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Beer, trying to book decent seats to live music, black backgrounds suck, Ben calls out my moaning but is a giant hypocrite (with citations), more about Te Papa, and fracken copyright, jazz hands, and death metal, and moshing. Religion, and Christianity, and Catholicism, and false idols. (Apparently Anglicans are evil, but I can find no evidence.) Apologies, and apologies, and GPS, and Google. Castration, and parenthood, and age gaps, and scotch eggs. Gay panic, and All Blacks, and airlines. IRD suggest you keep your feet on the ground, and your accounting information out of the clouds. Assange on a dating site (what, you mean like he’s a human or something?), and Wikileaks continues to grow, popping up all over the internet. Good luck putting that genie back into its bottle, authoritarians. Lost cats, and bad driving (hopefully unrelated), and subways, and cycles, and idiot politicians. And, as always, there’s much much more.
Show notes
- Discourse Guest: Mark Derricutt
- First beer this week: DB Export 33. Rubbish, but better than Ranfurly.
- Public Enemy playing in Auckland
- Public Enemy
- Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet Tour (Event Finder)
- Auckland Town Hall (Wikipedia)
- The Edge
- Event Cinemas
- Black backgrounds suck
- Moaning vs Complaining
“Godammit @vodafonenz’s data network is a steaming pile of poop isn’t it?” — Ben, yesterday. - Telecom XT
Ben’s choice for mobile service provider.
- Te Papa bans pencils and sketch paper (The Dominion Post)
- Städel Museum
- Copyright (Wikipedia)
- Copyright: How Long is too Long?
- What is the purpose of copyright?
- Mona Lisa’s Crowd (Flickr)
- These tourist snappers are killing the Mona Lisa (The Guardian)
- European Masters audio guides are actually CC licensed and available for all devices – not just iPhones & iPads
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/onlineforms/stadelaudiodownloads.aspx - Jazz hands (Wikipedia)
- Strictly No Photography
- No Sleep Til Auckland (Under the Radar)
- Map of Metal
- Canon G9 (DPReview)
- Greenpeace activist smuggles film in vaginas
- Megadeth
- Wall of death (YouTube)
- Circle pit (YouTube)
- Violent mosh pit (YouTube)
- Parachute music festival
- Slayer
- Tom Araya (Wikipedia)
- Is Kerry King from Slayer a satanist?
Spoiler: no, he’s an atheist. - Catholicism (Wikipedia)
- The difference Between Catholicism and Christianity
- Is Catholicism Christian?
- The Roman Catholic “Church” is Not Christian
- “Is worship of saints / Mary biblical?”
- Prosperity theology (Wikipedia)
- New Zealand: An increasingly secular country (Te Ara)
- Brownies
- Anglicanism (Wikipedia)
- Anglicans are evil? According to Ben yes, according to the web no. I wanted to include links to balance the (nuts) ones about Catholicism above, the web had very little to say on the matter.
- Irish Republican Army
- An apology to New Zealanders (Google New Zealand)
- Street View (Google)
- Google Street View (Wikipedia)
- Google Stops Street View Data Collection After Canada, Spain Complaints
- GPS (Wikipedia)
- Google data gathering in NZ questioned (Computerworld)
- Overcompensation (Merriam-Webster)
- New Zealand Privacy Commissioner
- Don’t mention the war (YouTube) — also embedded below
- Father castrates daughter’s boyfriend (Stuff)
- Half your age plus seven (Urban Dictionary)
- Castration effects
- New Zealand Firearm Safety and Licenses
- ‘I think I can’ slims physics gender gap (Futurity)
- World’s Best Chefs are men
- Home economics (Wikipedia)
- Scotch egg (Wikipedia)
- The Gender Gap: Boys Lagging (CBS News)
- RockBand
- Pictionary (Wikipedia)
- All Black gay kiss-off cut from Air NZ video (The Dominion Post)
- Air New Zealand – Crazy About Rugby – Safety Video (YouTube) — also embedded below
- Richard Kahui (Wikipedia)
- Homosexual panic (Wikipedia)
- Czech “peter meter” test for gay asylum seekers slammed by EU (Boing Boing)
- Iran Executes Two Gay Teens Public Hanging
- Penile plethysmograph
- Sex differences in patterns of genital arousal (PubMed)
- Vaginal Photoplethysmograph
- Shrinkage (Urban Dictionary)
- IRD say accounting in the cloud is against the law in NZ.
- Julian Assange on OKCupid
Stories about Julian Assange are a sideshow, his personal life has nothing to do with the content of Wikileaks releases. - Wikileaks mirrors (Wikileaks)
- More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week (Boing Boing)
It’s now well over 2000. - Streisand effect (Wikipedia)
- Wikileaks Kiwi leaks (Stuff)
- Wikileaks cables illegal in NZ? (Simon Lyall)
- New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
- More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week (Boing Boing)
- Holiday Highway funding
- Steven Joyce
- Steven Joyce can’t get his head around two ideas at once (Scoop)
- Stubborn Joyce won’t listen to consensus (Scoop)
- David Shearer: Holiday highway colossal waste of $1.69b (NZHerald)
- The monster (Len Brown) is loose… and his figures add up (NZHerald)
- ACT MP Hillary Calvert’s idiotuc speech in the house (YouTube)
At least it was over quickly. - Winston Peters (Wikipedia)
- Quake, Paul Henry and Bieber top Google searches (Stuff)
- Paul Henry is NZ’s most watched YouTube (NZHerald)
- Jacinda Ardern: “What are your tips for cyclists to improve safety on the road?”
I’m not saying she’s wrong to want to do something, just that the language used does make a difference. - Detective Squeaky
- V
- [Spontaneous Discourse Guest] Richard Clarke
- Squeaky is missing!
- Law allows for wider sampling of DNA (Otago Daily Times)
- English news report with the cat lady that owns 130 cats (YouTube) — also embedded below
- @sockington (Twitter)
- Putting too many horses in a golf cart (hack a day)
I know I said go-kart a couple of times, so sue me.- CVT transmission (Wikipedia)
- CVT transmission (Wikipedia)
- Discourse Weekly Show Urban Dictionary Word of the Week
- Android android android android
- “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” – Ralp Waldo Emerson
- Android button switcheroo: Android Hates Users (ben.geek.nz)
- Android 3.0 Gingerbread getting revamped UI (engadget)
- Android Gingerbread: Everything there is to know (Computerworld)
- Google Shows Off Android ‘Honeycomb’ Tablet (PCMag)
- Andy Rubin (Wikipedia)
- Corrections / Clarifications / Apologies
- Length of ep #9
- Switzerland not invaded by Nazis
- Mark’s podcasts
- Find Robyn a new job!
- Fat watch
- Think more, eat less (Futurity)
Listener mail bag
- Pieter Vanderwerff says don’t bleep anything, and liked the Bernard Hickey special edition. (So did we.)
- Ian Randall has spotted an inconsistency in one of our plotlines.
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