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Written By: The Standard - Date published: 2:24 pm, July 11th, 2010 - 20 comments
This is based on a lecture at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
It is a hell of an effective way to present an economic argument.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:00 pm, July 2nd, 2010 - 2 comments
Enigma have for a long time one of my favorite sounds to listen to while programming from the early 90′s onwards. There have been bug-hunting exercises where Enigma has literally been on my playlist all day. You can just queue all of their albums, knuckle down, and kill those tiresome and frustrating bugs. Since it is going to be a programming weekend, including some site tweaking….
Written By: Dancr - Date published: 11:10 am, June 6th, 2010 - 2 comments
Fancy wasting a little time on a slow Sunday? Some viral video, courtesy of Guardian blogger, Jemima Kiss.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 6:59 pm, May 23rd, 2010 - 44 comments
“The Bechdel test†requires a movie to pass three questions:
1) Does it have two or more women in it (who have names)?
2) Do they talk to one another?
3) Do they talk to one another about something other than a man?
This two minute video explains…
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 1:45 pm, May 17th, 2010 - 1 comment
As well as releasing its yearly report on World Development Indicators last month, the World Bank opened up its data. It has included a public API and access to over a thousand indicators. In the video below, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick speaks about the Bank’s open data initiative.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:06 am, May 2nd, 2010 - 7 comments
In Florida, a legislative plan to close as many as five state prisons and ship inmates to a private prison run by GEO Group was scaled back last month.
The feds may be searching to see if former state House Speaker Sansom received any kickbacks from the company. The GEO group are also contenders for running private prisons here.
Written By: the sprout - Date published: 8:33 am, April 19th, 2010 - 24 comments
Here’s a catchy tune for all you pirates out there. Get your kids to sing along!
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:01 pm, April 5th, 2010 - 3 comments
This is eleven minutes of pure Patti Smith singing about Vietnam in her usual ambiguous poetical style. Came up on the playlist while coding, and I had to stop to listen to the sheer menace in her voice. I had a look for a video.
A powerful song, and a powerful rendition by its creator.
Written By: Demeter - Date published: 3:55 pm, March 19th, 2010 - 19 comments
New instalment from John Key impersonater “Plumedekiwi”, in which the PM gets his linguistic knickers in a twist over national standards….
If you haven’t seen the other vids by Plumedekiwi, check him out here
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 14 comments
Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members? Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972. That gives a …
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:52 pm, February 19th, 2010 - 10 comments
In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 9:19 am, February 19th, 2010 - 8 comments
Click through to see Phil Goff take John Key down a peg. Sloppy home insulation. Sloppy, broken cycleway promises. Sloppy, unfilfulled Youth Guarantee. Sloppy & uncaring on unemployment. Sloppy abuse of the people of McGehan Close. A sloppy, do nothing PM.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:15 am, February 1st, 2010 - 17 comments
It was probably well intentioned – and to be fair we don’t know the full facts yet – but on the face of it putting kids in police cars at a school fair then doing donuts and figure eights around the field looks like pretty poor judgement. On the other hand, I’m just a little …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:01 pm, December 24th, 2009 - 8 comments
One of the stranger Internet campaigns has being going on in Britain. It has resulted in this excellent track being the Xmas number 1 single this year (it is in my programming playlist for special bugs). Far better than the usual mulch, and enough to wash out the taste of John Keys version of Snoopys …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 4:45 pm, October 5th, 2009 - 19 comments
Just found the trailer on youtube. No word yet when it’s coming to New Zealand.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:53 am, September 23rd, 2009 - 3 comments
More at: theyesmenfixtheworld.com
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:45 am, September 21st, 2009 - Comments Off
Eddie’s piece on the importance of joining your union if you want to avoid a pay cut reminded me of another Peter Seeger classic:
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:38 am, September 12th, 2009 - 7 comments
Following on from the workers’ rights/class war theme of the last few days, here’s an old classic:
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:37 pm, September 7th, 2009 - 3 comments
The last video I posted had Democratic Congressman Barney Frank taking the fight to a woman in the audience of a townhall meeting who had just compared the proposed health care reforms to Nazism. He finished by saying: “trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:20 pm, September 5th, 2009 - 16 comments
An old favourite came around on the playlist. It sounded like the ostriches that occupy the sewer and appear here for our entertainment… So I tracked down a live performance by Leonard Cohen. The Man from Uncle version with the studio soundtrack is pretty funny as well. Lyrics over the page… Everybody knows that the …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:39 pm, August 30th, 2009 - 6 comments
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:47 pm, August 7th, 2009 - 20 comments
John explains how what he said was taken out of context, and he outlines his views on climate change.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:00 am, August 6th, 2009 - 11 comments
John Key has recently acted like a jerk to a young mother worried about what climate change is going to mean for her future and that of her child. Essentially he said that she should stick to what she knew. Bearing in mind the complete lack of understanding that both John Key and his NACT …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:46 pm, August 4th, 2009 - 4 comments
An old favourite.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 14th, 2009 - 18 comments
Not to be outshone by their leader’s latest efforts, looks like Young Labour have been busy with a little video project of their own. Nice. (Hat-tip: Red Alert)
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:45 am, July 11th, 2009 - 1 comment
Sometimes writing is hard. Especially when one is hungover for the third morning in a row. Thank God for Youtube. This one goes out to all our readers who are, or will be, addled by swine flu. Honestly, if you aren’t watching The Daily Refrain, you’re wasting your life.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 5:24 pm, June 20th, 2009 - 18 comments
Obama kills a fly with his bare hands. Awesome.
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 8:31 pm, June 18th, 2009 - 15 comments
So. There’s this dude who writes a song a day (weekdays only) and puts it on Youtube. Calls it The Daily Refrain. He’s been going three weeks now. Mostly pretty funny and well written. Great little project. Seems like he’s a Kiwi. He’s put up one about the child-beating referendum which is brilliant. Hilarious. But …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:16 pm, May 12th, 2009 - 5 comments
Makes you wish we had some good political satire here.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 12:29 pm, May 10th, 2009 - 2 comments
Di Mackey of Woman Wandering had this video in a post. Looks like someone had a lot of fun making the video to Blerta‘s Dance All Around the World. Hat-tip: indirectly from the hand-mirror
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 8:44 am, April 24th, 2009 - 11 comments
If you’ve been watching your Fox News, you know that the US is turning socialist. It’s going to be Sweden any day apparently. The Daily Show went to Sweden to get a taste of the fate that awaits Americans. The tunes they play while visiting Robyn’s apartment… They’re great songs but do they suddenly …
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