulfill @BlackFrankLuntz Well yea - the "story of Jesus" is basically an attempt to legitimise him by showing him fullfiling older prophesies Arse. I was going to get my dad to help me with my "take the piss out of the rapture" video today, but he seems to have disappeared. @vallie @mercola Apparently geese saved Rome from The Gauls in about 390 BC. I think they use them to guard breweries in Scotland as well @yezzer I've never played poker either. Gambling just fills me with bitterness and hate when I lose. I. just. Want. To. Be. In. Control. RT @stilgherrian New blog post: "PayPal's incompetent compliance arsehattery" http://arseh.at/76r < LOL. It's worth it just for the title @umairh I'd say that the bubbles are a function of communication-speed. Apple and Sony Cloud-Based Music Service deal http://on.mash.to/lWZ9HW < good move as tomorrow Christianity also becomes cloud-based Speaking of "actually, physically" - German police actually physically attack legit political party http://bit.ly/iSMs97 < for copyright? NZ... 1.30am... Rapture Day. I'm sitting here wearing my Rapture Hat, watching TV. Infomercials for fitness machines etc. LOL, idiots. RIAA bill nullifies Constitution http://bit.ly/kD2e7H < and Magna Carta. It's time we actually, physically destroyed these organisations And on the 7th day, he sat there watching a progress bar while everything rendered. Err.... holy fucking fuck http://bit.ly/j7ep3m Ramifications man. Ramifications. The age of measuring is upon us. @leashless was he the hamster-eating guy? @JPBarlow Stealth-Roombas (shivers) @SlowBoatRecords Brilliant. Are you pretending to be someone else? You use lots of exclamation marks etc. Attempting to use Neo Scene. Nato air attacks Gaddafi warships http://bbc.in/kpXPaB < so I guess the no-fly-zone is now a no-float-zone @leashless I actually wrote a greasemonkey script to do that... hush people for a bit, but twitter keep changing their HTML. RFID dust http://bit.ly/113Udw < I think in the next decade we're going to get a normalcy-bias crash. @doctorow God it's such a relief to meet someone who also says "arsebiscuits". Arseing-fuckspuds is good as well. @kalena personally I wrote my own thing - so everything I tweet is saved back to tweet 1. But twitter don't show older than 3k. Bad flaw. @kalena Fraid not - anything older than 3k is gone. You need to register for some tweet-saving program, or save an RSS feed Aunty Erin has arrived. Heart of gold. Quite loud. @MissEllieMae @UKuncut - and like Bruce Sterling (a the tender age of 46) I declare my passionate allegiance to the Millenials. @MissEllieMae @UKuncut Seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO8aQMVbvNQ (3 parts). You need a global youth movement Magnetic ball sphere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuPD4mUHAto looks like a sea-urchin. Give it 3 years and all new TVs will be web-enabled... and then hopefully, terrestrial TV will fucking die. It truly deserves it. Jesus Fucking H Christ - TVNZ is showing interviews of celebrities asking them what it was like to NOT be at the CHCH earthquake. Spiders. Scaring the crap out of me for 49 Million years http://gizmodo.com/5803728/this-spider-is-49-million-years-old The most purpose-defeating place you can put a TV remote-control, is on top of the TV. But it does make it easy to find. @johnkeypm Hey look John, NZ libraries are considering ending web access bcause of that dishonest bill you passed http://bit.ly/lA6kjE #s92a New Golden Mean Caliper Brochure mockup http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/brochure-small.jpg @edwardvirtually The whole thing is written so it looks like the Vs have a grand-plan, but actually they're really, really disorganised @edwardvirtually Yea- Sci Fi is slightly different in that it needs to keep an eye on the integrity of the Sci part. Pedantic geeks watch it Just saw that "V" - Another Alien movie all about humans. Structural flaws big enough to fly a spaceship through. @SlowBoatRecords Is that you Jeremy? @JPBarlow Is it true that at any one time, over 35,000 Roombas are at work in the Pentagon? AussieCopter http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/aussie-copter/ < that is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Syrian prison etc http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011518184325620380.html @sizemore self-written ghost-stories are the worst. @leashless @jdaviescoates @Dymaxion @anonima Maybe, but according to that poll, we're getting outcomes nobody wants. Which ain't good. @leashless Cool - I like things I like. Generally speaking. @leashless @jdaviescoates web-polls have self-selecting samples... but this one was massive. 200k. @leashless @jdaviescoates Results of a pre-last-us-election poll, where people voted for issues rather than leaders http://bit.ly/lYgPp4 @Martin_Carr Absolutely - my reaction to almost anything is an overwhelming desire to get drunk and blow it. It's in the blood. @michaeldila @umairh - all of those for different reasons. Michelle Alexander because "to care" is the cornerstone http://bit.ly/bfmPmg @michaeldila @umairh - probably Doug Rushkoff, Derrick Jensen, Bruce Sterling, Michelle Alexander and one other one. Not me. @umairh all 5 of them would be you Umair - 4 of them wearing different disguises. What's on TV... hope it's some sort of game-show where desperate, vain people are given "challenges", causing them to have mental breakdowns God the celebrity-gossip teasers on the RHS of the Daily Mail are tempting http://bit.ly/jFpJRx but I know they'll turn my brain to custard Virgo: Today you'll do something you know you'll probably regret, then you'll regret it. You'll ponder the nature of fate and clairvoyance Oh... I get it. Rewind, back-pedal. Pretend nothing has happened. @Falkvinge a real alt-currency dynamo needs to be something like corn used to be. Energy in batteries maybe. Some of them are already coiny @Falkvinge I sold 1 item... $75 worth... donated $25 to the EFF... then forgot about it. A month later, I've got $350 worth. Kindof unstable @Falkvinge Yea, I'm one of them - but I'm not impressed with volume... and the skyrocketing price is huge incentive to hoard. @Falkvinge It's only a game-changer if people use it for currency. As far as I can see, they're not really.. and the value-hike doesn't help Anyone who brags about "Kiwis can buy shares in privatised assets" needs to be punched. THEY WERE ALREADY OURS. Stolen and sold back to us @thatboyneave Yea, I image in the swathe of bullemia-themed TV comes as a result of the tsunami of cooking programs we've just survived Christ on a bike - it's hard to imagine how NZ TV could get any worse. NZ TV has 3 Chanels. Tonight: The Big Fat Family Challenge, World's Strictest Parents UK, Embarrassing Teenage Bodies and... Project Runway The Queen's on TV... speaking Gaelic to The Irish. It would have been funnier if she'd just done the accent. "Do you like dags?" @tvnznews still milking the ChCh earthquake. Orwell predicted 1984 news would be Sports, Crime and Astrology - didn't figure on disasters I'd really like to get these politicians who think it's being "strong" to beat up the poor... and give them to the poor to beat up. Tiny 3D printer http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/tiny-3d-printer/ @edwardvirtually that might be about to change http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/tiny-3d-printer/ @edwardvirtually re: bang-for-buck: true. @edwardvirtually Cool - it's been a while since I looked at these - check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5qb0GWnsg @edwardvirtually the DIY ones on youtube don't all run on low gradients. There are thousands of egs of high-gradient. @edwardvirtually I think that might be a bit self-contradictory to be honest. Smaller machine=more bang for buck. That's what it means. @johnkeypm Yea - the Greens have already told us about the budget, and one thing it is clearly not, is "responsible" or "balanced" @edwardvirtually there are a million DIY ones on youtube. @edwardvirtually I know they're more efficient but in terms of torque bang-for-buck temp-gradient-wise, they're not as good as traditional @edwardvirtually Stirling is nice because it's a closed system - but it's a bit fiddlier to set up, and... low torque. @edwardvirtually Don't know. Marcin's lot http://openfarmtech.org/weblog seem to think that modern steam is a better way to do solar @edwardvirtually Yea - there's an NZ co that does minibar-sized generators http://whispergen.com I don't think it's a supressed tech Finally! A knitted skeleton http://www.geekologie.com/2011/05/handknit-skeleton-not-so-strong-bones.php The thing about having Greens in govt - is that you don't actually know what's going on in parliament until the Greens have commented on it Rape-prone religious conservatives blame the 60s http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/us-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-report ooh no, that guy looks a bit... no... seems a bit... ARRGGHHHH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZTN-jRRM30 @edwardvirtually Stirling engines aren't suppressed are they? They're efficient, but produce bug-all torque. If I've got that right. @vallie @linmlof The big 3 are climate-change, peak-oil and mass-extinction. Nonagenarian US cranks predicting end-of-days not rly a problem @vallie @linmlof which is why I'm hoping it doesn't rain. It'll ruin it for everyone etc. @linmlof @vallie my rapture-plan is to be struck down by the rapture while making a video taking the piss out of the rapture. @FilmFan1971 #felicityfelicityyoufillmewithelectricity :) Princess Lieia http://technabob.com/blog/2011/05/16/princess-leia-cat Some people have a fuck of a lot of time on their hands, @gapingvoid @umairh and to be fair, I was an IT suit - outside the hierarchy really. Had the run of the place. @gapingvoid @umairh I quite enjoyed being a suit. Doubt I could do it now mind. Too much perspective innit. @umairh Because it's a game, mixed with a social-context. Outside of the game, the money it provides creates another social-context. @rapella Go psycho at them. I would. @rcosgrove I flicked through it about 25 years ago - thought it was a collection of stories. Apparently not http://bit.ly/lK8562 @olleolleolle ...did allow our right-wing govt to roll back labour law at the behest of US corps, so it's not the first convenient emergency @olleolleolle I'm sure it's just a "coincidence". Mind you, the embassy did offer to pay for this legislation, and the "hobbit emergency"... NZ Anti-Internet Copyright law #s92a snuck past as "emergency earthquake" legislation. US Studios donate big in return http://bit.ly/m8RueG @johnkeypm Really? Did they do that as thanks for the anti-internet, anti-new zealander bill that #s92a that was part of the "emergency" @rcosgrove that being the most comprehensive book about folklore ever written. I think. @rcosgrove get thee to a library http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough @Twit_nut that's a great idea for a film... do you know what it is? @paulsilver Yea - it's what wordpress would be like if it was given a fresh start - but it does ecommerce as well. @paulsilver this is the business btw http://lemonstandapp.com/ best web-software I've ever seen. @paulsilver than it took just to fix 1 of the bugs in the legacy software. With my consultants hat on, I couldn't in all conscience continue @paulsilver No - they were good to work with - mega-nightmare legacy-system. I set up a whole new site (similar functionality) in less time God. Just resigning from a free-lance job (which I never do). I feel totally traumatised. @AndyPPUK Well... technically, the entire internet is a library and Pirate Bay is one among many shelves of index cards :) @bitcoininfo re: "groundless" right now there are theories coming from every angle... but like... fuck theory. Experiment is where its at. Just sitting here minding my own business. Minding my own business, then broadcasting it, even though nothing's actually happening. @tvnznews pulling one of its fav stunts, which is sneaking sports (aka advertising) into the main news. Crime and astrology to come. @Falkvinge Just sent you the bitcoins that bitcoin-faucet sent me :) @scottEweinberg In fact I partly wrote about that in 2007 http://www.ikostar.com/2007/12/05/arrested/ @hattie_watson I can help - I do lots of Wordpress installs - probably what you want - most future-proof etc. Doing one for Diesel right now French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert http://dlvr.it/Ryxmn And for reasons I can't quite fathom, this is somehow supposed to be a bad thing for everyone else. There was a thing about The Rapture on the News this evening. Apparently all the Christian Fundamentalists are becoming Cloud-Based. @Twit_nut Nope. Done that one. Have you read that article by the way? http://bit.ly/fuXkMA really interesting and weird design challenge Hmm... a few minutes to spare. Let me see... what can I disapprove of now? @anthonyblears because by the wacked-out logic of ignoring future-costs, coal makes nuke look "clean" and "safe"... hence the graphic. @anthonyblears That's not what fake dichotomy means. There are other alternatives - the nuke industry pretends there's only nuke or coal @anthonyblears That graphic is a re-telling of the nuke-industry's nuke/coal fake dichotomy... so you kindof are defending nuke. @anthonyblears Oh - only 100,000 years http://bit.ly/fuXkMA < currently at the cost of £1BN a year for the UK alone. £1bn is a lot of lives @anthonyblears Does that take account of the fact that nuke waste needs to be stored for 100 million years? Nope? Quelle fucking surprise Anyway, I'm sitting down by the river right now, drinking take-out coffee. If any ducks come over and hassle me I'm going to lose my mind. Only 4 days to The Rapture. God I hope it doesn't rain. @leashless well and truly into bubble mode I think. I sold a set of calipers for $60 worth of BTC... forgot about it. Now have about $400 @leashless Christ - I went to sleep for a bit there... remember how I went on about bitcoin/$ parity before? It's now 6.7x the USD. @alexfarran I mean the social-web is a map of likeage - theoretically there's a shadow of that -of people who'd hate each other, if they met @alexfarran the anti-tree-of-life http://bit.ly/40l7PP like the maths of square roots of negative numbers. Shadow-patterns etc. @alexfarran Yea - no one would be able to use it with 100% P2P linkage. Interesting idea though - like cabalistic tree-of-shells Tepco is Japan's 2nd biggest debtor corp, with a BBB rating http://bloom.bg/kUpxqf < Nuke is "too big to fail" with a radioactive axis. When I wake in the morning I get "Previously on Nick-TaylorVille", edited highlights of the prev day. That's why I generally stay in bed be interesting to hack twitter so everyone followed everyone, then watch as it slowly balkanised. A network if unfollows rather than follows Chomsky on The Drug War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEEIGxZfjQ8 < we need to bring an end to this. Fucking now. @dahowlett If I could clone myself, the first thing I'd do is get totally drunk with myself. Then I'd form a band. @stwange Short video on Fiat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOBWhVe68os @stwange Can't remember the date when the final bitcoin is created - 2014 I think. They're (basically) infinitely divisible though. @stwange Not really - there is a numerical limit to how many bitcoins can be created - CPU power just limits the rate that they arrive @stwange Swap "governmental" for "top-down". Fiat is entirely about top-down control.Inflation is a type of tax. It's an alternative to that @stwange and for big stuff, there are (already I think) escrow sites. @stwange I'd argue that the dangers of usury are more dangerous than a vendor not delivering on a cash sale. @stwange Now measure that against the danger of Fiat - which is designed so money ceaselessly flows uphill, with inbuilt crash-inevitability @stwange It's only risky from the buyer's POV. The vendor might not deliver... but we have reputational systems for that. @stwange the main prob with bitcoin fraud has been due to the reversal weakness in credit-cards. ie: people use a CC to pay, then reverse it @stwange Why? They're like cash. If you pay me, I send goods when the bitcoins appear in my account. Bitcoins- the most dangerous project we've seen http://bit.ly/mEGJ6N < although so far, I've only made one bitcoin sale http://bit.ly/er1trU @nixonmcinnes last time I looked, countries that adopted facebook early saw their economies crash quite badly. Got a parking ticket today. NZ parking tickets. Brilliant. $12 with $3 discount for prompt-payment. Hear that England? £4.50 parking tickets Dad and cat, reading http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/dadandcat.jpg @jordantcarter Ah. Ok. I think you need to lift weights and whatnot. Run about the place flapping your arms. I've seen them on TV. @jordantcarter You do know tweeting "Gym" isn't the same as actually going to one don't you? Ah-yes. Slurry-Pleasuring http://bit.ly/gLOiW8 there but for the grace of god and whatnot. It could happen to any of us. UK breaks promise on nuke subsidies http://bbc.in/kwMJhl < they were always going to do this. They cannot do this without a betrayal Thing on TV about a guy who took off his clothes and escaped into the ventilation shaft system of an NZ hospital. Thank fuck it wasn't me @tvnznews showing what it loves most - people crying. Why is that? Why do you have people crying, every single fucking night? @tvnznews, still milking the ChCh earthquake. @yezzer I quite enjoy (really) long-haul jetlag. You sleep when you want, but you really get stuff done at 4am when you think it's lunchtime Right. Time I got my shit together and started achieving stuff. Time for that. Phone calls etc. Running about. Emotional 419ing http://tcrn.ch/ilzOSb @x_chemicalism_x i find it useful if I get really stuck on something - a total change of scene is when lateral thinking tends to happen. @x_chemicalism_x one point of perspective is worth 80 points of IQ - so walking round the block can "make" a lot more time than it takes up @x_chemicalism_x ah - my opt-out-of-reality solution probably isn't what you need then :) - in that case I'd say that... um... um... @x_chemicalism_x eg: Peep Show, The Thick of it, Black Books etc etc - I think The Green Wing might be there now too. @x_chemicalism_x bad things pass. everything gets better. I get through bad days watching funny videos on the youtubes... @LeifKendall HB2U ! @Jemima_Khan Only it's behind a paywall, so no one's going to read it. If people have to pay to read what you say, you won't get cited. @PiratePartyUK if #cctv doesn't prevent crime, it should be got rid of. #ppuk @PiratePartyUK re #cctv #ppuk see Peelian Principles http://bit.ly/2wKtnG the purpose of police is to prevent crime, not catch criminals... Anyway, Jeniferevers did a version of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uGjp2XguMc Fucking hell. Caught off-balance by Bruce Springsteen lyric http://bit.ly/iunq3m Clever guy. I feel like I never knew. @videojon though obviously after the earthquake, they breathed a sigh of relief - no further reporting needed for the rest of the year @videojon It's like The News has an "Give Police Guns / Build More Prisons" campaign on the go. Often several violent crime stories a night And obviously I feel guilty about slagging off a Labour MP... but he voted for ID-Cards/Database-state etc. Blair's govt fucking betrayed us @NZGreens and the internet is ALL about ecosystems. Other parties are really clumsy and inept and seeing non-linear causality. @NZGreens our last (Labour) MP was a fucking idiot and a liability. Now... Greens think in terms of ecosystems. It's native to them... @NZGreens What the ecosystemic thinking one? I'm from Brighton-UK we have a Green MP... and she's the only one who "gets" the web... Don't know if anyone from Opera is here - but that "tab-stack" feature is incredibly irritating. Any way of disabling it? @jordantcarter I quite liked @gapingvoid's quote- "There's no such thing as job security, only network security". ie: stronger communities @jordantcarter I'd be inclined to say "protection against the unforeseen". "Danger" is a conservative frame. @jordantcarter she's someone who gets that the root-note of all of this is "to care" makes for a very strong foundation for communication @jordantcarter Not to do with New Zealand - but this is good (if you've got an hour) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgM5NAq6cGI @jordantcarter +The 21stC world has shrunk to the point where non-ecosystemic thinking is suicide- is why the Greens are also the tech party @jordantcarter vision is just morals + future. Projects that arise from protecting and empowering NZers. @jordantcarter It needs to be practical specifics all framed within the big-picture vision. And it ain't a vision, it's a set of morals. @Johnny_Marr I've found a short, sharp blow to the head with a maraca generally does the trick. Works for me. @stwange Yea, I have strangely enough - slightly lazy early-period Peter Jacksonoid zombie humour. The rich do not create jobs http://www.truthout.org/actually-rich-dont-create-jobs-we-do/1305380742 Assassination is not Justice http://bit.ly/lxuoEb @MissHighTech Android. iPhone attempts to control everything from on-high. Android is the rebel-alliance. Bigger market share too. So is the sony data breach really the 2nd biggest in US history? Or as it's known in the rest of the world...History? http://buswk.co/mfuqby @kronenbird You are a twiglet. I like the one with power-lines and giraffes btw. Excellent. @videojon NZ news is similar - every single "show" HAS to have someone, the moment they break down in tears... pref over a violent crime Pissing down with rain in NZ. Might go stand in it,instead of having a shower. Eco-friendly. Help balance out strip-mining and deforestation @umairh Eurovision was (in pre-web days) only made bearable by Terry Wogan's gentle (twitter-like) heckling all the way through. @joshr Gatwick Woman on TV is at an idiotic knobhead party, and then she climbs down a fire-escape and buys herself an icecream, a sluttily as she can. @gayyy I could probably be pretentious if you want. Difficult to maintain tho. The arse falls out of it. The arse falls out of my pretension @fitzthemighty I was kindof joking as well. Everything I say is kindof a joke. @fitzthemighty Human bacterial fauna are about as toxic/violent as those of a Komodo Dragon. It's the rabbit that needs to worry. @kalena Yea, if you don't check into KFC, they don't let you check out again. Exploding wall frame clock http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/12/exploding-frame-cloc.html < most irritating song ever written. The dynamism of margins http://www.bodg.it/2011/05/the-dynamism-of-margins/ @Noetical In the middle of Brighton (smallish town) - prime of prime real-estate, was a "Hatters" 3 stories high, 150 years ago. @Noetical In UK towns often see the original (written in concrete) signage of shops - loads of things that no longer exist really... @robyngallagher I don't agree. Evil is inflicting harm on those weaker than you. It's other things too, but that's the bottom-line. @Noetical My Grandmother was Milliner. @Noetical When the rapture comes, all that's left is an empty pile of clothes... but the hat goes with you to heaven. Make it a good one @Noetical The rapture is a week away. Time to dust off the ole rapture-hat again. @robyngallagher eg: when this guy sings "do the right thing" http://bit.ly/al1K it makes me want to vomit. It should "stop being evil" @robyngallagher Know what you mean - but I think it's important to acknowledge that corporate evil exists, and is in fact the defacto state Woohoo! I now have a fully working keyboard for the first time in about 2 months. We should have this http://bit.ly/miUr2l instead of @tvnznews - every single night. @robshepherd Ever thought about a sobriety-suppository? That would be an eye-opener. @RandallFoster Bullshit maybe, but ~3% of Major-Label artists made over $600/yr pre-napster. They're only doing what they've always done Just punted a tenner to this lot http://bit.ly/ecolabs @EcoLabs @BlackFrankLuntz Yea - really strong communicator as well - she has that whole Lakoff deep-framing thing down to a T. Prob instinct I think Inverse-Pendulum Quadracopter http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/inverse-pendulum-quadracopter/ @Martin_Carr Yea, bouncy-castle crashes are the worst. @kronenbird I've found that 2-do lists are actually less productive than writing a list of what you've actually done, once you've done it. @x_chemicalism_x Yea - it's the rapture. I'm going to video it. It's quite a nice drive from Napier to Wanganui - both very pretty towns. Not something to be tackled with a hangover though. Anyway- good trip. I think I've found an engineer to make little bits and pieces for me AND rivets, which I currently need to get from China Back home, safe sound and sober. A modest amount of tidying up to do. Hope the Korean guy gets in touch. He was hilarious. I might not go home tomorrow actually. @Prycie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvk0dbkh4Q I'll wait for you @Osolage this for you? http://bit.ly/bfmPmg When I was at school I was the only white kid. I'm willing to get fighty over this shit Michelle Alexander : you people. Listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgM5NAq6cGI I'm pissed, in the poshest hotel in the universe... I've got a combibned bed/jakusi that looks like fucking origami. 10am wakeup? fuckoff. I'm probably not going to get out of here alive. I don't think any of us are, are we? I feel... temporary. I think I might eat some peanuts @KenMoorhead @inkblotsart disco funk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9dzLxLvxc I can understand if they don't serve me, on account of me being a mouthy scottish/kiwi fighitng/fuckup disaster. Mai fren is korean! I just went out and got horrendously pissed... and they would'nt serve my friend! cos he was a wog and such. That's an outrage. Thor : Irresponsible youngling has "right to be violent" revoked when he attacks forners. Gets it back, then totally isolates own country John Travolta turned her into a slut. Terrible. The opposite of every movie since where slut turns into "nice person" for love etc. Rubbish Olivia http://bit.ly/f34uq6 Could've been the blonde one off abba. Million$ smile from when $1m was worth more than 2 crap semis in Finchley Tomorrow I'm going to drive from Napier to Wgtn with the handbrake on. "driving outside the box" as it were-but staying en-route, tho slower Looking back (with the wisdom of years) I often think to myself... "Jesus, thank christ I didn't accidentally get Emily pregnant". Nightmare @Raindance Nobody's going to Cannes dude. Ever been to the Savoy? Stuck in the 20s. Like Cannes. Nobody who matters cares about Cannes. @marie_clair to being a traveling salesman selling hippy shit in a bit. I can just tell. I used to do that before. It feels so right etc. @marie_clair What? That's how "targets" are announced these days is it? I'm so far behind the curve. I'm in Napier... I'm going to go back.. @nobledesign fuck that - give him a brush. Bit of lippy etc. Good as new. @marie_clair that means "get people to do what they said they would". They key to that is simply to stop them saying stuff. Easy. Seriously guitar players - listen to the vocal in this http://bit.ly/daX54S Timing/timbre/tempo... nothing like it. Play guitar like that. If I could play guitar like Janis .J sang, I'd never have to deal with fucking CSS cross-browser issues ever again. It's this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0B41tBTTko .. everything was made out of foam with lumps of protein etc. I had oysters and ostriches (two dishes). End of the world food. It's over. And am already slightly pissed, having been to a restaurant with really quite exceptional wine and really fucking weird food.... In Napier... abroad, as it were. I have the most expensive hotel suite known to man (middle, front, with balcony, overlooking the universe) @fitzthemighty delighted to be of service sir. @rapella LOL - indeed. The weird thing is that people like superhero movies. Obama now rates 60% - for killing an entirely symbolic villain ...or... turning into someone "serious" who bitterly represses their own sexuality. The grand Conservative American narrative there then I really don't get superhero movies. They all seem to be about "someone who has already won" but who's an arsehole,turning into "a nice guy" I keep seeing movie trailers, thinking "wow, this looks good" but waiting to be disappointed when it turns out to be a superhero franchise @BlackFrankLuntz I think I found this via you http://bit.ly/bfmPmg - first-class bit of work. Excellent. @x_chemicalism_x not entirely bad - we did manage to achieve this http://on.msnbc.com/lsi6IG "No, why?" they asked. "Oh nothing", I replied. I think I might have a shave tomorrow. Then drive to Napier. Ooh! only 10 days to The Rapture- when all the (planet-enhancing) conservative Christians fuck off up into the sky and never come down again I'm feeling saintly again. Fucking exhausting. Not just for me but for everyone around me. Even the cat is tired. Virgo: Today you'll arrange your todo list in the order that you don't want to do things, and that's the order that you won't do them in @julianmark Yea - partly killing off future, competing distribution businesses, partly slippery-slope to give govts "the right" to control Saw Thor earlier - Natalie Portman IS Rosie off Coronation Street @johnkeypm Yea? Well at least Labour didn't sneak through #s92a in the dead of night under emergency "earthquake" legislation Another wave of anti-internet fascism rolls over the horizon http://bit.ly/m2jaze we need to isolate the individuals pushing this No brainer http://bit.ly/jR8q9c investments in renewables a) pay off quicker than nuke, b) keep working longer than nuke c) not be a fuckup Another convoluted mess, courtesy of IP law http://bit.ly/l1q44t IP law is unworkable, counter-productive,and yes, bad for art. Scrap it all @rapella Hitchen's Chomsky thing... once you get past the straw-men, does kindof depend on the idea that only Americans deaths matter @joshr It's a zen thing. Ying Yang. A natural balance between doing things, and talking about them but not really getting anything together I know I said this on the day he was elected,but really, for everyone's sake we do need to get rid of John Key's govt as quickly as possible @jordantcarter The best way of dealing with "looks" from people when you wear a suit is to hang out with people wearing similar suits @joshr Try, or try not. There is no do. though don't get me wrong @NoamTweets don't know if you've done what you set out to do, but god-damn you've had a good shot at it. Thank you So there's an irony, the father of "you can't fit a dissenting idea into a sound-bite" now lovingly rendered in 140 chr.. bites @NoamTweets Thoughts on the Midgital Computer http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/midgital-computer/ Well that's going to fucking fail http://bit.ly/m3qqtT < why don't these people ask me? @jordantcarter Right-Wing govts have a history of creating high-defecits - they do it deliberately so they can attack public (re)investment Woohoo! Posh Boxes arrived http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/2011/05/posh-boxes/ < designed by yours-truly, made by proper people. @outlandishjosh My theory of change is largely to do with Conservation of Momentum, lethargy as strategy. That sort of thing. Microsoft to buy Skype? B' b' b' but they'll... "microsoft" it. Oh great, religion again http://bit.ly/mhANqb Killing people in the name of Christ for 1200 happy years. @toddtate @sayladobro I played the non-bass parts of this on a dobro, oddly enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZEXNQSfwTg @borelcorp I find the best dog-park conversation-starters go something like "ARF ARF ARF, arf arf ARF ARF ARF" etc Kiwi Weirdos http://www.bodg.it/2011/05/kiwi-weirdos/ @kickstarter will only really come into its own when it becomes international. To 95% of the population its kindof pointless right now. @phowardcom but I'm not sure they'd be that good for shooting stars because they kindof milkify everything. Nice effect but... @phowardcom I just got an ancient zeiss flektagon - looses sharpness when open. Nothing better (so far) than 50mm 1.4 takumar primes @phowardcom I'd be interested to know how that went - eg: which lens etc, did shooting wide-open cause blurry edges. I taped that myself just now. Possum outside, making possum sounds. You chaps in England won't have heard possum sounds. 'kin weird man http://bit.ly/lK2ER9 #Uganda "Kill the Gays" bill could be passed in 72 hours-sign this urgent petition to stop it! http://t.co/UUJheBx Well, not a bad day all things considered. Things were achieved @IPaidABribe PM doesn't need to keep watch on everyone... Just some... and so long as the corrupt don't know who. Fuck the "Robin Hood Tax", let's take it all. Nationalise them. Here's an idea: Every single penny that banks make go back into the societies that host them; no mega-salaries; no bonuses. @jordantcarter .. for "fairness" assumes an infantilist-morality "balance sheet". Another conservative frame. We're bigger than that. @jordantcarter and the deep-framing ain't quite right. (Progressive) govt is about "protecting and empowering". The metaphorical framework.. @jordantcarter Fairness is subjective - at the right-wing/infantile-morality end http://bit.ly/aOZ5lA it'll mean something different etc I expect you were thinking 'ue' is the opposite of 'eu' - but it's not. It's what happens when you try to type 'dude' on a d-less keyboard They usually involve leaving the house etc. Going to the post office. Picking stuff up. Dropping stuff off. All that sort of thing. Doing errands etc. You chaps in England won't have heard of errands. Trivial tasks that normally take a whole day when you're on the dole World Drowning in corporate crime http://bit.ly/iMGwPR < so if you're getting repeatedly burgled, and the police won't act, what do you do? Deficit deliberate http://bit.ly/ke1IBD - with the goal of creating a pretext for non-investment in people. Cluster bombs http://bit.ly/kewDsX 1/4 of a million land-mines that specifically kill civilians and children dropped by US/UK et al @Martin_Carr OI! SHADDERS!!! he goes. Billy Liar. Marvelous. @phowardcom I don't think a faster lens will do as much for you as lengthening exposure times if you're shooting stars. @CarolineLucas @RichardJMurphy Offshore banking is a type of money laundering. It is that simple I think. Exactly http://bit.ly/h4aeoD this is what really struck me - shocked me about finally watching parliament. The shear incompetance on display @stilgherrian Getting high on bath salts though seems... practical and economic @stilgherrian That whole cross-dressing midget bestial necrophilia thing seems a little... gauche to me. @burke_jason and the fact to be taken from his reaction - OBL was still just a suspect? He was wasn't he. Legally, he was just a suspect. @burke_jason Yea, but the thing with Chomsky is that he has facts. Nobody from (any) evil empire seems to be that comfortable with facts @stilgherrian You can get high on bath salts? God I love this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO8aQMVbvNQ genius I mean that's just weird. Everyone googles themselves. To Bing one's self indicates a special kind of desperation. Anyway, we just saw that one where the Johnny Darko guy keeps getting blown up on a train... and (this is the weird part) "Bings" himself. @fastcodesign Where u live? But hardly anyone lives in America... what is it? 5% of the world population? Virgo: Today you'll think "yea, whatever" at whatever it is you're looking at, before moving on to the next thing... "Whatever. Next" etc Trouble with Osama B. L, is that since America went insane, it's impossible to believe anything anyone says about him. Including himself Folks have gone out for the evening - left me with a simple but important task to do. God I wish I'd paid more attention to what it was. Down by the river. There's a bloke spearing fish with a fucking big spear. Dangerous times... if you're a flounder, and you probably are Hmm... just played the song I made yesterday through big speakers http://bit.ly/imrXyf think I might redo it in a proper grown-up studio I dreamed I had a job last night... and spent a great deal of time pretending to look busy, when actually I was just doing my own thing. @yezzer Are you mad? It's the middle of the night man. Go have a beer in like... all the bars in St Kilda for me. Used to live there in ~86 @Greetums @umairh Well as I might have hinted earlier, "we" haven't lost our humanity, "they" have. @umairh @indy_johar My brother (or more accurately his 2 yr old daughter) make great use of the local Toy Library. @Martin_Carr ring up the publisher? New Nick Taylor video - a mercifully brief, and fucked up blues song http://bit.ly/imrXyf I went down to the crossroads etc @umairh @MartinShovel we aren't morons; THEY are morons. Biodigital architecture http://www.genomicon.com/2011/05/biodigital-architecture/ Uploading a new song. The first song I've released for public consumption in about 20 years. It's blue. The video's yellow. @vallie Don't know. Other people get migraines when this happens http://bit.ly/cKIDg3 I don't... I just carry on pretty much as normal I've got that shimmering-before-my-eyes thing going on that usually happens just before I go completely mental. @rtgarden it's like a vacuum cleaner designed to be like a broom. Design based on the shortcomings of the previous system @rtgarden so you have to go through all the normal computer-hoops - to be faced with endless typewriter-oid "restrictions" @rtgarden More like... it's like a browser where the input device is a typewriter rather than a computer... but you ARE using a computer @rtgarden You ever tried writing on kindle? Fantastically frustrating from a web POV - it's like a browser deliberately made as bad as pos Comment forms at the bottom of posts have about a 50% chance of working. @hjortur Hi! - I love twitter because it keeps me in daily contact with a couple of hundred people all over the planet, at the same time Probably because the Greens are the only party that understands ecosystems. It's a type of thinking that's kindof native to them. Good news for the Green landslide(?) in Brighton/Regency + not just as an environmentalist - Greens are the only ones who understand the web @CrowleysGhost Hmmm... ok. I'd need to spend at least 3 weeks EU-side. See how it goes - income is very erratic at the mo. @CrowleysGhost So when's that? I'd need to suddenly aquire about £4k I think, @CrowleysGhost necrosis? Is that something to do with zombies? What's IlosaariRock? Is it a zombie thing? Or dinosaurs? @CrowleysGhost Has your ankle and whatnot repaired then? I wish I was in Finland etc. @CrowleysGhost Oh you know - aimless and distracted... weeks go by in hours. "Get a life" doesn't begin to do it justice. You? Hey @nickclegg - the reason you got dumped is that you let in the tories. @Documentally It was Iggy Marley or Ziggy Marley or someone wasn't it? Buffalo Soldier etc. Dad cooking http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/cooking.jpg he's got a union-jack apron from the 70s. Baby dies after circumcision in US http://fb.me/Qc3IhbTI - I expect that'll be god's way of telling you not to cut bits of babies cocks off Spends 15 mins writing comment-> finds that "registration is required"-> deletes comment -> Tells NZ Herald to go fuck themselves on twitter Yea, well basically no one is voting Lib Dem because at the last elections, Lib Dem voted fucking Tory. Game-Over. @gregorcollins @rosspruden ie: all about the simple/grand gesture. Distilled-reality - "quality" is what happens when you run out of ideas @gregorcollins @rosspruden Pete Townsend is/was one of those people who really understands pop-art. A direct ancestor of punk I think I might try to do something constructive today. The patheticness of evil http://bit.ly/iUH6eJ < rupert murdoch tries to copy wikileaks... except they reserve the right to grass on you. I've always hated classical music. There I've said it. Claustraphobic. Makes me feel trapped - & forced to listen to fucking classical music @umairh this again http://bit.ly/b6Rhm the problem isn't that "we" don't change our minds, it's that conservativism doesn't deal in facts @yezzer Assuming the coil/magnet combo in the bigger headphones, is bigger, yes. The waif and stray that turned up (Oliver-Twist-like) at our back door last week http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/catten.jpg Yes, well it's only a "stealth helicopter" up until the moment you crash it into the thing you're trying to sneak up on. @GeorgeMonbiot at current (30 year) trends, the price of solar will be less than coal, in less time than it takes to build a nuke station @JimHedley Yea, I vote green "Close Up" (TVNZ) tonight consists of giving airtime to a complete fucking fascist, followed by a piece about a popular singing child @j4ngis They're the same height, but different volumes. Not ideal, but better than being different heights. @j4ngis as each other. Thank fuck my ears are the same height @gregorcollins @rosspruden - that's one of my favourite concepts. Quality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhJ4zjYQvY @mrjudkins Is it your birthday then? Happy Birthday if it is. If not, happy birthday anyway. Silicone caps. That's one thing I've acheived today http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/2011/05/silicone-caps/ The new keyboard arrived... having taken a fucking MONTH to get here. The g and h keys now work. The fucking d however does not. @jordantcarter You could watch it in slow-motion? Crackpottery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3lDiA-99vI (RT @insequential ) RT @PennyRed Adam Curtis on #OBL http://bit.ly/kYWQht explains what I was saying about 'goodies and baddies' terror narrative @Noetical @Noetical Still - enough with the fiestiness - as you say, we don't disagree on much. Which is true really. @Noetical Prince Harry is a harmless, state-funded celebrity. Jack Bauer is a justification for torture, and use of extra-judicial force. @Noetical "due process" is bullshit? Good luck with that -comparing US justice to Iraqi to justify becoming what you're supposedly fighting @Noetical "delusional seeds of conspiracy" - brought to you by the creators of