Matthew Henry John Bartlett

lyrics: ‘Universal Soldier’, by Donovan

Wellingtonian’s study replicates 15th-Century painting
PicLens is a very pretty Firefox plugin [via Russell B]

Walter Brueggemann’s 19 theses on the scripts

Greenpeace’s guide to outdoor furniture
Comment on evangelicals in high places

NRT suggests a Bunnings boycott
interesting (and very alpha) non-modal operating system (idea)
really neat demo of SeaDragon and Photosynth [vid]

The date for last submissions on the Ngauranga to Airport Corridor study has been extended a week, to 29 February.

the Welly Chamber of Commerce weighs in [PDF]

Staircase bookcase [via K]

~3000 free scholarly journals
blogging and politics [via Russell B]
the smartest person I’ve come across today

Do you think the USA could fall over as quickly as the USSR did?

fascist NZ
NZ super fund continues to invest in cluster bombs

blogs, texts and violence in Kenya
I have a wiki again, this time it is for assisting you to provision yourself ethically

Tim Jones’ report on Wednesday’s transport meeting

from second episode of the best documentary in the world, The Century of the Self:

My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness. When in fact possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering. The problem is not to undo suffering, or to wipe it off the face of the earth, but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to ‘cure’ ourselves of it constantly, and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call ‘happiness’. There’s too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him – of defining him, rather than letting him go. It’s part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.

I’m selling 2x 512MB laptop RAM on tradeem

My notes from last nights public meeting on the Wellington transport study
Excellent meeting. Loads of people. Very tightly run. No waffling.
Petition to ban cluster bombs
NZ-made recycled billboard laptop satchels

Jeanette Fitzsimons on swapping water with China
BBC4 documentary on Freud’s nephew inventing consumer culture
a. what a bastard. b. why did everyone dive straight in?

settling
America and Christian fascism [via CD]

Vista vs. XP

Pentecostalism, slums, cities, ecology, public health, mad middle classes
nation vs. nation vs. corporation
prettier bridge for Waitemata Harbour idea
DowEthics.com

From an interview with Martha McCaughey [via K]:

My goal in The Caveman Mystique is to encourage the average non-academic person to question the authority of science, particularly the “scientific” claims of evolutionary psychologists talking about human behavior and sexual desire and especially such claims discussed in the popular press. We must understand that those claims are loaded with values and are far from neutral and objective.