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Unknown on Monday, August 31, 2009
Amazing turntable animation by Nicolas Crombez... Thanks Nicolas! Watch out though... This bad boy is 14 megs:)Keywords: 3d three dimensional flying concept space ship model 8 eight prop propeller vehicle on fire in mid flight men jumping off with parachutes [...]
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Unknown on Sunday, August 30, 2009
Is Twitter account owner lying to media over Bradford death threats? update: apparently so - Henk van Helmond responds in commentsThe man who owns the Twitter account that had this threat addressed to Sue Bradfords [...]
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With the realease off ffmpeg 0.5 there is much better AVCHD support in my experience, so you can use it for perfect conversions. You can download ffmpeg from ffmpeg.org and then use this script:#!/bin/sh# ffmpeg-avchd script by linux-tipps.blogspot.com# [...]
The only thing I'm not really happy with yet is the deinterlacing and deshaking. I would like to use a sharper deinterlacer, but I guess I'd need mencoder for that. The Lanczos software scaler does make steady images pretty sharp already, though.
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Unknown on Saturday, August 29, 2009
Sue Bradford a candidate for assassinationOn Twitter, someone recently wrote this@suebr is STILL a good candidate for NZ's first political assassination. (watch sue run to the Police because of a death threat, stupid cow). The person who wrote this [...]
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Unknown on Friday, August 28, 2009
Some old images and a Flash loop of the Solar Sailer from the 1982 TRON film as well as some bootleg images from the upcoming TRON LEGACY movie set to debut in 2010. Check the trailer.Keywords: solar sailer concept ships [...]
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Not much from me in the next weekOff to Auckland in the weekend, back Thursday. Things to do in the real wor [...]
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Unknown on Thursday, August 27, 2009
New Zealand WeekEvery Friday I wake up and read The New Zealand week . It's a good wrap up of the news and events of the preceding week and the URL gets delivered straight to my inbox as a reminder. There's always something in there that I have missed.I [...]
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John Key to be interviewed on Big NewsPrime Minister John Key is going to sell New Zealand to the blogosphere when he is interviewed by top political blog Big News next month.Mr Key is booked for a mid-September blog post while he is in Auckland to speak [...]
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Political question of the dayWho was the first Maori woman to become a minister in the New Zealand parliament?Too easy? Answer this, th [...]
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Unknown on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
sundragon83 at deviantart.Keywords: alex figini concept vehicle spaceship environment digital pen tablet speed paintings deviant art account aka sundrago [...]
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Dictator dicatates to the dictatedWell, by now you`ll all know that Herr Key has decreed that National will not support Acts smacking bill, which was drawn out of the ballot today. John Boscawen should postpone the debate [...]
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Unknown on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Diet Pills Can Cause Liver Damage!News broke today of a new report on diet pills such as ALLI (the fat busting pill in the windows of almost every chemist and pharmacy in the UK) that suggests these miracle cure super magic [...]
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Highly detailed 3d modeling on peperaart.com.Keywords: 3D three dimensional concept lunar lander video game concept ship art from by paul pepera artist currently working as an environment artist at id software previously [...]
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Unknown on Monday, August 24, 2009
Telecom injusticeTelecom boss Paul Reynolds is getting paid $5 million salary, after Telecom profit dropped 43.9%, while Telecom workers - the people who actually work for their living for Telecom - are facing a terrible choice between lay-offs with [...]
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Another child diesWhen is it going to end? Story here TV clip here. Sue Bradford too busy posting pics of protests on Facebook to comment.An interview of the neighbour will be on TV3 news tonight. Update Looks like it may be a premature newborn. [...]
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I find it quite ironic that quite a few two-faced Act supporters are annoyed at John Key's undemocratic stance in ignoring the smacking referendum, but are quite happy for Rodney Hide to run roughshod over the select committee [...]
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Unknown on Sunday, August 23, 2009
Cabinet has agreed to ask police not to uphold the lawCabinet has agreed to ask police and Child Youth and Family to review their procedures to ensure good parents were treated as Parliament intended with regards to smacking legislation.But if the [...]
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Visit John Keys Facebook pageJohn Key has a public Facebook site here. In the past day or so nearly 80 people have left messages urging him to reconsider his position on smacking. Not one supports his stan [...]