Jessica Lynch. I guess we'll see evidence when we see it @Noetical The raw response is being guided by narrative. Jesus, Jack Bauer was trending yesterday. Unbelievable. @Noetical in fact as his executors saw fit to "lose the body" we don't even know he was killed. I thought he died years ago. Last broadcast? @Noetical "doesn't make him innocent" - yea, although now he's been excecuted outside any due-process, we'll never know eh. @Noetical lovingly dished up to you by a military who takes 1/2 your budget and desperately needs "an enemy" to justify it. @Noetical No it isn't. It's the American love of a certain sort of narrative trying to confront a network as though it's a heirarchy @Noetical #obl was the Obi-Wan of a marginal group of militants that the US built into an excuse to start wars, and ransack its own economy @Noetical the whole idea that his (entirely fictional) casting as a super-villain, and subsequent killing somehow represents "an end" @Noetical My current state of mind is feeling slightly weirded out by how simplistically "Hollywood" American's understanding of all this is @Noetical @Eowyn9 What are you on about? The utterly mental US reaction to 9/11 spread far more terror than #obl could have dreamed of Just sent a scathing letter to my MP over the govt cowardly putting US corporations before NZers http://bit.ly/jyyLx8 You can't fight in here, this is the war room http://on.mash.to/l1op4P so how much did this entirely symbolic "victory" cost? I bet this Osama thing spirals into an info/propagada-fiasco. If you want to avoid creating a martyr, the LAST thing you do is lose the body @joshr I think the total lack of (usual) reaction from the evil-beard blogosphere ought to set off alarm bells... and now... no body? @yezzer I doubt that it'll make any difference to anything whatsoever- apart from making it easier for the US military to take more US money EU, sport is a proxy for war; US, war is a proxy for sport -> the unedifying spectacle of Americans dancing over someone's death... US Media incontinent with self congratulation, mistaking a node in a network for the head of a heirarchy "The American people didn't seek this fight; it came to our shores." - well, apart from funding and arming middle-east dictators So an old man is killed - meantime 1/4 of jobs in the US pay below the poverty line. Yea, yea. Big deal. The damage done to the US by terrorists is MICROSCOPIC compared to the damage done to the US by its own aristocracy. @robshepherd So twitter tells me :) President makes a statement... all I can see is the presidential holding-page - looks like a blue-screen-of-death and a power-point slide "alt" fashion seems to have gone back to what it was 20 years ago, which is cool, because I still have all my clothes from 20 years ago @jordantcarter we drive less and 99.9% of the population say "eh? were Aussie banks bailing us out?" Growing potatoes becomes hip @leashless Ghostbusters? The other day Jason told me "You know what it's like... if you cut off your ear, you try to find other ear-people" In a cafe in Wellington, blending in with the hipsters. I'm almost invisible... certainly invisible to the other hipsters. @MissHighTech @techglance Maybe I should get a harley @MissHighTech @techglance Oh I don't know about that, I'm 46 and my peak is clearly still to arrive. I feel like... I don't know... sortof "achieving something", or whatever. @jordantcarter LOL - oh well, if you need me, you know where I am. @jordantcarter though I expect you were after something a little less upsetting to the power brokers. @jordantcarter ... advertising his "loose" stance on sex slavery/trafficing in his hotels @jordantcarter Avaaz recently forced a change of policy from Hilton Hotels by threatening to put up billboards in the CEO's hometown... @jordantcarter you hack their internet connections and threaten to post their dubious "activities" to the world Gareth The Green-Party Guy http://bit.ly/mBVfKf He's one of us, and the only one who seems to know what he's talking about @GarethMP More morally bankrupt crap from the copyright industry http://bit.ly/l5gfA4 Let's just get rid of all this bullshit Singing Shark http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/340392/shark1_medium.jpg In case anyone missed that : US Embassy pushed for quick redraft of NZ's s92A; offered to rewrite it http://bit.ly/jAXlJp I think that might be the last protest I ever go to. It's a really weak form of leverage. To get anything done you need to disrupt business Well that was a fucking waste of time. Mayday Protest - Gareth the Green Party Guy was good... the others appeared to be embittered cranks Canadian "Aborigines" a terror threat - to US http://bit.ly/jqQrcP Anyway, awake at a god-awful uncivilisde hour, so I can go mayday-protest outside parliament, Wellington, NZ @gapingvoid Was it you who told me about A History of Rome? I Claudius is on YT http://bit.ly/lRHwuI for some colouring-in etc Whoever in the heiarchy is reponsible for this police-overshoot, needs to be identified, isolated and fucking punished. What is it with "big occasions", anywhere, that seem to justify the installation of a mini, temporary police-state? http://bit.ly/ium5kI Hey @radicalmedia - I never heard of you until I learned you were a bunch of tossers. Nice PR job there. http://bit.ly/li39QK PR company (professional liars), claim to own the word "radical" http://bit.ly/li39QK < and make utter cunts of selves @jordantcarter the reason markets won't work for people is that deception is rewarded... from marketing/PR to "x.99" pricing to flat lying. Genotype, Phenotype and IP law http://www.genomicon.com/2011/04/on-genotype-phenotype/ @SamHarrisOrg what you've done is what Lakoff says Liberals always do- get drawn into arguing a conservative frame. Even if you win you lose @SamHarrisOrg reinforcing the(ir) hypothetical tripe that it's about hypothetical "ticking bombs" rather than terrorising populations @SamHarrisOrg Looks to me like you're offering more shelter to torturers than you claim religious moderates do to religious nutters Right, so now we've got about a month of after-match analysis. A TV-free May for me I think @umairh My feelings in a single line: "It depends how you behave" (when Hitch was asked "do you love us or hate us") Robin Cooper http://www.robertpopper.com/2011/04/29/robin-cooper-royal-wedding-correspondent/ @robertpopper yes Eh oop - Freddy Mercury song slipped in there. Elton will be livid. @nobledesign I think there are a whole load of flying cameras. Can't see any though Something to listen to while all the preposterous religious bollocks is going on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421pZgg-vlY Royal Wedding hell. Mum's started singing along with the choir. Looks like Rowan didn't get the note about not wearing a dress that might upstage the bride then. When this is all over I'm going to watch the whole thing in slomo, scrutinising for mistakes. Then I'll make a comedy mashup The Abbey is full of trees. If I had a spaceship that's what it'd look like: Westminster Abbey full of trees & preposterously dressed toffs They're all dressed like this guy http://www.sci-fi.gr/LONDO%20MOLARI%2001.jpg British "formal" military dress-sense basically went into a loop sometime around the Crimean war. Been the same ever since. "Now who's that one?" says dad. "That's William", says mum, not missing a beat. Is David Cameron wearing his "get pissed up in Oxford, Rah Rah" Bullingdon Club suit? Cat that adopted us yesterday http://vimeo.com/23033388 Eh oop... John Major... only recogniseable because he still looks like his Spitting-Image puppet. "is that that old piano player?" says dad (Elton) Here in NZ, they're desperately filling space with a medly of "pop" songs about weddings over a montage of tacky tabloid "moments" LOL - mum is completely fed up with the whole thing already. Old Becksy's forgotten to shave. Maybe I should get eyebrows like Rowan Williams. Gandalf eyebrows. Well Victoria Beckham looks particularly weird and uncomfortable today. Much like she does anyway, but with a particularly mental hat Cat with shoes http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/kippingcatlet.jpg not really our cat... has just sortof moved in. Royal wedding- in which news pundits have to somehow fill a 1000 hours of empty space with equally empty platitudes. Balloons filling space @chairmannow @Martin_Carr playing guitar... "wtf? where's the fuckin... watchimacallit?... C or H or whatever. Here earlier. Arse" #wikileaks : Another US attempt to interfere with IP law of other countries http://bit.ly/kz9x4u desperate, last-ditch imperialism @julianmark Cool :) God I wish I was in Amsterdam @Martin_Carr Nope. Have it stuffed. And mechanised. @Martin_Carr don't kill the cat dude. @CrowleysGhost Exactly. I've been main-lining this guy http://bit.ly/g8bZDP and am now considerably more radicalised than I already was Beautiful Evening in NZ. @DecafKoffee @sqeptiq The official junk food of anything royal is cake... as in "let them eat it" Future generations will hate us - the heroes are going to be people who don't just protest, but actually kill CEOs of polluting corporations @AmericaFreeTV @bookwuman ...of £1bn a year, that's a total cost of 100 trillion being dumped on someone else. @AmericaFreeTV @bookwuman how's this for "well balanced"? Nuke waste needs to be stored for 100,000 years. At current UK costs... @AmericaFreeTV @bookwuman As predictable as Fox News, whenever anyone says "well-balanced & realistic" about nuke, they're pro-nuke shills US govt policy in a nutshell (last para) Put industry before constituency http://bit.ly/kY12MI < and inflict it on other countries. @robshepherd Actually scrap that. I've got 50p. Let's buy it together. You could look after maintenance, and I'd strut about boasting etc. @robshepherd I went through a phase of staying in castles (etc) turned into hotels. Not built to live in. Bad design and haunted plumbing @robshepherd Think of the hoovering man. Castles are weird, cold, damp places. To live in it you'd have to build a house inside a house I met one of their underlings in a nightclub in Brighton once. A weird repressed vestige of feudalism. Don't buy a castle. Weirdo magnets Mind you, it's just upstream from this http://bit.ly/mbnaj6 owned by a branch of my family who would never deign to talk to me Far out, this is for sale http://bit.ly/jh7Byg West-Sussex. Lovely etc. Getting colder now in NZ. Winter's drawing in #donaldtrumpisabellend Is it me, or is American television weirdly old-fashioned? Like an empty mall with 1 shop still open, pretending everything's normal @marie_clair core (is that how you spell that? caw? corr?) Corrr. Should dangle one of those over the side in case of cat-overboard. How 19thC America dealt with the threat of corporate power http://bit.ly/iKDMQg Fuck me this toadying over the royal family is pathetic. @JerryKetel Scarcity of product: a good thing - if you're selling. Scarcity of necessity: a bad thing. There are extrapolations from that @jimboot As a Brit I can tell you that "crisps" is met with general hilarity in the US. "Chips" I think. NZ it's "Chuppies". Jesus. @jordanclaire funny little critter - not ours though. Looks like he's gotten lost. Advert in paper etc. Recovering from hiding in basement for 4 days. http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/kipcat.jpg Shyness overcome, fed, happy LOL - Mum, Dad and cat http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/mumdadcat.jpg Dad teaching kitten to use scratching post http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/scratchingpost.jpg @GarethMP Hi Gareth - you should come along to the mayday celebrations http://on.fb.me/eDtNdZ < the most devoted part of your fanbase. If his people don't turn up, this is one kitten who has seriously fallen on his feet. A lifetime of luxury and pandering. @jordantcarter LOL. It's not a stray... looks like it's lost. Incredibly friendly but a bit freaked out. Now sitting in front of fire, washing face. Tiny little cat has turned up - been hiding downstairs for 4 days... now forced by hunger to say hello. Paroxysms of joy and happy mewing Christchurch May Day protests http://on.fb.me/kkbx6C protest against the utter incompetence and dishonesty over 3-strikes Auckland May Day protests http://on.fb.me/jmuPY4 protest against the utter incompetence and dishonesty over 3-strikes Wellington May Day protests http://on.fb.me/eDtNdZ protest against the utter incompetence and dishonesty over 3-strikes And Stottler Henke is explicitly thinking about how to weaponize its mind-reading program http://bit.ly/ejxn76 < WTF is the matter with him? @JPBarlow meantime, the 30 yr solar-electric trend points to it being cheaper than coal in less time than it takes to build a nuke station @JPBarlow at current prices, thats £100 trillion for 40 years of electricity in the 20thC. "Too cheap to meter". Because someone else pays @JPBarlow turns out I was wrong about the 300 year storage req's of nuke waste - it's actually 100,000 years @JPBarlow And then there's $1/2M compensation a year for pigs unfit for consumption... in a neighbouring country http://bit.ly/cRnJY1 @johnkeypm Sarkozy has been an entirely toxic influence on France who the French will get rid of at their earliest convenience @nzlemming or pew pew pew. Out of the dreams of nerds and comicon klingons http://bit.ly/HYVCY Ferret washing http://life.notcot.com/woah-cool-pic-of-ferret-washing I've been off prozac for 8 months. Wifi via TV http://www.genomicon.com/2011/04/wifi-via-tv/ By the time I can afford this, it will be too slow http://dvice.com/archives/2011/04/origins-overclo.php - Godwin's Law has a shadow Neighbour's mushrooms http://bit.ly/er7zJD . MAI mushrooms http://bit.ly/i2jt5G Nickwit-1 : Neighbours-0 methinks. So I was out driving earlier... and suddenly thought "wtf? where am I going?". So I came home again #highpointofday My work here is done http://www.facebook.com/worldipday?sk=wall see how long it takes for that lot to be censored. Dropping bombs on the "World IP Day" facebook page http://www.facebook.com/worldipday?sk=wall @hjortur Bangkok Tuk Tuk driver kept trying to take me to brothels. "No! No Girls, Just a bar!" I said. So he took me to a ladyboy brothel @hjortur @lydiaschrandt Toledo is a real shame - magical-looking, but the most tourism-shagged place I've been outside Hawaii #TTOT @hjortur @LuggageFree clip-joints in Tallinn are a killer. I did about £600 in one of those places in about 2 hrs. "talking to girls" #TTOT @hjortur @LuggageFree clip-joints in Tallinn are a killer - I did about £600 in one of those places in about 2 hours. "talking to girls" @hjortur @LuggageFree Venice St Mks Sq Cafe: Advertised a price for coffee. But sugar, milk, seating, band all added to the bill afterwards @joshr Some Creative Commons linked thing at a guess @joshr Well you're either talking with your peeps, or you're deploying legal hocus-pocus... which without a legal war-chest is just that. @joshr "... so we're not going to make a big list of rules. if in doubt, ask. We're here to help. Have fun" - I'd leave it at that. @joshr be simple but vague. Say "We'll try to be cool and let you do whatever you want, but obviously we can't anticipate everything... @kalena @SBSNews I think ire over waterboarding might be better directed at the people actually doing it. @leashless Seen this guy? http://bit.ly/g8bZDP only heard of him 2 days ago. Relief akin to hilarity finally hearing someone say it out loud @Twit_nut Seen splice? Sciency couple make a monster in a lab.It manages to shag both of them before they bash it's brains out with a rock Instead of The Royal Wedding, I'll watch Species in which an alien escapes from a lab and goes on the rampage trying to have sex with idiots Bands that can make your children gay http://www.lovegodsway.org/GayBands or if that fails, give them pot http://bit.ly/dQR4pi Maybe the real reason the US is so reluctant to try anyone, is that the whole world knows it's the US who's guilty http://nyr.kr/emSFU3 Fucking hell http://bit.ly/fdPso4 < so what is your threshold? At what point do you start killing fascists? @umairh so basically someone has actually developed a machine to wind toilet paper with the maximum air in it. @umairh Yea, I recently got a bulk 72-pack of toilet paper. Looked like someone had unraveled normal stuff and rewound it as loosely as pos @Shadowfoot can't see royalty lasting 100,000 years. Which means the storage costs of UKs nuke energy... for like, 40 years, is 100 trillion pounds. I didn't realise nuke waste needs to be stored for 100,000 years http://bit.ly/fuXkMA < currently costs the UK taxpayer £1bn a year @vallie nah - the exponentials I'm talking about are all human-caused. Geo-stuff is just an added bonus, that we plan for, or we don't @vallie humanity being one of the pollutants :) - destabilised ecosystems create over-shoot+crash situations. Everything's exponential @vallie we're not just hitting peak-oil, we're hitting peak-everything... resources, and ecosystemic carrying-capacity for pollutants @videojon top piss-take here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0He7P1-Kpw @videojon but the reason dancing-smoothy music is creepy is that it's about lying to girls for sex. Boy-bands, it's underage girls @videojon the BeeGees were never as good as these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGyokI6fMU @vallie @linmlof it's not really full-circle - various exponential trends are going from effectively horizontal to effectively vertical ur ur http://vimeo.com/7533107 @leashless yea cool - does that mean you're um... "settled" now then? To everyone's horror, Lupita (2) swore at the day-care lady yesterday. "My Niece" I croaked proudly, choking back the tears. @robinturner @psbook because The Queen is a tory? As an NZer, seeing what deep-sea drilling did in the Gulf of Mexico, I think we're morally obliged to sink any ship trying it around here @mrjudkins One makes bread, the other makes bread go away A bit bored earlier... so tried to make the spare change in my pocket into a palindrome. Failed. Tempus Slugit #stoner @yezzer What? This Nyan Cat? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 Trying to write lyrics. Quite hard - seeing as I've trained my mind to only think in smart-arsed comments, less than 140 chrs long @reggiewatts I'm made of quarks dude. And bozons. @mrjudkins A bakery Yemen-Prez offers to resign http://bit.ly/eptDCy < a good deal for tyrants and oligarchs everywhere. @inkblotsart They're maybellining the language. Overshoot, crash, rinse, repeat On trying to make movies on your own http://bit.ly/hJ6wPS with photo of Lord of The Rings Soundy shirt listing extraneous fuckups Here be the reason I get out of bed in the morning http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/coffee2.jpg I mean at what point to the Jews in the ghetto rise up? Because the whole planet is being ghetto-ised by corporate power corrupting govts My http://t.co/yjl2cEa < a position I have some sympathy for. If environmental degradation is going to kill people... when to kill back? @robyngallagher Yea... they're all pristine and zen-like. Seems a shame to go stamping logos on them Little boxes. What I did today, mainly http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/2011/04/little-boxes-little-boxes/ With whom I have no little sympathy. We all have bad-hair years. But you people... Jeez. I can't believe people are taken in by this shit For the Justin Beiber fans: Been done before. When I was a kid, all the girls loved http://bit.ly/hqee3w who became http://bit.ly/hN03lB @filmrant don't do that dude. @jordantcarter Yea, but it's a better aspirational vector than merely increasing GDP @hattie_watson So it can ring its mum if there's an emergency. So if it gets lost, it can be found by triangulating cell-tower connections Judge cancels wikileaks twitter case. Hierarchy closes ranks http://wapo.st/gahqRA yea well fuck you. You've made enemies with an ocean One of my shoes has come off. That's fucked up. Not sure whether to put it back on or take the other one off. Could go either way #stoner Dave Grolsch is on TV. He's totally wearing the same shirt as me. Another movie, another torture scene. I keep going on about this - fucking cosmic. Takes about 6 minutes to get to the point, but beautiful when it does http://bit.ly/fEUXdJ @missmelbies @JosephHurtado actually, I think social-media is closer to word-of-mouth on cocaine. Immediacy http://www.bodg.it/2011/04/immediacy/ Bit of a shite day really - although I did manage to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IhpcAicm48 avail in glorious D And on top of that, something has "happened" to my PC, and it can no longer edit videos... which is what I bought it for really. Just spent 4 hours trying and failing to use Autocad. Jesus. Thank fuckery I didn't pay for it. @hjortur Hi from the future. Everyone appears to be going about their business as normal. An air of apparent calm etc. @wicem @Falkvinge moral panics are cooked up by people wanting to defend/increase their turf, and the media wanting ratings Awake uncharacteristically early. Unsure what to do with self. YES!!! Pirate Party Fights Back... in actual reality, doing actual stuff for actual people http://bit.ly/f8V18Z @joshr mate of mine in NZ has solar-heating. We had it back in the 70s on Niue. Quite widespread in Turkey. UK prob isn't low-rise enough @joshr solar-electric could be (and in some places, already is) massively subsidised by solar water-heating / heat-pumps etc. An angel that Sacha painted http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/angel.jpg Powerlines on my street http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/powerlines.jpg Today my town was covered in smoke http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/smokeytown.jpg which was totally not my fault Or to put it another way, RBS and Lloyds confess to being money launderers. Break them, and every other fucking bank up Drug prohibition sanity creeps in, one painful, heel-dragging centimetre at a time http://bit.ly/fIHVFw @tvnznews STILL milking the Chch earthquake: a sportsperson delivering supplies. Before (with relief) getting on with the sports @Martin_Carr Good morning starshine. The earth says hello. You twinkle above us. We twinkle below. < after that things rapidly go to pieces Taillight of a car I photoed earlier http://bit.ly/dEutNp Looks like the future, but it's really the past... with art-deco reflections. So we buy the bar http://www.bodg.it/2011/04/so-we-buy-the-bar/ 37% Labour gets @jordantcarter a seat - It's worth voting labour just for that http://bit.ly/hwrgqE @sizemore There's a company in NZ that does those. The most ergonomic position is on your back, apollo-14 style. Chair-bed w floating screen Went and saw Alan today. Picked up a guitar and I can fucking play. @blogminster @clarecurranmp 1/2 of people know less about the internet than the other 1/2. @NOTCOT You'll be safe and warm when you're back in LA Mental Drilly Thing http://www.genomicon.com/2011/04/mental-drilly-thing/ Systems-thinking and liberalism http://bit.ly/fLCWC5 In the Southern-Cross Pub, sitting in the window where I can see my car. If anyone tries to give me a parking ticket I'm going to go mental Anybody trying to restrict the flow of information to stay in business, should go out of business as soon as possible http://bit.ly/gdBQTy BRICS agree not to use USD in inter-BRICS loans http://bit.ly/hqKPDj @Slanecartoons @dylanhorrocks what they have done is appropriated the moral right for copy-monoplists to police the web. @Slanecartoons @dylanhorrocks meet the Slippery Slope Strategic Initiative http://bit.ly/fYrEAz 20% is more than it looks Google should just buy the music industry http://bit.ly/e0lLvm @jordantcarter Ah. Ok. Cheers. @jordantcarter Really? I thought it was "The Copyright Amendment Bill" with s92a reworded slightly. @jordantcarter Is that the one where Lianne Dalziel says "don't blame Labour for compromising with a terrible law that Labour made up"? Don't do anything you're going to regret. That's my advice. #SunTzu Martin Freeman has just come in. He's a hobbit. Sitting at the front of a caf in cuba street, like a ho in a Reeperbahn window. I just donated $500 worth of these http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com to this http://www.freeoshan.com/ ( RT @JPBarlow ) @dhh @mikkohypponen Why is JP Morgan still in business after trying to organise a military-backed fascist coup in 1933? Connifer Jennily when she was about 12 http://youtu.be/XvjCG3MsaEc nice kid. 3D printed puzzle thing http://www.genomicon.com/2011/04/3d-printed-puzzle-thing/ LSE : File-Sharing has zero-effect on music-copy sales http://bit.ly/eYB1BS @umairh The void at the heart of the global economy is the massive bias given-to/taken-by lenders... because it's fiat currency. @FelipeAzucares @lordtrilink the whole hive-mind-lunch thing is a kind of higher-order hand-shake protocol. It serves a purpose. Me and my dad collecting pinecones - about the time of the moon-landing http://bit.ly/hPSepU I'm the one with red boots @JosephHurtado or to put it another way, web-behaviour divorced of context is potentially career-stoppingly embarrassing. @JosephHurtado eg: [job interview] "apparently you Googled "Nicola Peltz" last night. You do know she's only 14?". @JosephHurtado I don't think people "don't care" so much as they've never been confronted with the bite-sized reality of it. I've just ordered another coffee. If anyone comes near me I'm going to go mental. Anyway - sitting in the street remapping my laptop keyboard because ghGH'" no longer work. And I'm a vagrant, and a rocket-scientist A queue is basically just an organised, polite way for people to get in the fucking way. Arse. An ATM just said "LOL" to me. @umairh @GOOD Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly each have an entire episode devoted to it... AND it's a genre on its own now. @umairh @GOOD in the 80s every movie had to have a sex scene... 70s, a car-chase. Now it's torture. @umairh @GOOD You can thank liberal hollywood for that - ALL films/TV that can possibly slip it in have a torture scene. I think we should draw up a hit-list of anti-internet politicians, and make sure they never get elected. #uncut their asses. @ManMadeMoon If it was anyone other than iTunes, great. It would be better if the film-makers rented them out directly. Tory Bank-Poodles - we need to get rid of these fucking people as quickly and as possible. Just received a letter from my Tory MEP. Fucking pathetic. A bunch of corporate lapdogs. Bank-Poodles. Zen Buddhist monks sit / counting upon their fingers / writing haikus LOL - #haiku Uploading files with a cat sitting on me. Procrastination / a minute, a year, a life / slideth by, tweeted = #haiku "WHEN BUMFISH ATTACK!" / high-concept film idea / (must write that one down) - #haiku @JPBarlow If the rich simply paid their share of taxes... at the levels Reagan had them say, there would be no need for any bailouts Nope... the mental amount of javascript that twitter uses still crashes Opera Big Banks screw green car startup http://read.bi/gGPFED This is cosmic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vw6lWd7BAM Yay - booze-free for a month @videojon I don't think the work is dying out... but it's erratic. Always was. @videojon Yea - my brother used to do that stuff... now he makes chain-mail making machines full-time. Credit Cards mean never having to save up for anything! Until you max them, then you have to save up like before, minus £100 a month @dannybull @PoppyD The world instinctively thinks it's entitled to a universal, free library in the sky. And it's not wrong. #spotify A bad law forced through by incompetents, specifically timetabled to exclude proper open, public debate. Ok, for the historical record: The NZ govt just used the same dishonest tactic that the UK did to inflict US-driven IP law on its web-users I can't believe this is nearly 20 years old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YfHw9mqdM @videojon I think CGI is to film what Powerpoint is to corporate presentations - basically a hand-holding device, but it's absence is rare. This is the service I use to encrypt my internets http://perfect-privacy.com/ @samfarrow sign up to Perfect Privacy, and teach her an important life-skill... how to use a VPN. Tip of day: Fruit-flies hovering in front of your face can be dealt with simply by inhaling sharply through your mouth. They simply vanish @robyngallagher It's true as well, that bit. A very strange and disorienting experience. Anti Baby-Escape device http://www.trademe.co.nz/baby-gear/safety/other/auction-369034292.htm @k2t0f12d We need to do something about this really. We need to get organised. So it was Simon Powers (now unavailable for comment) who rushed this through - this should cost him his job. #blackout @normnz Yea - David Parker was the only one who actually understood that copyright itself is fucked. The Nats tried to shout him down. Have spent large parts of the day in conversation with my MP over the circus of incompetence we saw in parliament last night #blackout @johnkeypm I watched that "debate" on copyright last night - absolutely disgraceful incompetence. Why was this "emergency" legislation? @JPBarlow ... not translating to reality... a mere detail. In fact The Austrian School clearly states that it's empirical-evidence-agnostic. @JPBarlow Geeks tend to love Libertarianism because it's a satisfying intellectual position, than can be argued with logic and analysis... Hmm... just received an email from the "upskirt network". Christ. There's a whole network? That'll be me going back to wearing trousers then @mrjudkins I think he's a bit of a genius to be honest. People with that level of lyrical ability are rare - one per decade. Fucking sad tho Pen theft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFoYkWulKOI Dennis Kucinich http://bit.ly/hBUVXz < Absolutely right. Obama had the mandate to be a new MLK or Mandela, and he's pissed it up the wall @gayyy @insequential that'll be me being gullible then :) I believe believing everything makes me more discerning than believing nothing @gayyy @insequential here you go http://bit.ly/aEQHrM < that's file sharing. Play it, and you've got an illegal copy on your machine. @gayyy @insequential Naked and Famous are self-funded so buy their stuff! and spread their music to as many other people as you can @gayyy @insequential that's not what you should have said. File-sharing (in its myriad forms) is basically payola-free radio. Instead say: @BAFTA higher frame-rates give you more flexibility with regards slow-mo-ing things. @sqoo Yea - I followed those as well. Absolutely disgraceful. At that point I (bloody mindedly) started putting all my traffic through vpn The truth is, Artists don't need protection from file-sharers (fans), they need protection from the industry that exploits them #blackout @Shadowfoot but it's not just music - Bruce Robinson made absolutely nothing from Withnail and I. @Shadowfoot I wouldn't say that they "don't get the benefit". Depends on the deal - but though deals are often quite bad, it's not absolute. @Shadowfoot Labels don't really do that. Artists do get a % - but the labels often spend it for them. It's not outright plagiarism. @Shadowfoot ...racts that trap artists into loans that they never pay off because the label spends "recoupable" money on their behalf @Shadowfoot Really? I missed that. Not all record labels screw artists - but those that do, generally do it by massively unbalanced cont... @Shadowfoot David Parker - he seems to be the only one who's understands (or is honest about) what copyright actually is. These people keep going on about "education" - what? legacy-industry propaganda? You've got a fucking war on your hands @ClareCurranMP well cheers for the heads-up, but your compromise, the bill, and the way it's rammed through were all utterly disgraceful We (the internet) should watch parliament more often. Half of these people are entirely incompetent to do the jobs we pay them to do. Does Nick Smith do anything other than squabble? What's the point of this man? Oh oh, here comes Nick Smith - a one-man mudslide of dishonesty. As soon as he opens his mouth, it all floods out like tedious grey chunder We need to organise some sort of revenge for this. David Parker is the only one who seems to understand that copyright law itself is broken @MaryJaneAnsell Birds crap on my car / jesus what's the point of them? / mindless. just mindless - #haiku @katrinashanks earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmjN6GWd_Xs @MaryJaneAnsell sigh. What have they said now? David Parker was good - this tosser (Nick Smith?) criticising him is fucking dishonest embarrassment. @rcosgrove @BAFTA People do kindof like (or have learned to like) the way it looks - faster speeds give more flexibility in the edit though. @BAFTA @rcosgrove I think 24fps is just a legacy tech limitation that we've come to see as "the way it's done". No real reason for it @GarethMP We saw you dude - you were the only one who wasn't talking reprehensible, specious, shite. Oh oh.... something tells me someone is going to start talking utter shite #blackout @stuartm Well, green obviously - but in the words of Frank Zappa - as soon as you're old enough, run for something. @katrinashanks has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, and seems to be proud of it #s92a "it's illegal to fileshare". No it isn't. That's a flat-out lie Who is this woman? Why is she even there? @katrinashanks Well the Green Party get my vote. Everyone else can go fuck themselves. Shocking ignorance and craven cowardice. Fucking scum. All this guy's statistics are utterly meaningless when faced with the other statistic... file sharers spend more than non-sharers. @jimboot They're "debating" it at the moment. "They" being the 8 or so people who bothered to show up. Not sure what happens next. If this bill goes through I'm going to start a DDOS movement accusing politicians and fucking "industry" of infringement. My TV has so many shoes thrown at it that I can hardly see the screen #s92a Some fucking NZ politician admitting that before she saw the bill, she didn't know what file-sharing was. Why are these people even there? There's The Maori Party just blandly repeating industry propaganda. Fucking lie after lie after lie. @GarethMP is now on TV - The NZ Green Party being the only people with the spine to stand up for New Zealanders. This idea that someone should work once and get paid forever defies the laws of thermodynamics. Morally dubious and unworkable. I wish these fucking politicians would stop going on about how important "copyright" is. It fucking isn't. It needs to be massively cut back Watching the copyright bill on TV - it looks like there's about 4 fucking people there. @davidrosam But like most American "business" it's in the business of extorting money from other Americans without actually making anything @davidrosam Not quite the same - corporate ring-fencing of our cultural memories via ever-extented "IP" is robbing society of its birthright There's a thing on TV "celebrating" money made by dead celebrities. Morally and intellectually bankrupt. @clarecurranmp So what's the score with s92A? - is it actually law now? @freitasm Yea - I've seen various bits... http://bit.ly/gNmmFI http://bit.ly/fiJIXL @jon_hirsch yea - the need to do a movie soundtrack has driven it... but I've started playing bass strangely enough. Never done that before @jon_hirsch Yea - the whole storage-solution crisis only happened to virgos today. How's the guitar biz? I've started playing again. Weirdly WTF? He said / to the mirror before him / you looking at me? - #haiku Virgo: Today you will attempt to buy some foam-rubber but will wind up buying a storage solution. Well I'm furious Writes to MP about #s92a - just so he knows. It's no longer enough to do this though. @mrjudkins That Conner's band? Stunning songwriter, but probably the most depressing ever invented. Poison Oak is fucking excellent. @freitasm Do you know of any concise, human-readable breakdown of what #S92a v2 actually entails? @envirotainment @kayakr @wombleton @kiwiseabreeze I'm not sure what the gist of that link actually... is. What law is being passed here? @envirotainment Is there a site somewhere that provides more detail on the anti-internet law that John Key is trying to sneak through? Virgo : That fucknig "Netguard" card the BNZ use is a pain in the arse isn't it? Yes it fucking is. Other banks don't need it, why do they? Republican Front-Runner http://bit.ly/gQmztI < really? I'd somehow managed to gather the impression that he was a depraved old man Urination. It's / not always convenient. / A UX issue - #haiku @davestone Maybe they don't want their headphones removed dude. @jimboot http://blisstree.com/feel/7-warning-signs-of-bogus-science/ these being the warning-signs. See what happens in Sept I guess. @corcoran "Iron Dome" sounds regrettably similar to "Iron Sky", a movie about Nazis on the moon. @jimboot There y'go. http://bit.ly/ezTC3M - closer. Still bears a lot of the indicators of a scam though. Fuckinywuckiny-wankspud mosquito have bitten my fingers. They're cunts these ones. A new breed - totally silent. "Silly" fliers as well. @JPBarlow Demons mainly. And snakes. @robyngallagher Yea - I videoed the evidence of caffeine withdrawal last time http://bit.ly/bc53Yx Once people have experienced what it’s like to not have copyright, they don’t want anything to do with it ever again http://bit.ly/gc8pKy fukit. My caffeine addiction is starting to turn toxic again. I feel fuckin terrible. @Twit_nut Ever come across icehouse? Similar concept/career path... from Aus. Did a load of killer songs. @MissHighTech Happy Birthday :) @Twit_nut Simple minds in new-gold-dream/sons-and-fascination era were fucking excellent. Proper drug-caners and all apparently @Martin_Carr I thought you were protecting the feelings of several hundred profoundly deaf dinosaur jr fans :) @rtgarden Aye - I wish I still had... a wall of them somewhere though. Or books. Something to be interviewed in front of :) @Martin_Carr 18 generations of fans, all of whom looked about the same age as me :) @Martin_Carr - in with a chance. As it was, they could never get the radio play. It was fucking heart-breaking to watch. @Martin_Carr Imagine if 18-Wheeler did. Might get lost in the wind, might have 1M people going "check this out" - but at least they'd be - @Martin_Carr and the gate is open... in fact not only is it open, if you don't make what you do viral-able, you won't be heard. @Martin_Carr people go and see bands for all sorts of reasons... going out with their friends mainly. @Martin_Carr Saw Swervedriver in Sydney in Feb - bigger crowd than they ever had pre-web... when radio and magazines ruled. @Martin_Carr and gate-keeping is a really really bad filtering mechanism (despite what the old gatekeepers might say). Its fucking feudal @Martin_Carr Nah filtering is how a consumer deals with info-overload, quality control comes from the artist's side. @Martin_Carr personally tho, I'd put "shit" more down to people not testing what they do in front of real live punters. That's the crucible @Martin_Carr Don't you think you might be mistaking a filtering problem for a quality control one? @Martin_Carr put mp3s up on kickstarter/indiegogo and let people choose which signed/self-done-artwork cd/vinyl copy they'd like. Yea. Fuck "a review of cocaine", how about a review of prohibition? -To better understand the incredible damage it does http://bit.ly/glCbnO Viro: Te and te keys on your laptop ave stopped workin wic is a massive pain in te fuckin arse. @GarethMP Of course!!! If oil is discovered here, we'll be rich - like Libya or Iraq or Iran etc etc Old media says google will destroy "film and music" http://bit.ly/eDvyQ5 < they mean "the old plastic disc" industry. @linmlof The illegality I'm talking about is 20th Century history http://bit.ly/f5fZe3 @linmlof You might want to look a little closer at the history of this then. Israel is an illegally occupying force. @linmlof I'm not sure I'd call the Palestinians refugees. There seems to be this temptation to paint two sides as "equal". They're not Banks threaten to leave London if we don't cover their gambling debts http://bit.ly/dLYpLA < they don't pay tax. Why is this a problem? @linmlof I think they're probably worse than 80s South Africa to be honest. What are the relative death tolls? @linmlof ..moral cover for their own people to do the same thing to someone else, less than a lifetime later.. they'd never stop throwing up @linmlof the hypocrisy is staggering. Irony and ignorance etc. If the people in the ghettos in the 30s had known that they'd be providing.. @linmlof Similar to South Africa in the 80s, but also a tail-wagging-dog component of hide-bound US imperialism. @kalena Not in a banana-growing climate - ants and microbial soil fauna deal to it. Everything started turning to shit with a vengeance in the 80s http://bit.ly/bGOQ7D < prisons vs privatisation. @kalena mind you, I was 6 - and did find throwing rotten eggs at things fairly entertaining. @kalena When I lived in the tropics I found that a sure-fire way of getting bananas to flower is to break rotten eggs under them. @tvnznews Double-Bingo. Still milking an already over-milked violent crime story AND showing someone breaking down in tears. @jordantcarter Where are you standing? Electionwise I mean. There is no recession http://bit.ly/hVWqq4 < we need to roll back tax-cuts for people so rich they're destroying democracy. @sistermary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yAif5B3gs @AmericaFreeTV @W7VOA @Asahi You need to multiply radioactive 1/2-life by between 10 and 13 to get time-to-safety. Damn - Layercake is on and I'm too tired to watch it. @MMM but its a 70s classic - and the 70s was when 60s experimentalism started to combine with real talent. @MMM 1971 - I'm not sure if I recommend it or not - it's beautiful, but really viciously cruel and violent. I wouldn't watch it again. @MMM The Devils on the other hand is quite haunting and harrowing. @yezzer Why? Have you stopped nudging the turps then? These are my kind of people http://www.light-to-dark.com/Burrowing%20Owl%20Yawn.JPG @tvnznews still milking the ChCh earthquake... while making time for its first-love, Violent Crime - thousands of TV column inches. Though to be fair, he's actually retired. It's me that's over-educated/under-employed. Nother photie: http://bit.ly/et6B27 Dad contemplating table/chairs for new granddaughter, styled a la Mondrian, because we're over-educated/under-employed http://bit.ly/ely53r Copyright always has been a censorship tool. Govts, corporations and "faith" groups abuse it with an almost banal sense of entitlement Lawsuit Against YouTube Threatens Global Growth of Political Speech https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/04/07 Where the fuck have you been? http://bit.ly/gaGRcH with thirty seconds of very rough guitar by your's truly. 