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Rights, rights, everywhere, but not a drop to drink
From this morning’s NZ Herald editorial about the National-led government’s political machinations around heading off court action by Maori against its flagship asset sales policy*: ‘Too clever’ risk in Govt shares plan Crown lawyers have acknowledged that pre-colonial iwi and hapu had customary control of rivers and streams in their area and those rights were […]
Dragon imagery and hanging on to past Mac OS functionality
Apparently this cool design is like a mascot/logo for LLVM compiler software … The LLVM logo is a stylized wyvern (a kind of dragon). Dragons have connotations of power, speed and intelligence, and can also be sleek, elegant, and modular (err, maybe not). In addition, there is a series of influential compiler books going back […]
Pink! I knew this would happen while Rob Fyfe was Air NZ’s CEO and an All Blacks sponsor. I just knew it.
Look at this: So what part of ‘ALL BLACKS’ wasn’t clear? Read the background in Daniel Richardson’s article at the NZ Herald and you’ll see Israel Dagg’s wounds are self-inflicted. I still blame Rob Fyfe. – P
The D-word. Name-calling in place of intellectual debate
A nice line from Stanley Fish’s New York Times review of right wing polemicist Dinesh D’Souza’s ninety minute anti-Obama campaign ad masquerading as a feature film … … While a viewer could certainly disagree with D’Souza’s analysis of the genesis and emergence of Obama’s views, it is nevertheless an analysis to which one could respond […]
Satiric comment on Apple patents
Of course it’s exaggerated but … a wee bit funny …
Acknowledgements page as self-promotion and commercial message. Ha!
For my author friends … a description of the ‘undercurrent of faux-modest self-promotion [which] runs like a viral strain throughout every acknowledgments page’. (We refer to them as ‘Ackowledgements’ — an inside joke after an unfortunate and undetected-until-too-late typographical error.) A lively, little-bit-snarky, enjoyable read: Against Acknowledgments by Sam Sacks at the New Yorker magazine. […]
Old school
I’m visiting my mum. Spring might be around the corner but judging by the state of lawns (and Midland Park) there’s been a bit of rain here in Wellington … Nice to see The Dominion Post delivery team knows how to deal with it. To be fair: That’s just dew on the newspaper delivery bag […]
Media contempt for #Assange. Useful idiots?
I’m completing the design for a book by a friend of mine at present, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. It’s a fascinating study of the rise of the antichrists — note the plural. Graeme’s definition of ‘antichrist’ differs considerably from The Omen/Damien/666 stuff of the 1970s movies, and encompasses the repeated incidences of elevation of heads of […]
My Side versus The Other Side. (Just beautiful)
Unspeakably good satire (or something) about two party politics and human nature from A. Barton Hinkle at Reason.com: The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win … it’s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger – unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, […]
Please read this post
This one: ‘Everything we know about you guys is wrong‘ Sometimes I feel I can’t improve on a thought, or how I expressed it first. – P
Art. Sometimes it surprises.
‘Lives of Grass’ by Mathilde Roussel Visit this page at www.designboom.com to see more. – P
