Posts by Ian Dalziel
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Hilary Stace,
video killed the rodeo tsar...
Key and his people paying a PR firm $10,000 (of taxpayers’ money) to get on the US Letterman show in 2009
Another PR coup orchestrated by Hill & Knowlton, well known for spinning such toxic winners as BCCI, the Tobacco Industry and the Govt of Kuwait (remember the alleged babies ripped from incubators in Iraq War Round 1) - helping Key look like a trained buffoon would've been money for jam - albeit chump change to H&K.
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Eclectic tastes...
How can people drink nutrasweet
when it tastes like electrical tape?Wired for sweetness and light?
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You say Te Mata, I say to martyr...**
But to be fair it was quite interesting to find out exactly why the flavour disappears and never comes back.
But where does it go?
Entropy? -
Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Moata T,
Obligatory Christchurch injoke.
Put a sock on it!
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Field Theory: All Blacks v South Africa…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Shod by both sides...
And I find them jarring and distracting. I’m not normally wedded to tradition but the shoe thing annoys me.
Me too, I also hate those video billboards on the sidelines, I'd imagine it must be distracting for players as well, having all that movement going on in their peripheral vision - I'd like a dollar for every time I've momentarily thought there was a bull (or a truck) loose on the field!
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Field Theory: All Blacks v South Africa…, in reply to David Cormack,
I’ll never understand you Auckland folk and
your lack of confidence in Conrad…...and now Weepu has left Wellington,
what's going on up there? - is this more
Hammett-time? - what's the lowdown
on this breakdown? -
Love in the time of collarers...
Didn't anyone think they looked like a bunch of vicars?
(Sports parsons?) and wearing tube tops? Slappers! -
Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Credit Line tamers...
So they seek to destroy it themselves
twitch, I have to go all latin and ask cui bono?
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
kernel sanders...
And you're telling me, a Mexi can? Y'know, staple an' all, :)
ear, ear... that's 'maizing!
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he’s a brick…
<reposted from Vanilla Buffalo thread
- ‘cos I thought this one said ’Now Closed">
Now that this post-Sumerian clay-based ’font’ exists
would it be possible to make it available as a font to buy
which might then give Blair some small extra return on
what looks like a lot of creative work…
and I’m sure it would be of interest to a lot of type lovers
worldwide – a font created by an earthquake – I’d love to
see it mentioned on boing boing and in wired and other places…
I mean how many fonts have come out of Chchch?
This would put Mr Parkes up there with that florid font from Strategy for the Chchch Art Gallery* and maybe Max Hailstone – but he was from the UK and mostly taught about type at Ilam. oh and Paul Russell and maybe a few others, but not many…
Any way I’m all for any initiatives that give Blair more of a profile
- he is a very multi-talented creator.*oh, hang on that was by UK based designer Jeremy Tankard – don’t think he’s a kiwi…