1st recording in about 20 years @SadekHM Oh yea good here - I've got a bit of a cold... winter is coming on now. Time to light fires in the evening in a week or two. @SadekHM Mornin. @hjortur As a Brit, I'd have to say "the hell with us". There is no way you should be paying for this. @tom_watson I still see Oliver Letwin as some sort of gout-prone Regency-period puppet with a powdered wig. Bird and Fortune I think. @pixel_boy Yea - I got one of those... tried to string them along and got passed to a"superior". They were quite rude actually. And Abbie Cornish can do action movies! - she's quite a talent. Nicole Kidmanoid but a lot more versatile I think. Just saw that Sucker-Punch. Excellent. Like a cross between 300 and Buffy the Vampire slayer in the 1940s on acid. Bad acid. @freitasm the probabilities work out more or less the same - and by not buying a ticket, I've kindof won $20 @freitasm Nah - probabilities are totally last-testament. These days I just sit there and pray I'll win without having to buy a ticket Stop wikileaks torture Avaaz mega-petition http://www.avaaz.org/en/bradley_manning_2/?copy @rands Apparently it's his wife that shoots those videos Ah, the inimitable stress of taking a laptop apart. Nothing like it. It's giving me shit this machine. Its days are numbered. I used to think "oh great! it's Friday". Now I think "oh crap. It's Friday again. I haven't even started yet". If you put tin-foil hat wearing headless-chickens in a room together, they're fine. Mention money, they start fighting http://dlvr.it/MmC9j Intercontinental Kiwi IP Bun-fight http://taxisurfer.com/blog/ "You nicked my idea", LOL. These people are crackpots Blithering heck, I'm NEVER taking sudafed again. My heart's hammering all over the place. France might be due for another revolution of sorts http://bit.ly/exLC32 < passwords to be either plain-text or reversible. Ermm... Nope. Could we please just get rid of every single politician/institution that attempts to negotiate laws behind our backs? http://bit.ly/e8YSqb God I feel shite. I'm never taking sudafed ever again. Wires me up something dreadful $AMZN named the most reputable company in the US http://bit.ly/hLXjdO < yea, but they tried to censor Wikileaks, so fuck them Oah Mai God... Whanganui now has free wifi down by the river. Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System: http://bit.ly/dNvZVz < Well Interpol can fuck right off. Down by the river... somebody's dog has just crapped on the grass, and they picked it up with a plastic bag. I chundered all down my front. Never thought I'd say this, but Hugh Grant soars in my estimation http://bit.ly/ijgeMr Although not because he's did immeasurable damage to America, but was losing money for (foreign-owned) Fox News Oooh - teary-eyed crankpot Glen Beck has been sacked http://bit.ly/eJEbHx US Soldiers raping each other http://bit.ly/gQN240 Last year 50,000 male veterans screened positive for “military sexual trauma” @yezzer We only hate what we recognise in ourselves :) Just rescued a bug, on account of being the kind of guy who rescues bugs. @julianmark Yea, me too. Sick as a dog etc. Bedridden. If you're out there Brightonians - vote for Caroline Lucus. The Green Party is also the most tech-aware, and tech-friendly party. Just received lovely email from Caroline Lucus re: her stance on UK web-blocking. She totally gets it - is totally on the side of a free web If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/guitar3.jpg @yezzer We've moved on from "Do only what you can't avoid; be whatever you can get away with" to "Whatever you get paid for goes on the CV" Self Portrait Of Self http://bit.ly/h7Zgbf ...and then I realised I've only been "pretending" to get on with my life for as long as I can remember. It's all a facade. To try to fit in So I thought "ok, obviously I can't actually get on with my life tomorrow, I'm too fucked up... but I can pretend to get on with it"... Darpa wants C3PO for $13 million http://bit.ly/fI69lA - around $100 million less than the last movie he was in. @lordtrilink That is touched upon in the video as it happens. Companies should not be run in the interests of their owners http://bit.ly/hsjzIH < absolutely. Our bias in favour of "lenders" is crippling Et in Arcadia- revolving door between EU corporate/govt "top jobs" http://bit.ly/eCiR9m we need to start actively destroying corporate power @stilgherrian I expect it'll embroider it. I have the most friteful cold, wasting away in a darkened room, all pale and wan, like a doomed Edward Gorey character, dying of ennui. I don't know who this person is, but I can't help but like her http://bit.ly/e1SdLi Outwitted the coffee that tried to spill on me earlier by pre-emptively wearing camo-trousers. Ha. Nick 1 : Reality 0. @vallie @linmlof and on that note, it's time I went out and tried to get some sunshine on me. Later :) @vallie @linmlof Nah. We just want people to like us :). It's just that we've inherited systems that have mal-adaptive biases @vallie @linmlof Maybe, but those criteria don't help us solve anything. I'd put it down to badly designed systems. Fiat money for example @linmlof not sure how I'd define "politics", but war is an instrument of the political class, yes. Religion is just a motivator. @vallie @linmlof As for religious terrorism - I'd say that's just a divine-motivator for entirely justifiable and mundane anti-colonialism @vallie @linmlof but after the utter fiasco of the 1st Crusade, it quickly settled down into western aristocrats extending their empires @vallie @linmlof The Crusades started because Byzantium needed anti-turk mercenaries. "Religion" was the casus belli and it exploded @vallie @linmlof Oh yea - personally I think it's an abomination. But show me a religious war and I'll show you an aristocratic power-play @vallie @linmlof Maybe the fat-cats are being conned as well. I didn't see that it was making any of them terribly happy. @vallie @linmlof Religion isn't usually the cause of war, it's just easier to get people to fight if religious division can be exploited @linmlof @vallie It is group-think though. Social responsibility simply doesn't exist. It's a bubble. You play, you fight, you get ahead. @vallie @linmlof That has been my experience, yes. It's not really "take all" though. They want their peers to be rich as well. @vallie @linmlof It's more about "playing well and winning" than greed. That's how I'd describe what I've seen. @vallie @linmlof You ever worked in finance? I don't think it's greed exactly... more like a game, operating in a bubble of groupthink. A brazenly mendacious and venal ruling class http://bit.ly/fXgb9r I think I'll teach myself to talk like this guy writes. @joshr Yea, basically. The majority of people follow you because they fancy your avatar. @normnz I think John Vidal's "Actually been there" take http://bit.ly/fPeBe2 is more convincing than Monbiot's paper-based opinions Threats to open-source http://bit.ly/eSHwGm I've got a better idea - scrap ALL IP law. Grant 10 yrs to creators; No rights to corporations @tvnznews is still milking the chch earthquake disaster... something to do with water leaking into someone's garage. @timoreilly re: "piracy as unmet demand". Piracy isn't the anomaly, IP is the anomaly. Trying to make inherent abundance artificially scarce Fuck me computer-outage is traumatic. If it had been windows I probably would have lost the whole system though. @warrenellis I think what you need to do then is give special bonus values for words containing "Q"s and "X"s. This is what I have been doing for the last 36 hours http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1721073 @warrenellis I find a good technique is to measure output in pages rather than words, and use a bigger font. Because that's all they've got left - they've outsourced "actually doing anything" and all that's left is "IP". Well fuck them. All of these fucking "IP" trade-negotiations/treaties are just a corporatised US govt trying to impose rents on the rest of the planet. Tuesday morning. Rain. Autumn etc... today I will mostly be selling stuff on Trademe, and trying to get my computer to work @gleonhard I doubt it will end with the cloud. And really, what we need is decentralised electricity. De-centralised everything. @gleonhard Ever since I've been messing with computers (about 30 yrs) there's been a vacillation between thin-client and local machines Criminal price-gauging in the NZ privatized electricity market http://bit.ly/e7ENch < no essential services should be provided for profit Oh fuck me... a progress bar saying "3 hours and 20 minutes". Well I'm not going anywhere. I'm just going to sit here and watch it. Right. Monday. Time to throw myself into the week ahead like a bull in a china-shop, and actually achieve some actual achievements. Computer's still borked. All the usual computer-fixing fall-backs failing, like dominos. Shit that should be simple is really fucking hard God computer outage is traumatic. Great - ubuntu partition is fucked and it looks like it's going to be a total cunt to get going again. Groceries according to colour http://bit.ly/hMom7o "Oh... I don't want to buy it, I just want to know how much it is" @rtgarden We headed for an island, elsewhere about 30 years ago, but to the locals, we still belong. Once you're theirs your theirs forever @rtgarden Sounds a bit like where I live in the late 60s. 50 miles up an unsealed road, back in time etc. Here http://bit.ly/dKUAzW Virgo: You'll feel a bit shit today. Whatever. Maybe you should go for a walk or something. Get some fresh air. @Revkin @timoreilly ... who suddenly, with mind-boggling logical-gymnastics are painting themselves "green". Jesus, please. @Revkin @timoreilly ah, the tirelessly repeated fake dichotomy between coal and nuke, so beloved of the nuke industry... Amanita http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/amanita2.jpg @evgenymorozov True enough - but total human cognitive surplus is something like a hundred million years worth per day. The service currently doesn't work on the iPhone http://bit.ly/hDrCCH < because abundance (the opposite of IP) is THE killer-app. @rinkjustice Music didn't make money... for all but about 3% of artists signed to major labels, pre-napster. @fdousek Not sure if browsers can render .tiffs... you might need to gif-ify it How bank lending works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtRUrEaRA0 Bond James Bond is on TV, but he hasn't done anything fucked up and mental yet. TBH, anyone except Daniel Craig is a bit annoying Tom Cruise is on TV dressed as a samuri. He should have jumped up and down on Opra's sofa dressed as a Samuri. Hacked up her cushions Daylight saving changes in NZ tonight. Don't know if it's forward or back - and don't really care. My machines tell me what to do. @alexfarran Fraid not. I've got a jail-broken brain so I don't get the updates any more. Haven't had any since about 1983 One for the "Oooh, we don't need to worry about radiation. We call them 'Life-Rays'" peeps : http://bit.ly/fPeBe2 Last Samuri is on, which was at least partly made by my Brother. Tom Cruise is in it and he jumps on the sofa and shouts. Kirsty Allsop is on TV. You chaps in England won't have heard of Kirsty Allsop. She persuades smug pre-crash tossers to buy houses on NZ TV @terrencewood + that's only within the vagaries of Western markets - top-down control by an US company in BRIC countries is a non-starter @terrencewood Never said they were dear boy... if I do though, permission most certainly IS required. And that's why they won't dominate @terrencewood - and you know... having to ask Apple "permission" to my own software on my own machine is patronising and offensive @terrencewood What's the difference between "pulling a windows" and "pulling a linux"? Either way the history of "panning out" favours open @terrencewood Call it what you like, Android is an open platform, iPhone is closed. Android is winning for a reason, and it's a good reason @terrencewood don't know about $ numbers for Ipads, but they're basically a killer-app for content providers... who aren't their customers @terrencewood Mice. iPhones. Now every Desktop has a mouse, and Androids are outselling iPhones. @terrencewood They're just good at making key innovations - in the (only slightly) longer term, the bulk of sales go to open platforms. Apple wants to dominate post-PC World http://on.mash.to/fhnBP5 < only they won't because they're a closed, top-down platform. Pakistanis worth about $3500 each http://bit.ly/hvatUt LOL etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SwECTyXaA4 The round thing is money.You chaps in England won't have heard of money. Metal disks, swappable for goods/services, eg: beer and prostitutes The other day, I bought 1000 of these http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/tube.jpg because that's the kind of guy I am. @rosspruden music is far more memetic - so plagiarism isn't as clearly defined... and the industry is built on exploitation in any case @rosspruden Comedy / Fashion / literature have a strong culture of anti-plagiarism though. It's embarrassing to plagiarise. @rosspruden practically, movies have zero IP protection now. The only people who get clobbered are indie artists/studios. @rosspruden the truth is, the fashion industry doesn't enforce IP, and thrives. @rosspruden Not zero/frictionless replication granted (nor will 3D printing be)... but we have lived with this scenario for a long time now @rosspruden To shift that analogy... we have sewing machines. Does the way you can buy a dress, and copy it devastate the fashion industry? @rosspruden it's like having a copy of your car borrowed, when you thought you could work once and get paid forever, selling car-copies @rosspruden No it isn't, it's like having a copy of your car borrowed. Ironic, as Irish music was almost wiped out- rescued single-handedly by Francis O'Neill who's life's work was to "share" it so it didn't die The signatories of which all seem to be Irish - quite possibly conned/bullied by Paul McGuiness into believing the media conglomerate's lies Writes scathing letter to Musicians Union over this bullshit http://bit.ly/grgIqa The Rise of the “Second Internet” and What It Means http://t.co/HeaP7At < err... the hubris of bubble-hood more like. The Julian. A dance video is actually quite cool, in a funny sort of way http://bit.ly/eWGuZJ Geek-dancing. What did you expect? He does ok Anybody who says "Wow, just wow" is automatically a fuckwit. @robinturner That's me aged 22 wearing a tweed jacket http://bit.ly/fVoyYN No red jeans mind. Red socks. Same thing. Ministers unveil £5bn back-to-work programme http://gu.com/p/2z6bk/tf < That all? Jeez. That'll only pay for about 20 bankers. RSI has flared up agan. Arse. Oh - that link http://bit.ly/e0hPoz was about the MPAA, who we should just get rid of completely. Whoever bleeped the 'fuck's in this http://bit.ly/e0hPoz is a stupid humourless cunt, who's whole existence is utterly pointless. @rjamestaylor @stwange re: the internet not forgetting: not actually true. Stuff gets lost (quite a lot). Forever. Uh oh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yAif5B3gs New Nick Taylor video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yAif5B3gs genius. Rendering takes a long time doesn't it. I wonder if anyones actually died of old age, while watching a progress-bar, or if I'll be the first @JPBarlow as a total aside, I just did my first calipers-for-bitcoins->33% donation to the EFF http://goldenmeancalipers.com/ :) k for cool @JPBarlow So have you googled the images for "chernobyl deformity" yet? and figured out we're not just talking about death here? My Dad has to take my car for its MOT... I look like too much of a hippie. "Fail, LOL" they go as soon as I walk through the door. "Next". Still, it saves them having to do the other fucking lazy thing they do - which is hang around the courts and report the violent stuff @tvnznews is STILL milking the CHCH earthquake.Like a hotel who's rooms are all booked for the rest of the year. Feet off the pedals @freitasm But what if you look up and it's gone? Hmm? What then? Better to have a sun locater and not need it than need it and not have it But I think practicing something might be good for the soul. I think it does something to/for our sense of time which is good for us. Computers... and programming especially... "The Digital", has a bias towards "not needing to practice". Once you know something, you know it @JPBarlow In the greater scheme of things, it's probably not bad... but we are dumping the costs onto other people, which ain't fair really @JPBarlow So the UK's £1bn a year storage bill probably totals ~£300bn - not that anything nuke has ever come in under-budget, ever. @JPBarlow FWIW you multiply the 1/2-life by 10 (some say 13) to get the time-to-safety. So a 30 year 1/2 life = 300 years. Yea, ALL banks should be state-banks http://bit.ly/e6FrWG The system we have now, where usury skims our entire surplus, is dilute slavery For every one of these http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/ I sell for bitcoins, I donate 1/3 to the @eff - just sent my first $20 :) @JosephHurtado Ever heard of APCO? That's who you're working for. For free. You're just doing a vaguer version of this http://bit.ly/4wIoa7 @JosephHurtado Yea, but what you're doing is acting as an echo-chamber for "factoids" that have been debunked 1000 times. @olleolleolle Something like that, yes. A massive hobbit of some sort. @clarecurranmp I'm reasonably adept with jQuery. Not expert exactly though. @jonsnowC4 You can knight a prince? Isn't that like getting your queen to the far side of the board and turning it into a bishop? @Twit_nut Yea - top film I've seen it about 5 times. @Twit_nut only you didn't actually say "I feel bizarrely". Fuckit. I'm going home. @Twit_nut "I feel bizarre" means just that "I feel bizarrely" is more to do with playing with yrself while wearing tellytubby glove puppets @Twit_nut in KKBB they go on about... "Bizarre". "you mean feel bizarre". "Bizarrely assumes the mechanism that does the feeling is broken" @Twit_nut Yea - excellent film. I'm good - been trying to play music today and am in am absolutely filthy mood as a result @Twit_nut I take it you haven't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang then? @urban75 U75 (and the bbc for that matter) are fine from NZ Being spiked with rohypnol after a massive drugs bender and having EVERYTHING stolen - clothes, money, passport - San Francisco #TTOT Woo hoo! Sold my first set of calipers for bitcoins! I am a committed radical etc. German Greens beat Conservatives http://bit.ly/fG6E5v If we learned anything from Wikileaks it's a) we can't trust cloud services and b) we especially can't trust them from cowards like Amazon Amazon Cloud http://amzn.to/fRIAm6 "Never worry about losing your files again" (unless you're wikileaks, in which case you'll lose the lot) It's bad you know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzC_rGX-XyM Self Portrait #312321 http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit12.jpg it's a lot easier to break out than it is to break in. Woo... finally got golden-mean affiliate thing sorted http://bit.ly/eTSIDR Roll up, roll up, get your loverlee gadgets here :) @marie_clair Go have Pizzas at SPQR in Ponsonby. My main AKL pilgrimage location for some reason. Another self-portrait of self, fractionally less flattering than the previous one http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit11.jpg Middle East conflicts could pose serious threat to UK http://gu.com/p/2z4v3/tf elsewhere, UK a threat to Mid East security for 100s of years Machine sentience @f136 a fighter jet engine on twitter, quoting politicians in favour of itself (RT @bruces) @guardiannews blandly reports industry piracy lie as though it's a fact http://gu.com/p/2z3hq/tf gets trashed in the comments. @TRoNSHeRaLD It wasn't this woman was it? http://bit.ly/icblqg @jameswragg He's a regular at all the cafs/bars round there. Almost has a 50s vibe - like a teddy-boy on some fairly strange acid. Self portrait of self http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit10.jpg @jameswragg So do you know... what he is then? I used to see him about the place. Unusual character. Repairs corrupted index. Database-Analystism is the fine-art of knowing how to do shit. @joshr but I think the roots of this particular ill go way down. Down to the way everything is heavily biased in favour of lenders. @joshr part of the thinking it may be, but it's quite flimsy thinking. Copycat Something-for-nothingism basically. @joshr Yea, but focus on exit-strategies rather than actual value created is total bubble behavior. @nikz I mean it's become "the audience"... and that's good, but the majority of the things you do that are worthwhile, you don't do online @nikz I'm gradually coming round to the notion that we need to actively minimise time online. @PhilipBloom Speaking of vertical formats, my first ever vid http://vimeo.com/18389212 < the heart of darkness etc, quality takes 2nd place @JosephHurtado Bullshit - climate-change deniers are idiots - I gave up trying to argue with these people years ago. Don't be one. @umairh it sucked - but at least it wasn't $1000 a gig, which is what venues in LA were charging. It's kindof beyond feudal. @umairh but there's worse - when I was playing in London back in the late 80s, the venues would make us pay to play. Usually around £50. @umairh re: McJob - that's how the music biz has operated forever - unpaid people killing themselves to get noticed. @Johnny_Marr I think they call them Jumpers in Australia. @Johnny_Marr in NZ we call them Jerseys. Mind you, we call togs togs. @rinkjustice As it has in any occupation - going back forever. That's what this is I think. A type of occupation. @davestone Wikipedians censored me once. I don't give 2nd chances. @davestone ... of the groundswell - and my cause it to grow etc. The catalysing event that provides the leverage generally happens elsewhere @davestone revolutions generally happen when groundswells of sentiment break surface around a catalysing event. A protest is an expression.. @davestone That list doesn't include the 1381 poll-tax riots, which did have the desire effect, in a very messy way (if memory serves) @JPBarlow Because of a panel you were on about 6 years ago, talking about IP industries vs digital hezbollah, which I found flattering :) Andrew Stroud is on TV. He's my cousin. Or my Dad's cousin. Something like that. @sanitybit @mikkohypponen actually, I start counting from -1. Just to be on the safe side etc. Radioactivity soars in Japan reactor http://aje.me/fXPMCW while(from a safe distance) nuke shills scour the web for proof it isn't happening Mini recipes http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/dining/18mini.html @JosephHurtado http://bit.ly/dk0f5v @PennyRed You were one of the only reliable news-feeds coming out of the riot du jour. @charltonbrooker @umairh unfortunately, off-message though it is, the .04% bit is the most interesting bit. @rinkjustice and these corporations still pay zero, or piss-takingly low levels of tax on (massive) profits they do make out of us. @rinkjustice same in the UK - theoretically "We" now own Royal Bank of Scotland... who still pay huge bonuses to loss-making execs @rinkjustice No - it just transferred massive wealth from us, to them so they could (conglomerate a bit more and) carry on as normal. My advice would be to nationalise the useful functions of banks. As to the rest, reduce them to rubble and bulldoze them into the sea. Bankers still being paid massive bonuses as reward for skimming the entire surplus that society generates http://bit.ly/hCx0y6 Ooh... Canada's repugnant right-wing govt collapses http://bit.ly/iiYNQ7 Watching stuff kicking off in London. Feel like I'm missing out. That's the trouble with not living in the UK. You ARE always missing out Yea well. It's still more constructive than watching TV http://bit.ly/aPFyLR http://bit.ly/5WTA53 @cshirky #cognitivesurplusmisuse Owls. Genius http://snuzzy.com/burrowing-owls-cutest-bird-ever/ Those fuckface little car-crapping-on birds have been at it again. "That's why birds / suddenly appear / every time / I am near". Cunts. @Twit_nut for me to rent my own place in Wgtn now costs ~$18000 a year - the absolute maximum the market can stand. It's derivative slavery @Twit_nut Arms sales are how Britain manages to keep a seat at the top table... but it's basically just derivative mercintalism, and slavery @Twit_nut "fighting for democracy" is what the US says to justify "killing for neoliberalism". The Great Game has become privatised. @mrjudkins Malkovich - absolutely fantastic - when you listen to what he does with the lines he's given... totally off the talentometer. Ooh. "Bring It On" is on. What's that then? (checks IMDB) : "A champion high school cheerlea" // interest lost. @freitasm that's why I'm utterly dependent on experts such as yourself who I can ask "So what should I be thinking about that?" @freitasm Read? More? Are you mad? I already read so much that i can't take in anything longer than about a paragraph. @inkblotsart hi @freitasm so... they're just monitoring the traffic from a couple of big corporates? Ok - I think I get it now. @freitasm I don't get it... they're "filtering" 500,000 people? http://bit.ly/hvH2HF it says: "half a million users being monitored" @freitasm So is it true (what tv3 news claims) that 500,000 NZers are being "monitored" as part of the web-filtering thing? @rinkjustice wear your wolf outfit. @rinkjustice I'd say 15 minutes either side is acceptable. 20 minutes is starting to take the piss. More than 30, forget it man. @leashless Arse indeed my friend, arse indeed. @Twit_nut It's a bit tricky (or very easy) going to war with Bahrain - 20% of the land is US military base. Last night (3am) is when I discovered wordpress upgrades overwrite the default theme. For. Fuck's Sake. @umairh Other than that I'm with you :). It's not a recession, it's a heist. It's "economic occupation". A type of derivative enslavement @umairh It took three centuries to build New Zealand? The Maoris were here for about 600. We don't feel that noble to be honest. @estheraddley Yea, there's software you can download to a PC I like movies where non-English bits aren't sub-titled. If they don't understand it, fuck em. My own incomprehension is a small price to pay @Aiannucci . #swearyremakes Fuckface. (formerly Scarface etc)(thought I'd clarify that) @mat_walker the eyed each other, narrowly. Phil Goff is doing a sterling job, being interviewed by a total fuckwit. @CaseyContrarian Just sit there. Laptop closed. Boredom is under-rated. Good motivator, and gives you headspace, to reflect. Perceive. @CaseyContrarian Last day or two, whenever I've found going into a twitter loop, I've set a 10 min timer, forced myself to be bored... @neave the "market" in domain names has created a situation where the whole language is ring-fenced by people wanting something for nothing @neave Exactly. Here's a game: Think of ten fairly common words... look up the .com. Betcha that 8/10 are squatted/owned-but-not-used @JPBarlow Amory Lovin's take on alternatives here: http://bit.ly/dONmUY @JPBarlow Coal/Nuke is a fake dichotomy much-beloved of the Nuke industry because (with head-spinning surreality) it makes nuke seem "clean" NZ Govt monitoring 1/2 a million users? http://bit.ly/hvH2HF There are only 3M of us. Why the fuck is the govt spying on 1/6th of web users? 7th day of hard-won sobriety, spent (in part) by the slow realisation that my Internet addiction might be doing more harm than alcoholism Really USAF, there's no need - there are enough head-up-their-arse morons to cover this without spending loads of money on it. In aid of lying to its own people, the USAF develops software allowing one person to pretend to be 10 idiots at a time http://bit.ly/htRdn8 @JPBarlow If you don't think Chernobyl was Chernobyl google "chernobyl deform" images sometime. Meantime,stop shilling for the nuke industry @jon_hirsch This photo http://bit.ly/hLD8mL doesn't really show how bizarrely out of place it is. All cobblestones and medieval etc. @jon_hirsch see the blurry blob on the corner? http://bit.ly/hxgBwE that's a car.. engine-running 24/7, for years. Russian Embassy, Estonia O M Fucking G. @tvnznews just had a clip of a hair-dresser explaining how his new creation was like the ChCh earthquake.. calm and rough etc That's me in the corner http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/cornerhippie.jpg The mantelpiece at my Folk's place http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/mantlepiece.jpg covered in treasure. Ah, The @tvnznews - which is going to be nothing except the ChCh earthquake forever. Right now, a piece about children going back to school @robshepherd Quite a lot of trouble to go to for an effect that's so seamless that normal people wouldn't even notice it. @robshepherd Ah, the old double-skinhead caper. Trying to figure out how they did the zoom/dolly with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQJPUTQMqA @davestone Libraries - Librarian aviaries basically. @vallie It's more of a calling than simple enjoyment. Anyway, how come after 42 yrs Gaddafi only got as far as Colonel? Guy lacks ambition @vallie That's not a #war hashtag I see creeping in there is it :) Warped wallpaper http://dornob.com/warped-wallpaper-custom-printed-to-wrap-doors-decor/ actually a bit creepy Anyway - got my ears sorted out earlier. They're now as they should be - one on each side etc. @peregrinari7 @GeordieGuy Yea, exactly. Likewise anything "funny" done on April the 1st, isn't actually funny. Portrait of The Artist as a middle-aged teenager, doing what he does best, which is pose in front of the mirror http://bit.ly/eOtIJX @jimboot by "mainstream citations" I mean independently reproduceable test results. @vallie that's what I mean about emotional/panicky. It's all about "genocide and desperation", for which you want to scrap international law @jimboot Well that seems ideal - no objection at all... do you have any mainstream citations for it working? Because I'm dubious @vallie Genocide is the killing of an entire ethnic group isn't it? What is the death toll so far? More or less than the US killed in Iraq? @JPBarlow I didn't realise you co-founded the EFF. One of the 3 orgs that I donate to. Cool. @vallie Yea, well. I mean no harm, but that's the way it seems. @vallie What genocide? @jimboot I know what LENR/fusion is - I'm just asking if it works? @vallie I'm Bitter/Cynical - you're emotional and panicky, in the face of a very complicated situation with potentially bad consequences. @vallie Not propping up dictatorships. I have mixed-feelings about no-fly-zones - but am well aware that they are an act of war. @jimboot No. Why, does it work? @vallie What that legally this is war? Um... because that's what according to international law it is. Your "opinion" doesn't come into it @jimboot but that wasn't your point at all - no mention of CC or Nuke, just (knowingly misleadingly) repeating the "Warming vs Change" meme @jimboot Well it figures - Pro-Nukism does seem to be a stage of climate-change denial. When all the other stages are exhausted. Anyway - sitting around waiting at the mo... expecting a confrontation to arrive at my doorstep. Been dreading it for days. @vallie although a "coalition of the willing" engaging in "operation enduring freedom" is a little more lyrical, albeit the same thing @vallie Christ. You should go work for The Pentagon's Euphamism-Writing dept. The Ministry of Truth or whatever it's called. @vallie @Wary12 Actually, Kuccinich is one of the few who aren't nuts. I think you'll find that legally and practically, you're in a war. @jimboot plug your objections into this http://bit.ly/ZYHKG I try to not engage with climate-science deniers these days. @jimboot And the thing about science is that conclusions aren't drawn on how you "feel" about it. @jimboot It was misleading - you didn't mention CC at all, instead used the million-x-debunked tea-baggoid "warming/change" meme Israeli jets attacking their own people http://on.msnbc.com/eM2U2O Can we have a no-fly zone over Israel please? @ballardian And Monbiot manages (again) to avoid talking about CHP which Lovins, Greenpeace at all are advocating. Fake-dichotomy man. @jimboot deliberately trying to mislead to make your case doesn't reflect terribly well on your case. @jimboot But you knew that. @jimboot Increased energy trapped in the system leads to more extreme weather conditions. "Warming" isn't as descriptively accurate. The Great Correction, spreadeth... Civil (and corporate) Disobedience as instant, default reaction to any and all institutional sclerosis Hey, everyone in the whole world except New Zealand, have you seen this? http://bit.ly/hIs7qE Raaarrrrr @j4ngis it's hour come round... slouching towards Bethlehem to be born... but abandons its car in an M6 traffic jam + winds up down the pub @j4ngis it's like entropy, but instead of disorder, reality just can't be arsed keeping its shit together. @j4ngis I see The Big Bang more as a kind of Great Unraveling. @j4ngis Every problem is pregnant with its solution; within every solution, a memory leak. Inside every seed a tree-weed. It's a zen thing @peregrinari7 Reminds me a of a thing I wrote when I was losing my mind a while back http://bit.ly/fgl6LX @samfarrow (a tangential thought-associative-leap to the media on communication) @samfarrow Did you see the one on the news this evening about the bullying video that "went viral"... which they played about 80 times? @peregrinari7 It's not written in blood is it? Probably not The Bloke Without The Pearl Earing http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit5.jpg No-Fly-Zone actually a no-walk-zone as well http://bit.ly/fL3KtE @rapella David Simon, American Empire http://bit.ly/xCljm < what is changing is that the US too, is becoming an occupied country. It's not for democracy, or even for oil.. it's for neoliberalism. The first thing the US did after invading Iraq was impose draconian IP law The US Empire is really a global corporate empire with the US military as enforcers, and its people duped into thinking it's for democracy @joshr Dude, it's 1 o'clock in the morning. You're not allowed to be making potato salad at 1 o'clock in the morning. You chaps in England probably won't like this (apart from @yezzer) but I think it's brilliant http://vimeo.com/7652564 (LOL etc) Who the fuck is responsible for all these fucking bent "trade deals". Let's get rid of them. US wants to take an axe to New Zealand law http://is.gd/DfJqmG < can't we just stop talking to these fucking people? @rtgarden keep seeing mile after mile of flooded/flattened towns - and we're spending trillions fighting evil beards - who didn't do 9/11 @rtgarden Maybe it's a 3rd-Culture Kiwi perspective - we've had back-to-back disasters here for about a year, pausing for Aus, Haiti etc.. Just saw that Solomon Kane. Brilliant in a grimy Elizabethan, zombie-swashbuckling bodice-ripping way. That chick's in it. She's ok I think FFS : this is why China in its current political state is totally, socially unsustainable in the 21st C http://bit.ly/gRrL4F Sclerotic. @tom_watson @LabourUncut I feel the same - very very guarded support - at least partly due to the logistical impossibility of an occupation Fucking hell. Funkadelic meets Charlie Chaplin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePSqOsMskWQ I've become convinced that the old lady next door is encouraging birds to crap on my car. Don't know why; don't know how. People are weird @SkinBintin I find supermarkets a bit daunting at the best of times. @Twit_nut fav pic from this evening http://bit.ly/f7oyOw driving through the burbs with a very dusty windscreen. @Twit_nut Cool :) It does my head in how different lenses can be. I thought the camera never lied :) @kalena As far as I can gather @SkinBintin is ok :) So we're beginning to find that fucked-up shit happens all the time... disasters etc, and we don't need world-cops so much as world-firemen My front room this evening http://bit.ly/hjV0l7 If the windows of perception had a bit of a clean, we'd see things as they truly are. @gapingvoid He spoke Latin? Classical education etc. British you see. This is the supermarket carpark I parked in earlier when I went to the supermarket http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/carpark.jpg I'm so used to my (UK) govt fucking things up that I'm just boredly waiting for the recriminations over missing the 2012 Olympics deadline Well I watched it, but I will now deliberately and specifically avoid buying whatever it was trying to sell http://bit.ly/ex0sAI Because they are. Hardly any institution has the transparency that is required of it to be legitimate, so they try to cover things up People really ought to take for granted, than inquiries into institutional incompetence will always follow any big disaster. @jordantcarter Marion St. Always a frustration - think you're going to get a park, but get diverted miles out of your way when you fail. @chwthewke @rlove except when the nuke plant leaks, which they're currently doing at the rate of about once a year. @EMSL .. leaves the biosphere as deep-ocean sediment... which (also as far as can gather) takes decades rather than 100s of millions of yrs @EMSL Methyl-mercury (the boo-accumulative form) has (as far as I can gather) a H/L of around 2 years, Elemental mercury cycles - and only.. @EMSL U-235 has a half-life of 700 million years. It's the poison that keeps on poisoning. To compare the two is dishonest. So are we actually going to count the number of people that we kill? Like we "failed" to do in Iraq? To see if we're making things worse? Mind you, we hit Baghdad with about 800 - in "Shock and Awe" which is Englander for "blitzkrieg". Still. Ra ra etc. Oh. I thought a no-fly zone meant no-flying, not raining hundreds of cruise-missiles down on ground-targets. That's more like... actual war. @rlove @xkcd @EMSL and that chart assumes no accidents, which globally, happen at the rate of about 1 a year http://bit.ly/gQFmvu @rlove @xkcd @EMSL how about radiation dosage of living near a mine? http://bit.ly/h3b81E based on cancer-rates? rather than untested maths? Nuke is an disaster, even without accidents http://bit.ly/h3b81E Millions of tons of radioactive crap... "in other people's countries" @AmericaFreeTV ... something to pull it around - end corporate control of campaign finance. Until that happens, you're going to get wars. @AmericaFreeTV tell you what, America is looking fairly terminal. It's going to take someone (like Nader) who actually stands for... @AmericaFreeTV That's totally bent logic - there are 100 different causal things to blame the war on, bu you choose a peace campaigner? @AmericaFreeTV What? Ralph Nader has Iraq on his hands? How? @robmanuel @yezzer christ, there's a whole subculture of "shopping cart identifiers", who also like nazi teaspoons. @robmanuel @yezzer Customers Who Bought This Also Bought "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America:A Guide to Field Identification" @AmericaFreeTV @GabyVerdier Although Ralph Nader does actually have a point. Mouse-trap sensor http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/catseye2.jpg The Last Boy Scout - which looks like Standard Bruce Willis faire, but it does have some fairly impressive acting in it. Anyway, I went out earlier and a mosquito bit my foot. I don't know what they think they're achieving by doing that. It's just mindless. Moon from the pavement outside my place, New Zealand http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/moon4.jpg St Patrick now overlaps more with Dionysus than his Xtian name-sake - tho both (I suspect) have a common-ancestry: "an excuse to get pissed" Free vote in Egypt... well... sort of semi-free http://ind.pn/fg15hX this phase is possibly trickier than the overthrow I think Web 3.0 never really happened did it? Hate to say it, but I'd almost say that "Web 3.0 didn't happen, Apple happened". jQuery UI theme http://bit.ly/d4uLDo HTC Android Thunderbolt rooted/freed on same day as release http://bit.ly/gXVjll Moving from Flash to HTML triples the time users spend on site http://bit.ly/hLrjB1 < Scribd is worse than PDF. A prophylactic technology @clarecurranmp sorry :) - bit obscure. I was just thinking of that story, and it seemed apt, maybe. Good coming from bad and all that. The man in the iron tank http://bit.ly/hIxrwa @clarecurranmp #brightside This one http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/dobro2.jpg Off to the studio tomorrow, where I'm being forced at gunpoint, entirely against my will to record some guitar. Mouse-catching thing http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/toscacat3.jpg Started out as fun, but is turning out to be the fight of my life http://bit.ly/eWaud5 in veritas. My sister, and friend, in Sydney http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/maria-sydney.jpg I guess it's quite clever scriptwriting - to be able to turn something where the entire plot is implicit in a single word, into 120 pages. Anaconda is on, which is (presumably) about people being eaten... by an Anaconda. @Twit_nut apparently you can get rid of the yellow tint with UV light - ie: leave it in the sun, but I quite like it. Has a dreamy vibe @Twit_nut I think it might have been - 55mm 1.8 takumar from my Dad's old camera. Less of a yellow tint than the 50mm 1.4 .. was answered by an extremely small child, dressed exactly the same as I was. That was my last day of delivering pizzas. Never went back. Waiting for the Pizza delivery dude. I used to be a Pizza delivery dude - they made me wear red overalls and a hat... and one day the door.. This is where I wish I was http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/taupo1.jpg probably in some sort of rehab clinic The swamp I visited last week. Mordor in the sun http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/swamp.jpg @JPBarlow yea - one of my countries (NZ) has a bad history with introducing rogue species. I think gen-eng might be hard to resist though @JPBarlow I think the future's probably gen-eng algae, the gen-eng bit being to do with easing oil extraction. Couple of years out I'd say @JPBarlow this is primarily for you http://bit.ly/ho76Q0 sorry for going all spam-oid on you. I was totally drunk. I'll be quiet now. He lived - I think. But people don't quite often - that as a landscape, all those people in all those wards. It is unreal. It's real. THE lasting impression of nearly dying last year was the guy with cancer in the same room. Don't think I'll ever get my head around that one Right, time to face the day. Talk to my bank people. Get a porta-coffee. That sort of thing. Drive about. It's 2011. There are things to do Virgo: Last night you drank 3 bottle of wine and went a bit mental on the internet... but it wasn't as bad as it probably should have been. @sobri Ah - understood. Please accept my most sincere apologies. I was arguing with imaginary people in my head. @davestone No worries :) I was off on one last night - for what it's worth, everything I say is in the spirit of drunken hilarity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26BI1kJdkk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dasTl7zsUoE ten years past. What do you do? We don't come from different countries any more. You know what wonders me? English peeps going of, fighting the fascist in Spain the 30s. I am so bored and disenfranchised. I'm there. @davestone I can't describe how incredible that is - it's Patti Smith turned up to 119. @davestone http://bit.ly/gx1chy it's like coronation street. There's nothing like it. Seriously. Incredible @davestone but... I grew up with North Oxford Bikers (LOL) Jesus I wish I was back there... whatever. I don't know if you can get this: @davestone . on geek fraternaty, there's about 4 people worth staying in touch with.You are one, and the only way I stay in touch is twitter @davestone Aye, but each time I look at friendorfollow.com... you're not following. Which would be cool... but.. out of the whokle brigh... @rtgarden I don't even know what that means. Did you have deeply conservative sock parents Did one of you fuckweasels say something about trixies shoulders? http://bit.ly/dL4c6k we gon come round to yor house AND FUCK IT UP cunts @JPBarlow Check this man , I know I complain about nukes... but if you give this time, its fucking cosmic http://bit.ly/486maR @leashless what. What? Was that a 140 chr soliloque? Even I can do better than that. What do you want? