Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to simon g,
Simon said “gummy” 4 times in his short stand-up this morning. .... Honestly, where do they get their ideas from? Old Simpsons episodes?
Just replace "Gumboots" with 'Gummy Bears' and you've got National's next election anthem... Daggesque of course!
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Speaker: The economics of shit speech, in reply to Alfie,
But I could never contribute to any media company which continues to publish regurgitated brain farts from the likes of the Hoskings and the Sopers. I just couldn’t
But, but, how else will you keep up with the 'social morays'?
PS while the Herald is indeed a stained and disgraceful journal, I feel disdain is what's required...
;- )(Sorry to bring the Pedant Patrol down, it's a personal bugbear...)
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Speaker: The economics of shit speech, in reply to Sacha,
a better deal than the Harold is offering.
Hell they want to charge people to read a story on Shayne Carter’s book Dead people I have known and they can’t even be arsed getting the name of his band right!
Multi-awardwinning Kiwi rocker Shayne Carter, who has been in handful of bands including the Straightjacket Fits and Dimmer, has written a new book about his life in music, Dead People I have Known. ….
Obviously one isn’t paying for editorial rigour!
PS: The ODT didn't fare much better in the Band Name spelling stakes either getting it wrong at least once in the story - and I think Shayne even wrote for them at one stage!
How The DoubleHappys became Straightjacket Fits after the death of band member and friend Wayne Elsey. Struggles to craft songs while surviving on the poverty line. Partnerships, and run-ins, with other bands.
Oh to live in a world where reporters got Straitjacket Fits and Martin Phillipps' names right every time...
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In Chchch (well anywhere on the web I guess) there is
https://www.pressreader.com/catalog
and the Library also has Press Display
https://login.ezproxy.christchurchcitylibraries.com/login?url=http://library.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/homepage_v2.aspx -
Hard News: What does the wastewater…, in reply to ,
full of clever cookies.
There's always been a 'home-bake' problem...
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Happy World News Day everybody!
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They're literally taking the piss...
What percentage traces of Viagra© and other prescription drugs and hormones were also present?
Will no one think of the fish!?
The bottom-feeders?
The nibblers and bloaters...
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Legal Beagle: A (non-)submission on the…, in reply to Pete,
Y’all know this place is an echo chamber, right?
We can all rub along together... right?
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Hard News: Digital persuasion and the…, in reply to Katita,
the evolution from Silicon Valley ‘hippy’ hackers (think Steve Jobs) to Libertarian (and NZ citizen Peter Thiel) particularly chilling.
This is well worth a watch:
further interesting reading:
https://thenewstack.io/silicon-valley-legend-captain-crunch-publishes-life-story/
and
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/11/19/the-roots-of-apple-microsoft-and-facebook-in-hacker-culture/#560ff4ce2d38It used to be 'they' were just hacking machines - now 'they' are hacking brains and culture - NLP is just coding for wetware... Context is still king.
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Hard News: Digital persuasion and the…, in reply to ,
Not unlike the proprietor operated coffee houses before television was invented.
Kaffee Klatsches aside, Salon is still going!