Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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Florian Habicht's Land of the Long White Cloud has a pretty lame title but is a great little film.
And if anyone out there likes Project Runway you'll love The September Issue.
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And political reporters cite political sources in news stories every day of the week. Why is it more of an outrage if a blogger does it?
It's a tricky area, but when, say, John Armstrong runs a story based on a leak from National we know that he has (very) strong contacts within the National Party so there's a measure of trust there. When Matthew Hooton runs a story based on his senior contacts within the Labour Party, or if an anonymous author at The Standard bases a story on anonymous rumours they've heard from their sources within National then I think we're entitled to call bullshit - especially since The Standard then begs the media to go hunting for stories about the private lives of the rest of Key's MPs on the basis of their unsourced stories.
Why on earth would the media give this bloke a profile, this reimagined Chloe of Wainui, angry online Chloe?
Whatever you can say about Slater, the SST profile was pretty damn fascinating and funny. My favourite line:
I am literally not afraid of anyone. You’d have to put a gun in my face, and then it would also have to be a real one for me to start worrying, and even then I’d be working out angles so they wouldn’t do it.
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Green co-leader Tariana Turia ... I guess all those Maoris look the same.....and their funny little names all look the same too. Turei/Turia, it's sooooo confusing ...
As someone who has mixed up both Turei/Turia and John Carter/David Carter I don't think it's a huge deal, or a racial issue - just a mistake.
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The transition from having a 'telescopic device' inserted into your penis to what OS software you had on your iPhone surely now stands as the most quintessentially Russell-Brown-esque prose of all time. Hope you're better now and on the mend.
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My concern in more with the longevity of the shipping containers; if they cost $380 k per cell but only last twenty years then compared to a $600 k standard cell that lasts 80 years that seems like a pretty bad deal.
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The disease was very well publicised during the polio epidemics of the 1950s, with extensive media coverage . . .
Sounds like a load of hysterical media hype to me.
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This quote from Robert Heinlein seems . . . well, not relevent, but close:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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An excellent plan, but for one slight drawback: we have not had university electorates for some decades now.
I didn't know there ever was such a thing as a special university electorate - I just meant the electorate the university is in.
Sadly students have the worst turnout of any sector of society.
Last years election was right in the middle of exams; maybe the Green's would have done better if they'd put some effort into a GOVT campaign encouraging students to cast special votes prior to the end of term.
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The Greens didn't seem to have a stand at the VUW club day a couple of months ago, even though every other major party AND the anarchists and bolsheviks did. Seems strange, since you'd think the universities would be their natural recruiting ground.
In fact, I wonder if it would be possible for the Greens to rort an electorate by focusing on one (or more) of the universities, going on a membership drive and getting the students to reregister in the university electorate instead of back at their parents houses.
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I'm almost afraid to ask... what do ACT supporters look like apart from the cloven hooves, baby blood stains and the clouds of sulphur?
The Laffer Curves crudely carved into their foreheads tend to give them away.