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6R5cXxxM8M @rtgarden I think we're doing a lot of art now. We're just not seeing it, because we're blinded by commerce. @rtgarden I think "film" is the pinnacle of the art. But 9 times out of 10 its pissed up the wall. Entertainment? Fuck Entertainment @davestone Every time I look at freindorfollw.com it hits me like a broadsword in the solar-plexas you aren;t follioweng me. @umairh So whatchooo gonna do, Marat. push the boat out? @yezzer There's not even a proper video of this http://bit.ly/hSVFvo I was never good at this. never good. @JPBarlow don't slip back @JPBarlow Dude. I am your children' generation : http://bit.ly/h3rNt7 you did insanely good. Don't slip back @JPBarlow ... and just because some astonishing literate and articulate guy said it rolled back, don't mean it's gone. @JPBarlow ditto, names reversed. The only thing we disagree on is nukes. I think. You know that high blue wave? I'm part of that.... @CarolineLucas We... peoples, are behind you like an avalanche... a waiting. Don't let up, don't back down http://bit.ly/QbFu @JPBarlow Do you eve listen to the people who talk to you? @JPBarlow you got to talk to the people that talk to you. It costs so little and it means so much. Plese. its easy man. @JPBarlow this is cool dude http://bit.ly/aHaVUr listen to that. it's fuckin cosmic. What do you want to do innit? Just sortof breed. With people. good. people. or. interesting, but mainl;y good. The greatest work of art of the 21st C (so far) was The Wire http://bit.ly/hFnQ67 affirms an betrays. @JPBarlow ... but I am, one of the digital Hezbollah. Please, please, please... stop being for the hierarchy. Please. @JPBarlow dude, the reason I follow you is you said ONE presicenent thing a couple of years back... and I'll follow you for that... @GeorgeMonbiot Stop supporting nuke yer tossweed. I've talked to you about this before. Just stop. It's not coal/nuke @Aiannucci knowledge is porridge. Every time I see that I die for about an hour on the floor. Comedy efc. LOL @gleonhard it is monumentally, fundamentally important. To us, our culture. But corporations? I'll fight them til I fucking die. @gleonhard Nick Cave (or Hunters and Collectors) (aussies) won't sell their songs because peeps get marred to, and are buried to those songs @gleonhard ... are crap at doing it on our own. Most of us can't even make music. So what's the deal? bribing radio? Getting gigs? @gleonhard re: labels. (aka: middle-men who look after musicians), now... as a musician and a fuckup. We can't do it. We (musos).,.. @gleonhard , what say you sir? @gleonhard whereas you and I both no, that will only happen if they corrupt our govts enough to legalise root-level DRM @gleonhard My main worry with you Gerd, is that you make a living presenting the status quo, with a future, where they... exist @robyngallagher sorry about all the cobblers before. Felt a bit passionate etc. Still do... but the loquacity has, jumped rails :) @birgittaj aye birgitt, birgitt, birgitt [B] I love you much - but what do we do? Declare war Libya? And not Israel? Difference is? @Twit_nut we are bossless, you and I. (st Patricks day not part of the.. ting) We are bossless, and have earned our bosslessness. @Twit_nut aye. Don't apologies to a boss man, or even have one. We are... white men, you and I http://bit.ly/2DnQ4 ... @Twit_nut but sometimes it's better for head-below-the-parapets companies, not to know where their... creativity comes from. @Twit_nut I am - specifically, deliberately and consciously a head-above-the-parapets kind of guy,,, @Twit_nut don't forward emails to people where I tell you I'm drunk ?:) @Twit_nut they went off and fought the fascists in Spain, our people. I feel... passionate, but misdirected. I feel like killing fascists. @Twit_nut in the top 10 best gigs I've ever seen, and I have seen thousands. And his record company deletes his best stuff from the web. @Twit_nut but then I was so in love with her dad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLWR5rRfs4 @Twit_nut Yea. Croyden face-lift as well. Her best song has been deleted by her record company. http://bit.ly/f8gQ3y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sz2ep-QAzc&t=2m42s Pling pling pling long.... pling pling plong. Belgian girl. Slightest trace of American Anyway - the lawyer I was faced with today was a clever guy wasn't he? I don't even think he knew what he was doing. Cunning fucker @sobri it's not the same, and please, please don't try to pretend that a nuke accident is the same as a flood. What is the matter with you? @sobri re: Japan has lost 1000's, so nuke is trivial : no nuke is not trivial because it creates a cancer-zone, forever. @kronenbird Aye. Not there. I was in court, wearing my court outfit. The judge dismissed us. Cursorilly. @sobri This is the guy who just retrofitted the Empire State Building http://bit.ly/hhsWFl < Come fucking on. Nuke is a failed technology @sobri ... urers in the world are also media conglomerates, and nuke-power station makers. It's a fucking stitch-up. Was before, is now. @sobri I-a-cherry-pick, you-a-cherry-pick. yer fucked mate. The only thing you've got going for you is that the major weapons manufact... Twitter's fucked. I'm getting about one tweet per-enemy tweeter, per hour. I've broken fucking twitter. Only my own tweets are coming through from the last hour. re: Karl Pilkington. I think Ricky Gervais is a bulling arsehole and his sidekick is just a sidekick but Karl is ok. I like Karl. Jesus - the only tweets I can see from the last 10 minutes are mine, which prob means I've been banned in some way, or everyone else is gone I swear off face book for a month and when I come back, some blithering wank-weed does this http://bit.ly/hxwjQ3 Id ee ots. For some reason this song always reminds me of mice, sneaking round the house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0 @robyngallagher (sorry, bit ranty. I'm a committed radical) @sobri @robyngallagher but that doesn't decrease in any way the horror of Chernobyl, or what appears to be happening in Japan. @sobri @robyngallagher ~30 people in NZ die a day from cancer, probably smoking... probably not flying. Bigger than Chernobyl. @sobri @robyngallagher but this time round there's an army of nuke-industry shills echo-chambering cherry-picked "facts" to us. @sobri @robyngallagher Never underestimate the power of denial. We were lied to about this (video) as well http://bit.ly/gqtIqa ... Cool. Goal achieved http://www.indiegogo.com/jeniferever that was my idea etc, I take full responsibility, though $2600 is way too low. @stilgherrian but I suspect it might need to be "good" evil, if you know what I mean. Sin and that. Proper sin. Not just fucking up. @stilgherrian A friend of mine (old and wise) once said "to keep a karmic balance you need to as much evil as good" I don't know why that's the case - but it's true. With kickstarter/indiegogo projects you get massive spikes around multiples of 5 10 and 20 Hal Hartleys catalogue for $200 may be too cheap, but buying culture now invokes charity-circuits, which use multiples of $25 and $50 I wish there were fewer cooking programs on TV. Maybe I should just watch less tv. Or eat more. Or less. Or do more exercise or something Hal Hartley on "the business" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8bDM0Aa_14 Fuck it. I'd buy his entire dvd-catalogue for $200 Coronation St is on. I can still remember the time when Val Barlow died. Hairdryer. They played "keep on running" in the background. Virgo: You'll find it hard, it's hard to find, oh well, whatever, never mind. @DecafKoffee @jasonjordan This http://bit.ly/hulby7 The blonde one is the jumpy one. I thought was incredibly funny at the time. Asphyxiated @DecafKoffee @jasonjordan There's a Hal Hartley movie where someone defensively/hastily says "Jumpy women are great". That's how I meant it. @DecafKoffee @jasonjordan Philip K. Dick was a fantasy writer. Limitless looks like American Psycho with all the humour removed, but at least it's got Abbie Cornish. They should give her lead roles Japanese Govt deny likelihood of molten core melting through containment, and all the way to the earth's core, blowing up the entire planet Prince William is on, looking rather smart - almost as if his mum dressed him - although in light of how she dresses herself, perhaps not. The News generally tries to conceal the fact that 99.999% of the world's problems are created by 0.0001% of the world's population: Leaders. The News is on. You chaps in England won't have heard of The News. It's a TV program about a never-ending serious of fuckups and disasters In car with stripey shirt, talking to imaginary friend http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/car-convo.jpg They locked it in a packing crate for 6 months? Jesus. That's inhumane http://truthisscary.com/?p=13610 Right. A glass of bubbly to celebrate getting through the jury-duty process without being convicted of anything. I'm free. @rtgarden .. agreement as to how reality, at a simple, logical level works. It's an impasse, so I stop talking. It's hard with family tho @rtgarden I've spent so long arguing with conspiracy theorists, that the these days the convo just short-circuits to a fundamental lack of.. @rtgarden LOL, my sis "believes" all that haarp cobblers. There's absolutely nothing you can say that might allow any rationality to intrude Mind you, his head / body size-ration seems to be out of whack http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12763273 @JPBarlow And it's not elegant and well-reasoned. It's based on the acceptance on the fake nuke/coal dichotomy. @robshepherd B' b' b' but... what if no one liked me? Japan's got an Emperor? Why hasn't New Zealand got an Emperor? @JPBarlow "the companies running it are a corner-cutting bunch of scumbags, whose business originated as a by-product of nuclear weapons" @yezzer + in the case of GE + Westinghouse, are also media-conglomerates. Weapons, media-consolidation, nukes. Want them running the world? @yezzer it's incredibly stupid from about 5 different directions, but govts are in thrall to nuke-corps (who are also arms manufacturers) @yezzer it provides the excuse for weapons proliferation; we don't know what to do with the waste we have... which costs uk tax 1bn/yr @yezzer it's monolythic design in an era or rapid tech-change, which is (as a programmer you should know) is really bad systems design. @yezzer Nuke = privatised profits, socialised risks. You (yes you) underwrite the risks because corps refuse to... while claiming "safety" Virgo: You'll spend most of the day in court, eternally distracted by a faint stain that you noticed, too late, on your shirt-front. Full of stars http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1djnsFiZ1qh809co1_400.gif @samfarrow Note to self: Write messages to future. Rags-to-Riches stories have one purpose: To justify rags. And I'll tell you another thing: I'm sick of hearing about Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are overrated. "people who try to enrich themselves" Japan battling to contain nuclear catastrophe; reprehensible Nuke-shill wankshites battling to contain truth... from a safe distance. @DecafKoffee That is totally my fav Elton John song - in a guilty-secret sort of way. @DecafKoffee Exactly http://bit.ly/c8Illc genius. Insane backing-vocals/arrangement - It'd be psychedelic if it wasn't so disciplined. @samfarrow I think I'm sentient now dude. Hey Americans. This guy could have been your president http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjKvnI7cd8 Actually, anyone interested in renewable vs nuke should watch http://bit.ly/hhsWFl < talk from guy who retrofitted the Emp.State Building @stwange storage of Nuke waste in the UK alone, costs the taxpayer around 1 billion quid, year in, year out, forever. @stwange negawatts is the vision of Amory Lovins http://bit.ly/hhsWFl who's company recently retrofitted The Empire State Building @Twit_nut And (like many of these mega-corporations who now own our democracies), run by criminals http://bbc.in/i4wG1b @Twit_nut - or did... they're fucking everywhere, but always shifting and changing. The Brighton Incinerator row was them. @Twit_nut Vivendi is an interesting one - set up by one of Napoleon's kids - now owns everything from Hendrix to the California water supply @Twit_nut But there is this thing called the Internet - and a population that is now talking amongst itself. @Twit_nut Basically yea, big corporations now are essentially banks - they're into lending/owning rather than making. 10 reasons to tax corporations http://bit.ly/dJpHCk < because it is essential we bring these monsters to heel. @Twit_nut Well... CBS is owned by Westinghouse/British Nuclear Fuels... it's NBC that's owned by GE, who designed the reactors. @JPBarlow legal perspective on using force here http://bit.ly/fR1Usz The US breaking international law hasn't in the past worked very well @JPBarlow Yea - the trouble is, we can't just go declaring war whenever other countries start killing their own populations. @Twit_nut The UK media have been pro-nuke for years. Weirdly CBS is tweeting quite critically, despite being owned by a nuke company. Well, two hopes tonight - 1) that things stop going wrong for those poor people. 2) that this kills the nuke industry forever. I know I keep going on about this, but I totally love this chick http://bit.ly/dL4c6k fukin cool man. Starts 1/2 way through mind. Nuke industry lobbyists all over the Washington aristocracy http://bit.ly/ePBK4P like flies on fly-food. @DecafKoffee @Shoq @brandibax The nuke industry refuses to risk paying its own cleanup costs. Claims of "safety" are a lie, and they know it @lordtrilink If you ask them to walk in a circle they'll walk in a straight line. Or a smaller circle. Life's like that sometimes. Nuke industry lying, fuckwittery and irresponsibility http://bit.ly/i5JRrL < no surprise to anyone - Pro-Nukers simply won't hear it Erm... Anonymous does not have "close ties" to wikileaks http://bit.ly/eo1Xf1 < shame, the guardian was doing quite well for a while there. @stwange nuke is environmentally friendly? Yea apart from the waste it produces - currently being dumped off the coast of Somalia. @stwange ...dirty and dangerous tech owned by corrupt corporations - all the while passing waste costs on to our kids. @stwange A fake dichotomy? I'd prefer proper investment in renewables, and negawatts. And not be locked in for 60 years to some @JPBarlow and that's ignoring the really BIG problem with nuke - it's top-down... maintaining existing, murderous corporate power structures @JPBarlow actually, Nuke Superstitionists are people who try to make out that nuclear reactor explosions are OK. A faith-based position. @Aiannucci "AAAAARRRGGHHHHH ARRRRHHHGGAAAGHHHH" etc. "AAAARRRRRGHHHGHHH ARRRRRGGGHGHHH" and so on. #thingstoshoutatrugbymatch Sorry about the puffin. @patrickdixon There are ~22 million Australians @MAMK Like a cross between Minority Report and Kafka, but with talking paper-clips enforcing labyrinthine DRM restrictions @MAMK which (if you're of a writerly bent) ain't a bad idea- a space/sci-fi series where no one can get any of the fucking computers to work @MAMK Aye... that's something that Star Trek never predicted: How incredibly frustrating technology can be. @MAMK but to tell the truth, "is IE working?". I really don't fucking care any more. I feel sorry for crap softwarers, but come on. Move on @MAMK I use Linux. I feel sorry for PC users as well - mainly when I have to boot into Windows to check IE is working. While NZers may live longer than other nationalities, a far larger % of their lives are wasted, because the internet is so fucking slow @MAMK As far as I'm aware, the part of you that feels sorry is your brain. My brain feels sorry for things all the time. All the time. @JPBarlow Jesus dude, if Nuke was safe then the operators wouldn't insist that the taxpayer underwrites accident clean-up costs. John Key's late-to-the-party neoliberals have a carte-blanche to do whatever they like, because @tvnznews simply won't report it. @tvnznews still milking the ChCh earthquake - probably not going to report anything else (except sports obviously) for the rest of the year These are the media/news outlets owned by the same corporation that designed the Japanese nuke reactors http://bit.ly/g3eyR5 @vallie For what it's worth, CBS and NBC are both owned by weapons manufacturers. The others - Time/AOL, Disney: Huge conglomerates. @PJCrowley You shouldn't have resigned. Everyone should have resigned except you. Vivian Schiller? PJ Crowley? What is it with liberals resigning for telling the truth.We need to drive a fucking bulldozer through this crap Don't know if this makes me like Charlie Sheen any the more http://bit.ly/gSGdrC , but it does uptick my regard for Brett Ellis Easton Anyway, I went down to the court but they didn't want me. Or anyone. "Not today, LOL" they said. Bah. Owsley Stanley @stilgherrian Indeed - for you and I belong to that far more exclusive set - the meta-bleaters. @GeorgeMonbiot I do sincerely hope so. "Believers" will never change their minds, but this might make the $ side of it unworkable. Weird being up in the morning. It's actually a beautiful time of day - pity I feel so fucked up and disorientated (but in a bad way) Awake before 9am - which NEVER happens - because I have to do Jury duty. A'm the victim here. Probably won't be selected. All dressed up etc Shelled chestnuts earlier. @JPBarlow I save power by leaving the fridge door open. @JPBarlow but the fears about radiation quickly dispel. The radiation itself? You see those pyramids? Our radiative waste will outlive them @SimonHume I wouldn't advise it, no. Classical music. It wrong-foots them. @SimonHume The only sure-fire way to dispel chavs is to play classical music to them. They flee like vampires from the sun. @SimonHume Those are the little chavs. There's always a massive one at the end that's a bastard to kill. My going to court outfit is now the same suit as my going out on the piss outfit. My proper grown-up clothes no longer fit me. nobody cares about #sxsw nobody cares about #sxsw This year, last year - was the year that The Cloud proved itself to be untrustworthy http://rww.to/etVZcx @vallie When people talk about "the world" intervening, they mean "the west" (to avoid confusion). I don't think they mean Russia or China @vallie The context was "the world" (which essentially means the west) and you said "He's a feral animal and should be removed" @vallie and you are clearly more confused than I am. Your subtext was "outsiders getting rid of Gadaffi". You then pretend otherwise. @vallie Perspectives on intervention http://bit.ly/f5mkrk : re: me apologizing. The tweet-record speaks for itself... Sunday. They folks are off God-Worshipping, which stops earthquakes happening and gays coming to the village. Anyway, I've got to do Jury Duty on Monday, which is totally stressing me out. What if no one likes me? @robshepherd @rapella Ncikwit @vallie and I'm going to call it a day here - because we agree on everything else I think. @vallie 1) You RTed it without understanding it? 2) that's the implication, 3) that was also the implication in subsequent comments., @vallie I was initially responding to ", world waits to act". Did you have someone other than The West in mind? Who? @yezzer There are about 5 other reasons why Nuke is a seriously stupid idea. @vallie Really? I thought that's what we were talking about. Ok. Back to Question 1 then. "The west should 'do' something", What? @vallie I'm trying to say that the consequences of a US/UK mandate to assassinate will probably be worse than whatever it's supposed to fix @StopNukePower @GeorgeMonbiot Because it would be premature? @vallie Quite, but be careful what you wish for eh. @vallie I don't know. Did the Iraqis care? How about the Iranians in 53? How did the Castro assasination attempts work out? Simplistic much? @vallie Aye, but he's killed far fewer people than the US/UK have "spreading democracy". A mandate for us to assassinate as well? Bad idea. @Khel_Naru @vallie - but we really, really don't want a situation where US/UK gets to assassinate leaders it doesn't like. And I'm a Brit. @Khel_Naru @vallie ... power to Western interference. The Mid-East is what it is, because of Western interference. So "do something?" tricky @Khel_Naru @vallie These days I'm finding myself not considering any leader legitimate - but the least legitimate, tend to owe their... American Idol is on - the diametric opposite of what Punk was about... and we're in dire, dire, dire need of more of what Punk was about @vallie Yea, but I keep hearing "The World/US should do something". What? Invade another oil-nation? bomb it? Assassinate foreign leaders? @vallie re: "world waits to act (Libya)", out of curiosity, what do you want the world to do? Here's an idea: Let's nationalise the entire pharmaceuticals industry http://bit.ly/gcHbus @RWW Are you kidding? "Advertising, Advertising, Eccomerce-aid, Advertising". None of those will change the world. @JPBarlow and the nuke industry knows it, which is why they refuse to underwrite the risks (so we have to). Though they will take the profit @JPBarlow The big news is that nuke massively compounds the threat of natural disasters, regardless of us "getting away with it" this time @JPBarlow Yea - energy is going to wind up as a mix of solar, negawatts and gen-eng algae. Bleedin obvious from where I'm sitting. Because copyright is simply too useful as a form of censorship not to keep around. That is (afterall) why Mary Queen of Scots invented it And nuke only happens with massive public subsidies, the profits from which are (needless to say) private. The nuke lobby, with a history of, and an interest in, lying, is telling you nuke is safe. Anyone who believes them is a fucking idiot @edwardvirtually Geothermal? We use that in NZ - not the be-all/end-all. Whatever the solution is, it needs to be decentralised/modular. @edwardvirtually Yea - pro-nukehood is actually a stage of climate-change denial... after "B' b' b' but the Chinese..." God - the anti-assange smear-case is looking like more and more of a fiasco http://bit.ly/fkW5KZ It's not just about saving face now is it? @Swiggs Oh god - did I just say rude things about Hamilton to a Hamiltonian? Ok - you've got 30 secs to say whatever you like about Wanganui @rapella I've got uncomfortably mixed feelings about it tbh. For years I've been arguing against nukes on the grounds of safety. @Swiggs It's a well known fact that the majority of people living in Hamilton are hitchhikers who never did get that ride. @Swiggs The only people who like Hamilton are those who've never had to hitchhike through it. Like an ant trying to cross a pizza. @rapella and Rads is a logarithmic scale, so 1000x is actually 1,000,000x #exaggeration #RT-Bait #probNotInBestOfTaste @rapella Yea - I predicted that people would feel betrayed before he was elected, but I never thought he'd piss me off this much. @rapella @acarvin "Let me be clear" is the same as Bush-era "Make no Mistake". Both mean "Now you listen to me". @Dave_Child I like Non-Language-I-Understand radio, at least partly because there isn't this ongoing intelligence-insult, advertising @robertpopper although I've never really considered myself to be a member of the Goats in Trees Community @robertpopper First learned he could climb trees was when I was up one myself. Turned around, there was Ali Baba. Nearly had a heart attack @robertpopper Oh yeah. I used to have a tree-climbing goat when I was a kid. Ali Baba. He was a bit scary actually. I totally love it that Fred Goodwin is trending. You probably haven't heard of him. He's a banker. @LettersOfNote @rapella - actually that was a bit of an exaggeration - 3m-4m... about the same height as the wave. @LettersOfNote @rapella - yea, the Tokelaus are only about 1m high. I think Tuvalu is even lower. A 2m high wave would finish them. I can't believe "Godzilla" is trending. I'm not sure if that restores my faith in human-nature or not. The reporting we're getting here in NZ reminds me of the Vietnam war. ie: via helicopter, no talking-heads. Just footage of horror unfolding @Johnny_Marr Aye, but which Friday? This? Next? Just how far behind are we? It's a worry. @robyngallagher you're not anywhere tsunami-prone are you? The news here is sporadic... but there's talk etc. Of tsunamis. Japan. Too scared to say much else right now. Fuck me we have a lot of disasters these days - waiting, next to the crackly twitter wireless AOL + Huffpo = negative 900 jobs http://bbc.in/goG962 Weird how fast Huffpo turned into a poster-child for corporate scumsack-hood Every new laptop I get, always winds up doing something I really, really fucking hate. Bad design evolves at the same speed as good. Teaparty lie-bot training video http://bit.ly/gEhvSv < check out the size of those camper-vans. That's what billionaire funding gets you @joshr if I try to get the train from Wellington to here, someone has to pick me up at 5am from a town 30 miles away. @joshr Well yea - used to drive me mad as well... but in NZ, if you don't have a car you don't go anywhere. Fred Goodwin uses law-for-rich to stop people call him a banker http://bit.ly/fCLdGu < But not a "worthless cunt". How strange. @Twit_nut Muppet I think. IP Maximalist, which is never a good sign. Now sony have given her her own label to manage. @Twit_nut I had to get up early because NZ hotels have bonkers checkout times. Morning!. Idiocy - and driving all day takes it out of you. Went to bed. Got up again. Can't be bothered. Up and about. Round the house etc. Things to do. Pottering pottering in endless night. Alien fossils http://dvice.com/archives/2011/03/nasa-researcher.php#6 Suddenly I feel tired. So very, very tired http://ind.pn/ftIKWA Normality descends, like a wolf on the fold. The GOP is seriously, seriously fucking America up. Hitting the road again. I think I might move into the camper van actually. Now that the weather's getting colder. @rtgarden Really? Haven't they got... like... "Jobs to go to" or something? @rtgarden The CIA is mucking about in art? How, and like... why? @leftfutures Absolutely I'd march with the police - they're our police... and it's really important that they know and feel that. When I said bottom-right earlier, I meant bottom left. I'm in NZ. It's the other way round here. I'm behind the screen, looking out. @rtgarden ... created the greatest piece of American Art this century, or for several decades, whichever is longer. @rtgarden re: Artists and "The 400"... back to the Medici model then - though David Simon wrote for "the other America", and arguably... Portuguese govt colludes with old IP industries to trap Portuguese into committing crimes http://bit.ly/dTXGCR "to influence public opinion" James Cameron is on TV talking about 3D and the future of film... which is like fucking "YES" talking about the future of music in 1977 There's some cunt (in favour) who's excuse for "there's no reason for it" is "it's complex". It's not. It's about sucking up to the pentagon There's an Australian TV debate about the merits of prolonging the Afghan War. The ignorance is almost cartoon-like. Sic transit Gloria Mundi http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/sunset18.jpg Boat leaving scene, bottom-right http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/omg.jpg This is a photo of a duck I took earlier http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/duck.jpg I don't have a problem with ducks. Lasted 1 night without internet. Cracked, checked into hotel. View: http://bit.ly/eRTHQo Note black swans next to prestidigitating machine It is common-knowledge by now isn't it? That EVERYONE who is anti-gay, is gay... but hates themselves? http://bit.ly/hR7unl @Prycie I reccomend listening to podcasts... quiet enough so you can only just hear what's going on. eg: http://bit.ly/AojvR @rapella Yea. I was trapped without the internet, on my own last night. What do you do? Sit there like a broken laptop. For some time now a computer without web access is pretty useless. We've moved on. Now a human without web access is pretty useless Making movies of these yesterday : http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/sundew.jpg Right - into the valley. Off-grid. No 21stC communications coverage. Or 20th. No phone, TV, Radio. "The electricity" needs figuring out I think I took some good films of sundew flytraps. They're tiny though. I had to lie down in the swamp to take them. In a restaurant in Ohakune. It is good to be here. The higher I get the calmer I feel. This is the first time I've felt normal in years. Ah. This is what you get when you vote for loveable bungle-headed buffoons http://bit.ly/gFClpW Tories? LOL. What are they like? Right. Off up the mountain to do Viking stuff. Sounds extreme - but it's not as extreme as the damage being done by the corporate-takeover of the democratic process going on now. Here's another one: The CEOs of corporations that hire govt lobbyists to manipulate the democratic process go to prison. Here's a counter-idea: Any corporation trying to manipulate the democratic process is put out of business on the spot. No trial, no excuses Fear Mongering and Delusional Piracy Report http://is.gd/8yfF88 < corporations lying to get the law changed in their favour. Again. And historically, the ruling classes have only accepted reasonableness when we really, seriously put them in a jam. I could go with that http://bit.ly/fRVrnW : demands re: tax / uncut etc. Obviously I'd want to scare the fuckers 1/2 to death first though Excellent. New Episode http://bit.ly/hBExLG The 2011 Oscars appear to have bucked the Hollywood expensoid trend - Two films for < $13M kindof... "won it". - and looking for these carniverous alpine flowers that live up that way - sundews. Little ones. I'm going up the mountain tomorrow - movie reccying. Given that 400 Americans own more than 150,000,000, how many people is the green column actually "helping"? http://i.imgur.com/KZFQa.jpg @Formulate kindof judgmental I know... but for me the care that someone takes with emails is like Van Halen's MMs http://bit.ly/a2blUh @Formulate reply politely but keep them at a distance - I've found it's not worth taking on clients who are bad written communicators. God I wish I had more products. I think tomorrow I'll go buy a load of products. From brands. To give my life a point etc. Woman with pram laughing at tear in space-time continuum http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/orb1.jpg Whenever I've said "this isn't a recession, it's a heist", I've always thought "Am I hyperbolising?". Apparently not http://huff.to/gALRuB Yesterday once more http://i.imgur.com/oMdgU.jpg @paulo_one If I was an animal, I wouldn't volunteer either. I'd hang out in a field eating hay all day, or live in a tree or whatever. @paulo_one It's not enlisting them, it's conscripting them. London actually has a monument to "fallen" animals, none of whom volunteered Huffington Koch. You'd have to be SCHEW-PID not to see that one coming http://bit.ly/hdAGzx < Do Not Sell Your Friends. It's in the bible @jamiepotter @leashless - that'll be the same J.P. Morgan who tried to stage a facist coup just before WWII http://bit.ly/e37Wr @gapingvoid Art is the stuff we bother to keep - forever. If it's not art, and 500 years later we've still got it, it becomes art. @j4ngis Good ones only need to be 1/2 baked. Anything worth doing is worth doing badly - which I happen to think is true. It's not just me then http://ind.pn/g1Arb5 only Matt's mild-mannered and polite, whereas I'm the opposite of whatever that is. Sometimes Tomorrow I'm ringing up Atlas Specialty Metals to enquire about some specialty metal. Stainless Steel mainly. @Twit_nut the other thing of course is that the T2i has a 3/4 sensor... which means if you want a 50mm lens, you need to use a 35mm one @Twit_nut Yea, it's great. I can see myself being sucked into the vortex though and spending about $10,000 on Zeiss lenses Golden cat etc http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/tosca0_1280.jpg @Twit_nut Yea - sorry, I meant this http://bit.ly/e4rXJS @Twit_nut because the one I've got gives this nice golden vibe... but you don't always want that http://bit.ly/gj9GQ1 @Twit_nut I hardly ever do anything in post - knock the contrast up a bit maybe. I think I'll need to get another takumar 50mm 1.4 @Twit_nut I've got a couple of simple UV ones that I use about 1/10th of the time. Need to get one of those faders http://bit.ly/f8eVnZ Jesus http://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/03/tea-party-racist-scum.html @Twit_nut The thing about wide-aperture lenses (eg: 1.4) is that photography suddenly becomes 3D - due to shallow depth of field. After the rain - about an hour ago http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/after-rain.jpg @leashless You should wear a disguise. Don't disguise yourself as me though. That would be swapping one set of issues with another. This is the first band I ever saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw Little computer block things http://bit.ly/f8eVnZ In spite of last night's stupidity, something really good did come of it - someone's said I can use this fantastic bit of music for my movie Rainy Sunday in NZ. Rain dripping off leaves. Tosca has come to stay again - sleeping on the sofa. The folks are reading books. Virgo: Mildly hung over today. You'll tweet that today is a twitter-free day, but somehow manage to be wrong about even that. Twitter free day. Apart from this one. (removes violence inciting nonsense written night before.feels calmer. better for it etc.) MLK thank you, good night http://bit.ly/6dZAx5 @yezzer I practice when no one else is around. offski Now I just feel violent, but I'm from the north etc. Not a big fan of cake. This is what she was translating http://bit.ly/axEXyM in a perfect, soft-Boston accent. The galaxies were further away. Longer ago. Virgo: Today you'll mainly sit waiting in the car - and the parking ticket fucks won't come near you, which is... slightly annoying My entire life could have been simple and good, if I hadn't chosen the complicated and bad option every single time. There was this girl... younger than me. but not much. daughter of one of the professors, sitting on my bed, translating - and I zagged I should have zigged @rapella How about micro-not-giving-a-rats? @joshr @daveston ... I went to Norway I was banned within about 5 minutes (Thompson's fault) but I miss it. The fjords etc. @joshr @davestone God I miss Norway http://bit.ly/gXR16C This band obviously aren't from Norway etc... and to be fair, the last time... @joshr @davestone ponse-weasels All the people I met tonight were boring. Bor.ing. It's boring around here. I've got to get my shit together, and then I need to leave. You know those ads that appear at the bottom of youtube videos? Nobody clicks them. Not one single sale has resulted etc. @yezzer Aye - often the way - but there's probably a equal but opposite stuff I should be embarrassed about but don't remember myself etc @johnmcdonnellMP @robinturner Yea. What. Fucking. Ever. If Blair/Bush & their coterie of clowns isn't prosecuted, the whole thing is gesture I mean if you're totally disenfranchised (which we pretend we're not, but actually, we are), what are you going to do? IP law is so arbitrary and confusing now, if someone tries to sue me now, I'm just going to kickstarter a thing to hire someone to kill them I think I've just had some really, really good news. People are ok. I like people. Individuals. They're fucking brilliant. You don't get that shit by practicing. It's either in your first-layer-of-blocks lego, or it's not. Check out the guitar player on the left http://bit.ly/1zQQ7s he's having a turkish etc, lol Art is the only thing we bother to keep http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/2560/Jacques-Louis_David_Death_of_Marat_1793.jpg @gapingvoid nobody's going to #sxsw Aye, complicated - Derivative slavery. It's a prisoner's duty to escape; it's a slave's duty to kill their master. Do what thou has to But back in those days, being poor wasn't a life-threatening condition. My solution is stop paying rent, and when they complain, kill them One of my main claims to fame is that for about a week I slept on the sofa of this house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uRjbE9qFU My Dad has left an hangover-help note on the kitchen table. Jesus. There's so little he knows about the hell to which I'm a connoisseur. Friday, I'm quite dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACvarFcyrtA < Alabama Chrome. @adactio Aye, well. ICE uses (etc) tools to hunt pirates http://bit.ly/fRXejZ < yea, and I've got nothing to lose or win but I'll fight them til I fucking die @yezzer the whole thing was in the spirit of Scottish-Welsh, anti-english drunken bonhomie (french word) etc. But still. A bit guilty. @yezzer I still feel incredibly bad about referring to you as a terribly Welsh cunt about 3 years ago... but the Internet has forgotten it. Try and find a tweet you made a year ago. It's gone, gone gone. I was once paranoid about "nick taylor cunt" It's gone. Everything I said. re:"everything is immortal on the Internet": Bullshit http://bit.ly/5WsmI is the version that some cunt has "improved", the orignal has gone Sushi? Excellent. Admittedly you can't eat it with your entire face like you can with pizza, but you feel like you've got a grip on reality LOL - check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXEsCRLsPuk fucking mental. Fuck "high fidelity" or dubbly or whatever I challenge any guitar player to listen to the opening notes of this without smiling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams @gleonhard @neilperkin @jamesbromley So how is that different from Diaspora? @leashless or just... shifting what was going to happen anyway, forward by about 5 years @leashless Assuming that actual people live in Saudi Arabia, it's got to self-correct. Don't know it that's the end of the world. When you're really fucked up, this can be a proxy for gravity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE Chatsworth http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/chatsworth.jpg you'll see it again. @umairh about 1 a million views... or over. I think there's a lot of us. But you know... what do we do? we're kindof... vague. everywhere. @umairh Brain-deadity of biz, put to song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQrhA6QtWOM < real skill. Hi, btw. In Tallin, Est (my home away from home) there are TWO Depeche Mode theme-bars http://bit.ly/bLGYMr I lasted about 30 secs in one of them This is probably the best song ever written about waking up with... http://bit.ly/O3Lxx ... well... this http://bit.ly/h8VPFb To say "I come from this country", makes as much sense now as "I come from this village". I think we come from a planet now. All of us I think we're seeing the initial, opening moves of "The Great Correction". We have things to correct. Pretty much all of us. My uncle Harry was a POW... and he was funny - he smoked roll-ups and laughed and joked... but he never ever talked about it. #war. My Mum was telling me earlier, when her dad's generation came back to NZ from WWII they never, ever, ever talked about what had happened This is what I imagine my facebook friends look like http://bit.ly/gxaSbs these people bug me out man. I wish they'd take a chill-pill. This is my lawn http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/back-lawn.jpg @SadekHM Nae probs. So far in my life I've only met 2 Egyptians, but they were the funniest people I've ever met. Whatever. We're with you @SadekHM So how are you doing? Are you ok? @Twit_nut get a little 50mm 1.4 takumar lens http://bit.ly/dY5edd they turn everything into art. Beautiful. @Twit_nut Big camera. It's fair to say that the little pixie Canon T2i I bought has changed my life. Photography is now 3D. It's amazing I think I'm going to go get drunk etc... but... I'm not sure if it's the same. Every one is so much worse than me when they're sober. Excellent - I don't know who this guy is, but I like him http://bit.ly/fiRJxg With a little more twinkle in the eye than you necessarily wanted to see #winning He-sa shooting star racing through the sky like a tigah defying the laws of graviteee http://bit.ly/9JuB5n but like, in a bad way #winning Went out and stood in the rain earlier... something to do innit. Then came back inside again. Something else to do. Thai govt attempts to pay 80,000 tons of frozen chicken for an F16 http://bit.ly/gqGIzv Barter. I wonder what the tax deal on that is. Bubble http://reut.rs/dUP2li Facebook could disappear just has quickly as MySpace, and frankly, I hope it does. Right. Off to get coffee, and into a fight with external reality. I haven't been drunk in over a month so feel together and on top of things With no offence intended to Egyptian friends - but at least they can see which direction they should be headed in. They're not 180° wrong That is the end-point of neoliberalism. If you cut social-spending to zero, so a wealthy elite skims the rest, you get a 3rd world country There was this documentary about Egypt on last night - polluted, corrupt with horribly exploited, helpless people. All Republican policies. The US Republican party basically wants to turn the US into a 3rd-World country http://bit.ly/gnfZLN @paulsilver Yup - attached to the power-pylon. There's a kingfisher that's semi-attached, who sits there most days. Dives off to catch stuff @Twit_nut Cool - what did you get? Sunset on my road this evening http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/sunset2.jpg @rtgarden When Warhol died, his estate was worth $600 million - which in those days was considered a great deal of money @tvnznews's modus operandi : Only let up on saturation-coverage of a disaster when it can be replaced by another disaster. Neighboring town's called "Bulls". Someone changed the sign to "Balls" which is so funny I had to pull over to the side of the rd to recover Virgo: Today you will go down the post office, then you'll come back. You'll notice that spiders have started building webs inside your car @robyngallagher Exactly - but without the anti-veil law, you'll never know. They could be empty. Or be filled with stolen pies. You seem them in Oriental Parade- posh jogger-mums with prams covered against the sun - like tiny Muslim women with wheels. What about them? I'm anti-everything as much as the next man, but this http://bit.ly/ei1aEL over a few 100 (prob quite inoffensive) people seems a bit much @EduVulture Beer hats, LOL. Genius. For a hat to be on a par with Relativity, or Calculus or Natural Selection or any of the stuff Leonardo did, it would have to be MASSIVE I'm not sure about John Galliano being called "a genius". I mean what does he do? Design hats? How great can a hat possibly be? @rtgarden Portisheadphones @ddefranza @TreeHugger "what do I think?" What... that the couger being extinct is somehow a matter of opinion? Today is a twitter-free day. Apart from this one. @madhavaji I'm not sure that that is ineffective tbh. It speaks volumes... and is viral. But hey - I'm going to single-handedly end the drug war - I have Jury Duty this month, and if it's a drugs case, I'm going to boycott it Normally I'm on the side of the UN because their detractors are fascists, but in this instance http://bit.ly/gSpArb they can just fuck off @leashless LOL - I love that bit of acting at the end. Technologically it's another story of course. Kindof. Time is speeding up, but culturally it's kindof slowing down. 1940-1960: incredible change, 1960-1980: still incredible. 