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Unknown on Saturday, August 22, 2009
If you break the law we`ll make sure you don't get prosecutedThis is what I think John Key will tell Cabinet tomorrow.He will advise that the law surrounding smacking should not be changed. Instead he will instruct police and CYFS not to prosecute or [...]
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Unknown on Friday, August 21, 2009
Who said this. And whenThe way to send a strong message on child abuse is to make the law clear and precise and then to police it strongly and vigilantly. This bill as it stands does the opposite. For me, a result that sees the criminalisation of parents [...]
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A half-year of hell in New Zealand - Sue Bradford's legacy Its all outlined here.. Go read [...]
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Maori are not listening to Maori Party over smackingThose in the Maori electorates are more opposed to smacking being a criminal offence in New Zealand , on average, than those in the general electorates, despite the Maori Party's stance on the issueThe [...]
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A lot of people voted NOpost has been updatedA lot of people voted NO in the referendum this month. In fact more people 1,420,959 - voted No than those who party voted all parliamentary parties other than Labour in the 2008 election, and for all [...]
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Unknown on Thursday, August 20, 2009
Legal opinion on pay equity tells us nothing we don't already know The Human Rights Commission has released legal opinion [PDF] on pay equity and EEO ( equal employment opportunities) reviews All the reviews except one found gender pay gaps that varied [...]
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Boo-hoo SueSue Bradford is already commenting on the results of the smacking referendum before results are even announced. Feedback I've received from the public over the last few weeks tells me a lot of people feel pretty angry at the confused nature [...]
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Anthony Colard sent in some work recently. He writes: To explain this project, it's a rescue system with a big flying airbase called Orion flying around the world like a plane carrier. From this base, a squadron of rescue [...]
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Alfredo's Draw In Progress blog.Keywords: concept spaceship art blog by from alfredo dosztal draw in progress blogspot sci-fi oriented starships and vehicles character designs argentina south america concept art [...]
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Unknown on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Rodney Hide to resign over Maori seats post has been updatedRodney Hide says he will have to resign as minister if Auckland gets Maori seats on the super council, as it is fundamentally against the culture of New Zealand. He even said it won't threaten [...]
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Unknown on Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Is he a jolly Goodfellow?Stuff reports that National Party president Peter Goodfellow will not be resigning. Does that mean that National considers their president a jolly Goodfell [...]
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A must read I don't very often do " must reads" - but this is a must read.Bryce Edwards recently spoke at Dunedin's Drinking Liberally and has put the speech notes - more like a chapter - on his blog.. It's a longish read for a blog post but it [...]
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Unknown on Monday, August 17, 2009
Political question of the day IIOkay, that first question was a little too easy for some of you. This one may be a little more difficult.What was the first legislative action that aimed to provide Maori with the franchise? UPDATE Too hard, h [...]
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Pesticides in your peaches: Tribune and USDA studies find pesticides, some in excess of EPA rules, in the fragrant fruit -- chicagotribune.com: Yet more evidence supporting the logic in extra costs of Organic producePreliminary [...]
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"Don't know" and "dont care" are the top two preferences for Labour's leaders - with "someone else" third Following on from last night's TV3 poll, people were asked who should be Labour's leader instead of Phil Goff. Twenty three percent said they [...]
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Unknown on Sunday, August 16, 2009
Political question of the dayWhich person has been married to two different people who have become members of Parliament? At different times, of cours [...]
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Bolt breaks 100m record againUsain Bolt is super fast. He has broken the 100m world record again, running 9.58 seconds, beating his own record of 9.69 set in Beijing.Actually he smashed it - by more than a tenth of a second and became the first man [...]
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"Politics is a marathon, we're at the start of the race": Phil GoffPhil Goff really is not helping Labour at all. Labour is running a marathon and Labour is at the start of the race according to Phil Goff. National is also in the race, but at least [...]
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Unknown on Friday, August 14, 2009
A basic misunderstanding of politicsColin Espiner has written an interesting column saying that although Labour should be critiqing the government, this does not mean it has to take a different position on every issue.I agree. But No Right Turn doesn't. [...]
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Mike Doscher A.K.A. Malaveldt.Keywords: technical hard surface concept illustration design art from mike doscher aka malaveldt digital renders doscher-design. [...]
