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Webstock joins Bartlett Projects’ support for Kiva
The Sage feed reader extension for Firefox has made checking blogs fun again
Wellington bus news
My notes from today’s public discusssion on climate change [40k PDF]

The long-awaited summary of Helen Clark’s January 30 speech:

Trust me I’ve been doing it for ages. Economy is going well. Achievements: Kiwisaver, Working for Families, big investments in education, health, policing, infrastructure. Sustainability! Sustainability! Things have to be built to last. In economics, environment, society and culture. We want to kick the carbon habit. Those who denied climate change look silly now (don’t vote National). NZ has to work to maintain clean green image, position ourselves for overseas ethical consumers. Balance is needed (don’t vote Green). The current social ills are due to Ruth Richardson’s 1991 Budget, and we’re working on fixing them. We’ve done lots for business, education (from early childhood up). We want to keep under-18s in school or training. We have no hidden agendas, we’re experienced, we’re stable, we work for the whole community, not just a part.

Sorry it’s a bit longer – but then, she had more to say.

instructables.com: how to make lots of nice things
superfund365.org: visualising toxic site cleanup in the US
feed43.com: turn any page into an RSS feed

Russell Norman responds to John Key’s speech
… and Helen Clark’s
Pre-20th-century gadgets

Chris Laidlaw and the Sunday Group on housing affordability [audio]
felt.co.nz: buy and sell handmade things [via Russell B]
Aaron proposes a very good idea: Statement of Shareholder Interestss

Discussion on what Americans should do with their rebates
NRT on the Pacific trash vortex

Kim Stanley Robinson says: Libertarians are anarchists who want police protection from their slaves

Lent! No sweets!

I try raise money for David & Angela’s trip to Vietnam for to help the orphans. Contact me (or them) to arrange a wee deposit.

addictive flash area-filling game [via KEB]

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.

Vista vs. XP

settling
America and Christian fascism [via CD]

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?

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

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

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

fascist NZ
NZ super fund continues to invest in cluster bombs

~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?

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]

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

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

Walter Brueggemann’s 19 theses on the scripts

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

lyrics: ‘Universal Soldier’, by Donovan