1990-2010: fuck all The time between my band and this http://bit.ly/dPaVIW is less than the time between my band and now. Time-dilation man. It's weird. @robyngallagher "fuckup" being a verb rather than an adjective, though I gather there's often an overlap. I meant the former. @robyngallagher Proper star,like Larry Hagman or Keith Moon or Jim Morrison. Thr's too much professionalism in showbiz. We need more fuckups @robyngallagher he could make his own reality show on the web - at point-blank range, with no censorship or editing. @robyngallagher Reality shows are all about selective-editing - quite a safe format. He's (potentially) so much bigger than that Charlie Sheen. Brilliant - a proper cross-over star, where is actual life is funnier and more interesting than his... "work". For the first time in... forever, I don't have anything hanging over me - but I still feel like stuff is hanging over me. @JPBarlow http://bit.ly/axvjYm but you know, flexibility is the thing. Viggo Mortensen is on TV. He's the genuine article. A proper actor's actor - cursed with a dramatic looking face, which upstages his ability Just bought a massive box of wood-wool, and I can tell just by looking at it that it's going to be the messiest shit in the universe. Shifting-seas of ad-homina http://bit.ly/haliSH I've never heard Julian be anything other than pedantically precise, so I'm with J.A I think Got this stuck in my head http://bit.ly/2XVUGo Hard to overstate what a national-treasure this guy is. @pawpawSally when I was 11, I needed to pretend to have seen Jaws to survive in the playground etc. It was a jungle out there. A jungle-gym Actually, this is exactly how hideous as I'd expect the fashion industry to be http://bit.ly/gyo6aB @themediaisdying If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Personally, I'd change the name from "Piracy" to "User-funded-distribution". @Twit_nut My mum's a teacher - absolutely hates it - because when kids "draw stuff" they tend to just copy what they've seen on TV Our system is so heavily biased in favour of lenders rather than producers, most major corps no longer produce. Because it's small businesses that create most of the jobs - and are less divorced from the business of actually getting stuff done. Very large companies pay lower rates of corporation tax than smaller businesses" http://on.ft.com/hDKLbT < should be the other way round @TRoNSHeRaLD So where's that then? I love this guy http://bit.ly/i4xECd @tvnznews should have 1 night a week forcibly confiscated - show this instead @CitizenBomber But looking back - banning TV was THE best educational thing my folks did for me. Apart from teaching me to read etc. A2 Robinson Crusoe? When I was a kid, TV was banned from the house - until I was 15, and we lived in the country. I never saw cartoons Stop Rupert Murdoch http://bit.ly/dWuuyD < this is what he's doing to America http://bit.ly/eIXpSA @nzlemming mind you, some fucktard was talking about using them for prison cells last year, if memory serves. @nzlemming yea - retrofitted shipping containers are a staple of trendy design firm blog-fodder. They look totally cool. Top idea. I think @umairh Reminds me of Edward Norton's 25th hour speech http://bit.ly/9PzaxT which is weirdly compelling though faintly non pc A5: Age 14 - Korean restaurant in HK - all the women working there thought me and my bro looked like little dolls - huge cuddly, stroky fuss God I miss this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_m-G2fCCY0 we were so innocent then. Sigh. Inbox zero; Outbox infinity. Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars. Virgo: Today you'll have "I Will Survive" stuck in your head, but not in a good way, ie: while pottering about in the shed. Inappropriate "fabricate information to blackmail journalists" CEO loses job at the hands of Anonymous http://bit.ly/i28zJG < which, IMHO is not enough Now that the Whanganui River has been de-polluted, people fish in it. This river http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/bridges.jpg Dinner tonight. All caught, grown and cooked by my dad. We are a simple people http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/fish.jpg What do the Middle East revolutions, #uncut, Wisconsin et al have in common? http://bit.ly/e8OheM they're all a fight against neoliberalism Trade Union leader suggests the UK taxes emails http://is.gd/D0Q6Kj < internet suggests he go outside and count the moon or something Everyone's watching the Oscars except me. I know I don't win anything, what's the point? Well from this game, I'd surmise that banks and landlords are the enemies of humanity http://playspent.org but then I already thought that. Learning how to use Git, on account of that being the kind of guy I am. Virgo: Today you'll go out and buy some epoxy. Later you'll do some epoxyin. Yesiree, some epoxyin. Because it makes you feel like a man. @olleolleolle Douglas Coupland - genius observations stuffed like styrofoam chips around a plot. He makes me feel all warm inside etc. Normal people can be quite frustrating. @olleolleolle Is that like a fire-circle geek-trance? Have you read jPod? I think our minds work differently. From normal people I mean. @olleolleolle it can be quite overwhelming. @olleolleolle Tribal Belonging - if they're like me it'll be the first time they've seen another human face to face, not via a laptop screen @peregrinari7 @dannolan @kmacgillycuddy Maybe, but if a headline ends with a question mark, the answer is usually "no". Brian Cowen http://bit.ly/i0USHV totally looks like Molesworth http://bit.ly/hTfj9U @stwange we live in towns and countries, not businesses.If businesses want to operate, then they can contribute as well, or fuck off and die @stwange but with regards tax being anti-free-market. Tax is what we (democracies) use to make our societies worth living in. We contribute. @stwange We don't have free markets for all sorts of reasons, the main one being, we're forced to use fiat currency @stwange all this "free market" bullshit is just a corporate attempt to avoid responsibility and democratically accountable oversight. @stwange No, they were invented in the 15th/16th C by aristocracies, so they could take a percentage of monopolies, that they enforced. @stwange Corporations do not have a god-given right to exist. They were specifically invented to exploit monopolies gifted to them. @stwange Not if the competitors in a "free market" aren't acting as a cartel. If they are actually competing on price. Virgo: So you'll buy one of those aerials with a magnet on the end, and then you'll come home and have lasagna for tea. Virgo: Today you'll wander for hours in the maga-DIY-mart not remembering what you're supposed to be looking for, but looking anyway. LOL http://i.imgur.com/6szuV.jpg Hypocrisy of British courts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQngeCBJT6s re: wikileaks and harbouring torturers / mafiosi / war criminals. @stwange take a look over your town - picture the money... time/lives siphoned out by banks, never to return. It's fucking obscene @stwange it's small / medium businesses that create jobs. Banks are primarily parasitic - based on a flaw in the design of the currency @stwange And it's a way of controlling wealth disparity - which is (as we are seeing) a serious threat to democracy. @stwange and because it works. It's a workable way of collecting revenue society needs to operate, without hammering members of the society @stwange Corporations should pay tax because they use far more tax-funded resources than individuals I would still support Obama against his sociopathic rivals - but his administration is soooo far south of adequate. Soooooooo far south. That on its own should be enough to bring the govt down. That is so much more important than the Lewinsky thing. The Obama Administration told largest bank in America, where to find a corporate hacker to fabricate information to blackmail journalists Absolutely brilliant. Colbert on Bank of America's attempts to smear wikileaks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZVL24rGY0 @paulsilver Geez. Get better. What's brought that on then? So that's Lloyds paying 0 tax, RBS 0, Barclays 1% - lets go Henry VIII on their arses, break the fuckers up and take (back) our assets. He's a highly skilled fisherman is my dad. He's a fish-whisperer. Obviously he was the only one to catch anything. That's the way the world works in Huckleberry-Finn land. Went fishing with my dad earlier. First time since the 20th Century. Pro rods: http://bit.ly/hCPl9m Dad's fishing rod: http://bit.ly/gJTvAk @robyngallagher Oh god I hope kids rebel against this sort of crap in a really majorly tectonic, end-of-epoch sort of way. Yea, yea - fuck off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P81bb0Tzwbo < whoever made this was a bunch of cunts. They should make a separate Disaster Channel, then make a program with current events and whatnot and call it "The News". TVNZ news well and truly into disaster-milking mode. They won't stop until they've interviewed every single person in the whole area. Back in Wanganui, sitting under a laptop in the living room - as though nothing happened. But it has. @rapella Tell him he's being arrogant and that's not how evolution works :) Another example of Monsanto / Govt cheating the public for private profit http://bit.ly/hc1qU3 < we need to bring these people down. A heist in progress, in pictures http://bit.ly/gxmcXO @rapella as you wish. @rapella no arrogance required. The French pamphlets weren't exactly high-art. More like 4Chan. @rapella Nah, it is a comparison of patterns. I could have used any number of others, but the original point was about twitter. @rapella it's a question of patterns rather than compatibility. People find new ways to self-publish, shit changes. Always has. @N3W_Media @rapella The French/Bastille situation happened with a rash of satirical pamphlets - the twitter of the day. Another victim of the earthquakes... TVNZ crushed under hundreds of tons of cliches, milking it badly already. Our hearts go out to them. @JerryKetel http://diocletian.com http://valerian.com http://commodus.com germanicus.com (nero, julius, claudius legit though) @JerryKetel Yea you should. 9/10 times a random word it will be domain-squatted http://augustus.com http://tiberius.com http://vespasian.com @thebrockoli @robyngallagher but I think the truth is that "disasters" are badly, badly over-played media events. People are becoming inured @thebrockoli @robyngallagher yea well... in the space of that week, the NZ death toll from cancer will be triple that of the quake Shock Doctrine in Wisconsin http://nyti.ms/dStFrU < we really ought to be looking to "get rid" of oligarchy completely. @rosspruden I think we're in a transition from a top-down, non-participatory culture, to something else. What's missing is good writing @rosspruden It's not that "free content" is unsustainable, it's that "culture that requires $10,000,000 x n" is unsustainable. @leashless @bhuga I've heard that in the US, more people say they want to write a book than actually read books. Virgo: Today you will be running around organising screen-printers and drinking coffee. When you get home you will sit outside. Cicadas etc The Royal Family is this weird mix of real wealth and fading power, with a father-christmas puppet-like facade, for old ducks and children. Reminds me of Wuthering Heights - utter dysfunctionality, only resolving in the next generation http://bit.ly/gtFcV1 If it does. Resolve. @samfarrow Why congrats :) @edwardvirtually from a mainstream POV anyway. The reason I'm not interested in mainstream youth culture is that I've seen it all before. @edwardvirtually but it's sad - that the basis for generation-gap is not "young people are crazy/threatening" but "boring/unoriginal" @edwardvirtually Google Leif Garret sometime. That's who all the girlies were in love with when I was at school. It comes; it goes. Wakes up. Gingerly sifts through news feeds to see what fucked up shit has happened to my planet today, before getting coffee. @yezzer FB for me is the people I know there (rather than an app), but social media has become a substitute for... getting my shit together Why does this fucking wanker even exist? http://bit.ly/hnyplJ @Twit_nut The thing about disasters is that they're media events, and I'm getting to be a little bit sick of the media. @Twit_nut I've got total disaster-fatigue to be honest. Even for something as close to home as this. Unless it's personal, it's abstract @Twit_nut Corporations don't fund wars, taxpayers do. Arms/News producers are the same companies. eg: Westinghouse owns CBS. GE owns NBC @Twit_nut tvnz news loves to show people crying. Go to Aus for 2 wks; no news-crying, then bang- last day, loads of people crying. All kiwis @Twit_nut And the UK news is relatively good. I absolutely fuckin HATE the TV news in NZ. Which is still better than America. And that I guess (apart from videos of cats) is what youtube et al are for http://bit.ly/hMAuj3 Pope to be charged for crimes against humanity in the ICC http://bit.ly/golEgt @videojon Yea, nobody goes there in winter. It would be a waste of sign That whole "using Libyan money to hire foreigners to kill Libyans (with weapons we sold them)" is fucking repugnant. President takes time off from fighting 2 (illegal) wars to tell Libya to stop violence http://bit.ly/hy2dGT @inkblotsart Exactly. Be the sofa you want to sit on. Or one of the cushions. Just had some custom-cardboard boxes made earlier, on account of that being the kind of guy I am. Am now buying wood-wool. LOL - top bit of religious nuttery from NZ http://bit.ly/h3Ohoq Barack Obama tells Gaddafi: Libya violence must stop http://gu.com/p/2nb7y/tf < yea? how about not propping up fucking dictators any more? @hackaday For some reason I read that as "self congratulating water heater". Which would be cool. For... 1/2 an hour or so. Just posted statement quitting facebook. I'll leave the account there for now - but I ain't using it again. US Air Force tendering for "persona management software" http://bit.ly/fGsDDd < presumably to attack their own populations @Twit_nut NZ - utterly shattered though. @JerryKetel Pretty much every drummer I ever played with loved Steely Dan. Curry in a hurry for tea. It simply doesn't get any better than this... unless you've got coke, and I've got coke. @rosspruden @jeremydbell @mmasnick yea - from time to time I'm forced out of Linux-land into Windows... and Eulas. It feels unclean Beautiful bright, blue and mercifully cool day in New Zealand. A relief to be back weirdly enough. Back in Wellington. There's a thing on TV about the new Irish diaspora. My generation diasporad anyway - not because we had to, but because we could afford to @nobledesign Yea - it's all gone a bit too exciting really. Big quakes in NZ are "when" rather than "if" though. Still. Nightmare. @nzlemming Yea - I'm attempting to dry my socks using the heat from my laptop charger. It's quite primitive really. @nzlemming I'm in Sydney - some rain got on me earlier. @nzlemming Yea - his entire family were due to head there tomorrow... will probably stay home now I should think. My Brother was in CHCH when it went off - apparently ok, en-route to Darfield etc. In Coco Cubano in Kings Cross because there is free wifi, so we are happy etc. It's raining but we don't care. Nickwit 1 : Rain 0. @tom_watson Yea... when I read that I was thinking "I don't know David, maybe it'd be better if you like... stayed away?" Sitting on a plastic chair in the corridor of a hotel that really ought to know better because there's no fuckin wifi anywhere else. The guy who fucked up the internet http://bit.ly/ylyD Virgo: You'll spend all day trying to find wifi connections in Australia, and then you'll have a vegeburger. And maybe pizza. @normnz @nzlemming No I'm not kidding - Rickets is a vitamin-D deficiency - that's why kids in mines used to get it. @normnz @nzlemming I'd managed to get the impression that the reason rickets was back is that parents don't let their kids out in the sun Marooned in Kings Cross. Free Wifi that apparently only works when I boot into Windows, which is an affront to everything I stand for. Sydney. It's so hot here I can only go outdoors for about 10 minutes at a time... 3 times a day. Not what I expected. US weapons company (involved in Guantanamo) paid £150m to run UK census http://bit.ly/fDeF8l < instant boycott, no questions. @Twit_nut I will :)... when it's live @Twit_nut Ta. Should be - thought I've got a site going live... kindof right now. @Twit_nut Steak and chips (it's that easy). The day was both mildly traumatic and a huge relief. Now in a poky room in a cool neighbourhood About time I went out to get some nickwit food I think. Tunisia / Egypt domino effect spreading to... Wisconsin http://wisconsinwave.org/ Excellent - my room has a fan like the ones off Apocalypse Now. Booked selection of hotels in Sydney. God this is exciting. I should have done this from the outset. Just wait til next time. @Johnny_Marr check this out http://bit.ly/fEUXdJ takes 1/2 an hour to get to the point (just an uptick) but when they do it's fucking cosmic Anti Lasers http://bit.ly/hUrinJ @umairh @TheEconomist my education, my hospitals, my labour-rights, housing rights are all what they are because socialists fought for them. @umairh @TheEconomist I don't have a problem with socialism. My life had been as good as it's been because my people were socialists Family relationships crashed so badly I'm going to go live in a hotel. Get an early flight. Away, away. @leashless @umairh - and we actually need to change something fundamentally more mechanical than "meaning". But then I'm a mechanic @leashless the only nagging doubt I have on @umairh's angle is that I don't think "debt-based currency" and "a bright future" go together @leashless @rtgarden "misquoting" is also a British take on humour - probably from living on top of each other. It's a close-quarter thing Right. Time to do a spot of work methinks. This is a bug I saw earlier http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/bug22.jpg The battle for the root continues http://cnet.co/fghw4q @joshr What today? Happy Birthday... if it is :) 13000 (pos 30,000) people occupy govt building - in the US http://bit.ly/hYcjGS < because our govts aren't representing our interests @paulsilver I thought you invented the farm? That's what I've been telling everyone. @LeifKendall Yea - kindof like Boris Johnson. Gearing up for the morning's coffee expedition @LeifKendall Weirdly, some of the funniest and most charming people I've met have been tory "activists". Bright as a daisy. I think I might have gotten something resembling a normal circadian rhythm back. It's easy. Just change countries. Think you've got it sussed, but you fuck it up - because if you don't do it in the first 3 seconds you start pretending to be someone else @rtgarden @ryanfrancesconi I could never understand people who can sing and play piano at once. If I walk and... eat I get lost or run over @rtgarden proper arts-centre rock. I didn't that happened outside Sweden - saw these guys in Lund once - 2 grand pianos http://bit.ly/cyCvKh @rtgarden @ryanfrancesconi really? anything on the youtubes? @rtgarden kids steal more time than an x-box. @rtgarden This is what Chris bought himself after doing VB programming for Ernst & Young for a year http://bit.ly/gELdVG @rtgarden pinned = buying a 2 million dollar "house" in Clapham Common, and then... well, kids basiclly. No more McLaurens. @rtgarden Elliott Smith is my biggest regret. The only celebrity I've actually cried for http://bit.ly/GugI3 @rtgarden I'll never stop loving that guy. One of those people who always butchered his own songs though. Notes Man! sing the notes! @rtgarden in a way I wish I'd stayed... but... I was always bent in a different direction - the more money I made, the more mental the drugs @rtgarden he bought one of those little Mclauren cars... and probably a posh flat. A girl probably pinned him... context. Limited. @rtgarden Yea, that, but sometimes young and fast. But "the game" is the entire social context. Chris was doing 200k a yr doing VB See you there : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YthddZx7gOY @rtgarden but it's not good systems-design. A "game" is no way to run... anything other than a game. @rtgarden I used to work in the city - I know about games... and the mental gravitas that comes with someone really charismatic @rtgarden I think that she (and he) just get so wrapped up in this game, that... that's what comes out of their mouths. I don't normally ring people. Tomorrow I'll try to ring people - as a last-ditch thing. If they're no there, fuck it. Whatever etc. Dour faces from the TV tower and such. You can buy them from "Elephant" - the McDonalds of rare goods. The TV tower. From sunsets etc From my sis's place... http://bit.ly/fVC6pV : http://bit.ly/i4qJoe I just feel like it's the end of the world. You see these people @olleolleolle Dude, it's the 21st C !??! You've got to write each copy out by hand. @olleolleolle You got a self published book? Jesus? Have you read it? How do you find the time? I have never read anything I've written She makes me calm This whole thing's been a fucking disaster. I don't even know what I'm doing here. Someone needs to tell her that the number of people that actually believe what she says is the population of the earth, minus 1. re: Hilary Clinton and "Internet freedom" - is there a way that all 6,852,472,823 of us can tell her she's full of shit at the same time? @robshepherd Yea - well true to character, it's not the fastest or most reliable bot in the world. @robshepherd Good god no. It's just that I've noticed if I mention L e bows ki - an indeterminate period later, a bot turns up. She can play the piano as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sz2ep-QAzc Trixie Trixie Trixie @robshepherd Seems to take about an hour or so. It will come, it will come. @Twit_nut I saw the camping one - but have only just woken up so am a little to untogether to reply yet. @Twit_nut Oh no - I work all the time. I'll be working today. But I'm near the end of a project so it's only 2-4 hour stretches at a time @robshepherd Probably - but if you mention le b ow ski you'll get botted. @robshepherd I used to work up that way - Grimsby I mean. One of those unfortunately named towns is quite pretty as I recall. @Twit_nut Two weeks - In Sydney etc. My sis lives here so I can kip on the sofa. Australia day 2. Feeling a bit grimsby - off to the coffee place in a bit where the make the finest coffee in all the land. @robshepherd See http://bit.ly/eIikqz mention it and it's there etc. Regular as clockwork. http://bit.ly/hPY02b Keepers and computers. Decades still fighting, in the jungle, on our own. And I'm not really a fan - I just listened to that one a lot when I was drunk. A couple of years back. Mental backing vocals. A couple of years back I listened to this 7,411,876 times when I was drunk http://bit.ly/4mL3O8 it was all me. Their only fan. The margin of democracy, the gift of: http://bit.ly/h0pbrH @robshepherd Bots LOL. Say Something about The Big Lebowski - (calmer than you are.... calmer than you are) Bliss it was - you know, in that dawn. To be alive. You chaps in England won't have seen this - kiwi music http://bit.ly/aEQHrM for a single second, the best thing in the universe. @robshepherd It's a single thing meme... I've been working on it in a 1/2-arsed way for over a year. @indy_johar I think the idea of symbiosis assumes we (and the state) are separate. We're not. The state is us, or its illegitimate. I'm totally going to nick the bass of this, this year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefdKLLuHx8 kin cool @robshepherd Apocalypse Now, Deliverance Later #4wordcrossgenreremakes @indy_johar I don't agree man - civil society needs to radically re-evolved the state. You know... first. Before the state does anything It's fairly easy to stop the Chevron case dragging on for years - take the CEOs into custody for its duration http://bit.ly/h2TDc9 Virgo: Today you'll spend running about the place, trying to find ethernet cables and wifi routers and such. Pancakes for breakfast. Anyway, in an apartment over the harbour. Southern stars, and the night alive with nightbirds... ARK GARK FARK they go ARK GARK QUARK etc In Australia. The TV here is marvelous. I feel like climbing into it and going to sleep. If it wasn't a flat-screen, I probably could. @peregrinari7 John Pilger is a star. I wrote to him once, and he wrote back in proper biro. Anyway, I've been sent to Australia. Nothing I can do about it. In a plane. 34000 ft. I think the woman next to me has died. Or... maybe she's asleep. Whatever. I hope they don't lose my luggage. It's the end of the 20th Century... still, and it feels like the end of the 21st as well. In international departure-lounge land, surfing waves of depression. Outside it's clear and bright and aeroplanes are flying about. Karl Rove, and Right-Wing American pollution of Sweden http://bit.ly/e1QKkU @iceMagic The upshot of that approach is really consistent results in IE. I hardly have to check it any more. @iceMagic I'd never heard of zoom: 1 - I've kindof gone in favour of double-divved HTML for the sake of zero-hack css @iceMagic kindof shite that you have to double-div everything, but it solves 90% of IE problems. @iceMagic the key to IE css is <div class="box"><div class="inner"> - "width" set in .box, "decoration" in .box .inner @iceMagic The shittest thing about IE is how hard it is to fix problems when you find them - especially JS/Ajax @mikechitty @indy_johar Really? I thought it was to do with getting people to work for free so social spending can be gutted. Yea, if I was forced into a merger with Microsoft (or AOL for that matter) I'd quit on the spot as well. http://bit.ly/hXRLKu To hot today. The whole day has been a losing battle against temperature control. Melting. Moaning. @umairh one thing in its favour is the bubble-wariness of the people involved. People aren't "being enthusiastic" with other people's money @umairh It's looking like this http://bitcoincharts.com/charts - but it's so small... and early, it's hard to say. @umairh I was looking for bubble symptoms earlier. Bitcoins now has parity with USD... and the forums are worried that they're bubbling @PiratePartyUK Yea - I wanted to use "Crossroads" in a movie - it's still locked up even though Robert Johnson's been dead for over 70 years @davestone For some reason it just flashed across my mind that instead of a blog post, maybe a modern-dance piece of some sort? Tom Cruise is on TV playing pool with Jesus Lebowski. Tom has tall hair. It's the 80s. The future was so bright they wore shades. Had to. Inbox Zero @MichaelShatz @grlong85 You're investing in war (not people) because campaign finance is controlled by corporations. It's that simple. @stwange Nah - I'd have to really seriously fuck up to get banned from there. It was a US based list. Still.. expect they'll be having the same argument they've always had, over and over again until the sun expires - in about 5 billion years So it turns out that 6 months ago I was banned from a mailing list (I'd been on for about 7 years) without realising it. Lupita Xylophoning http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/lupita12.jpg Loads of relos came round, so we got the posh glasses out http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/glasses.jpg @jimboot There's this http://bit.ly/fAXI0J I'm not talking about "reprimanding" or "fining". I'm talking about breaking them up - and prosecuting the CEOs. This (see Mussolini) is what fascism is http://bit.ly/gFDSxU gradually creeping in. We need to get rid of participating corporations @tomcoates Chocolate Fish. My old maths teacher used to use them as bribes. @paulsilver It's quite interesting getting different shapes and sizes. Each and every one a mutant :) Tomatoes from my tomato garden http://bit.ly/hIjMfU - guy up the river specialises in antique breeds... these are some of them. This isn't a recession, it's a burglary http://bit.ly/fIXtfo @jon_hirsch Yea - I was with DSVR for years. With dreamhosts now... not 100% uptime, but charming staff :) @jon_hirsch I removed all my site from that lot a while back - with a feeling that felt like "revenge". 'kin idiots. At last ! http://bit.ly/gnD5Vk Oooh! Offer extended to March 2011! http://www.27bslash6.com/function4sports.html re: Nokia / Microsoft. Not what I would have advised... Nokia I mean. Mind you, not as bad as Huffpo going to AOL, or MySpace to Murdoch Brother has arrived. I expect his dog will probably bark at me. @olleolleolle Well... that's the point I'm working backwards from. @olleolleolle the idea is to produce work of such stunning quality that people think insanity is part of the package, and a small price :) @EMSL I always thought "Digital" was a good name for a cat. I'd probably go for Amos or Oscar though. @johnkeypm Really? I'd say your main 2 goals are to gut social-spending, and sell of our assets to foreign corporations. Maybe the Wordpress download servers are getting hammered. It took about 3 goes to get the upgrade to work. Well that'll be the new Wordpress auto-upgrade failing with a vengeance then. Any govt that tries to impose itself on The Internet is automatically illegitimate http://cnet.co/hZZBie We do not consent to be governed. Down by the river. There's a Tree-Hippie sitting under a tree reading a book, surrounded by ducks. I'm sitting in the car. With a computer I parked the car... walked round the corner, through the double-doors... looked around... placed the library book on the counter, and fled .... aaaaaand... this is why the US population need to do what Egyptians are doing http://bit.ly/fAXI0J @rinkjustice @PayPal Yea - chargebacks are one of the reasons why Bitcoins don't trust paypal or credit-cards @rinkjustice How? Paypal I mean? If bitcoin goes up to 1.2 USD I'm going to start buying them speculatively. Well there's a turnup for the books. My Mum thinks Karl Pilkington is incredibly funny. Virgo: Today you'll mainly potter round doing errands and such, but at least you won't feel like y're going insane, so better than yesterday @RandallFoster (clap clap clap clap) Deep in teh <3 of TX My - Bitcoins now has parity with USD.... been flirting at about .8 for the last weeks or so... now it's 1.088 @rcosgrove Because you used the word "gossip". @rcosgrove But enough from me. @rcosgrove And knowing someone's political views need not rely on "gossip", as well you know. You're attempting a smear of your own there @rcosgrove Yea, but you said 'Assanges lawyers "brought it up"'. @rcosgrove but it wasn't Julians lawyers who "brought it up" as you claimed... regardless of which, it's probably true. @rcosgrove Did you actually read that? It has a retired (female) Swedish judge saying it. More http://bit.ly/gTinY0 @rcosgrove Assange's lawyers didn't "bring this up" if it's true - and it looks to me like it is. @rcosgrove if they wanted to question him that badly, they could have sent someone to England. @rcosgrove I don't agree - I think it's about weird trumped up accusations being used for political ends. He hasn't been charged. @rcosgrove But the thing to be wary of - where we all lose, is feminists trying to make the trial about them. @rcosgrove @wikileaks Well if the feminists he's talking about are anything like the ones at my old Uni, they probably are. And I'm like... digital now, you know? I listen to their stuff all the time from a load of different places, but still need to contribute $ Just punted @jeniferever $100 http://www.indiegogo.com/jeniferever because they're excellent @LeifKendall In-fucking-deed. Same thing in New Zealand. Why are democratically elected governments never on our side? @edwardvirtually Really? I'm not alone then. Thank heavens for that. Layering embarrassment on top of embarrassment - apparently last night I sleep-sung. Who the fuck sleep-sings? It's weird. My - 10x lossless digital zoom - I expect I'll get one of these this year sometime http://www.cinema5d.com/news/?p=5492 My T2i is great. Or attempts thereat. There's only so much you can do. Just deleted friendfeed account - feel bad about it, but the only time I ever used it was post-alcoholic embarrassment-containment sessions @joeysauer I'm off to Australia in a week. In disgrace etc. Until then I'm going to hide under the bed and refuse to come out etc. @joeysauer sorry, massively pissed. Not touching twitter again for a week to punish self etc. whatever I don't even know what I was talking about and I wasn't paying attention. It fell out of the ceiling. Aye, whatever. ( I just wart tae kill someone from the south". Sorry. did you miss out on thatl. I want tat KILL someone from the soputhghg @paulsilver I love you. Srts;y/./ :"9i '''givirifiirirficrifjrifrifj? some of my tyhings ! Yor bri;lesnt adfnd O love3 you/. This is cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPAd6IQSO4&playnext=1&list=PL06EBB7265E3CA983 Where's my friendes Thomspn and such. I'm ready to start writing it off - move to Spain and fight against the fascists @joeysauer Dude, if you want I can make everything very easy. If you want. You know? Life goes on without you in the wake. I nee helps for me peples. They come. I ned them nown. I ne. @SadekHM just ask. Anything we can do @SadekHM Dude, my familes are retired school teachers in NZ. If there's anything you need or want, if you need a place to go... I don't really care man. Whatever. deus Check this you illerates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geEEUELScUs check the bass in the chorus? bet you don't have BALLS to do that @gleonhard and so do you. @gleonhard Sorry, It just looks automated. See this http://bit.ly/blxBUm I wrote that a year ago. I think "smart people" are fuckin stupid @gleonhard You got to stop doing that "smart people" thing. Everyone knows its a bot, no one believes you. Which may or may not overlap with what you think is a "normal day". The thing about living with your folks in a semi-court-ordered capacity, is that as "liberals" they keep a sort of "sense of humour"... @stilgherrian O then why don't you unlame it dude, why don't chew unlame it? Loookayonderr..... Unlame it. I know you can I don't want beatles, or fuckin wire tangling fucks, fucking me up. I don't need that. @SkinBintin Really? Berlimey. It's only 26 here and I'm wilting all over the place. I remember when Summer used to be fun. @rinkjustice Exactly. If I start a job, I don't give up until I fail. Quietly blogs to self http://www.genomicon.com/2011/02/the-realm-of-the-sensors/ We saw this big car with big mean looking blokes with fat necks and baseball-caps. On the side of the car someone had written "pussies" Reagan's legacy http://bit.ly/gRXLG5 < most of the disasters that we're facing today were created back in the 80s. @nzlemming I probably won't reply to any tweets for a while. If this bit of code actually works I'm going to flip out and go mad. #ACTA always was illegitimate http://bit.ly/eXZs4E - and the institutions behind it are untrustworthy / illegitimate and must be dismantled. "You're in a movie." "Really? Brilliant!". "Bruce Willis is in it". "Oh... oh... shit". "Am I... Bruce Willis?". "No". "Oh... shit". Bruce Willis being in a movie is usually bad news for everyone else in the movie. Saturday night, escaped from the pub without having to socialise with anyone and am now watching a movie with Bruce Willis in it. Yet another study showing file-sharing improves sales http://bit.ly/ffG4er Virgo: sitting sweltering in front of a Dyson fan as Earth's energy expires. When the fan gently stops, things will go really fucking feral @TRoNSHeRaLD LOL @yezzer I'd take that a bit further - I'm finding "entrepreneurialsm" as a be-all and end-all shitlessly boring as well. Encourage people to work for free and glorify philanthropism <- a symptom of a broken system. We figured philanthropism out 80 yrs ago I don't get how Big Society http://bit.ly/fd6ECO wasn't a totally fucking sly and evil idea in the first place. Hilariously incompetent Egyptian propaganda tweets http://twitter.com/#!/mhmb2011 also a bit sinister. Orwell was a genius. @robyngallagher I really recommend it. You should go do it now. It's still early. Moon River. Genius http://bit.ly/hEC1aw @robyngallagher I wound up taping myself singing - without realising I'd been doing these vocal workouts. Sounded the best I've sounded ever @robyngallagher Yea - I actually did vocal training once... and NOTHING is as good as getting drunk and singing through cones 3 times a week @leashless So what if they don't "consense"? Seems to me that's the problem we have with climate change. @leashless I'm not saying ALL power should be devolved full stop... just that which can be. Some problems are global... or regional etc. @leashless doesn't that stop anyone doing any stuff at all? @robyngallagher I went through a phase of singing moon-river through upended marker cones. That's a good one. @HarryLyme now seeing what @sdv_duras meant. Bye. @HarryLyme That's untrue from too many directions at once to reply to. "Not even wrong" I think the saying goes. As you were. God it's hot here - last night was the hottest Feb night in 40 years. Just got rung up by a scammer pretending that I had a virus on my computer and they'd fix it for money etc... Does anyone know how to find the number that "has just called" in NZ? I think in the UK you dial 1471 or something. Need the NZ version. Virgo: What's the fucking point? No really, what actually is the fucking point? You'll find no answers here. @leashless If there's an answer, I don't think it's referendoid democracy - maybe to do with devolving power to the smallest possible unit @leashless but representative democracy (which seems to work best) is a kind of temporary monarchy. It will bias towards top-down interests @leashless I'm not sure it's a programmed mode of failure so much as failures arising from the founding compromises of each democracy @HarryLyme I'm talking solely about Hollywood's love-affair with torture, and how this has spilled into what passes for political discourse @inkblotsart Meep - ok, from now on, I'll hand write thank-yous with every thing I post off to people as well. I think postits are ok. If I sit here for a while, my laptop screen fades, then goes blank. I fade and go blank with it. Then a screen-saver comes on. Both of us I bought 60 postage-tube caps today. I know what you're thinking "That's a lot of postage-tube caps". Not for me it's not. Not for me. @leashless someone once said, "democracy precipitates from people having typewriters". Now we've go the web. Something else is precipitating @leashless the purpose of democracy is to control power. Climate change, war, fuckupitude etc are all as a result of "not enough democracy". @leashless ... solve quite a few problems because the problems that democracies cause now, are all because they've drifted into oligarchy. @leashless I don't think "democracy" is a non-solution. We all (from Egyptians to Brits) want "more" of it... and I think "more" might... @joeysauer Use an acronym. Say "Me? I'm doing a DMMFMT", when they say "what's that?", say "an acronym", and wander off thoughtfully. @peregrinari7 My inner-paranoiac imagines a judge saying "You don't get to choose the law". But I have other... inner-people. I'm not alone @peregrinari7 personally I'm bloody minded enough to want to tell it to the judge. If I have to pay the $1000 fine, so be it. @peregrinari7 Yea - "grounds for dismissal" does include feeling that you won't be able to give an unfair or unbiased judgment though. @joeysauer very very quickly, feeling exposed will morph into being sick of hearing/saying "where are you from? Which degree?" 