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The new longest episode, but you should have seen it before editing. We talk about boobs, breast cancer, prostate cancer, taints, moustaches, bad beer, European masters handcream & colouring pencils (which you’re not allowed to use), crappy museums that make for even worse galleries, armies and drones and boats, Wikileaks and buses and NASA, we ask when you decided to be straight (if you ever did), make a modest proposal for Christmas, learn that Morgan is deathly afraid of heights (but still rides rollercoasters), Ben is cutting back on the sandwiches, polytheism and pantheism and animism and shintoism. And a whole lot more.
Show notes
- I’ve got a nice pair (NZGirl.co.nz) — NSFW
- Tee Twyford (Twitter)
- Prostate cancer (Wikipedia)
- Perineum (Discovery Health)
- Taint (Urban Dictionary)
- Blue September
- Movember
- Ranfurly Station Pale Ale – I’d link it up, but their site is down
- European Masters (Te Papa)
- Te Papa chiefs call for $100m home for nation’s art (The Dominion Post)
- Auckland War Memorial Museum
- No Wellington you cannot have another piece of our cake (Hamish Keith)
- List of cities in New Zealand (Wikipedia)
Contrary to what we said, Wellington is still in third place, and isn’t likely to slip to fourth for a while. - Auckland Art Gallery redevelopment
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Wikipedia)
- Wikileaks
- Wikileaks hysteria (SomeBits.com)
- SIPRNet (Wikipedia)
- WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over Swedish Warrant (Threat Level)
- WikiLeaks Releases Secret List of Critical Infrastructure Sites (Threat Level)
- 2004 Madrid train bombings (Wikipedia)
- 7 July 2005 London bombings (Wikipedia)
- French state’s terrorist bombing of Rainbow Warrior in Auckland (Wikipedia)
- Southern Cross Cable (Wikipedia)
- The Waihopai spy base (The Standard)
- GCSB Waihopai (Wikipedia)
- Waihopai
- Streisand effect (Wikipedia)
- An open letter to journalists regarding Wikileaks (Dylan Horrocks)
- Manners Mall bus safety concerns (TVNZ)
- Restoring the Golden Mile (Wellington City Council)
- Barne’s Dance (NZHistory.net.nz)
- Saturday Afternoon at Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo (YouTube) – also embedded below
- NZ troops had to help ineffective colleagues – WikiLeaks cable (NZHerald)
- New Zealand Army
- Willie Apiata (Wikipedia)
- NZSAS
- New Zealand Special Air Service (Wikipedia)
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (Wikipedia)
- DIY Drones
- Navy’s frigates break down at seas (NZHerald)
- Compulsory Military Training in New Zealand (Wikipedia)
- Tūmatauenga (Wikipedia)
- The Dole (Wikipedia)
- Militia vs. Standing army (both Wikipedia)
- List of countries by number of troops (Wikipedia)
- Asymmetrical warfare (Wikipedia)
- Military if Switzerland (Wikipedia) – linked for detail on their militia structure
- Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque (The Washington Post)
- COINTELPRO Again? (PBS)
- COINTELPRO (Wikipedia)
- Agent provocateur (Wikipedia)
- Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest (CBC News)
- Fake G20 protest weapons cache invented by Toronto police
- NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical (NASA)
- Of Arsenic and Aliens (The Loom)
- Extremophile (Wikipedia)
- Arsenic-Based Life (xkcd)
- When did you choose to be straight? (YouTube) — also embedded below
- Kinsey scale (Wikipedia)
- Hummus
- Tahini
- Chickpeas full of goodness (Stuff)
- Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Polytheism (Wikipedia)
- Shinto
- Animism
- Buddhism
- Buddhism’s arrival, Shinto’s endurance (The Japan Times)
- Tathāgata (Wikipedia)
- Viruses of the Mind
- Viruses of the Mind (Wikipedia)
- People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level – I don’t care what they say, I don’t want to die
- Thunder Dolphin (YouTube) – also embedded below
- Thunder Dolphin on roller-coaster nerd forum
- AcrophobiaTokyo Dome -The Big O
- Space Mountain (Wikipedia)
- Windows Home Server Is Dead, Long Live Windows Home Server? (CrunchGear)
- Discourse Weekly Show Urban Dictionary Word of the Week
- Robyn Gallagher’s TVNZ contract is about to end, give her an awesome job
- Christmas
- Winter Solstice
- Spirituality
I don’t really buy this and probably won’t use the word again as almost no one understands the term in the entirely non-magical and non-religious way that I used it during the episode. - The Golden Rule – Treat others as you want to be treated
- Electronic/smartphone attention deficit
- Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (Wikipedia)
- Tensei
- NZ iDev – iPhone Developers Conference
- Unconference (Wikipedia)
- ‘Detoxes’ and ‘Cleanses’: Bullshit
- Stomach stapling
- Placebo effect
- I Wish Someone Would Do Something About How Fat I Am (The Onion)
- Bisphenol A (Wikipedia)
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