http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/ 1 : where the dead are kept until identified --- 2 : collection of reference material en-us 2008-10-10T06:51:30+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002662.html Ephelants! Ephelants in a hotel lobby! Not a Muppets sketch - actual and real! A particular wild herd had a hotel built on their patch, and decided they were gonna eat the fruit there anyway. Charming story and photos here.... Friday Linky morgue 2008-10-10T06:51:30+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002661.html (Man, busy. So I'll just propagate this instead of saying anything new. Picked up on GMSkarka's LJ, but it's all over.) In this 13-second clip, McCain calls Americans his "fellow prisoners". To be fair, however, he is very very old.... Everything Political morgue 2008-10-09T09:23:31+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002660.html So, does anyone out there in internet land remember this? From 1997 to 1999, NBC broke new ground by webcasting a spin-off of the acclaimed show, Homicide: Life on the Street. It was called Homicide: Second Shift, and had its... Things I've Seen morgue 2008-10-08T09:38:59+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002659.html Today the Dominion Post, our capital city's newspaper of record, features as its below-the-fold front page article the demented rantings of the online reactionary lunatics. (Not so prominent online, thankfully. The comments themselves are here, and they're just as stupid... mediawatch morgue 2008-10-07T09:41:09+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002658.html The hippie quotient was surprisingly low... though there were the odd pair of ubiquitous multi-coloured stockings - I do not think it means what you think it means.... mediawatch morgue 2008-10-06T13:48:36+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002657.html My first evar poetry publication? Yes it is, and more. Urban Driftwood is a collection of writing (poetry and prose) by some young Wellington-based Kiwis. It's about the journey from being young to being less young in a city where... Self-ish morgue 2008-10-06T07:52:43+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002653.html The only acceptable excuse for not regularly reviewing the best photoblog there is is that you only internet at work (some images include arty nudity). Everyone else, get on to it. It reliably makes me laugh, gasp, and marvel.... Friday Linky morgue 2008-10-03T07:57:40+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002652.html Last night just before lights out I finished George Monbiot's Heat: How We Can Stop The Planet Burning, his recent book about halting runaway carbon dioxide emissions before the world fries. This is a 2007 revision of the 2006 first... Sustainability morgue 2008-10-02T08:07:49+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002651.html Yesterday I attended a talk by Lonnie Thompson, Ohia State University prof and paleoclimatologist. He was the guy in Inconvenient Truth (one of many Gore talked about as "my friend [name]" who was extracting ice cores to measure changes in... Sustainability morgue 2008-10-01T08:06:35+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002650.html A report by Greater Wellington regional council recommends a five-year moratorium on wind farm development at Belmont Regional Park, five years after the council called the site a "world-class wind farm opportunity"... "With the increase in wind energy projects... Sustainability morgue 2008-09-30T08:55:42+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002649.html I just want to give some recognition to the best design work of the NZ election campaign thus far, and it has come from an unexpected source - the Green party. The Greens don't have a history of excellence in... Everything Political morgue 2008-09-29T14:07:00+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002647.html Your assortment of linky this Friday includes: Concept Ships - a blog of conceptual drawings of nifty spaceships. Breathtaking imagery. Good for SF and design heads or anyone who likes nice pictures of things. The Superest, another drawing blog, in... Friday Linky morgue 2008-09-26T08:21:16+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002645.html Specifically, the joy of devising a new password that meets minimum safety requirements (6 characters, mix of letters and numbers, doesn't contain any dictionary words) that I know I will always remember. I have a pool of about 15 passwords... Self-ish morgue 2008-09-25T09:52:49+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002643.html Cal and I have recently been preferring sitting at home watching a DaViD, rather then going out to a fillum, partly because the range of fillums on offer has been uninspiring and partly because a David gives you a $2... Things I've Seen morgue 2008-09-24T08:07:58+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002642.html I spent last night thinking and reading about the "terror raids" of last October. First I attended a public meeting on the subject organised by the October 15 Solidarity crew, with Media Law Journal blogger Steven Price speaking on the... Everything Political morgue 2008-09-23T08:14:54+12:00