950,000 times @joeysauer I sat with the guy I met across the hall about 10 minutes before. It's cool - the only people who aren't a bit freaked are idiots @joeysauer I didn't know anyone going to my halls of residence either. Everyone's in the same boat pretty much. Lasts a day, if that. I sent my "Jury Duty" acceptance form off today - with the caveat that I'm conscientiously objecting to any drug-prohibition prosecutions @HarryLyme The British Empire killed more people than the Nazis, that doesn't justify Hollywood having a torture scene in every movie. @HarryLyme Um... so? @MaryJaneAnsell Aliens love kazoos. They fall about LOLing etc. @HarryLyme Torture is generally to do with the treatment of prisoners. See Dostoevsky on the measure of civilisation etc. @HarryLyme Yea, and in the UK, "The Tories" pro-Stuart rebels. But that has no relevance to what they do or say today. @HarryLyme but then we have the grotesque spectacle of republican presidential candidates trying to out Jack-Bauer each other. Fucking sick @HarryLyme I think hip Asian films like the Oldboy dude... "sympathy for mr vengeance" probably influenced it. @HarryLyme In the 70s, every movie had a car-chase. In the 80s it was sex. 90s. Don't know... 00s, it's torture. @MaryJaneAnsell I was playing it on a kazoo. They love it when you do that. Think it's funny. Jerusalem UFO http://huff.to/dOkeNj I like UFOs. Being from the 70s and such. Nee noo narrr nooo naaaaar they go. Genius. Nee noo narr etc. @robyngallagher and possibly triggered a premature resignation. But really I don't have a problem with Key, just National. He's one of many @robyngallagher Malcom Tucker never actually bollocked the PM - just railroaded him into a premature election and destroyed his legacy Virgo: Fuckin hot today man. The day started badly, then just sort of meandered into vagueness and whateverdom. Hey ho. @robyngallagher brilliant. It's like a cross between The Thick of It and The Castle. Mind you, I do have some sympathy for the guy. @robyngallagher The internet's brilliant. My fav thing today was that politician calling other people dickheads on facebook. @robyngallagher There's an animated gif of it already? God damn these people are fast. Do you have a link for the gif? @robyngallagher Did you see him doing that catwalk thing on TV just now? God I hope that loses him the... er... pink-vote. Am now part of the Bitcoin economy http://www.goldenmeancalipers.com/bitcoins - I'm a radical, me. A couch-radical. @amandapalmer My mate Owen's from Napier - I go over that way every couple of years. @HarryLyme these days you'll be hard-pushed to find an action/thriller where people aren't tortured at some point. @HarryLyme It goes back to Dirty Harry - but I think Resevoir Dogs had a lot to do with it - and 24, which was ALL about torture. @HarryLyme Casino Royale, Body of Lies, The Dark Knight, Fucking "Team America", Robin Hood, Taken - pretty sure Inception did too @HarryLyme of what? Torture in "entertainment"? ok: Firefly, Babylon5, Battlestar G all have entire episodes devoted to it Ooh! Just sold something on ebay. I've never sold anything on ebay before. I think I might need to go have a nice quiet lie down. Serious security flaw in Internet Explorer. Ah how we rolled about jeering and chucking stuff. Morans. Ah www.fines.govt.nz . We meet again. Dad just went down the Recycling Center. Came back a new person. Wooo!!! NZ elections 26/11 - god I can't describe how much I'm not going to vote for National. I'm going to fucking campaign against them @mrjudkins Really? I always found them/him/it to be suicidally depressing. Genius mind. I've got about 5 albums. WIKILEAKS SPELLS OWN NAME WRONG!!!! http://bit.ly/fXwe1g (and releases hundreds more cables) @CarolineLucas quite strange to have an MP who's actually on my side as it were... AND feel massively disenfranchised by the whole process @CarolineLucas There must be something we can do about this - because it is important I think. One of many,mind. @HarryLyme ie: they sometimes try to show torture not working... but they still make it "the done thing" whenever a prisoner is taken. @HarryLyme Hollywood uses the "Oppressive City" setting a lot... anti-big brother is linked to that, but they still reinforce the frames @tomnixon for what it's worth... I'd always used you as a kind of benchmark for how unsuccessful I'd turned out to be :) @tomnixon Far out. Congrats. @robyngallagher You can probably rent them. @robyngallagher In my experience it's a good idea to have a whole wall covered in books to make yourself look more intelligent in interviews Virgo: Today is totally going to fuck your hair up on account of all the wind and such. Stay indoors; don't grow a beard. Just don't. @olleolleolle Do you know this cat? http://bit.ly/h7AzOm seems a bit cross about something. Keeps mentioning your name etc. Cat movie of the year so far http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKtvmAYhMQ @HarryLyme Oh no - I watch movies voluntarily. That doesn't mean I can't get pissed off when hollywood encourages torture And for that I fucking despise them. Now Liam Neeson is torturing someone. Hollywood has done more to normalise torture than all the 3rd world dictators put together. Liam Neeson is on. "I've a very special set of skills" he goes. "Skills that make me a pain in the arse to people like you". "I'm a blogger" Saveloys for lunch. Trailer-park comfort food. Brilliant. I like saveloys. Tomato sauce etc. You can't go wrong. Maybe I'd feel more in control if I had a shave. Well my quest to cut down on all the stuff I own has ended in ignominy and defeat, and more clutter and crap than I started with. If you can't kill the messenger, talk about him http://bit.ly/gZYPd1 talk about him A LOT. Write a book. Make a movie (but hide the message) LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFKw7ywbKqI David Duchovny God I miss slackerdom. This was great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOp1Gd5UeZU @kalena Really? No, I didn't know that. I first saw her doing adverts in Aus in about 1985. She was funny :) @kalena more recent adoptees... Paulina Gaitan, Abbie Cornish... I thought Michael Piccirilli was excellent in Gabriel as well. @kalena Naomi Watts is great. She was my first movie-star adoptee - back in the 80s etc. Ninja throwing needle through glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW_97D0hLBc < I could probably do that Tomorrow is like the first day of the rest of the week. Virgo: Today you'll mainly be watching Father Ted on the internets. After that Absolutely Fabulous. Feel a bit rubbish actually @rtgarden There's a Pixies tribute band from NZ called The Proxies. @corcoran I'd recommend velcro or blu-tak... or just lean the doors more or less where they're supposed to go. Problem solved. This is totally brilliant http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2008/11/index.html Hey, check this out @tvnznews http://bit.ly/gRHCh2 Western News an embarrassing waste of fucking space < bet you lead with "crime" tomorrow @inkblotsart You probably just forgot your coffee. It's not a biggy. "Biggie". Whatever. Everything's going to be ok. Quattro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH-dh0vdTks&feature=related I feel totally disenfranchised by my own governments as well. I'm not from Egypt. I'm, from UK/NZ/EU. My govts embarrass me. Voice like a sistrum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgFWibrTAKQ < our challenge is not to monetise, but escape. Always was actually. @cshirky but it's ok man, because you are so not-alone. Soooooo not alone. @cshirky people are talkin among themselves, and we're all feeling as disenfranchised as fuck... not just you, but the eGyptians too. We just peoples http://bit.ly/eKakSK Everywhere. @umairh To be fair, your's is the only blog that I've met 1/2 way, then read from start to finish. I do take the piss... but I mean well @umairh so the advice you give... seems kind of warm-glowy... self-helpy strategic. Round here, people are just trying to... make stuff. @umairh we nearly lost the river 2 days ago http://bit.ly/fYNnan next year? we will. I get you: "meaning" etc, but reality is getting sharp @leashless @umairh I think maybe the edge.. Evo Morales' people using digital tech to build isolated digital "economies" and being... "rich" @umairh Aye, it's pretty safe to say that. You do quite often sound like The Little Book Of Calm though. I'm the little book of angst. @umairh I mean you do get this don't you? 95% is a lot. That's a lot of fucking boredom. A lot of boredom. Boredom. @umairh On behalf of the other 95% of the human population, we're kindof bored with.. you know... "America". @leashless you seen this guy? http://bit.ly/hn6Hgu he rocks. Utter bollocks, executed... wonderfully. A master of the art. @umairh There's no such thing as fate, just demographics. And what you're seeing now, is demographics suddenly talking among themselves. @leashless I get to talk to a lot of people (ie: one) who seem to think they can use hydrogen to ignore the laws of thermodynamics. @leashless yea, we don't know what we don't know (re: physics) but that doesn't deny what we do. Know. I was going on to someone (James) about this the other day. The guy's such a twithchy fuckup... and then... http://bit.ly/qnzu Does anyone (ie: any of my programmer fraternity) know if this is ok? http://makiapp.com/ @stwange "I disapprove of what you say / defend (etc etc)" < translation: "I'm not engaging with the substance of what you say" Special-effects are the PowerPoint of movie-making http://bit.ly/fVWIeA So then I thought "oh fucking brilliant. I've been reincarnated as a fucking sparrow. This won't last long". Nope. And now I'm Nick Taylor Virgo: A difficult day to get your shit together, partly because it's windy and fucks your hair up, but mainly because you can't be arsed George Lakoff actually agrees (in part) with Obama's "competitive" frame http://www.truth-out.org/the-new-obama-narrative67236 Western Leaders wrong-footed all over the place, torn between what they profess to stand for, and what they do behind the scenes #Egypt Rogue State wants internet kill-switch in case it needs to crack down on its own people http://bit.ly/fGMzVo That method of torture was used in medieval England at least 500 years ago http://is.gd/WRu0ha @wikileaks "The West" won't speak out http://bit.ly/gc09Qc but there's a growing consensus that western govts only nominally represent their citizens I think I might start saying "word" whenever I agree with something. "Word".... "Word".... nah, fuckit. Too much like hard work. @SadekHM Exactly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2FLYSqxXsM&t=1m14s :) @SadekHM Mornin. Middle of the night in NZ. Trying to work; trying not to work. Doing both and neither, half-successfully. @SkinBintin Sorry - years spent arguing with climate-change deniers has put me into perma-knee-jerk mode. @bruces my flying car design would be this http://bit.ly/9lVODr filled with helium. Get you from A 2 B... with a squeaky voice! double-win! @bruces @designboom well, at any given time designers are designing all manner of things... but people like to comment on flying cars :) Tiny computerlet http://bit.ly/hLFqzN < give it 10 years and all interfaces will be some kind of wireless. Watching Corrie. There's a photo of Albert Tatlock on the shelf round at Ken's. Black and white, because... well, Albert was Black and white @gapingvoid "and Love?...You can't give it away" - The Psychedelic Furs. "Christian Rock" is like... wine with all the wine taken out of it - turned back into water again. "Parachute Festival" where like-minded people can congregate en-mass and be weirdly repressed together. Virgo: Today you'll discover that your local supermarket has pork-scratchings. Do you even like pork scratchings? Hard to say. @hrheingold @johnbattelle Actually, I have more mobile phones than toilets... or like... they're running neck and neck at the mo. @CitizenBomber I'd say it wasn't short-term thinking. It's "business-friendly", ie: it wants to weaken and impoverish the state, aka us. @edwardvirtually In the 70s, every movie had a chase, in the 80s it was sex. 90s? dunno. In the 00s, every movie HAS to have a torture scene @edwardvirtually 99% of hollywood action films resolve with a physical fight, where the baddy almost wins, but then dies in an odd way @edwardvirtually Bollocks. List some films where the baddy wins - I bet they're all great. Saw that Robin Hood last night - great until the fuckin ewoks turned up. Who the fuck wrote that ending? Art by committee by the looks Note to scriptwriters - if your film resolves with the goody and the baddy physically fighting then the goody winning, you've failed. New passport. You chaps in England won't have heard of passports. They're little books that you brandish at borders so none may bar your way Lozenging http://www.genomicon.com/2011/01/lozenging/ @leashless Long time ago/galaxy far far away. Dad painted these flowers http://bit.ly/evYNY6 swapped the car for some seashells in the end @leashless -at the next. We lost a bunch of bananas, gained a birthday cake. Something like that once a yr is about all the crime they have @leashless when I lived there a prisoner wander off from the prison - went on a crime spree, stealing something from one house, leaving it- @leashless mind you, the don't have a military to speak of. I think they might have a policeman. Maybe two. @leashless Maybe somewhere like Niue might be a good start? relatively wealthy, totally stable but every 15 years a hurricane flattens them @leashless Maybe you're talking to the wrong MOD. @leashless and I'm just being a bit moany because I've got a client who's being a bit of a pain but... you know, I do have clients. @leashless although to be fair, the goal of the activity before that was to bypass fiat currency :). Messing with bitcoins etc. @leashless DM me your address and I'll send you one. @leashless So like a lot of humanity it's somewhere between pain-relief and trying to get back up to zero. @leashless The goal of my current activity was to try to get people to stop bitching at me. @fitzthemighty Started out as spaghetti westerns, but diversified etc. 1970s Italian Humour http://bit.ly/CMevL mainly involving punchups @fitzthemighty Guy's a genius. Funny as fuck. Have you seen any Bud-Spencer / Terence-Hill movies? Similar in some ways. Punchups mainly @fitzthemighty I'm quite into the whole genre/theme-immersion thing. I watched a week's solid Klaus Kinski recently. Sergio Leone last year @fitzthemighty God, that'd drive you insane. Watch 3 or 4 at a time, at double-speed. You'll still go insane, but in a more interesting way @Twit_nut Sit at home; work in traffic, that's my advice. I travel in biscuits, getting me nowhere. Andromeda Strain is on. Little thingummywhojit off Caprica is on it. Cross-program bird leakage. Quite disorientating. @jimboot That's one of those ARGGHGHG WTF WTF WTF GET FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE spiders. Virgo: Everything will be kindof a pain in the arse today, so you shouldn't have drunk those 2 coffees. You will get a new shirt though. @tvnznews is still milking the mining disaster. Not even I would have guessed they'd be able to spin it out as long as this. John Key is on TV, rabbiting on about pixies and such. Later he will smile and wave. He's the PM - which means he does deals for rich people @edwardvirtually and anti-drugs laws do seem to go hand in hand with racist moral-panics. We really need to get rid of them. @edwardvirtually when I first moved to the UK you could only get hash... no grass. Now the UK is a net exporter of grass. The law is a farce @edwardvirtually the cruelty is less, but millions of lives have been ruined, for nothing. 10s of 1000s killed, and it's poisoned the police @edwardvirtually Personally I think drug prohibition is (in a dilute way) more on a par with the Inquistions than booze prohibition @edwardvirtually FWIW, I don't take any drugs any more - but the idea that drugs are a legal rather than medical problem has been a disaster @edwardvirtually I don't smoke pot when I go out because for me it's mentally anti-social. @Shroomery @edwardvirtually people don't take coke in bars because it's more convenient than MJ, but because it's a great social booster. @Shroomery @edwardvirtually re: marijuana / cocaine - sorry, that's utter nonsense - speaking from decades of experience etc. Innovation flourishing without Patents http://dalepd.com/open-source-and-henry-ford < really, all patent law should be scrapped. Like a Lowry painting... people came to look, all "ooh", "ah" not seeming to realise how close it is to utter disaster http://bit.ly/fYNnan Canada's porta-police-state http://bit.ly/gPs9yU < remember, that failure to prosecute amounts to decriminalisation. You HAVE to prosecute Virgo: forget it man, it's tomorrow already. You missed a day. LOL, goofball. @MadsYork I know at least one 40 something who is doing just that... well, 3 of them actually. @fitzthemighty Looks a bit like a rap version of anger-dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMjgSkfQPSY @SkinBintin What? Still pretending everything's normal then? Why? I mean it obviously isn't, but why pretend? I've found a good way of sending messages into the future, is to write it on my arm, in biro http://bit.ly/afFP3I @larspind The Thick Of It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRN8O4ULQs < utter genius The folks have come back reeking of sulfur. So that's a new one. @tvnznews taking a lesson from the Americans about how to really seriously milk emotion out of victims of tragedies, and call it "News". Not much you can do about people being gullible and stupid - but CEOs of corporations denying climate change should be seriously punished. Jesus. Flooding in NZ. I'm just wondering... at what point can we start rounding up and prosecuting climate-change deniers So much rain in NZ that the folks have had to end their camper-van holiday a week early. Solitude over. Raining today. Hurrah for rain etc. Rain, rain, rain. We've been needing some rain for a while. No need to go mad though. @FamousWomen @Shadowfoot what if he dies? Jam Sandwich. Genius. You can't go wrong with a jam sandwich. Dear Corporate Britain. Wikileaks is not the problem; you behaving like cunts is the problem http://bit.ly/iiKWEC < and we're coming for you Day on/Day off self-banning from social media is actually quite useful - you get perspective on how you're "being" with it. "lozenging" is the reason why I (now) make every 2nd day social-media-free http://bit.ly/haNxla @teirdes @leashless Did you see them bubbly things I was on about yesterday? http://www.genomicon.com/2011/01/inflatable-modular-geodesics/ @yezzer but it's a psychological thing - like Joseph Campbell. Putting it on the same stage as astronomy is a bad category error. @yezzer Astrology is a Jungian reality-map, and within that context, it kindof works. It's all the patchouli types that fuck it up But he's no longer my MP. He lost a labour stronghold to the Greens, and the Greens were always against this (and all other) bullshit. I wish there was some way of making this blog post into a custard pie and shoving it into David Lepper's face http://bit.ly/i2WJru Fuckin YES!!! http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/01/20/more-icelandic-bankers-arrested/ Now, everywhere else in the world? Legacy Industry pays copyright maximalist, astronomous sum to prop up the status quo http://bit.ly/g1sMUK @rcosgrove U-Turn, Syrianna, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Blade-runner. Finger Injury movies. Great films, but I can remember is the finger injuries I'm totally going to get my shit together tomorrow. @gharman Your pets are little pieces of your soul. That whole "familiar" thing. Whatever it costs is worth every penny. @gharman Vets ++. Vets have this whole "knowing what they're doing" thing going on. Experience. The wellspring of human/canine existence. @gharman Don't ear-candle your dog dude. FED http://bit.ly/hDiGrS < The people running the US very focused on reducing US wages. Virgo: Today your laptop power-cable will break and you'll go down town to replace it. Back home, you will notice your car needs a wash. It's worth doing actually. "Check out twitter" becomes a default "what next?" activity - it displaces a lot of... creativity, basically. When everyone laughed when I said "even days are social-media free"... that's because I'm in NZ. My even days are your odd days. @JerryKetel @BarackObama I think I'd keep quiet about "promises" until Guantanamo is closed and soi-disant "stupid" wars are ended. What's the bet Blackwater winds up "working" for the Chinese against American interests? http://nyti.ms/dJZAsN Mercenaries do what they do Feck. Broken laptop power supply will cost $170 to replace. @clarecurranmp Did you see this on MLK? http://bit.ly/gHNlGi That speech http://bit.ly/eRJoT4 is more relevant now than it was in the 60s Yea, but most of it is shit http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/ Rape and Religion http://bit.ly/d4YeA7 Why the fuck should the fucking pope be above the law? http://bit.ly/eTou9P Oh wait... let me guess... the poor are going to "volunteer" to carry the can, right? @rcosgrove Philistine? I've read the book. Bladerunner is a finger-injury movie. I have a problem with those - often good films though @rcosgrove LOL - fair enough. The original was too long anyway Power supply went yesterday. Am on backup machine - with maladapted interface. I'm not one with the machine @rcosgrove what? a new bladerunner? @robshepherd Nah - the sky is different and it's not as cold. @robshepherd God I miss English Winters. With my geek hat on... this is the coolest thing I have ever seen http://www.inventables.com/ @joshr Avoid trains and rural areas... or low-signal areas in general... always walk in a zigzag like ants in a microwave. That's what I do That's be cool http://bit.ly/fyZ6zo < an actual tinnitus cure. I don't want brain-surgery though. Fuckit. Just offered to pay a total stranger $100 not to have their cat put down. I'm not cut out for this stuff. Virgo: You're probably better off staying in bed today. Put everything off until tomorrow. Maybe get coffee though. Whatever. @IdLtdDotCom digital-stuff lasted longer back then. I had a watch with a calculator... and was still wearing it 8 years later. @IdLtdDotCom I wish to fuck I still had my old LED calculator. It was a solid black obelisk with blue LED numbers Harbouring the suspicion that the fuckup with my Chinese suppliers is their fault rather than mine. @lordtrilink Philanthropy is symptomatic of a broken system. Google has a serious problem in NZ - in that 99% of search results are fucking time-wasting directory sites http://bit.ly/i9GTTQ @IdLtdDotCom Nah - I'm post-slate. My dad learned to read/write with a slate back in the day. A bit like a primitive iPad - a cavePad etc. It’s not capitalism in the traditional sense, but an abstracted hyper-capitalism utterly divorced from getting anything done :: @rushkoff The "Ronald Reagan" legacy is an exercise in rewriting history http://bit.ly/ibX8m8 < this should come as no surprise Much like 9/11 in fact. The US govt reaction to 9/11 has damaged the US vastly more than the actual attack. Yea, the truth is that the fucking STUPID US govt/corporate reaction, was more damaging than the actual leaks http://reut.rs/g1BbtC Anti bee-poison petition http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees/?copy it is quite impressive seeing how fast people are signing this. @hjortur Today is an odd-numbered day. So far it's going ok. I've decided to distance myself from what is turning out to be a chronic addiction... by only using social apps on odd-numbered days. @stephenfry Good for you :) @dwell @bruces re: arcbazar - I wouldn't worry too much. That model has been tried for years in lower-stakes design- hasn't really caught on Curry in a Hurry for tea. Actually - now I come to think of it, I haven't written War and Peace twice. Miscalculation. Whatever... I will, oh yes, I will. 50s housewife on Acid http://huff.to/gbr0RM < you can kindof read between the lines - see the evil of the thinking behind drug prohibition Well.. what is it?... 2 years?... 3? I started using twitter in late 2007... and volume-wise have now tweeted War and Peace, twice-over. Ricky Gervais up-ticks in my estimation http://bit.ly/eTe6yd @robyngallagher Exactly. Summer promises much, but delivers little. Norther Hemisphere Autumns are the best. When winter's starting to bite UK Music Majors react 10 years too late with "plan", still confusing "piracy" with "complete fucking irrelevance" http://bit.ly/fLDIj3 A writer's advice to contemporaries http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/new-rules-for-writers_b_808558.html @davestone I'm sure that I used to be able to code solidly for 16 hours in a row. These days I'm good for about 6 a day... often closer to 4 @davestone I've started doing that as well - compartmentalising work/non-work by the hour. I use a timer etc. @JerryKetel I'm reading Douglas Rushkoff's take on that (Program or be Programmed) - or am trying to read it, distracted by social-apps. Virgo: and then you'll think "Jesus, I'm that guy off Baker Street". And then you think of Jerry Rafferty. Later you'll water the garden. Virgo: Today you will limp out of the house, a broken man... go get coffee from Ryan who although 1/2 your age, seems old and wise. Absolutely Brilliant http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/quirkies/8789669.Nick_Cave_speed_camera_becomes_tourist_hotspot/ Our Hero as a massive scruffy hobbit http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/cameradude.jpg < not feeling so heroic today though are you. @wendylefty Sorry - the wheels came off my sense of humour yesterday. @LeifKendall Well... back on the wagon again. Day 1. Picking up the pieces, and like... waiting, to dry out. Wakes up and whatnot. South Park time Tomorrow, tomorrow. @rtgarden Yeah, well. I should do something with these songs. There's only about 5 of them. Very raw though. Close to the bone etc. @rtgarden Ta. Rough night. I've been digising the last 20 years... it was a rough last 20 years :) @rtgarden thanks btw. People we are. @bruces app store is to hit ten billion downloads http://bit.ly/h5R3RF < you are fucking shitting me. Holy fuck. That's got to be bollocks @davestone :) @davestone I imagine it's something to do with caning amyl nitrate while coming down off GHB. Have you tried taking an asprin? @Raindance_Fest Oh perlease... DSLR has provoked an avalanche of vimeo gonzo. Bore-fucking-ing. Fuck quality. Give us a story. I used to be quite rich once. Gone, gone, gone. I'm wearing the most beautiful shirt... all shades of satin green. I had it made for me back when I had a tailor. He (Sam) made me about 10 @rtgarden The only one that kills me is Yank. I don't know why. He was... A fucking nightmare. I loved him. Crying eyes out. I don't wish Ian hadn't killed himself. Or like... whatever. I've got to get out of here man. Digitising my shit. Pretty much every song I wrote from 1992 to 2000 was about killing myself. I didn't - Rob, Yank, Andy and Ian did. @CarolineLucas you have a (practical/legal) local constituency. Really it's international. It's global. I'm in NZ. Use it. Use us. @CarolineLucas You should tweet lots... You should hook up with Dave from Blur and @tom_watson We your friends. We not nothin @leashless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoNEc9pL-u8 I'm fuckin stuck here man. I'm a million miles from the Eu @tomcoates If the singing didn't wake you, it hardly counted as singing There was always something wrong - you can see it in his eyes. The whole "haunted, hunted kind" thing. Jesus. I know what you're thinking "I wish I was Nick Taylor, it'd be brilliant". It's not. This is what happens to you http://bit.ly/fmXsgi @wendylefty @edwardvirtually everything is orange. @wendylefty @edwardvirtually went to work the next day, (avec suit) hating self for accidentally catching the eye of fellow commuters @wendylefty @edwardvirtually fell asleep watching Inception. Woke up stuck in a never-ending amphetamine wanking-loop. Went back to sleep Right. Drunk an entire bottle of wine, and I don't feel any different apart from being drunk. I might go out actually. Dressed unobtrusively @SarahKSilverman yea, but if you quit being cunty, even your own parents will forget that you even exist. @stilgherrian Someone goes on about it here http://bit.ly/hUH1b6 which is worth a listen - sounds like journo-speak for something. @stilgherrian Do you know what "The Parish Pump Heresy" is? @stilgherrian Foundation of Empire Dear Boy. Limes. Stockpileable. @stilgherrian I've found the best solution to the issue of lime-balance, is to have a small stockpile. @iceMagic Sin Nombre was movie-of-the-year. So was City of God... but it was a different year. @iceMagic It's not speed - it's dual-topic, async conversations flowing into the same feed. But we're from the internet. We understand @iceMagic Which movie? The one where reality runs out at the edge of town? No idea. Been asking people. You. @iceMagic Paulina Gaitan can act - but beautifully understated. Even here IMDB page shows someone else. @iceMagic But I'm increasingly impressed by new Sth American film. Sin Nombre, City of God etc etc. Sleep-dealers. @iceMagic Dark City: good... maybe great. Matrix ancestor. Trueman show: High concept ruined by Hollywood. Should see though. @larspind Is that some sort of dance-track thing? @iceMagic Really? What is that...? the suburbs? - a bit like The Truman show, but with vector graphics? (Tron 2? Rubbish) Actually, speaking of which (kiwis) what in the name of fucking fuckery fuck is this ??? http://bit.ly/glC6F9 3 Strikes. Doesn't work http://bit.ly/gVRxst but it gives "them (you know, The 2%)" the mandate to spy and control from above. @iceMagic What's that one where the guy drives out of town the runs out of reality? A bit like Dark City, with Conifer Jennily who I love @iceMagic WTF is Trigg? Is there actually a place called "Trigg"? Jesus. That's abstract. I've seen movies about that. @robyngallagher @librarykris Tweeting about its unoriginality is a piggyback meme, of equivalent unoriginality -1 This is totally what's going to happen to me http://yhoo.it/hpHPm4 I'll be sent off into space and be found by ETs who think I'm lichen The folks have gone on holiday and left a vast supply of Nickwit-Food... I feel like Cartman... WOWoid. Not that I play WOW of course. Only the Anacrusis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbs92Of4Vn8 Slavoj Žižek on Wikileaks http://bit.ly/dQjnKV < Yea, basically. Possibly the most boring Nick Taylor video yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPaps3K7QBU ends well though Mental floods in Brazil and Aus. Lets track down the corporations that funded climate-change denial and make them pay reparations. Virgo: Today you will go to the post office and then come home and have lunch. A beautiful day, but you'll kindof feel like you missed it. @edwardvirtually Oh we remember alright, it's just that "to be seen to remember" is a function of the media, and they often choose not to. Ooh - The Blimp is Back http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110386 pity the helium is running out. Actually, fuck civility http://bit.ly/hDN6mV we need to organise against corporate power. This is what our govts should be doing, but aren't Is Westboro Baptist Church real? Jesus. I always thought that was some sort of satire http://bit.ly/hRtdrg You know that money you donated to Haiti? Corporations took it http://bit.ly/gYp7Jn < It's time we started destroying corporate power Right. Tomorrow I'm going to go out and buy ALL the self-help books - to stop other people getting them. It's the only way to get ahead. @robshepherd but... behind it all is "the promise of advertising" which is a very, very dubious concept - especially in a "social" context @robshepherd I think it's us inflating the bubble - creating value out of nothing - the "investors" are suckers still thinking it's zero-sum @robshepherd what they have done though is establish an expectation... "ambient intimacy" is probably not going to go away. @robshepherd re: Facebook valuation - the whole thing is highly bubbleoid in my opinion. php serial class http://code.google.com/p/php-serial/ Really good wikileaks / journalism discussion http://bit.ly/hUH1b6 The folks are about to go on holiday again. 150th wedding anniversary so they're going on a massive camper-van trip... re-doing Honeymoon 1 Just had my passport photos witness by my old headmaster. I look like a fat, stubbly, unreliable thug. I don't get why conservatives hate Obama so much - he hasn't actually done ANYTHING different to Bush has he? http://bit.ly/hVt3wd @leashless it was the last "McJob" I had. I went straight from that to making ~100k a year at Ernst and Young. Downhill from there mind. @leashless Yea, it was a weirdly funny place to work. My job was to ring directory enquiries for 8 hours a day, getting phone numbers @leashless I accidentally wore two ties to work (didn't find out till lunchtime) back when I worked for Sainsburies (the complaints dept) LOL http://mlkshk.com/p/6KC RT @leashless @quasilaur @MHJohnston Eh? So that "policeman" spying on protesters was actually some sort of private-firm mercenary? http://bit.ly/ifCsgL Sarah Palin shrilly denies incitement to murder http://bit.ly/emdnKQ having hastily deleted the hatey, shooty stuff from her site @joeysauer LOL - I was very briefly in a band with the bassist from http://bit.ly/bAWfOK speaking of ears etc Art Rock is louder than metal @joeysauer Yea - this year was the year I got into pop - Passion Pit mainly. Normally I'm into moody nordic rock http://bit.ly/DdGBv @joeysauer Yea, but this kicks both of those into the long grass AND they're kiwis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wng0bZaLhC8 Just saw Tron... came home, Dad was watching Firefly. How one got the budget it did, and the other got canned? Hollywood is uniquely stupid @Kiwi05 Tonight the news was mainly disasters, tragedies followed by a feel-good story and a load of sports (which is advertising) Why not just cut to the obvious? He was a fucking nutter. The only thing worth investigating is why they always seem to be right-wing Spectacularly inadequate journalism from the US on @tvnznews - trying to link the gun nutter with "an interest in lucid dreaming" Oooh! The Chinese do Scandi-Posh http://bit.ly/ec8Of2 < who'd have thought the repressive dictatorship and taste would go together Republican reading of Constitution theatre aimed at recreating 1920s corporate baronialism http://bit.ly/i6rHvv Amazing space photies http://triggerpit.com/2010/11/22/incredible-pics-nasa-astronaut-wheelock/ @BubbleUp exactly - in my day if we saw a yoof improperly attired, we'd ride over and deal them a sharp blow to the head with our crop. Still ripping decades worth of CDs that I haven't listened to in decades. Still don't know why... but it's "a deal" I've made with myself. @joeysauer Evelyn Waugh said "your latter years at uni are spent avoiding the friends you made in your 1st". Something to bear in mind :) @joeysauer I'm going to be looking for a talented camera-bod to help me shoot a feature this year... if anyone turns up... @joeysauer The Scariness wears off almost instantly :) They get you drunk for a week. @joeysauer Cool - which Uni are you at? God. Book finished... which means I need to drag myself along to the library to fess up, and pay the fines etc. @kronenbird We've had a 2 metre long version of this http://bit.ly/gBBSeP on the wall since about 1967 Oooh - a new history of rome episode http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2011/01/index.html so that's me happy Major labels sued for price fixing http://bit.ly/f7Zacn and piracy http://bit.ly/epxXtv < these are the people who are paying for #ACTA My NY's resolutions: 1) go get a coffee, 2) read a bit more of my book, 3) get batteries (rechargeable). Tick, tick and tick. I rock. @alexfarran Yea, you can never have too many birthdays. @alexfarran Excellent! - Happy Birthday To You :) @terrencewood Beautiful Design is generally an indication of trying enter a saturated market and compete on polish. Diminishing Returnsville Nick Clegg talking about "4th Sector Pathfinders" http://gu.com/p/2magy/tf < I'd happily pay 700 just to see you keep campaign promises On @TVNZ 1 tonight: Masterchef, Heston's Feast and Jamie Oliver who I left the UK to get away from. Also News x2 ie: crime and advertising The Internet is not fast enough. The Internet has never been fast enough. The Internet will never be fast enough. There. I've said it. White House staffer found in burnt out car http://abcn.ws/dWvt4P, Ex military aide found dead in landfill http://on.msnbc.com/faFhSy How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... well, at least one more :) http://bit.ly/eAKrdM @joeysauer try writing it on yourself with biro for a month or two. See how that goes first. @AshleaHaynes @Martin_Carr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAPD7ZZr7_I @stephenfry I like this as well, although it's a touch antsier, and credit should possibly go to the writer http://bit.ly/dsFhhR "The [drug] buyer is at the mercy of the dealer" < yea, that's because of drug-prohibition, tosspot. Stupid, stupid, stupid cunts. Sarah Palin Speed-Censorship http://bit.ly/fmHxfa < Right-Wing Wackamolians in damage-control mode RT @Prycie My mum just said "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof", and retired for the evening. I expect I'll probably stay up for a bit. Eeeexactly http://bit.ly/dXSjUS < why we need distributed P2P versions of twitter and FB... because they're bubble-sustained infrastructure @teirdes I guess it comes down to authentically motivated harm-minimisation. Which is moral, or at the very least, the best we can do. @teirdes Both "risked" on other people's behalf, but the idea that "the only people that matter are Americans" is embedded in the language @teirdes Well, two poles: "The Risk" that was taken when the US invaded Iraq. "The Risk" of publishing details of that invasion James Bond's on TV. That's probably what I'd be like if I spent less time watching TV. @teirdes "risk" is a problematic concept- because "risk", "tactical blunder" and "hope" are all linked... and "who's risk?" Someone else's? @BrookeAlley Tinned m'dear. A throwback to a forgotten age. @iceMagic For what it's worth, I'm routing through an EU proxy (on account of being a maverick) @iceMagic Good for me - their SSL certificate has expired (or something) though. http:// goes to https://, with popup error msg Go Iceland, Ra Ra http://bit.ly/f2I0Zm simplicity in the face of confused and belligerent hubris. @iceMagic Posterous looks ok to me. The new center of the universe, surrounded by shattered satellites http://bit.ly/g9YQVL It really was just a matter of time http://bit.ly/igYLPa - Incitement to violence is mainstream conservative discourse. Fear and hate. Just went and fed the ducks. Drove around looking for donuts for Simon, who likes donuts. My Sis and my Niece http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/maria-lupita.jpg @stevepurkiss Time tampers with your sense of what is and isn't sentimentally valuable. Leave burning it for 20 years. Time capsule it @olleolleolle kdenlive is the best linux video editor I've found so far... or will be when/if they fix the crashing all the time problem My Brother's Family http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/dom-sach-lupita.jpg Dom, Sacha and Lupita. My mum says I look "wan". Jesus. Wan and stubbly. I probably look like that Pianist off The Pianist. "Wan". Unbelievable. The day passes, like an illy lit dream. Sunday. I think. I think it's Sunday @stevepurkiss frame @MuPhi there's a paddle-steamer on the river - could be good to go on that. There are lots of little restaurants and cafs and things. @MuPhi Um... Wanganui is very small and quiet - a new Indian restaurant has just opened... walking round the lake is nice That'll be the first attack of drunkenness since last August. Modestly embarrassing, but largely consequence free. Feel weird today though Key to life: Pretend everything's ok (it's not)... struggle for years, then crack - borrow 3 last days of luxury, then blow your brains out Little flying things. You can catch them in slow motion with your bare hands. Barely edible. Even as snacks. Forget it man. Rubbish. @yezzer so yes. @yezzer In the end (Young Jedi) at the end of your life, you come out ahead if you've answer "yes" to any question, rather than "no" I once got in a car with these ladies, and they were talking about "special" make-up, and you know what it smledd like pile-cream art. isn't it? . Yes. Art. I miss art. @Johnny_Marr So run for something. I'd vote for you. You'd have at least one vote. Brilliant. @Johnny_Marr That Frank Zappa, sad "as soon as you're old enough, run for something". My peoples have come from Australia and everybody else has gone off, and now I'm all pissed up and happy and hilarious. My Sister turned up from Aus today... the 25 year old convo is also about her turning up from Aus back then. "Crazy as a daisy" I said. Digitising my old tapes - there's one of me on the phone... 25 years ago. Eavesdropping across a qtr of a century. Very strange feeling. @tom_watson Wikipedia is about facts, but the culture war is being fought with frames and emotions... so wikipedia just adds to polarisation @tom_watson painting conservatives into a corner - leading to conservapedia.com, and contempt for intellectuals, and truth generally @tom_watson It's provided a short circuit for cursory fact-checking... which always has a liberal bias... @freitasm Which has already started. Political discourse has become so detached from reality that it has become impossible to "fix" anything @freitasm All it would take would be for the dollar to crash - forcing a privatisation of what was the military. @freitasm By Brits, for Americans, plugging a book for sale to Americans < The US is (however) heading for dictatorship. The cat just fell over sideways. It's too fucking hot here man. That's what my cat in the tropics used to do. Flump they go. Flump. @robyngallagher I saw Conan The Barbarian at the cinema in Wanganui... there were some rats in a dungeon. The audience laughed. Credit cards used to pay mortgage or rent by 2 million people http://gu.com/p/2m7k4/tf < who said parasites can't be symbiotes? 