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Huckabee’s subliminal Christmas message
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, December 20th, 2007 - 10 comments
CNN reports that Republican Mike Huckabee poked fun at critics who said a bookshelf in his new Christmas-themed ad that appeared to highlight the shape of a cross was meant to send a subliminal message. If you’re reading this Santa, please get me an awesome Christmas present. All I’ve ever really wanted is a pony […]
CommitteeCaller.com
Written By: - Date published: 2:07 pm, December 18th, 2007 - Comments Off on CommitteeCaller.com
Here’s a cool idea. From the site: I’ve just finished building CommitteeCaller.com, a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional committee over the phone. The web application utilizes the open source Asterisk PBX system to connect you to every senator or house member on a particular committee. No more digging around the […]
Miro: free, opensource video platform
Written By: - Date published: 5:45 am, November 21st, 2007 - 4 comments
Miro – a free, opensource video platform has recently been released. It’s a piece of software that allows you to download, manage, and watch video content and it runs on Microsoft Window, Mac OS X and Linux. Their pitch is “Miro: turn your computer into an internet TV… watch free internet video channels and play […]
Labour’s website: too smart for its own good?
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, November 20th, 2007 - 30 comments
Someone just sent me this blog readability test. It cl/aims to tell you what level of education is required to read your blog/website/myspace page. Here at The Standard we scored “College (undergrad)”, as did Kiwiblog. The real interest was the Party sites though. Depending on your point of view I suppose, Labour’s site fared pretty […]
Hollow man beachtowel
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, November 15th, 2007 - 4 comments
Make your National MP’s holiday season with one of these fantastic towels. Currently out of stock but don’t doubt for a minute that it’ll be back.
Google Australia launches election tools
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, November 15th, 2007 - Comments Off on Google Australia launches election tools
Google’s launched some great new online tools for the Australian election. Check out: www.google.com.au/election2007 where you’ll find Google maps called maplets, with electorate boundaries, seats held and margins as well as electorate profiles and member information. Links are also provided to videos and associated electorate information. Great way to waste a day! Quick YouTube overview […]
Belated Halloween post – vampire maths
Written By: - Date published: 12:42 pm, November 10th, 2007 - 4 comments
Vampires can’t exist. It turns out that their existence would contradict ours. Here’s the maths to prove it: “Let us assume that a vampire need feed only once a month. This is certainly a highly conservative assumption, given any Hollywood vampire film. Now, two things happen when a vampire feeds. The human population decreases by […]
Larry Lessig talks creative freedom at TED
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, November 10th, 2007 - 1 comment
About a year ago I discovered the TED website. It’s rapidly become a staple in my internet diet. From their ‘about‘ page: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and […]
Gaybourhood Halloween party cancelled
Written By: - Date published: 2:08 pm, October 31st, 2007 - Comments Off on Gaybourhood Halloween party cancelled
From the NY Times: This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to dress up as Senator Larry E. Craig, this year’s camp celebrity — will be celebrating behind closed doors. The city’s most popular Halloween party, in America’s largest gay neighborhood, is canceled. The […]
“Ethical Facebook” for businesses
Written By: - Date published: 12:28 pm, October 30th, 2007 - 1 comment
Actics.com is an online neworking site for “ethical” businesses. Businesses that sign up choose to nominate themselves as expressing various corporate values and also describe how they embody them. Users, clients and investors then get to rate the businesseson these criteria. The site’s meant to help individuals find businesses with values they share as well […]
The Superest
Written By: - Date published: 9:53 am, October 26th, 2007 - Comments Off on The Superest
You’ve probably heard of the battle raging accross the ditch. You’ve probably even heard of the one in the Parliamentary lobby. In California they’re still fighting fire. Here’s a challenge that might be new to you. It’s a an attempt to draw the world’s superest super hero: The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a […]
Elephants ‘do a Blumsky’
Written By: - Date published: 7:23 pm, October 24th, 2007 - 3 comments
The Guardian reports that “Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote north-east”. No word as yet on whether or not the surviving elephants have laid charges against ‘pot smoking youths’ known to frequent the area. More news as it comes to hand.
FreeRice
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, October 23rd, 2007 - 5 comments
FreeRice is a vocabulary game. For each word you correctly identify, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. We are not sitting on a pile of riceâ€â€¢you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear […]
Creative Commons: Wanna work together?
Written By: - Date published: 3:57 pm, October 18th, 2007 - 1 comment
Fighting virtual climate change
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, October 14th, 2007 - 6 comments
The New York Times reports that game maker Electronic Arts and energy company BP have collaborated in designing the latest version of E.A.’s SimCity computer game. The game focuses on building and managing a virtual metropolis. Environmental concerns have always been an element of the game play but they’re taken to a new level in […]
Left brain or right brain?
Written By: - Date published: 6:51 pm, October 13th, 2007 - 12 comments
Apparently most people see the dancer spinning counter-clockwise. If you see her going clockwise you’re possibly right-brain dominant.
Free culture. Amen.
Written By: - Date published: 1:53 pm, October 13th, 2007 - 2 comments
Wouldn’t be a weekend on The Standard without a post on free culture now would it? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I think that the issue of copyright in the digital age has the potential to become The Next Big Thingâ„¢. The NYT has a good article on […]
Found
Written By: - Date published: 4:32 pm, October 12th, 2007 - Comments Off on Found
It’s Friday. Maybe you need a break. Don’t say we never think of you. Here’s a site I used to love but had forgotten: FOUND Magazine. Here’s how they describe themselves: “We collect found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles – anything that gives a glimpse […]
Colourful advertising
Written By: - Date published: 7:55 am, October 7th, 2007 - 2 comments
The Sony Bravia ads are among my all-time favourites. First we had the bouncy balls, then the paint explosions, now it’s clay bunnies.
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