Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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The John Key/Coldplay debacle reminds me of the Guardian's 2006 April Fool's Day trick, where they reported that Chris Martin was now backing the Tories. It even included a song, reworking Coldplay's "Talk" into "Talk to David".
And then, while googling, I found this July post from John Key's blog where he asks the masses for ideas for a theme tune.
The last comment on the page says:
I did like hearing Colplay's 'Clocks' being played at the recent Environment Policy announcement. The tune is catchy, though I'd have to say that the lyrics aren't all that relevant.
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Dr Screw-Anything-on-Two-Legs Warne
So you're saying that Chris Warner is going to be revealed to be Chris R Warne, the secret half-brother of Shane Warne? Cos that would be awesome.
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Bring back Theresa Healey, whatever her character's name was
Carmen's dead, baby. Carmen's dead.
But perhaps she has a twin sister or a doppelganger cousin...
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The Shortland Street serial killer will become known to us in the final week this year
The Herald has this as a news story in the national news section - not entertainment. It's that important, y'all.
The article also mentions that three possible endings for the episode where the killer is revealed were briefly leaked onto YouTube before South Pacific jumped on it.
I like how the Shorty serial killer storyline has become something that almost everyone cares about - it's come up as a topic of conversation at every social event I've been to lately.
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There are plenty of smiles here, but not for the camera, and I wonder why our default pose involves a stupid grin
According to the excellent Genius of Photography documentary series, the "smile for the camera" idea was promoted by Kodak when they first started advertising their cheap, consumer cameras.
For the first time, it was possible for ordinary people to take photos, and photos that didn't require sitting still for ages. So rather than the stone-faced portraits of older times, it was now possible to photograph someone smiling.
I guess the good people of Afghanistan missed the memo on that.
I'm not into smiling for the camera. It's as if to say, "Look at me! I'm happy all the time!" when in reality the "happiness" exists only at the moment the shutter is opened.
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And this is my pick for trendy-liberal-guilt Christmas present of the year.
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ooo YAY for robyn!!!!
Aw, thanks, Sue! I'm sure I'll write a review or something once I've read the book.
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men need to be scrupulously shaven, have every nose and ear hair plucked, and the ladies need to avoid fake tan and have a $1000 an hour groomer on hand.
High-definition TV adds to it. About a year ago I was talking to a TV make-up artist who had gone on a training course in America to learn the new art of applying make-up to make people look normal on HDTV.
And there's this list of celebrities who look awful or wonderul with HDTV. Poor Cameron Diaz.
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I have two nominations: robust and random.
When things are going badly in a situation, robust is used by someone in charge who wants to create a sense of calm.
"Despite the increase in offensive language, Parliament is still a robust forum."
"Consultants have establish a robust process for the restructuring."Random is... OMG, random is just totally random! It's like when something happens that's unexpected or surprising and so you call it random! Even though, scientifically speaking, it's not. Whoa! Random!!!!!
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To add to the Second Life scepticism, there's this article from about a year ago. The author wonders why Second Life is getting so much hype.
The tech beat is an intake valve for the young. Most reporters don’t remember that anyone has ever wrongly predicted a bright future for immersive worlds or flythrough 3D spaces in the past, so they have no skepticism triggered by the historical failure of things like LambdaMOO or VRML. Instead, they hear of a marvelous thing — A virtual world! Where you have an avatar that travels around! And talks to other avatars! — which they then see with their very own eyes. How cool is that? You’d have to be a pretty crotchety old skeptic not to want to believe.
Yeah, all that virtual reality stuff from the mid '90s now seems about as cutting edge as a fax machine.