Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Kuwaiti Road Carnage Psyco Milt, a regular commenter over Sir Humphrey's, has been in Kuwait recently, 'enjoying' the "6-lane motorways with a speed limit of 120kph and main urban roads with an 80kph limit".Milt reports that... Now, you will probably think you've seen bad driving. Most likely you've been to various cities of the world where it was hard to imagine that drivers have a life expectancy of more than a few weeks. Well, most of those places are pussy kind of places compared to Kuwait.Fast, powerful expensive cars combined with a cavalier approach to road rules seems to result in a fair bit of carnage. And Milt's got the flickr photoset to prove it: Crashed Cars of Kuwait. [via Sir Humphrey's] # | Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Walking my dogHurricane Katrina blows into New Orleans, threatening to destroy anything in its path. One intrepid Fox reporter is out on the street, interviewing the diehard locals who have refused to heed the evacuation orders.SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you doing?Bahaha. Video here. [via boingboing, which also has a lot of excellent links to Katrina coverage on the web, as does the ever-evolving Wikipedia entry] # |
Hip-Hop at NPR
 America's National Public Radio (NPR) seem to be going through a bit of a hip-hop phase, with recent shows focussing on hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel (the orginal vocalist for Flash's crew the Furious Five), and DJ Kool Herc (the father of the DJ breakbeat).They're worth listening to just for the humour in listening to the educated 'public radio' voice of Terry Gross in contrast to those of the black hip-hoppers from New York. # |
God speaks to me through ScrabbleThis animated flash short story, outlining one woman's obsession with Scrabble, and her quest to play the 'triple-triple', is one of the best things I've seen on the web. Perhaps because I'm a reformed scrabble addict myself.
[via the MetaFilter post on the 2005 US Scrabble Champs] # | Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Why you should always RSVPJosh Friedman, screenwriter, demonstrates the importance of actually RSVPing if you intend to go to an event...RSVP WOMAN: Hello, War of the Worlds RSVP line.Ahaaha! "I wrote the movie", and still no dice. Good blog, too. [via MetaFilter] # | Wednesday, August 17, 2005
street art This guy makes amazing street art - they're drawn in such a way as to appear as quite real when viewed from the right perspective. Check out the gallery. And here's a nice interview with Jim Jarmusch on his new film (starring Bill Murray) - Broken Flowers. # | Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Hugh Sundae checks out the success of Phase 4Hugh Sundae (now of TVNZ's Close Up news/current affairs show) takes a look at the success of NZ On Air's Phase Four funding scheme, which has helped 44 New Zealand albums see the light of day since it was implemented five years ago, andAs well as the all the back-patting stuff, we hear from the always astute Chris Hocquard, who comes through some good comments (a la many an nzmusic.com discussion) with regards to whether or not the scheme fosters the 'artform' of local nz music, or if it justs encourages commercial radio fodder (although Chris does state that if we're going to have derivative crap on radio 'we may as well have our own derivative crap'). Watch the video here. Also worth downloading: the audio of the David Lange interview with John Campbell from the latter's show, which screened on TV3 earlier this week. [hat-tip for the Close Up video to Dubber at The Wireless] # | Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Interestingness Flickr have added an 'Interesting' section to their site (for photos which have, as they put it 'Interestingness').The section collates the most "beautiful, amazing, moving and striking" photos to be found on Flickr. And there really are some stunners in there. Be prepared for some lengthy browsing... # | |
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