Confession: My mate & myself aged about 12 sprayed "Tears for Fears" on one of the Vicarage…

Well I guess that is me in a way – At least I understand that you cannot shop your way to a better future. Don't start me on bikes and cars again either. The gates comment is a bit dumb out of context – sorry I…

My interpretation was 'if we don't have zero tolerance for petty crimes like tagging, then people will take the law into their own hands and stab people'. Not quite as egregious as yours, but still pretty bad.

I'm sure that's what he meant. But he really should have written it…

I can't read that any other way than 'stabbing of a teenager is a petty crime', which presumably isn't what he meant. But still, talk about not seeing the forest for the tiny sapling.

My interpretation was 'if we don't have zero tolerance for petty crimes like tagging, then people…

Oscar spoke to the Herald on the grounds of anonymity, and revealed he is a 29-year-old Auckland street artist who works full time in photography. Many graffiti artists like him hold down respectable jobs in advertising, fashion or the film industry, with some first-generation graffiti artists now…

The fatal stabbing of a teenage tagger has revived the debate about the need for zero tolerance of petty crime.

I can't read that any other way than 'stabbing of a teenager is a…

Oscar from Street Arse is quoted, and gives a thoughtful perspective. Not surprisingly, street artists don't like those punk-arse taggers either.

You might get into trouble vandalising those FO gates situated outside gang HQ.

Not to mention those selfish farmers....

supercali.... was a nice piece though

Yup! I'm no Size Queen but you had to marvel at it's length!

a whole article about a homeowner who had to paint his fence almost weekly with the jist of the article being that it is no big deal.

I don't think he thought it…

Was perusing your lovely photo stream and wondered if Greenland hospital was actually in Greenland ?

I don't know what you could possibly mean... ;)

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Another thought on tagging. In the Herald today, Brian Rudman called for banning the sale of aerosol paint to under-18-year-olds.

That's well and good, but…

Was perusing your lovely photo stream and wondered if Greenland hospital was actually in Greenland ?

The tagging thing looks like a conversation between the deaf and the blind.

I want to be seen....I want whites walls.....

Can't help feeling that I would have tagged as a kid…

But upon reading the article, it became obvious that the government action was going to be towards taggers, not graffiti artists. I emailed the Herald to let them know the difference.

I know I'm just turning into a sour old cat lady, but I've been EXTREMELY PISSED OFF at the…

a homeowner who had to paint his fence almost weekly with the jist of the article being that it is no big deal.

I noticed something walking the kids home from the pool the other day. Two houses right by a bus-stop. The house on the right had an eight-foot…

The Herald are clueless. Sideswipe featured a photo of a piece that said 'Supercalifrajilisticexpelidocious' (sp?) with the caption "Nice Tag". Sorry Ana but that was a 'piece', not a 'tag'.

and the scary bit is that thay arent even recent terms, they have been getting it wrong for more than…

2. Friday's Herald had the alarming headline "Government to attack graffiti artists from all sides", making it sound like Annette King was about to lay the smack down on graffiti artists like Askew, Misery or Otis Frizzell. Crikey!

No, judging from the story King just wants to put the load…

(1) I read the second poster as "Taggers [say] we want you [murderers] caught"...

(2) So: Government ministers tag team wrestling?
Holds a certain morbid fascination, I grant you.

1. A couple of homemade posters have been stuck up around Mt Eden Village, presumedly the work of an angry citizen (plural?) who wants a zero-tolerance policy toward taggers.

"Only an idoit [sic] would tag there [sic] own backyard," proclaims one, while the other…

It came to me the second I hit "Post Reply".

I wonder if I could get a research grant to study that? It's amazing how well hitting "post reply" works as a spell check too but Just imagine the possibilities, press the "button" and have instant recall of all you…

That giraffe cup is basically one of my favourite things about New Zealand.

Me, too. I'm also very fond of the hot-chip cup with the newspaper pattern.

My cousins used to have a painting over their stairs, with an older woman enjoying a milkshake out of one of those cups.…

1. Talking to a panel chair, he thought that the method of quality assessment was fair if not perfect. People in 'the field' tend to have a fairly good idea of which are the top journals, and…

i) Impact factors are a poor way to judge research quality, readership and availability tend to render some researchers more…

A colleague has dubbed it the medical research reward scheme.

Yes there's some truth in that. There's a multiplier applied to how much money you get. Humanities and Commerce get a multiplier of 1, Sciences get (I think) 2, and Health Sciences get... 4? It's a way of taking into…

So. The Herald Building is "The Shakespeare Tavern"?

It would explain an awful lot.

Bruce Jesson prize etc.

Oh, and a nice vineyard you missed up by Matakana is Brick Bay. Nice little Noel Lane glass house stretched out over the lake and a sculpture trail up through the surrounding native bush...