29 degrees here today - now I can smell rain coming. It used to smell like this in the tropics, in the 70s. Still. Relief. Virgo: Today you will mainly answer emails, the contents of which will leave you too traumatised to work. The Kinks were a good band. The mass-fish death thing just happened in NZ as well http://bit.ly/he7M5c @davestone quite. Although I can imagine it being an effective, if not slightly unromantic, sex-aid. @davestone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-l5PlDa-k Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen. Strange - after all these yrs. Now that 1/8 Americans need food-stamps, but have somehow turned into morons Virgo: Today you will do about 4 hours work, and digitise about 10 CDs, and you'll use Western Union for the 1st time. Salad for tea (bah) Earphones in; irritating noises made by other people, out. It's like Woodie Guthrie, and Dylan and Springsteen gave poverty a kind of dignity... which arrogant conservatism has now taken away As part of my "getting-rid-of-all-my-possessions" drive, I'm digitising 30 year's worth of CDs, unsure whether it's a total waste of time I would have thought that anyone who cared, would have pirated all their (single tracks) about 10 years ago http://bit.ly/eBBdGy @PhilipBloom Yea - you got to be careful of them. I thought 240 shocks were trivial until I took one through the body. Like a sledge-hammer Carpet that lights up http://www.lamaconcept.nl/collection/cell/led.html I want carpet that lights up. @mikkohypponen Yea - The Mainstream Media is basically "The Late News" @joshr Does that include the bag? Where are you then? Have you turned into a crustie? This has led me into digitising all my old band's cassettes. Fuckin weird. I never go back. I haven't heard this stuff in decades. New Year's Resolution (started 10 days ago): To shed myself of 10 possessions per day. Left brain on the phone. Train start to the day/week/year. Great. RT @jemimakiss @edwardvirtually @MeLikeGoodMusic Like most people I have > 10 yrs of accumulated Mp3 with no way of proving or even knowing what's "legal" Women Laughing Alone With Salad http://bit.ly/fwlQ3a < so it's come to this. @iceMagic the domain name for which is available - lucky. Otherwise they'd need to be called Squeegles or Blorfs or whatever. @iceMagic It's just occurred to me that maybe calling a chopper a "helicopter" might be like... "gramophone" or "automobile" etc. Music video I shot last year http://www.vimeo.com/18389212 - probably my first one. It's experimental, vertical and hendrixy. @iceMagic you've really got to stop smoking the drapes. @iceMagic Nah, it's a helicopter. Decided to digitise then sell my entire CD collection - apart from the ones made by friends etc. I haven't listened to CDs in years. Why @wikileaks will be really tough legally http://wlcentral.org/node/820 with the probable result that "they" use due-process as punishment @joshr And if you google Nick Taylor and Cunt, I hardly even get on the front page. @joshr I don't have a problem swearing on twitter :) Electronic skin http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/printing_electronic_skin_video.html Fuck me the mosquitoes are fierce out there tonight. Dozens of the fuckers. I think the key to a prosperous and fulfilling life is to do as little as possible, then get really busy on the last day. Inspiring corporate-gadget-design-morons to try to recreate it... because it looks "futuristic" Minority Report is on - with the stupidest computer interface ever invented - see through screens, arms waving around, CNC billiard balls Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now Worth $50 Billion < erm... the fact that Facebook is STILL needs funding ain't a good sign That's the thing about proper bamboo ski-poles. Last for generations. Proper. Not like this modern carbon-fibre tat. My Dad with is mum and dad on the same mountain, WITH THE SAME SKI POLES http://bit.ly/dHjqYL His mum dressed as a man. 1940s humour. Me skiing with dad in 67 http://bit.ly/i7h8Y1 < check out the Day Of The Jackal era ski-tech. Bamboo ski poles - grandfather made I suspect @stilgherrian @cshirky in the time it took you to think of, and write that, 24 hours of video were uploaded to youtube. Looking at each year's lists of aspirations, they're exhaustingly banal, and I'm mildly relieved I didn't achieve them. I'm so over software For the last 5 years, I've written down the new year's plans... and what actually happened last year. No fucking connection between them. @davidrosam It's probably not a Guinea fowl. It's probably... you know... "a swallow", that's like... returned. "Free Market" used to mean "free from rent and interest" - free from unnecessary expenses in other words. In light of history http://bit.ly/gPo1Cu , my Modest Suggestions don't seem quite so insane http://bit.ly/he7pEX @topherchris in the EU it's generally about 11am-12... in ass-backwards countries like NZ it's about 9am. Ring them. And meanwhile, the dismayingly batshit French govt is seeking to tax Linux and not Microsoft http://bit.ly/gF4WkQ wonder who's idea that was Maybe, maybe not... but that looks to me like The Chinese NOT voting for Apple's top-down-control model in droves. Check that out http://bit.ly/fYfwdl A Chinese Android queue. Fucknell Detroit looks like Chernobyl http://bit.ly/hrtwpG < It's post-apocalyptic without the apocalypse (RT @SubtleBlade ) @teirdes ¤ is a really small goatsie. An "antsie", if you will. @amandatreeuk Happy New Year - Presents? I'm more a giver than a taker as far as that goes :) @dewaninews NZ news is worse than UK news as far as that goes - they're utterly obsessed with violent crime. It warps political discourse Speaking of which, this is my 11,111 th tweet. Everything interlocks neatly. @gleonhard Lanier hasn't known what he's talking about for ages - that piece is riddled with bollocks, and is more "messenger-obsession" @dewaninews Main Stream Media. 2011-01-02 1:11:00 <- "ee aye ee aye oh" in binary. Brilliant. 2011 is already brilliant already. I want Pringles (not salt and vinegar) @guardiannews 2011: Joshua March on the tech startups turning serious http://gu.com/p/2m599/tf < bollocks. A sheltered insider's view @mrjudkins actually - just occurred to me that your last tweet was the reason I had the overwhelming urge to hear this http://bit.ly/9tISkp Sudden overwhelming urge to hear this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LORGWrKw60 How fate of 'ideal victim captured nation's attention http://bit.ly/hRnYUO < The MSM knew it would be GREAT for ratings so totally caned it? 8 Lies from the mainstream media about wikileaks http://bit.ly/eS4BTQ < add to the list of "News At Six Inadequacy-Bingo" items @rinkjustice Yea, gyms deliberately over-subscribe, tying people to long-term contracts in the new year, knowing they'll bail after a month Rendering takes a long time doesn't it? Yes. Forever. Never mind Gin or TV, 21stC cognitive surplus is spent watching progress-bars @cshirky @rinkjustice but it looked as though I was getting all niggly about you not replying - didn't mean that at all. Sorry :) @rinkjustice oh i get it - "at least I didn't refuse to reply", was supposed to mean "at least I didn't reject you :), LOL etc". 2011 !!! @rinkjustice I know you weren't ignoring me :) - that was my experimental and not always 100% successful humour :) Brittany Murphy is on TV. Anything that she is in is automatically great, just because she's in it. Suffering the traditional (and for many decades avoided) depression/panic of not doing anything NYE. But I won't be hungover I guess. @umairh @auerswald yea, it's a fine-line between clever and stupid @nobledesign That's ok - I've got a kind of cultural blind-spot. I simply do not "get" anything that happened before 1964 @clarecurranmp Always take a book. @nobledesign LOL - you sound like Marylin Monroe Socialism etc http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2010/12/2010123054815679161.html @yezzer I'd always found there to be a greater degree of Ratbaggery in East Oxford - but it depends on who you know. @rinkjustice yea well, at least I didn't refuse to reply :) @rinkjustice the rejection guy Nicholas Sarkozy attacks 100,000 of his own people on behalf of American corporations http://bit.ly/eabKux :: http://bit.ly/eq7XQg Started 2011's NY's resolutions 2 days early so I can break them before 2011 even starts, on account of being reckless and bad. The Lake House is on, which is about 2 good-looking, over-educated gen-xers, going out of their minds with loneliness. Together @urban75 it's weirdly emotional seeing you here after all these years. I was a U75er back in the day. Is Rorymac on the twitters? New Fan Video - this is the first video I've done where I've thought "ok, maybe I can do this stuff" http://bit.ly/gVUNNI Tosca Cat http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/toscacat2.jpg He's sleeps with his arms dangling on account of being a fishing cat. @leashless Yes - well something does "need to be done" really doesn't it. @rtgarden so I tend to see the angliphonification of the web as more of an historical artifact than something like a McDonalds in every town @rtgarden but I think language is a rapidly evolving thing - I think it needs to run its course - rather than preserving it in amber etc @rtgarden I live in a country (NZ) with a dying language - which my Dad has spent his life teaching... so it ain't as doomed as it was Restoring bubble-era house-prices=like restoring pre-crash tulip prices http://huff.to/fo1sxA < bubble was already a disaster for tenants @rtgarden the big OS languages being based on English is nothing compared to the reality of MS tax, vendor-lockin, foreign IP tax etc @rtgarden I don't think that's much of a hegemony to be honest. For what it's worth the LMP in LAMP are all Scandinavian. @deadprogram php sql css js html @michaelmeacher When will 13 million Britons living in poverty become a political issue? http://bit.ly/ficfGS < when they unionise $130 million? It's not file-sharing causing lost sales - everyone's spending their dwindling disposable income on Bon Jovi tickets. Bon Jovi highest earning live band in 2010 http://gu.com/p/2m4dx/tf < really? Jesus, I'm REALLY not the cutting-edge any more. They have quite strange looking goths in France don't they http://bit.ly/dZfDOp @robyngallagher God that'd be weird. I'm both sorry, and very, very glad I'm not there. I'd probably wind up crying. And drunk. @rosspruden but then I think this http://bit.ly/f5Qdll is possibly in the top 5 artistic insights ever. The Who "got" art. @bug3y3jedi Thank you :) @rosspruden re: Lowbrow vs highbrow - Lowbrow is often better "art" ie: more resonant than high eg: Repo Man vs Antichrist. @MissHighTech Opera @rosspruden On my wall is a 2m wide engraving of 16thC London. What it was... what it is, dunno, but it's more an anchor than entertainment @rosspruden the EU perspective is 1000s of years long. Art... that which resonates, is the only thing we try to preserve. @rosspruden I think that Art=Entertainment might be an American perspective. From an EU POV, art is the only thing that survives @rtgarden How is open-source hegemonic? There's no ring-fencing of IP, no money flowing off-shore, no foreign-controlled DRM. Spanish Minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba looking for all the world like a puppet governor for foreign IP imperialism http://bit.ly/gPe557 Television in NZ pretty much ONLY shows cooking programs these days. It's like cold-war Russian TV, but with Jamie Oliver Right. Today is the first day, of the rest of the year. Time to get organised. @havi In my old place in the UK I never answered the door - I disabled the doorbell. No one could get to me without appointment. @havi Yea - I meant as a sign. A sign on the door saying "No". A bit negative perhaps. Possibly funny enough to do though :) @havi I think just a simple "No" would do the trick. "Intellectual Property" is turning into a type of straw-clutching, last-stand colonialism, in the wake of a gutted manufacturing base. Russia goes Open Source http://on.mash.to/huptud < Bet all the B.R.I.C countries will do the same @rosspruden I think the last thing art is is entertainment. Check out "The Power of Art" sometime (bits here) http://bit.ly/by6ndt @rosspruden Art is about bearing witness. Catharsis. It's a shot at resonant (and deeper) reality. I'm with this guy http://bit.ly/99nNVt @rosspruden The mainstream is addicted to franchise blockbusters. The UK, mainstream "safe" lite-comedies for the US. It's hollow. @rosspruden Well that's where we differ :) I think the mainstream industry has become to much about entertainment and not enough about art @rosspruden I don't know about "enjoy". The Dukes of Hazzard enjoyed themselves. The current crop is more about walls closing in. @rosspruden Changing American Psyche I think - 70s/80s every 2nd hero was "accused of craarm he did not commit". In the 00s they're guilty @Osolage Aye... for what it's worth, you're the first person I followed that I've never actually met :) @tom_watson Yea - it was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Old drunkies, howling away at the songs of their fathers http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/24/nick-cave-and-shane.html @serafinowicz What joke was that dude? @rosspruden Cinema's big problem is that it's non-participatory. Like Ballet or Opera. It's a killer flaw. @rosspruden I sat in an empty cinema the other night - while I watched the movie on my own, ~3000 hours of content were uploaded to Youtube @rosspruden I don't do any of those things for fun. They're either for escape or connection to my culture - to go deeper. Baeuw Baeuw Baeuw, Baeuw Be-Baeuw Baeuw etc. Genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0NKAPfnGs Latter-day Dickensianism. A guy loses his house due to medical bills. A kid can't get the care he needs... then Charity!!! saves the day As Good As It Gets is on - none of the desperate problems that the characters have in that film happen in countries with socialised medicine @tom_watson @jdub What? James Burke with his Commie Anti-IP Maximalist "no such thing as a non-derivative invention" agenda? Ooh! Old whatsisname's on TV. Jumpy McWhatsiscock. Little chap. Ferrety. Closety. Everyone's favorite jumpy closety-ferret, but not Nicole's It's fairly clear from medieval/renaissance texts is that "the typo" was actually invented before spelling. Possibly by accident. Having watched a lot of TV, I've managed to work out that "the point" of sports is people having accidents in slow motion. @clarecurranmp There y'go http://bit.ly/he7pEX < More Cromwell than Gandhi, but 2010 was an Empire Strikes Back year. A Couple of Modest Suggestions http://bit.ly/he7pEX < Nick Taylor's declaration of war against... pretty much everything. It's 27 degrees in NZ at the mo. To some of you this will be peanuts, but not here. Here it's coconuts. Fuckin 27 man. Geez. The Typhoid Mary of 3-Strikes http://bit.ly/f0Dn5g - yup, even NZ is in danger of being infected < We need to crack down on this shit. @inkblotsart @havi In the UK we hear about a "jobless recovery". Better inter-poor competition won't help. The rich have taken all the money @inkblotsart @havi Yus, but that's a single anecdote, the plural of which isn't data http://bit.ly/egTQUP http://bit.ly/d1UmM9 @gleonhard Check this out: open-source users voluntarily pay double what proprietary OS usrs pay http://bit.ly/eJMyI3 +very big sample size @olleolleolle Yea - I may have a fair way to go. Music better off on P2P, the scariness of Apple and the current cross-roads http://bit.ly/fRoM8J Christmas Television http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/christmas2.jpg University tells banks to fuck off http://bit.ly/fSUUaz < We should break the banks up, nationalise their useful services. Fuck off the rest American Concentration Camp showing no sign of closing, despite Obama promises: http://bit.ly/fOBZhr It's not just a wealth-divide, it's a reality gap http://bit.ly/d1UmM9 < this will cost you your republic. I mean I know she's a fictional character and all, but in my mind, so am I. I've got to be. It's a coping mechanism. Sandra Bullock's on the other channel. Ok in action fliks, but romantic comedies? It just destroys me mentally seeing her with someone else Apollo 13 is on - that movie is pretty much the only reason I never became an astronaut. @Documentally Merry Chrimble - an hour to go in NZ, and we've got away without catastrophes or drama. AND I got a yoyo in my xmas cracker The Grinch Stealing Christmas is on. God that's creepy. I'd never seen it before. Eating Chili flavoured chocolate. Not bad actually. Chocolate with an afterburn. Industrial accident: Just wrecked my ex-girlfriend's shirt that I still wore after 25 years. I'm a romantic me. In a blokey sort of way @chavezcandanga I used to support you. As you have granted yourself power to censor the internet, that is over. You are no longer legitimate @yoyoha @inkblotsart oh it's better than that - people from my little corner of the gen-x world don't get married in the first place. @yoyoha @inkblotsart not if she loves him. If he's fucked because he's not a great gift-chooser, then he's fucked (and maybe free) anyway Fortunately he's not always right - but he often sees things the Self-Help TEDoid people fishing for standing ovations and book sales, miss Bruce Sterling > Wikileaks http://bit.ly/dFL2Yl prob the best futurologist I know cos he doesnt give a rats about what people want to hear @PragueBob Yea - if you want to do that you need to delete the whole internet and start over. @rapella I'm not sure I've succeeded at anything terribly much :) BUT JUST WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR! @rapella New Zealand has a far stronger "success despising" thing going on than the UK. Good thing too. @rapella we have more of a reason to despise wealth - because it's not that long ago that it was institutionally despicable. @rapella but we still have an aristocracy, and the class system (that the US never had as badly) was rolled back within living memory @rapella I'm not so sure about that - well... I think we're a little less blinded by the success of people who are actually cunts. @serafinowicz Santa actually started life as an Ewok... not a gay one necessarily... but certainly... "different" from the others. @rapella @simonw though I will grant you, Americans do like taking poor people and putting them in rich contexts. UK it's reversed @rapella @simonw for every Cosbie show, there's a Butterflies for every Rigsby, an Archie Bunker. For every Citizen Smith, a Kotter. @rapella @simonw Yes Minister? The Thick of it? Absolutely Fabulous? vs Rosanne, the Simpsons, Married with Children etc @peregrinari7 That I would not know. Their "look" was something of a breath of fresh air in 86 though, if I recall. In a bogany sort of way. @phowardcom Suspiciously quiet in fact. Everyone is hiding behind shelves going "shhh shhh - he's still here" @peregrinari7 When L.O.P came out in the 80s, Bon Jovi were among the least poncily dressed rock stars. Ripped jeans rather than spandex That is the greatest christmas song ever written http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzF3t07spI :) It just struck Christmas a minute ago in NZ - Merry Chrimble all. @clarecurranmp LOL - don't you think wrapping pressies 7 minutes before Christmas is being a little over-prepared? @tomcoady Who knows http://n.pr/ht6PUT http://bit.ly/cbPxrD but apple does come down heavily on the side of control-freakery @tomcoady It's traitorware my friend, traitorware. This http://bit.ly/9MlQJc is Root-Kit-Plus - Spy-n-Wipe. Coming to a phone near you. Jesus, what is it with "The New America" and shooting the messenger? http://bit.ly/gdFfyq < c'mon FFS, this is not what you're about. @JerryKetel the cut-off age is to do with pretending to be something you're not - which is around 30. But not everyone's pretending. @JerryKetel I mean some people can never wear them - some people (who usually have heart-attacks around 60) can always carry it off. @JerryKetel I'm not sure it's as simple as age-cutoff. It varies according to a charismatic-arsehole quotient - differs between people. Jeff Bridges is on TV, throwing up. Genius. Sitting through the pre-DVD corporate lies about file-sharing, that you can't skip. "Operation Prohibited" it says. Apple takes out a patent for traitorware http://bit.ly/epwXKn Apple are even more retrogressive and evil than Microsoft. @tomcoates Yea - you've got to hit it like Amyl though - hardly ever works, so they're faking it, Don't know why they're always doing that NAFTA devastating to Mexican agriculture http://bit.ly/i6DyhJ EU's Main ACTA Supporter Caught Lying About ACTA http://dlvr.it/Bz1Z9 < we need to end this shit. Now. @clarecurranmp he's talking about the US... re:UK - I voted labour and we were utterly betrayed. Will never go near them again. @clarecurranmp obviously I went off on an arm-waving tangent re: list of ToDos... will retry. This guy has a go tho http://bit.ly/f46keP Tosca's a good cat. He's a fishing-cat, which means he "catches" his cat-nosh by pulling it with his paw out of the bowl all over the floor @JoMangee beats me. I went through the street directory in my car - starts with H, "lane/line". Nowt. Haylock Gr in Porrirua? not really, no @newsycombinator The Cato Institute are free-market fundamentalist crackpots. WikiLeaks: US Ambassador Planned "Retaliation" Against France Over Ban on Monsanto Corn http://bit.ly/ieC3Wo Visa Mastercard RIAA and MPAA collude over extra-judicial punishments http://bit.ly/ehWN26 CIA calls its anti-freedom-of-speech messenger-shooting attack-force WTF http://bit.ly/ihIfEN @clarecurranmp re: "the collective". I think it's a bad idea for human/societal necessities to be controlled by individuals/companies. @clarecurranmp personally, I think we need to rewrite socialism - and you know, I'm a company director, on and off. @clarecurranmp wikileaks forces the issue re: problems, but doesn't provide solutions I don't think. @clarecurranmp because the thought of no one doing anything for him - is desolating... but I'm not an "organisation" kindof a guy. @clarecurranmp I haven't done anything for that guy for a while. And I should. I have to. @clarecurranmp - other a silver-haired londoner shaking my hand "thank god for people like you" when I was doing illegal greenpeace stuff. @clarecurranmp you're old enough vote. As soon as you're old enough, run for something" @clarecurranmp I'll need to blog (rather than twitter it), but I will... I'm haunted (kindof) by two things. One is Frank Zappa "as soon as- @clarecurranmp and if you want, I'll give you a list of what needs to be done, anything less that which is a betrayal, not coverable by 1p @clarecurranmp my advice (as a random bloke) to any political party wanting to engage young people would be this: Fucking do something @clarecurranmp people, not even "young people", are going to join a political party because it's a 1p (or even nothing) bargain @clarecurranmp so when a "startup" drops it's price to 1p, we know it's dying and it's probably worth something south of 1p. @clarecurranmp we (21stCenturians) are a lot more shoppingly-adept that that. We have spent 10 years watching startups die. @clarecurranmp about what? Ed Miliband offers the young: join Labour for a penny http://gu.com/p/2m2a7/tf < 1c more than it costs to join.. anything else. Must be good Basically the US has gutted it's production economy and is now trying to charge the world monopoly rents for "ideas". Umm... nope. Next. Spain rejects Hollywood/US IP colonialism http://dlvr.it/BsvMD < The US Govt's approach to IP a plagiarism of British colonial mercantilism FCC / Obama cave in on Net Neutrality http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-fcc-caves-on-net-ne_b_799435.html John Key sneaks in privatisation of ACC over Christmas http://tumeke.blogspot.com/2010/12/privatization-of-acc.html @tomhimpe I wrote a thing about something similar back in Jan http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/fictional-objects/ @EduVulture I like to think of us as being a post-effigy society. I've been in love with (but never actually used) this idea for a while now http://bit.ly/ihIfEN Arse. Porridge-thieves have stolen my porridge. Well there's another reason to make addiction a medical problem rather than a legal one http://bit.ly/enuHdO @EduVulture but you know... with repeating history, individuals are unpredictable. Institutions on the other hand behave like clockwork @EduVulture Julian is more like Martin Luther (who incidentally wound up sheltering at the house of an aristocrat to escape "the law") @EduVulture probably not - Guy Fawlks happened more at the nexus of a propaganda war - like a 9/11 @robshepherd aye vell. I guess someone might be listening then. @robshepherd I've already had a pop at them. I don't think news-outlets actually read replies though. They just use twitter as another feed Is John Humphries on Twitter? so I can tell him what a contemptible toady he came across as in this? http://bbc.in/gvOHkF Well that was piss poor http://bbc.in/gvOHkF @r4today << seriously? That was a pathetic patronising tripe. What's the matter with you? @hjortur It's a very strange feeling talking to someone about a thing we've both photoed, at the same time, on opposite sides of the planet @robyngallagher Weirdly enough, I've been carrying the Weirdsky tag for over 20 years now. It's a pre-web name. @mat_walker @yezzer and fire. Fire beats snow. Water beats fire. So take rocks as well. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. The eclipse in NZ - from my backyard, a couple of minutes ago http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/eclipse.jpg Just stumbled across Northern Star by... Hole. In retrospect a much better band than I gave them credit for at the time. Sports is on. You chaps in England won't have heard of sports. It's when people run about and jump and chuck stuff. Waste of time really. LOL - @tvnznews not allowed cameras at Heathrow, so use iPhones instead. Fuck the law innit. @johnkeypm ..and there you go - letting privatised ACC insurance through the door. That's not for our benefit is it? It's for corporations America Spies on Self http://wapo.st/fNKG1p Doesn't know what it's doing, but is borrowing a shitload of money to protect itself from itself @johnkeypm + that "referendum" against violence against children was a travesty. You've given us no reason to believe a single thing you say @johnkeypm re: Priorities - seems well-meaning and honorable, but then you're privatising prisons,and hurrying through state-power increases @rcosgrove This is becoming annoying. The government (or individuals within it) trying to grab more authority need to be smacked down hard @rcosgrove it's one of those things where "wrong-doers" aren't harmed but the general population are. The moral authority to censor etc @rcosgrove blocking internet porn is a sly (aka dishonest) way of setting up the mechanism and authority to control everything else @JPBarlow @hrheingold that's only ironic if you don't understand that privacy for individuals != secrecy for authority. One good. Other bad. It's not just that we underwrite their gambling- they're also geared to skim the entire surplus that we generate. We should get rid of them Oh... not the showdown I was hoping for http://bit.ly/ffnsxw how about breaking the banks up, and making the useful parts a public service? @paulsilver but then aliens attack the earth and everyone runs about screaming their arses off and arguing for 2 hours. @paulsilver I found it quite weird - would have made an good JG Ballard film - really dysfunctional, weirdly ugly beautiful Californians @paulsilver No accounting for taste. I prefer to see movies on my own so I don't have to cope with other people's opinions afterwards "Add Your Location!!!" - yea, ok, it's Fuckoffistan @paulsilver I think the worst I've seen was probably Shooting Fish. It had quirky laddish scallywags in it. I had to leave early @paulsilver You haven't seen Skyline then? re: Helsing... yea, I really don't think the 21stC werewolf/vampire war really adds to the canon Well Van Helsing came and went. A two-hour vampire fight with an orchestra playing in the background. Mum and Dad are watching Kung Fu Panda. Tosca is asleep on the sofa. I am playing on the internets. And working. Kindof. Psyching myself up for the conflict to come - Shawshank vs Van Helsing. I know Shawshank is a better movie, but I've seen it about 80 times I still can't quite believe that these people managed to do this http://bit.ly/dLxPk5 I've got a whole truckload of Golden Mean Calipers to make today. There was a rush over the weekend for some reason. Greek TV I think The river is high today. Fast. Swans (black ones) are swimming backwards. Having a laugh etc. Weirdos. Goths probably. Goth Swans. Jesus. Bradly Manning : http://bit.ly/hoBrk1 < this is psychological torture. The US has thrown away its moral authority @cshirky Reminds me of what university feminists were like in the 80s. Wrecked the entire movement really. @evgenymorozov I wouldn't feel too bad - "liberty" was slave-trade-era newspeak for British Mercentalism Absolutely Brilliant http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11952858 AND he wrote The Proposition. And The Mercy Seat. Shopping. I can't believe people actually like doing this shit. @robyngallagher Yea - I've just recently abandoned the domain name bumfish.com... so... well... I've given up basically. It's yours. @CitizenBomber Eg-fucking-zackly http://bit.ly/eneH6d this is my #1 gripe with @tvnznews, who I consider to be chronically irresponsible Clouds over my town, earlier http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/clouds.jpg @evgenymorozov I don't think that was "calling" it hypocritical so much as observing, and commenting on it's hypocrisy. Mentions of the word "Bumfish" in English literature during the previous 300 years http://bit.ly/egbWux @samfarrow So do I. So do millions of other people. Something needs to be done, although what I don't know. Anyway, my Brother's clan departed this morning (sans cat), all shouting and barking and struggling with cots and prams and whatnot. @clarecurranmp 2999? My cousin just won the superbike competition again. He's always doing that. He also just had another nipper, which he's also always doing. @peregrinari7 Hitler I should think. There isn't a "chaplin cat" site is there? No. It's a Hitler-Cat Mustache. Cricket's on TV. Nobody cares about cricket - that's why you never see cricket-hooliganism. Nobody gives a rats. @joeysauer nevertheless, people are way too happy to take revenge on other people's behalf, than actually do something to help the victim @joeysauer What happens to her parents is not your concern young Jedi, your concern is what you can do to help the girl. NHS staff told to give up annual pay increments or 35,000 jobs will go http://gu.com/p/2mvhd/tf < or we could just get Top Shop to pay tax Went out and stood in the rain before. With an umbrella, but without shoes. Striking a balance, because that's the kind of guy I am. Is it me, or is the "hints and tips for whistleblowers" link I posted yesterday http://ht4w.co.uk now looking... "forbidden"? If the US doesn't get corporate money out of politics, it's finished. Mind you, we all need to do that. NZ is privatising prisons. Obama betrays base http://bit.ly/go6q1T He'll lose the next election, the incoming GOP will sink the dollar, dictatorship within a decade I think we need to compile lists of politicians that try to "sneak through" laws... and hound the fuckers out of office. US bullied Spain into draconian IP law... that the Spanish Govt is now trying to "sneak through" before the holidays http://bit.ly/eXB5KV @finnhop far out, that's amazing. God I miss Brighton. @MuPhi and that fucking "death scene" music from gladiator that EVERYONE has copied http://bit.ly/1VZuLm - drone + celtic caterwauling @MuPhi I also hate fast-frame-rates, and battle-scenes filmed in slow-mo with stirring/swelling background music @MuPhi Yea - I'm beginning to find it really distracting TBH. The Oceans series dispense with the teal; the last terminator was ONLY teal My old English teacher lives at the end of my street. This is his house http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/whanganuihouse.jpg Ocean's 13 is on. It's orange. I appear to be hiding behind a tree. Hiding behind a tree, programming computers. @ambisextrous @amandapalmer actcherly, our old soundman used to use that slang... about 25 years ago. There's also a map of france I'm the same age as Bill Bailey, and always have been. Even as a child I was the same as Bill Bailey. Worrying really. @robshepherd Yea, indeed. For about a year there, Captain Beefheart was THE magic-mushroom taking music. @MakersTeam apparently a doctor was showing them off on Greek TV yesterday - so I sold 6 more at about 3am :) RT @MakersTeam - weirdsky makes these very unique calipers! http://fb.me/N61uE0uo < cheers :) Fucking idiot http://bit.ly/eurn7o Fox News are THE main contributor to the fact that the US political system can't get anything done. What the web will look like without net-neutrality http://bit.ly/gRcfkQ RT @artbrodsky @CaseyContrarian And here is what Bank of America plans... for America http://bit.ly/fYAEdW Hey wow... looks like these guys http://bit.ly/al1K turned out to be a bunch of cunts afterall. Who'd have guessed? http://is.gd/iW0Jl @nzlemming Yea - sunny here again now. It's just messing about really. @rapella turns out I was reading the wrong numbers anyway - it's the same speed as everywhere. Routing my VPN via London is about 3x faster than anywhere else in the world. Is that because the internet is in English? Tips for whistle blowers http://ht4w.co.uk/ Personally I'd use a "throwaway" 2nd hand netbook on public wifi, via VPN. Browser on thumbdrive It's raining in NZ at the mo. Still amazingly humid. I'm sitting here with a tron-oid laptop fan. Everyone else is asleep. It's 4pm. @edwardvirtually So do we :) Hollywood has a lot to answer for. I finally understand Public Key Encryption. @edwardvirtually and I am talking about the west. Elsewhere is worse... usually amply aided by the west. @edwardvirtually Trust me - this is global. It's just that the US is more corporate-corrupted than anywhere else, so is more extreme. @edwardvirtually Canada turned into a police state for g20 week, Denmark illegally arrested 250 @ climate conf, Aus trying to censor web @edwardvirtually UK just locked a guy in solitary for 10 days without a charge. NZ is about to pass most extreme state-power laws in 70 yrs @edwardvirtually Something needs to be done - but this is a global problem, not just an American one. Judge tells copyright companies to stop making shit up http://bit.ly/evZce4 though apparently the "shared file=lost sale" lie continues Tosca's come to stay. I like Tosca. Easy to talk to. Later http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fO9bHuRxpU Wikileaks alternatives, with a fairly stinging critique of WL, which is a good thing I think http://bit.ly/dWlgAv for strength of the tactic @leashless this fan is fantastic. It's all hot and humid at the mo.. I'll get another one tomorrow so my laptop will look like a mod scooter So does anyone know if USB fans/lights are like... "a good idea"? For your laptop I mean? @dylanhorrocks I've been meaning to CC license the whole lot and put them online - it's so hard finding time though. A sea of hassles have I @dylanhorrocks http://bit.ly/eXWCl7 a looong time ago in a galaxy far far away. I literally haven't heard this in over 20 years @evgenymorozov Russel Brand is a superficial nit. @joshr What's needed is a P2P plugin platform. Something that ONLY has access to a shared directory... and is basically a browser. @joshr I would have thought that bookmarking would be simple enough to make a P2P / Distributed version. Fuck me - riveting TV though http://bbc.in/dPMlKk Jody McIntyre did amazingly well. Just saw the BBC Wheel Chair thing. God... it's like something off The Thick Of It... an utter fuckup unfolding in slow-motion @robshepherd Weeeeellll... he's not wrong, he's just not as right as George Lakoff. I think my New Year's resolution this year will be to... you know... "get organised". I can't remember what last year's was. @robshepherd Exactly. I see twitter as an antidote-in-training for Chomsky's theory that you can't fit a dissenting opinion into a soundbite I didn't even know the US was at war with Pakistan http://bit.ly/guoPto BPI Effectively Admits That Digital Economy Act (that they wrote, and had implemented without due process) Was Useless http://dlvr.it/BZP17 My Brother's clan has arrived - cats and dogs and people all over the place, all carrying and dropping stuff and shouting. Actually The Met's tactics have already led to the death of an innocent bystander http://bit.ly/gllXRF < and protesters are also innocent PatriotApp http://lat.ms/grFXkJ "whistle-blower" - for reporting a whistle-blower so he's put in solitary while the US trumps up charges @dylanhorrocks I think the main feeling was suddenly realising how sad I'd be if nobody (Nobody? Not one?) cared. Somebody cares ! :) @dylanhorrocks I felt the same way when I found one of my old records on Youtube :) The Pat Condell song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOsUHJKaH2U Oh cool - Bionic Woman is on. I didn't know they still made those. @robyngallagher It'd be fantastic in countries where everyone is bilingual except me. At last - augmented reality actually doing something useful http://bit.ly/euIc5Z Brilliant. I've just got a USB fan. It lights up in the dark like tron etc. I think I'll get another one tomorrow. French Record Companies upset that the internet isn't being rolled back fast enough http://bit.ly/gBckaI Obama passes Bush's tax laws http://bit.ly/flLxlL has he actually changed anything? Fight, fight, fight http://www.genomicon.com/2010/12/ufo-shot-down-over-israeli-nuke-station/ American economy : Game Over http://bit.ly/fYAEdW Been out dealing with the Chrismas burden. I think this year I might just give everyone money. $19.99 each. It's what they'd want. @Swiggs that's not how you spell "from" btw. I know you probably didn't mean it, but if you let these things go all hell breaks loose. @Swiggs I might need to do that in the new year. (being a student of addiction) I feel this encroaching sense that I might have a problem I accidentally locked myself in the corridor at Sean's place once - was there for 2 hours. Nearly went insane. 9 days? That's... punishment Ok - so Julian spent 9 days in solitary confinement. Has he actually been charged yet? Does anyone actually know the charges? Jon Snow. God I miss Jon Snow. Jon Snow is one of the things that makes Britain Great http://bit.ly/eeAgwG ... but it's like joHn. ok? H. God, I can't believe only 8 people have watched my morepork video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DsDUhme1Uk BASTARDS!!! Kuwait shuts down Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/eGbAcL @tomcoates What's needed quite badly is distributed flickr (and twitter and everything else). Amazon and Delicious are... inevitable really "Another peripatetic Australian" http://bit.ly/hESLIA Christ, where do they get these people? Here he is again > http://bbc.in/hWM5qE The slow slow slow onset of sanity http://bit.ly/dIoNfh < poll on drug prohibition. Addiction is a medical problem, not a legal one. View from the end of my road this evening http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/bridges.jpg I'd like it here if I could leave. My Mum just told me that she's always felt incredibly guilty for persuading me not to drop out of university. @jon_hirsch yea. It's evolution. Probably. @jon_hirsch It's actually the same throughout - it's just the longer you listen to it, the deafer you go. God it's hot. @tvnznews sneaks in a sports story, failing to mention Key is using it as an excuse for the biggest peacetime increase in state power ever @tvnznews still milking the mining tragedy, still obsessed with crime, still abrogating their duties as about 20% of the 4th estate. It's raining. Finally. Thank fuck for that. @tomcoates nor am I. @lordtrilink LOL (tweed hat etc) Because the real threat to legacy IP industries, isn't piracy, it's artists realising they're better off without them http://huff.to/duyJ9f Builders in the back yard. Diggin.g a hole by the looks. "up to something" obviously Wouldn't be that hard. Publish the phone numbers and ring the fuckers up 5 times a day. I think it's time we kicked it up a notch and organised DOS attacks on the phone-systems of pricks like the CPS / Amazon / Paypal So it seems that it's the UK establishment, not the Swedes keeping Julian Assange in prison http://bit.ly/eBJQRE < lying wankers. @robyngallagher well give them a little heckle for me as you leave etc. Pirate Party shows young people don't trust govt http://bit.ly/fEOdGU <after wikileaks there's at least one old person who doesn't either @PhilipBloom Here y'go. How not to use a steadicam. It feels like he's waltzing with the audience http://bit.ly/fjFpYM Serious-Suit-Man (everything about him is grey) smirking embarrassedly as he talks into a self-held steadicam http://bit.ly/fjFpYM @robyngallagher God - is it you I've been abusing when I tirelessly heckle tvnz news? @grahamdbrown @DalaiLama the true purpose of all religions is to self-propagate. Usually by lies, false promises and emotional violence. @grahamdbrown @DalaiLama: All major religious traditions pretend to have the same aim – to transform the individual into a positive being. @robinturner there is plenty of music (most of it) for people who don't like music, but this is for people who are actually frightened of it @robinturner I didn't know who Ellie Goulding was until yesterday. The sort of person who says "Comfy". Surrealy bland I am fighter 5 - starts after about 12 secs of rickrolling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PpYNpDjz5U And here are the real results http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036_2029037,00.html Is Time Magazine on twitter? I'd like to tell them what a pack of craven pandering wank-shites they are. What. A. Bunch. Of. Cunts: http://bit.ly/e4bTFA < Mainstream Media turns out to be a bunch of toadying slime-sacks shocker. LOL http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944737 oh. my. god. 2am here in NZ. @NOTCOT Morepork going off earlier. You chaps in England won't have heard of Moreporks. This is a morepork http://bit.ly/hJG5Z4 And I was literally the only one in the whole cinema. OH FUCK. Babylon Zoo is on TV. I never thought that was going to happen. Just saw Skyline - weird... while some movies are going 3D, others seem to be somewhere between 2D and 1D. 60 Minutes - 2 pieces, people breaking down in tears in both of them. What the fuck is it with TV (editors) and crying? Woop - tribler for mac. WTF? Linux is last? http://www.tribler.org/ Still haven't done Christmas shopping - I expect I'll do what I always do - pick something up from the gas station on the way there. @jordanclaire Military Service as a way of solving unemployment/poverty was a key factor in wrecking the Roman republic. Slippery slope YUSS!!!! Email protected by 4th Amendment. That'll be a $100 donation for the @EFF then http://bit.ly/eZ8FWv 26 degrees in Wanganui at the mo. Too hot for me. I'm expiring. I used to live in a place that went to about 40 in the afternoons as well. @tvnznews all the while studiously avoiding mentioning John Key's (secret) state-power grab, and (god forbid) wiki-leaked cables. @tvnznews bingo going well - THREE separate stories with people breaking down in tears. 