Archive for July, 2008

The National Library of New Zealand Photostream

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I just found out that the The National Library of New Zealand has a Flickr photostream. One thing we don't have in New Zealand is a lot of history, so it is great that this kind of material is being made available, the images are even available for reproduction on ...

A new font

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

To celebrate my blog reaching 100 published posts, I decided to buy it a new font. After researching font creation for a couple of days, I decided that it was all too complicated and sought professional help: Fontifier is a web service that takes the pain (and believe me it ...

Movie Review : Hancock

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

The city of Los Angeles finds itself protected by an honest-to-god super hero with the unlikely name of John Hancock. Unfortunately, this hero causes more damage to the city than he prevents due to the extreme lack of due-diligence expressed during his slapdash crime fighting activities. One day Hancock saves ...

“duumDum duumDum, He’s a Shark”

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Jaws was a pretty cool movie but I think we can all agree that the theme tune really needed lyrics. Luckily one man stepped up to the challenge: The same guy has done a whole bunch more: Batman Superman Back to the Future Indiana Jones James Bond Halloween (particularly good) Related posts:Freaky Friday Today has thrown up some ...

Gorbachov: The Music Video

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Usually, whenever I see something entertaining but inexplicable on the Internet I just shake my head and mutter something about those crazy Japanese. In fact Japan has had a monopoly on capital-C Crazy for so long that sometimes it seems that no other nation could possibly compete. Recently, however, Russia has ...

New Zealand Cover Songs at Coverfreak

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

One of my favourite things about browsing the web on Mondays is seeing what is new over at coverfreak.com, a weekly blog with links to interesting covers of (usually) familar songs. Normally I wouldn't mention it, but this week they have a selection of songs with a New Zealand flavour. The ...