Yeah, the crawling traffic meant that we ran out of time to get to them all…

But it's achieving its goal of directing funds towards institutions that are doing international quality research, and away from those that aren't.

My point being is that it doesn't reward international research per se; only international research of high impact factor in areas where NZ can convene a panel of…

To date, that is possibly my perfect website. Milkshake reviews – I KNEW the interweb had a purpose...

Awww cheers Gareth, we aim to please. And we're looking for more contributors. I mean, the Wellingtonista has a team of about 15...

Seriously – milkshake reviews! Magnificent.
Oh, and a nice…

To date, that is possibly my perfect website. Milkshake reviews – I KNEW the interweb had a purpose...

Awww cheers Gareth, we aim to please. And we're looking for more contributors. I mean, the Wellingtonista has a team of about 15...

one of the problems with the PBRF is that it penalises young researchers for their lack of output.

They have made adjustment for that with the early in career status. They also recognise your PhD as a research output.

To date, that is possibly my perfect website. Milkshake reviews – I KNEW the interweb had a purpose...

Regarding Foo camp

Will be looking forward to the reports.

As I recall one of the criteria for Wikipedia is that events be significant and therfore Someone has to notice the outputs.

From Wellington I hear that one of the debates on peering

See peering for example…

I mean, it's by no means a perfect exercise, and the UK has recently dumped the exercise on which its based.

But it's achieving its goal of directing funds towards institutions that are doing international quality research, and away from those that aren't.

Now PBRF is stripping that research component out of the EFTS funding and returning it to institutions that do OK in the research exercise – pretty much universities

Sorry Kyle might have to agree to disagree on that one. Yes research funding should be spent on research activity...but the devil…

Who do you think we need to "come down like a ton of bricks" on?

How about the ubiquitous THEM?
On a serious note. Most societies have laws like these that are left to "hang about utill needed" so that those that have the power can hang onto it at all…

Not in law, but hopefully in education we promote some correct views on physics.

Hopefully. But my point is that we don't throw people in jail for being wrong about physics. Neither do we throw them in jail for their views on economics, climatology, or parental discipline. What makes theology…

Steve you are an evil bastard — keep it up. :)

What possible legitimate purpose could be served by throwing people in jail for their views on Christian theology?

What possible legitimate purpose could be served by throwing people in jail under any circumstance other than to protect society from said people? The problem is that society is not homogenous so…

So, in reality it would take a rather demented Attorney-General to bring such a case............I hope

If you'd told me ten years ago that 'sedition' was still on the books, let alone would be used as it was against Tim Selwyn, I'd suggest you take one of those giraffe cups…

I "get" your joke, but sadly George is a reformed alcoholic and now tee-total. This of course helps partially explain what a chronic, santimonious bore he is. Maybe he's just a teetotaltotalitarian? :)

Maybe he's our age's answer to T.S Green?

T.S. Green? Rings no bells in my belfry. Was…

It is not the role of government to promote "correct" theology or religious views, any more than it is their role to promote correct views on physics.

Not in law, but hopefully in education we promote some correct views on physics.

What possible legitimate purpose could be served by throwing people in jail for their views on Christian theology?

What possible legitimate reason could the government have to care about such issues?

It is not the role of government to promote "correct" theology…

O'Sullivan, from behind a lipstick smeared half empty beer glass "You know what's wrong with this country George?"
George, propping up the bar with a leather patched corduroy elbow "PFFFraaaaarp"

I "get" your joke, but sadly George is a reformed alcoholic and now tee-total. This of course helps partially explain…

This law doesn't serve any legitimate or useful purpose. It's a remnant from a past age of religious persecution. And we should do away with it entirely.

would s.123 be used to bring a prosecution for blaspheming a non-christian deity or religion?

From Here

No one shall be prosecuted for an offence against this section without the leave of the Attorney-General, who before giving leave may make such inquiries as he thinks fit.

So, in reality…

The Performance Based Research Fund and research incentives for tertiary education are not the issue for SIT from the different perspectives of the major protagonists: SIT (and friends of SIT), the Minister, and the Tertiary Education Commission.

The funding changes that have matched the PBRF have (not wrongly I think)…

But thank you for spreading that image to the rest of us!

I was hoping to dilute it by spreading it. It's not working, perhaps the only cure will be to drink another thousand lime milkshakes (and not before boarding a train).

Now I can't shake the memory. I'm grateful for their awesomely large cup, but I don't want to drink from it any more.

But thank you for spreading that image to the rest of us!

would s.123 be used to bring a prosecution for blaspheming a non-christian deity or religion?

While the way it has been written seems to be religiously neutral, thanks to UK precedent, most legal commentators believe that it applies eclusively to Christianity (some go further and believe it applies exclusively to…

Afghanistan isn't the only country which outlaws blasphemy. Take a look at s 123 of the Crimes Act...

serious question from here.

would s.123 be used to bring a prosecution for blaspheming a non-christian deity or religion?

as it's written it appears not to preclude the possibility.