1 disaster-milking story. 2? teens out of control Thoughts on the Cloud, in light of corporations censoring on behalf of the extra-judicial whims of US politicians http://bit.ly/g893OR @clarecurranmp It was however honest and entertaining. The US reaction to most things is more damaging than the original event > http://bit.ly/fUGIva Shock Doctrine + Right Wingers = fuckups @Swiggs The thing that isn't pretty about it is that there's been a global banking crash caused by banks, and the poor are carrying the can @Swiggs so long as the govt is spending tax $ within NZ, it's not a net loss is it? That's what the govt should be doing. @Swiggs mind you, the reason Greece went under is that hardly anyone paid tax. In Ireland it was the banks. @Swiggs Govt spending is not generally the problem, allowing the rich, and corporations to shirk their tax responsibilities is. @Swiggs re: Ireland, Greece. No, I wouldn't have thought so. McDonalds hacked, customer info stolen http://bit.ly/f06VZ7 < why the fuck do McDonalds even have customer data? RT @AmericaFreeTV @joshr bitcoins (after a year) has about $1M in circulation. @joshr Here's another one of these http://ripple-project.org - bit different from bitcoins. Bit smaller as well I think. @ballardian you might like that one actcherly http://vodo.net/prebloc @leashless Oh that - yea, that's kindof funny. She does drop these bombshells sometimes. She's an actress. Can cry on cue. @leashless Yea, why? It's a pretty sad state of affairs for democracy... as a concept - that with a single exception, NONE of the elected PM's are trustworthy Trouble with the Cancún accord being against the wishes of Evo Morales - he's the only national leader in the whole world I actually trust. The 21st C's 1st decade taught us what we already knew from the 20th: States are more dangerous than terrorists by a factor of about 10,000 Earlier my Mum said "My heart aches for you. This isn't what we wanted for you at all". I think she was talking about being a web designer @teirdes I think the feedback loop that google creates though gives people a pretty quick idea of what works. @teirdes They used to say "1/2 of all advertsing is wasted, but no-one knows which 1/2" before the web. I doubt that it's changed. @teirdes but with adwords, you can gauge the ROI immediately. It's never been >0 for me, but people are using it, so it must work for them @teirdes affiliate links are from an actual sale... as to the rest, personally I think it's a bubble. Mind you, Gotterdamerung on magic mushrooms is pretty mental. It seems to me, part of the whole point of classical music, is to drag itself out for as long as possible. Never liked it. Ever. Brilliant. At last, something that Julian Assange can legitimately be charged with http://bit.ly/ickljY RT @peregrinari7 @A2Z What is Colbert doing? @teirdes as to the rest - it's a very broad question... affiliate advertising is linked to an actual sale. Sponsorship? googleads? Vaguer @teirdes spam is bubble money - the main product sold by spam is... spam. The mail-shots themselves. I find this incredibly sad http://bit.ly/9hT45L possibly because they're all doing things of other people. We should value them the most @stilgherrian 20 years of painstaking work have converted it from prim little terraces to a massive heaving jungle. No one gets out alive. @stilgherrian well... maybe to cheer you up over habitats etc - here's my back lawn http://bit.ly/guWiEx - extends for another 20m Eye Writer http://vimeo.com/16282734 I mean when you take a clear look at what it actually is + the MSM's paranoia about child-abuse. It's insane. But that's religion for you Far out - there's an anti forced-genital-modification tweet-channel @IntactByDefault - it is quite weird that this isn't a HUGE issue. George Lakoff http://www.truth-out.org/untellable-truths65905 - this is the foundation of um... everything. Holy crap, jquery can do face detection http://facedetection.jaysalvat.com/# @joshr he was tech-support for the Observatory. A proper geek's geek. Ginger beard. Good guy actually. @jstrachan I think I had a book about it once - about 10 years ago. Weirdly (for a computer language), it won't have become dated. @jstrachan http://www.clipstr.com/videos/BoomhauerExplainsTheMeaningOfLife/ @jstrachan actually, this wasn't you was it? http://bit.ly/9zo1OY @joshr I once knew a guy who'd memorised pi to 100 places - for passwords, he'd use a single 1-90 integers - count 8 digits from there @jstrachan inspiring impenetrable, acronym ladened tweets resembling a mix of conjugated latin and perl :) Bruce Springsteen done Swedish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uGjp2XguMc @leftfutures There's a new mood of defiance everywhere. @iceMagic I don't hold them in particularly high regard to be honest. They're losers getting off on being "a gang". "an affront to Vatican sovereignty" http://bit.ly/enijFd We should have arrested the fucker when he was in the UK. @iceMagic because gawker did an article on them beating up on a 12 year old girl. @themediaisdying there are Russian / EU and Balkans wikileaks that I've seen, so far... as well as Openleaks. It'll proliferate. Pros + cons @JerryKetel but you know... I've seen 1000 gigs relatively straight that I don't remember at all. And if you don't remember it, it's gone. @JerryKetel Not really, no. I can remember it, but it was like looking down the wrong end of a telescope. @JerryKetel I did - in the claws of the most terrifying drugs experience of my life. Massive hallucinogenic paranoia attack. Nightmare. Logh do that as well http://bit.ly/bZH7Tu instead of vs/ch/vs/ch they have repeated verses that eventually morph into choruses Jeniferever - genius http://bit.ly/fEUXdJ takes a whole 6.5 minutes to get around to a fucking beautiful chorus... but dropping hints... The war against cameras http://bit.ly/haGSQ9 The war against this, the war against that... it's all against us. Paid for with our tax. So the NZ Govt is giving itself permission to spy on New Zealanders under the umbrella of that politically untouchable subject, child porn Well the new printer seems to have got over it's not fucking working problem. Still, New Printer: $79. New Printer's Ink $100 @kalena http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit100.jpg Today I have mainly been videoing self in back yard. Next send stuff to America, then sit down with laptop, and work until I die. If it will take "a long time" to tell if someone's broken the law, they probably haven't http://bit.ly/gAkpiN #commonsense #juliagillard HOW TO: Make a Successful Marketing Video http://on.mash.to/eNLyWs < by people still "marketing" to "them". No fucking idea. Bernie Sanders' wordcloud http://goo.gl/7kiQN - all speeches should have these.. never vote for anyone who uses "believe" instead of "think" @SadekHM LOL. Nor they can... sometimes even mono-tasking catches them off-balance. I mean the fact that they're still prefixing everything with "cyber" puts them at least 10 years behind... the rest of the world. Ah... and so it begins. http://bit.ly/i0RrfW another 9/11-oid response that causes the US to tie itself in knots, attacking its own people Chavez slides a little further into dictatorhood http://bit.ly/fLxJC2 - I'd like to support the guy, but not if he pulls this shit. Julian's Lawyer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duh7eSBnVZE @SadekHM me, strangely enough - we get droughts in New Zealand every year now. Looks to be a bad one this Summer. @rapella there's also one for Russia, the EU and (inevitably) The Balkans. It's a model that needs localisation TBH Dad's watching the TV standing up again. I don't know why I find that so unsettling. @gapingvoid Actually it did end... but it started again as soon as you came back. Laziness more than anything. Wanganui's massive new Sculpture of a Bird, has just been crapped on by a bird. In my mind, #wikileaks is revenge for #ACTA - for the arrogance of #ACTA. Accepting the establishment's line on wikileaks, requires accepting the legitimacy of the establishment's actions prior to wikileaks @guardiannews One dead as Stockholm explosions hit shoppers http://gu.com/p/2yn4e/tf <ie: 2 minor injuries as guy blows himself up US plans to extend "anti-terror" laws to crack down on own citizens http://bit.ly/eywJM1 < "threatening economic interests is terrorism?" US tried to pressure us into accepting their nukes http://bit.ly/feaNYf < no surprise there then... but like, nope. We still don't want them So how can two guys, who obviously get on, and who have such lovely frocks, have such hangups about homosexuality? http://bit.ly/ekuTix Movie on TV - not sure what. It's a tense thriller in which everyone gets really stressed out and has a totally shit time. @EduVulture Not entirely no... but it wasn't really an aimy sort of undertaking My new haircut makes me look like a cross between Jared Leto and Yoda. And by really seriously fucking stupid, I mean really, dismayingly, dismally, depressingly, it's-a-tragedy-they-even-exist stupid. German advertising is better - for some reason all advertising in English is targeted at people who are really seriously fucking stupid Oh that's cool - now that I encrypt all my traffic and route it through Germany I get irrelevant adverting in German rather than English Theft. A History of Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKX25MRggEk This is vaguely predictable - the info-wars dividing on national lines - the old world, and the new http://bit.ly/fm7Dyy I just went and saw Jason. He's trying to get me to do stuff I don't want to do. He's full of ideas is Jason. It's a worry. Too much time on hands expressed in different ways http://bit.ly/gKIp6Q Still - better than watching TV innit. Pope's "moral megaphone" suffering from lack of tech prowess http://bit.ly/hwfe1A Maybe... but child-rape does speak louder than words. Holographic Sprite Projectors. There. I've said it. @rapella Isn't that like... Chucky Cheese or something? @ikostar @rosspruden but the pattern is, that the creative nile is flooded by something that the old-guard hate for being low-quality @rizomer @rosspruden Not sure about art by committee... if that's what you mean. Film-making is pretty undemocratic - generally for the good @CrowleysGhost Requiem is a single perspective created to communicate tragedy. That's not how people live generally. Perspective is adaptive @kalena next is a robotics revolution based on cheap sensors... but there are like 4 basic electronic components - transistors are 1 of them @kalena The CPU in yer computer is made up of billions of them. The computer revolution is built out of transistors. Comms out of lasers. @EivindJ A fine and honorable name. Mine was called Florizel. Which is unusual. Mum has calmed down a bit now - had a knock on the head etc @CrowleysGhost or maybe I was just imagining it. Requiem is a story told from a very specific angle. Reality isn't so simple. @CrowleysGhost Yea, well... I've got enough in my own memory for that. I strayed etc... but was rich. The other people were trapped there @CrowleysGhost erm... nope. I don't need to be subjecting myself to too much nightmarishness. Just watched requiem for a dream again... or like 1/2 watched it. It is actually too traumatic to be entertainment. Aussie Assange Supporters "well behaved, but annoying" http://bit.ly/gsRxBY @PhilipBloom I'm not a PC expert either though. Things I've learned: 1) low wattage is important. 2) 2 500Gb drives are better than 1Tb one @PhilipBloom It's probably fairly fast - I chose something similar a year ago - for editing 1920x1080... 120 watts though. Battery-killer Ex Prime-Minister does a runner from the police http://bit.ly/e3nBbJ They should have assanged him. John Pilger on Journalism http://bbc.in/hhto3I I like John Pilger. He wrote to me once, in biro. @CrowleysGhost That's what it's all about innit. Weedy blokes with guitars amped so loud YOU CAN HEAR THEM FROM SPACE!!! Btw Anonymous was a real person - A Hungarian Monk http://bit.ly/hoLGCj http://bit.ly/hRKlzT @evgenymorozov @evgenymorozov re: anonymous - exposure is a far better tactic than attack. Attack is playing the Old World at their own game. We really need to figure out what it means for government though - because govt is simply not adequate at the moment. This is one of the best analysis of wikileaks that I've heard http://bit.ly/gWpQoY - in terms of what it means for the web @thatboyneave I thought it was 50 years on air. Just under a year then. Feck. Left it too late for this year. @kalena transistors are used in everything. I wonder how long it would take to watch the whole of coronation street again from the beginning. That would be something to do. Is TV NZ Closeup on twitter anywhere? Their wikileaks interviewer has clearly never read the internet. @rosspruden Unbelievable. What is it with families and thankgiving? @rosspruden Wellington fighting Napoleon he asked for a battalion of longbowmen... found that no one could do it. Takes a life of training @rosspruden It's part of a cycle though... "Yes" vs The Sex Pistols; Longbows vs armour; guns vs longbows... it's all memetics. @rosspruden that's why it's quite hard to trace the original sources of old books - authors would make up sources they'd copied them from @rosspruden before the printing press "not copying" ie: just making stuff up, was a stamp of low-credibility among authors. @rosspruden it could be that ($300,000,000) movies go the same way... an irrelevance that no one makes any more. @rosspruden The printing press didn't just steal the work of manuscript illuminators, it made their entire art-form irrelevant. Killed it. @rosspruden throughout history piracy has been a reaction to chronic injustice. @tvnznews gets through another program without mentioning the content of a single wikileaked cable. It's ALL about the messenger. Oh right - someone on TV was called "Peter Willie". It's the funniest thing my mum has ever heard in her life. Sigh. Oh fuck, mum's just got totally mad. @tvnznews ... no, they managed to slip it in. Aye well. That'll be me not winning @tvnznews predictability-bingo this evening. Let's see if @tvnznews can do a whole piece on london protests without mentioning what the protests are about... @techdirt Lieberman's a loose-cannon who blundered in not understanding what was happening, and amping the streisand-effect up to 11 in 1946 more people went on strike than at any time in US history http://bit.ly/hhgKw6 The Golden Age and McCarthyism UK Politicians hire crowds http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/12/nick-clegg-hires-crowds Down by the river... high-tide, people fishing. I don't know what for. Fish probably. Is that what this is all about? Fish? Jesus. But I'd go further - I'd nationalise the socially useful things that banks do - at a local level, and break up the banking corporations My parents/grandparents taxes paid for my generation's education - I'm happy for my taxes to pay for others. Kettling is basically the police punishing people for protesting - and punishment is NOT the job of the police. That's for courts. So @Anon_Operations threatens @EFF http://goo.gl/WvZlv - any sympathy/support I may have had for @Anon_Operations is now gone China pressures NZ to boycott Nobel Peace Prize http://bit.ly/gnTAIP Jesus. Imagine what they'll be like when they've got weapons. Evil Kinevil is on TV... sometime in the 70s. Seems like a different planet. @PragueBob As I said - you don't have to. That's the point of making the source-material public. You have other issues methinks. @PragueBob You don't have to. That's the point of making the source-material public. @PragueBob He's not working from bunkers and he's not against all the world's governments. @PragueBob what's Julian done or said that's psychotic? @PragueBob Sounds like Christians calling R. Dawkins "shrill"... but then not being able to find a single instance of shrilldom. So anyway, my mum tripped over in a carpark earlier and now has a black eye @PragueBob Nah - wikileaks are in the business of publishing, and twitter is a broadcast outlet for them. Missed opportunity mind. @Swiggs God really? I long for nights like that. Solitude. Worth every penny. @jimboot 106k+1 @Swiggs Don't be lonely Swiggs. My brother's lawn http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/lawn.jpg Another Earthling http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/flowers45.JPG @tvnznews bingo: 1) crying 2) pretending sports is news, 3) violent poor people 4) child victims of anything 4) teenagers out of control Paypal found to be liars... or merely stupid fucks. The two seem to go hand in hand http://gawker.com/5709579/ It might be best to go with a credit card provider that won't cut you off when Joe Lieberman starts panicking Obama lobbies Russia on behalf of... Visa and Mastercard http://bit.ly/hllttK Exactly the same as domain-name squatting, but on a huge, and far more damaging scake http://bit.ly/fHIhbH We've got to get rid of this shit @evgenymorozov That Cringely post is bollocks. Less than 1000 of these cables has been published. He's FUDing Some sort of real/not-real FUD attack on Mastercard's safety http://bit.ly/hnmQfk Looks like bollocks to me. Still best ring them eh :) Left and Right? WTF are you talking about? America doesn't have left and right, it has Timid Right and Insane Right http://bit.ly/fqTtHj @LeifKendall this is basically the new 3rd World confronting the 2nd World who is now in the pocket of the 1st... but pretending not to be. @LeifKendall Have you heard Bruce Sterling's take on 1st/2nd/3rd world? Those are the tectonics... it's not really World vs America. @robsog heard this tonight http://bit.ly/Iu3DZ love love love this http://bit.ly/aAc1US always been into this lot http://bit.ly/bZH7Tu @robsog folky epicness http://bit.ly/dPfjix from last year http://bit.ly/eOj0IS foxies http://bit.ly/13ZdQi older now http://bit.ly/15wrtJ @robsog kiwis http://bit.ly/bLMhyj epic thing http://bit.ly/1hwgoq bouncy poppy http://bit.ly/apAJbA swedes http://bit.ly/9eJ6Cm @LeifKendall Yea, but this is unfolding in the EU. There are serious cans of worms here - the US "moves" against wikileaks have all been extra-judicial. Which isn't... (how you say?) legal EU ISPs refuse to remove Wikileaks unless court ordered http://bit.ly/gokWWi < that ain't going to happen cos the Guardian published 1st There's some serious talent about at the mo. Stories of the death of music have been exaggerated methinks. "Naked and Famous" are on. Kiwi band. Quite good. Here's one for you chaps in England who don't have television http://bit.ly/bLMhyj TV doesn't actually get to be any good until after about 12 - when it's basically targeted at unemployed stoners. Hmmm... @hjortur Yus... that bit was partly made up. I was actually 4 - but the other kids were still idiots. Probably still there, most of them. @hjortur Mind you, I was 35 at the time. It's never too late to get an education. That's what they say. @hjortur I can remember kindergarten. The other kids were idiots. I'd sit there reading the paper + smoking. They'd be eating the playdough @Raindance_Fest I'd rather see a movie of the FBI mosque-plant who so horrified the "radicals" that they called the FBI http://ind.pn/eZJChh The wikileaks saga is going to run and run. It's exposed huge legal flaws everywhere - all this presumption of guilt http://bit.ly/gm8p7X Billy Idol. Brillant. I always thought he said "I'd walk the ward for you babe"... much better than "world" which is what he really said Oooh... Mastercard is down as well. This is kindof childish really. And it distracts from the fact that US lobbyists wrote Spanish IP law She probably just couldn't take it any more. Oh fantastic. Billy Idol's on. It simply doesn't get any better than this. I think one of my ex-bandmates wound up with his missus actually "Fight for your right to party" vid is on. Not sure what's going on - but loads of bogans and arseholes from the 80s invade this kid's house Which is a bit of a tragedy in my opinion. If it was down to me, the first thing I'd do would be to end drug prohibition. Clearly a failure And if I was Interpol (and if you're listening) I'd be seriously looking to address why. The police should be our champions. But they're not Interpol's site has been taken down... something tells me they won't get over 1000 peeps mirroring their site http://bit.ly/gvtLBI Sayeth Facebook: "Nick, try the Friend Finder!" "Find friends the easy way using the automatic Friend Finder." (sigh) I've just realised that for some time now I've been practicing "TL;DL" - too long; didn't listen. Interview with Mark Facebook on TV. A weirdly uninteresting creature. Kindof pastel, like aspiration has sucked all the colour out of him LOL. Politician A in NZ called Politican B "As shallow as a birdbath". Fish and Chips for tea. Briliant. Fish. Chips. All you need really. Another @tvnznews wikileaks report failing to cover any actual leak content. Good we've got the web eh? We really depend on it for... news Re NZ getting rid of the Queen... weirdly, I'm not too bothered - as long as she doesn't cost anything, and stays a long long way away. Lieberman calls for NYT espionage investigation http://nyti.ms/SpyTimes Apparently it's ok if you're Hillary Clinton http://bit.ly/hTjLUQ @clarecurranmp So um... John Key increasing state power in secret? What's that all about then? People voting on what their tax is spent on http://bit.ly/hj1yjr <- probably the only way of doing things in a system using p2p currency. LOL. Yea, well seeing how the US mainstream-media-morons struggled to pronounce Assange, they're going to love this guy http://bit.ly/wlface @hjortur Yea - I knew they'd do that. A couple of years back they blocked Chavez getting it as well. Gave us that "it's you" bullshit @hjortur I should really put my money where my mouth is and try to find an ethical credit-card provider. Barclays are prob pretty evil New Zealand opposed to US dictates on copyright? http://bit.ly/dPLT8m - So hopefully US lobbyists don't get to write our laws, unlike Spain @hjortur I mean really, it is kindof insane that companies as evil as credit-card providers "own" trans-national payments. @hjortur Yea - I think this latest @wikileaks is kindof forcing the issue on more distributed infrastructure. Money is the big one though. @borelcorp ok, you're scaring me now. Well Julia Gillard has just lost my vote. Her foundation is a lie, and her "common sense" is arse-over-turkey http://bit.ly/gm1Ts8 Twitter is definitely censoring wikileaks trending. There's a fucking blitz going on at the moment, and instead they're trending Rolf Harris I think I might need a day off actually. Industry figures for losses due to "Intellectual Property" (weird, antiquated notion) theft... are lies http://bit.ly/gGtcVI @davestone Yea - and there's the whole streisand-effect thing as well. Streisand Mosquitoes. Nightmare. @sminnee He's still taking the US current narrative and applying it to a blood-bath in East Timor - which was allowed to happen in secrecy. @borelcorp was it one of these? http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/friends.jpg The cat I mean. Jamie Oliver is on TV. In New Zealand. I can't believe he's followed me FFS. How far do you have to go? @unbrand Actually I think diplomacy is fine (or at least as good/bad as it ever was, and ever will be), it's democracy that needs to change. @sminnee @unbrand - but you know... you could say the same of Iraq... even more people have died because of US/UK secrecy there @sminnee @unbrand and then it has the rank hipcracy to say "Thankfully, for the Timorese at least, WikiLeaks did not exist in the 1990s." @sminnee @unbrand until you remember that the US supported a regime that killed 100,000 people in East Timor... @timoreilly re: @cshirky's thoughtful, nuanced post http://bit.ly/icksd5 still focusing on the messenger and missing the message #wikileaks @tvnznews so tell us, how come you showed a clip of Hilary Clinton and failed to report that she ordered spying on UN leaders? Hmm? Once again @tvnznews reports on wikileaks - making it all about Julian and nothing about the leaks, which looks to me like craven cowardice Neocon tosser from right-wing think-tank says "You're with us, or you're with WikiLeaks". Actually, we were against you before wikileaks Just bought @rushkoff 's e-book http://bit.ly/hj2Pbp although 'buying information' is counter-intuitive, $10 support is well worth it. re: "The net is closing on Assange". Not it isn't. Panicking govts are engaging in extra-judicial persecution to cover up their corruption @hjortur Well, it's not very honest - but the streisand effect comes into play. In a distributed system, censorship generally backfires @hjortur twitter is definitely censoring wikileaks trends - click a trend then compare the "new tweets" rate to a wikileaks search @edwardvirtually Yea - I remember Reagan as well. That was when the rot that is now destroying the US really set in. Final ACTA: http://bit.ly/fd1yRS <- all govts secretly negotiating laws for the benefit of foreign corporations duly forfeiting legitimacy @hjortur But most sane people don't want to attack other countries. They want to visit them on holiday and come back with stories. @hjortur Ah. It seems like the purpose of the nation-state is "a region to collect tax from, for the purpose of fighting other regions". RT @Jasonkitcat Just read astonishing figure in print Indy: 23,136 US death row inmates exonerated since 76. Shocking. Support @reprieveUK @hjortur So what's happening in Denmark? @hjortur p2p currency is potentially the end of the nation-state as we know it - but likely to be a matter of survival for people using it @hjortur I see it as part of a bigger pattern - it's forcing p2p DNS, among other things - p2p currency is the big one. @hjortur I think it's lack of obedience troubling Washington. It's about "face"... but beyond that is the routine lying to the electorate @hjortur The scope of the secrecy needs to be agreed by public-consent. Politicians can't be the ones to decide what is secret. @hjortur and if the west is that concerned about "endangering lives" it should stop propping up dictatorships... like it did in Timor for eg @hjortur so that article would appear to be an articulation of the official narrative, which does not appear to be based on fact. @hjortur Yea, except that so far the pentagon hasn't managed to find a single instance of this actually happening. Remember folks, in the 20thC, govts rounded up and killed 120 million of their own people. Terrorists are less dangerous than governments The NZ Govt has just announced that it's increased the powers of the Secret Service, But won't say how. So that makes us all feel safer then Death Race is on. It's got the whole teal and orange thing going on, but without any orange. It's so desaturated it's almost black and white Wikileaks now has 355 mirrors; Paypal's blog was out for 8 hours in a revenge attack. On it goes. Only just starting as well I suspect. @tom_watson Yea - similar kerfuffle kicked of in NZ... on an NZ scale, eg: ministers buying a bottle of wine, or some disposable razors Yay - just finished my accounts. Thank fuckery fuck for that. I'm the kind of guy who has to write his own accounts software. I'm a hooligan @mantis8585 @Noetical yea - I did want Obama to close Gitmo, end wars, and like... not basically be Bush couched in liberal language @happyinmotion @nzlemming mellowpuff. Oh, and I had a pie for lunch. It was excellent. Whoever thought it was a good idea to make ink cost more than printers deserves to have a fucking bulldozer dropped onto his house. Printing "indigo" labels because this piss-weasel ripoff printer has run out of black (a cartridge of which costs more than a new printer) @umairh which contains a double-suckitude: they must then evangelise a profoundly maladaptive moral stance to justify what they're doing @umairh our leaders suck because they're tactically beholden to a (fiat) system designed so rich people get something for nothing Wikileaks after the domain-name attack http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html @Shoq Well, the president you have IS a member and representative of the plutocracy... hence chronic campaign-promise-amnesia According to this, the #wikileaks smear was revived at the behest of a Swedish politician http://bit.ly/i803Xq does anyone know who? @rwbthatisme ThanksTaking Day. Obesity Stampede http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU#! which someone has thoughtfully censored the swearing out of. @joshr Well... it needs to happen because fiat money is deliberately unfair, and systemically unstable. But... the nation-state could go. @joshr but if/when it happens, it's going to be a bombshell - I can see things getting seriously nasty. It'll up the stakes big-time. @joshr Yea... the p2p currency stuff as a bit of an image problem IMHO - too big a magnet for the seedier end of things. @joshr At a guess, distributed twitter would be a bit like email, but with p2p shared "sent items". As always, spam is the issue. @joshr this lot are trying it with DNS http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/codons.php @joshr I haven't quite figured it out, but bitcoin.org are having a fair crack at it - with p2p currency. This would make a great movie http://wapo.st/dHkHlV FBI plant alarms suspected baddies so much that they call the FBI. Vaguely annoyed by headline saying "local housing drops 6% in value"... actually, they've dropped 6% in price. Their value is unchanged. @mikkohypponen If twitter blocks @wikileaks it will probably provide the impetus for the development-of/migration-to a distributed variant Multitasking like a dishwashing ninja again. No plate is safe. Jack Nickleson. Absolutely magnificent. God I wish I was like Jack Nickleson - crossed with Amy Smart or Morrisey or someone. "A Few Good Men" is on - well timed... about military leaks/censorship, although obviously irony-agnostic TVNZ censors the word "Fuck" Oh look - old what'siscock's on tv... the mad little jumpy one. Closety. Eating an apple. God I hate that. @amandapalmer You can't crash into your own party, only out... only out. The Parental Unit has returned from "Christmas Drinks" next door, by all accounts escaping the usual fighting, hair-pulling and aggravation @KatieS You are joking right? http://bit.ly/hiJJa0 What about... I don't know... truth? Should that be given some consideration? Well... kindof. They just repeated a BBC report. Next year I'll look into how to stream AJ, BBC, C4UK and TRN directly. Time TV went web Ooh... hang on, hang on, that was TV3. TV1 might actually deign to report history unfolding... before quickly moving on to sports @tvnznews @tvnznews managing to report wikileaks, making it all about Julian and nothing about the actual leaks < craven, pandering tossers. @serial_consign Looks like a really hectic version of the one with the dreaded thargs of thargoidia in it. I spent more money on this game in the 80s, than I did on E in the 90s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjWIqtkSlQE @fitzthemighty c'mon - If I can go to Aus, which is full of fecking great SPIDERS, NZ should be a breeze. Besides, wetas are very shy Without transparency, consent is impossible. Without consent, authority is illegitimate. It's not fucking rocket science now is it. Let's make this simple: Privacy for individuals; transparency for authority. Just bought my mum a birthday present. Probably not what she wanted... but it's what I want, so... a "glass 1/2 full" situation there then. @fitzthemighty Ever heard of Wetas? http://www.google.co.nz/images?q=weta I could probably do that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-XfnkLdkjo Sheesh... remember when Obama asked twitter to delay downtime "for the benefit" of Iran. Halcyon days... a summer, long long ago... WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over Chinese cyber warfare http://gu.com/p/2yt7j/tf < though like nukes, the US seems to have got in first Everything this guy says is worth listening to 3 or 4 times http://bit.ly/fMyY5r Even if the backdrop does look like... hell. @JosephHurtado cheers :) @DynDNS taking down wikileaks not so unreasonable... http://bit.ly/dEIol7 @CrowleysGhost Do you know of alternative to paypal? Another ranty sort of thing http://www.genomicon.com/2010/12/wikileaks/ This woman on TV is trying to do that whole over-ripe Nigella thing - "Fucking with Food". It's a verbal thing. All drizzling and squeezing. @samfarrow Ctrl-Z takes me back. Pathetic cowards @PayPal < Special Greeting from New Zealand, and you know... the whole world. @fitzthemighty Yea - love to, but I've been sober for 3 months now, and am stranded in NZ, which is INCREDIBLY inconvenient. To tune of London Bridge falling down: I have got a sunburnt arm, sunburnt arm, sunburnt arm, I have got a sunburnt arm, Arse-ing fuckspuds wikileaks IP http://213.251.145.96/ Ah - so @DynDNS took wikileaks down? Comments @DynDNS ? Because you're about to become famous, for very ugly reasons. Usually when @wikileaks is DDOSed... it's fine (from NZ) but this time it's not, so that's a £50 donation from me. Suck on that Evil Empire Watching Moon, that I got out of the video shop and paid for like a proper video etc. Wikileaks.org under attack - mirrors-> http://wikileaks.info but really, it's not an ecommerce site. Being down for a bit isn't a huge deal @xquery No.... I mean the news has only been going for 8 minutes now... but no breaking-with-emotion money-shots yet. @umairh yea, and they get worse... the more in decline they are, the more self-congratulatory monuments and facades they put up. Kennedy on secrecy http://bit.ly/RGiXU ; The FED on secrecy http://bit.ly/fC296E c'mon - it's Bastille O'clock already. Photie of a swan I took earlier http://bit.ly/eWnZy7 - a hooked neck like that is swan-talk for "fuck off or I'll kill you" And the absolutely pathetic "putting people at risk" angle - when it's about institutions in the process of killing hundreds of thousands Amazon's absolutely pathetic reason for censoring wikileaks http://bit.ly/dIJyKS What is that? Breach of copyright? Thinking about deleting my friendfeed account because the only thing I use if for is panicky syndicated/cascade-typo-correction Exactly - what I've been saying for ages. Fuck brands. Nobody cares about fucking brands. Brands are for wankers http://bit.ly/fMyY5r Hmm... loud banging sounds - gunshot probably. Or DIY. @mat_walker I hope you moved it to the pavement outside the neighbour's house. Our hero, in the spring of the summer of love http://bit.ly/e29pwb @davidrosam arf Oh wow! There's a new TV program on - "Emotionally Needy People Acting Like Utter Cunts". It seems to be on on every channel. Archer is on. It speaks to me in a language I understand. Holy Crap - they're playing Mazzy Star on Coronation Street. I must be getting old. Bitcoin 2 CC http://www.bitcoin2cc.com @matthewparisi I'm a musician - and old enough to remember how impossible it was before the file-sharing to get anything heard. @matthewparisi the real thieves are the companies that stack the contracts so that only 3% of major-label artists get paid over $600 @matthewparisi the real thieves are the companies that (for eg:) buy Food Records for Blur, then dump all the other Food artists @matthewparisi the study(s) showed that it IS the same people buying and sharing music - it's not an argument, it's an observation. @JosephHurtado I'd advise dual-booting if you can. It's useful to have both. Linux is a different world though - you prob won't go back. @JosephHurtado I only use Windows for Premiere Pro... and sometimes IE testing. I use 2 windows apps in wine - editplus and screen calipers @JosephHurtado I've only tried 9.04 and 9.10. The strenuousness of upgrading OS is too great - so it's one OS per laptop God, I'm so tired I feel like I'm going to expire. I'm all #right-eye{background-color:#FF0000} @rapella Snow Cycling. Brilliant. I'm thinking of getting an exercise bike as it happens. It's a journey, not a destination. Julian Assange http://bit.ly/fJ1P3O on tactics and motivation etc. Clever guy. @FilmThreat The web is leading the MSM around by the nose. From where I am (NZ) Al Jazeera is the only news channel worth watching Copyright threatening to enmire the fashion industry http://bit.ly/eJ5Yh2 we should just get rid of it. See - aside from all the prurient gossip, this shit matters http://bit.ly/gP9Pc9 #wikileaks "leaders" need to be monitored and controlled Off to the doctor in a bit. He'll probably just give me a sharp blow on the head with a maraca. I don't know why he keeps doing that @JosephHurtado pre-installation is the key to widespread uptake though. Won't happen until then. @JosephHurtado but it's a different world - it feels inclusive and inviting - whereas windows is all legal threats and shareware and viruses @JosephHurtado I've dual-booted Ubuntu on my last 2 laptops. Sometimes it's tough... if it isn't pre-installed you need to be CLI capable @FilmThreat @nztvnews gave wikileaks about as much time as the stock "cat stuck up a tree story" + saw fit to include Sarah Palin's opinion @FilmThreat the opposite is true - the news only reports wikileaks releases because the web forces it. And then they try to focus on Julian. Amazon boycotted until further notice http://bit.ly/eDMAjM Too much shit? Store it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4RUh3zuLw "One senior former diplomat said " http://bit.ly/gRlQdo LOL. Diplomacy being very much a former condition there then. @sweena @rapella because it makes them feel alive. @EivindJ I don't know about that - I think a lot more content is made than people would want to share... eg: 30,000 new UK bands every yr @matthewparisi youtube version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWR6eiiBhf8 @matthewparisi I'd recommend watching this http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html chances are you're a thief yourself @matthewparisi sharing isn't stealing, and "pirates" are the people who spend most on music. http://tinyurl.com/d8noxv @clarecurranmp ah... is there anything rebooting your PC can't fix? Hurt by Johnny Cash is on TV. Fuckin Goosebumperama @clarecurranmp I can't get to youtube or bnz.co.nz @clarecurranmp Yea - for such weirdly vital infrastructure, twitter is pretty unreliable. Although... I am replying to your tweet :) Murdoch selling MySpace? http://ind.pn/fQmDP6 why doesn't he just do what the music biz does, and try to stay afloat by suing his customers? Julian's mum doesn't want him hunted down http://bit.ly/f9Ev59 He is (alas (for her)) the Martin Luther of the 2nd Gutenberg Shift. @tvnznews Predictably facile reporting of wikileaks, doing your best to focus on the messenger. What are you people actually for again? @tvnznews - milking the mining disaster again - have some fucking respect and back off. Jesus, the hypocrisy from Hilary Clinton over wikileaks is almost crippling to watch. No. Fucking. Legitimacy. Chomsky "Israel / Palestine situation is uniquely easy to solve" http://bit.ly/elSMKx If I was going to sink a lot of money into a web venture... it'd be this http://www.pachube.com/ years ahead of their time. Gordon Brown rises in my estimation; Obama sinks http://bit.ly/dJ9O00 Just saw you on the TV old boy - fan-fucking-tastic @NZbomber Hey @tvnznews - there's this thing called Bomber's Blog on TV, doing a FAR better job than you do. On his own. Without our money Bill Gates would never have done this http://bit.ly/h2S0Ih Heston's Feast is on. Eat the Rich revisited http://bit.ly/gu1eS9 It's trying to be education, but really it's just sucking up to money Portrait of the artist as a grouchy old bastard http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nickwit8.jpg @terrencewood Tatooine. Coronation St is on. Never-ending drama. I wouldn't live there. I'd move. @MaryJaneAnsell cheers :) @tvnznews and all the while, studiously avoiding wikileaks - which is history unfolding. Best not embarrass anyone powerful eh? @tvnznews Oooh... and there's another one. You do utterly fucking love people breaking down in tears don't you? Why is that? Sickos. @tvnznews still milking the mining disaster, and dredging up 7/7 bombings - a not-to-be-missed chance to show someone breaking emotionally Far fucking out, have you seen this? http://bit.ly/gcRWtU US top exports to China. RT @umairh Too much haircut. Feck. I'm just going to sit here and wait for it to grow back again. Never mind about prosecuting Wikileaks @BarackObama , when can we expect a prosecution against Hilary Clinton over spying on UN leaders? And It would appear I'm not white-knuckling it. I can drink a single beer without feeling like going off the rails. Yes, well anyway - that's 3 months sober for me, and 2 months off prozac. I've cleaned up and dried out, and am much better. UK places export restrictions on drug on finding that the US is using it to kill people http://bit.ly/ep8zEq Hillary Clinton : Wikileaks 'attack on world' http://bbc.in/emo6ck < actually spying on UN is attack on world, literally and legally