Richard Westenra

The third group of 25 links from my linkblog. To see all linkblog retrospectives, click the tag ‘links’.

• Pirate Bay closure sparked file-sharing boom – Web-policing fail
• The Gay Animal Kingdom
• Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter
• Aristotle’s law petition confounds blase Berkeley – Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats wants Berkeley to legally acknowledge Aristotle’s law, commonly expressed as A=A.
• Fullsize: a new IMG attribute – A campaign to get a new attribute called fullsize into the next version of HTML
• 2010 California Marriage Protection Act: Safeguarding marriage from the evils of divorce – excellent satire of the Californian Anti-Gay Marriage law change
• What the F**K is Social Media?
• Designers Who Are Technical: The More You Know, The Better Your Work – …Counter-Point.
• Designers are not Programmers – Point…
• 2012: It’s a Disaster!!! (video) – The trailer for the new disaster flick ‘2012′, recut as a comedy.
• Skiing Robot Not Very Useful But Totally Fun To Watch (video) – Damn robots, stealing our freshies
• In Deep (video) – Teaser for the new Matchstick Productions ski flick. Music by Ennio Morricone.
• “Last, Loneliest, Ugliest” – NZ Last in Aid Ranking – Action Aid ranks New Zealand last among 22 donor countries in sustainability, social protection and hunger alleviation.
• DJ Steve Porter featuring Vince Offer – “Slap Chop Rap” (video)
• Police Ten 7 – Safer Communities Together (video) – NZ’s latest internet meme
• Heavy Footing (video) – If you liked the cross-country snowboarding video, check this one out. It’s the next, next big thing,
• Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers – *spoiler alert!* Chrome wins. *spoilers end*
• Cross Country Snowboarding – next big thing in snowboarding (video)
• ‘Putting on a show of resistance’ – My mate Graham was featured in a Stuff.co.nz article today
• Afghans: Question Of More US Troops Beside The Point – Afghans want more US troops! Kinda sorta! In a way!
• BBC Survey: Kiwi accent most attractive and prestigious form of English outside the UK – Screw it, I’m moving to Europe.
• Dove – Evolution (video) – No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.
• Air NZ chief blasts climate change ‘circus’
• Crazy Animation Starts Normal, Goes Full Retard (video)
• NZ’s murder rate halved in past 20 years – The national crime rate appears to be radically dropping despite an overwhelming public belief that crime has got worse.