Has anyone else notices that locats come across like Yoda with serious dyslexia? With the pointy ears, small stature and so on, I thought that there'd be crossovers. Anyone want to try?

(I'm busy trying to make sense of Daniel Libeskind…

SIT is not and never has been a University

True, oversimplification on my part. I should have just said words to the effect that funding formulae in the general tertiary sector had been mistaken for entitlement and that changes had been ignored.

Shouldn't we remove the mote from our own eye and repeal this archiac, ridiculous, and theocratic law?

Will be looking forward to the reports.

Sure. Just about to go, but I'll try and get together something along the lines you suggest next week.

From their website

The new collegiate was launched by its namesake, Sir Edmund Hillary on…

bro. just throw away the cup, and get a new one.

LOL. Being a tidy kiwi I was tempted to dispose of it conscientiously, but the idea of carrying a full (to the brim) cup of piss in my hand all the way home to a toilet got less appealing…

Makes you wonder why Campbell, Sainsbury et al, with all of their writers and reasearchers can't come up with anything even slightly resembling an alternative…

The tavern is directly across the road from the Herald building and would have offered patrons front-row seats for the commotion.

But I'm surprised that such a dramatic event happened literally on the Herald's doorstep and yet they only reported it with a three-sentence article.

I know both buildings well,…

Thanks for refreshing my memory, but I thought it was a little more serious than a Murdoch media beat-up based on a couple of quotes lacking citations.

Anyway, before we start up a pity party for Dr. Goodwin, she might be off the speed dial at the PBS Newshour,…

Fortunately in an empty carriage I discovered a used "Longest Drink in Town" cup. It was just enough.

Now I can't shake the memory. I'm grateful for their awesomely large cup, but I don't want to drink from it any more.

bro. just throw away the cup, and get a…

It's Foo time!

as a side bar or should that be a baaah – good to see that Foo is still on wicked pedia after all the fuss last year.
Would be useful to hear what significant outcomes actually eventuated –
* like changes to copyright legislation?
* changes to…

So. The Herald Building is "The Shakespeare Tavern"?

The tavern is directly across the road from the Herald building and would have offered patrons front-row seats for the commotion.

But I'm surprised that such a dramatic event happened literally on the Herald's doorstep and yet they only reported it with…

Doris Kearns Goodwin? Lordy, she's the one accused of plagiarism in her presidential biographies(by the Weekly Standard, but hey...

Well, I'd even give The Nation credit where credit's due — on the theory that even a broken watch is right twice a day.

So. The Herald Building is "The Shakespeare…

The Performance Based Research Fund and research incentives for tertiary education are not the issue for SIT from the different perspectives of the major protagonists: SIT (and friends of…

That giraffe cup is basically one of my favourite things about New Zealand (yes, I am a weirdo).

It used to be for me until an unfortunate experience in Melbourne, boarding the last train from Warragul to the City after getting a bit sloshed. What was a mild desire to…

Claims of Plagiarism
The January 18, 2002, issue of The Weekly Standard made a case for Doris Kearns Goodwin as a plagiarist, arguing that her book, "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys," used without attribution numerous phrases and sentences from three other books: "Time to Remember," by Rose Kennedy;…

I'm not aware of a comparable petition to our own government.

So perhaps its time someone started one.

New Zealand has troops in Afghanistan. We're propping up the people supporting this obscenity. We should be using whatever influence we have – including the threat to stop propping them up -…

A police pursuit ended with two people jumping from a stolen car before it crashed into the Herald building in Albert St last night. Patrons at the Shakespeare Tavern watched as the man…

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that there is a blog called Longest Drink in Town. That giraffe cup is basically one of my favourite things about New…

Graffiti is a problem because most people think it’s poor, violent, brown people trawling their streets tagging fences. ... The truth is graffiti in your neighbourhood is made by people from your neighbourhood, if there’s tagging in Epsom it’s…

but at least we got him at “the starting point” before he “jumped on the criminal treadmill”. aint that right lord mayor of Manukua city, Mr Brown.

Cuttingly accurate.

so concerned with fences, i think we forget whats behind them

Buy that young man a spray can, hope he spreads that message around.

Amy Gale digests Titus Andronicus in lolcat. Genius.

BLOODY CLEVR. YOOVE FINISHED? TRY TEH SKINHEDD HAMLET!

HEREZ TASTE:

ACT I
SCENE I

The Battlements of Elsinore Castle.

[Enter HAMLET, followed by GHOST.]

GHOST: Oi! Mush!

HAMLET: Yer?

GHOST: I was fucked!

[Exit GHOST.]

HAMLET: O Fuck.

[Exit HAMLET.]

LOL

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