Archive for July, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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