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And ripped from a tweet of Jackson's : the remains of the 2004 Athens Olympics sports facilities. Something for Chch to think about.
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A very detailed and interesting response to the Plan from The Political Scientist.
Monday night last week was like Christmas Eve in Christchurch.
As the evening darkened, the presents – carefully wrapped and prettily presented by the best PR Christmas wrappers CERA could buy – were lain beneath the brightly lit Christmas Tree by the CCDU (Christchurch Central Development Unit).
There was Christchurch’s own Gerry Brownlee as Father Christmas, his elvish little helper John Key and Bob Parker doing his best impersonation of Rudolph, complete with fancy bridle and reins.
There was even a small group of carolers singing – a bit dischordantly – outside the warmly lit room that the most blessed of Christchurch’s little children (business people, politicians and hand-picked journalists) were let into.
Inside there were gasps, tears and, as the last of the big box-shaped Christmas presents was placed under the tree, the children broke into delighted applause as they bounced jollily on their little feet, hardly believing the mountain of presents tantalisingly waiting for their little fingers to unwrap.
Brilliantly written, and worth reading the rest.
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I find myself unable not to quote from the HitchHiker's Guide:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," said Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves you exist, and so therefore you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore he proves that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing. -
Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Kracklite,
the integral paradox of absolute atheism is that it is itself a statement of faith – faith that there is nothing. It is in fact logically impossible to prove a negative, thus belief in nothing is untenable on its own terms. I can say that I feel no faith honestly, but I cannot prove that there is nothing.
Atheism is not a faith, quite the opposite. It says that whatever we accept as true must be derived rationally, from evidence.
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Aren't sheep pretty with their tails on?
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Dissolving is such sweet sorrow, that I shall fade-to-black till it be morrow. ;-)
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
lenscap photography…
It's his few moments of puzzlement that are so killing.
I have nightmares all the time about lining up an amazing shot and my camera not working! :-( -
How to take a dark picture!
This is a good example of even the elite (photographers!) sometimes getting it wrong: -
cost-per-click performance-based advertising that really only works at scale. (And, I might add, is particularly ill-suited to audiences like you lot, who are too clever to click on ads.)
Speaking for myself, here on PAS, I'm usually too preoccupied to click on ads!
Printed newspapers and magazines allow your eye to rove and dawdle and be distracted by captivating advertising copy and nice graphic design.
But here, we're so busy interacting with each other that anything else becomes irrelevant.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Hebe,
MPs are elected; Cera /CCDU isn’t. They answer to no-one bar Big Ger.
I think any political pressure we can generate is a good thing. The erosion of democratic rights affects all of us, not just Christchurch people.