Posts by Lyndon Hood
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The Museum of Jurassic Technology
My sister got me a tshirt from there.
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Reminds me of the process Simon Power tossed out for the MMP referendum, before someone who knew what they were doing got ahold of it.
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Just actually looking at the standing orders on voting and matching it to my memory, I think it ultimately depends on the parties whether MPs vote individually. They can still split their vote if the speaker takes votes by party, and I imagine they can still vote as a block if the speaker “considers that the subject of a vote is to be treated as a conscience issue” and takes a personal vote.
That said, it is exactly the sort of thing that gets treated a conscience issue. So we can expect the excitement of people walking through doors by way of voting.
[edit: or rather, through doorways. it's not that exciting]
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One of these days people will notice that the Greens are an exceptionally competent party.
In many respects that seems to be the government's concern. I'm trying to recall a response to the Greens from National this term that hasn't been dismissive contempt.
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eg Can the Minister confirm that Levin Otaki is NOT a RON as he said in his primary.
Gerry: “Yes.”
Now what?
(He did say it twice. At a guess he thinks it’s a section of a RON, not a RON. Not sure if the grammar actually works for that.)
Anyway, you could spend all your time back and forth that or keep after actual information on the off chance some accidentally emerges.
Admittedly it is traditional to take a point of order pointing out, in parliamentary language, that the minister is making stuff up – and then be told that’s not a valid point of order. But anyone who would care about that already heard. We’re talking about it here, right?
And I can’t recall the details but one of the unfortunate things Lockwood has done is set the ‘misleading parliament’ bar quite high.
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Repeating while trying to summarise: The design issue is not about pretty. It is about conveying the information - making it easy to get at quickly (or whatever you want from information on a presentation slide). Functionality. Sure, a pot "works" for boiling water for tea, but it's not as good as a kettle and occasionally you burn yourself.
Comic sans itself isn't a huge problem in that regard but it is a sign of someone likely to go wrong.
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Actually, NASA has a reputation for “managing” news releases for maximum impact, and sometimes distorts the science in doing so
Exhibit A (and the resulting Stuff article).
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And the fact it was predicted long before it was seen just makes it better.
I think I'm at indulgent-and-or-wistful-sighing point over the slides, but for mine the font choice isn't the problem with that slide compared to... every other design choice. It is rather like (per David's suggestion) they were trying to make the content hard to get at. And in form=content terms it doesn't help the whole 'absent-minded professor' thing. Still, it wasn't exactly fatal: the presentation seemed to go fairly well overall, yes?
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Speaking of not asking about Facebook, has everyone checked the emails in their address book? http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/07/03/facebooks-email-system-does-what-now/
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Euan Mason,
How do you get a half decent NZ educational system?
Zing!