Posts by linger
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Coleman just shattered my bullshit detector.
shatted it, more like? *klaxon sounds* overload! overload! core dump in progress …
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good ideas and grumbles, in reply to Neil Drinkwater,
not that many good kiwi songs
Compared to what?
On one (trivial) level, this is predictable simply by applying Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of music is (subjectively, for a given individual listener) crap.
It follows that there will be much more non-crap music in total coming from a source that provides much more music in total (e.g. US or UK, as compared with little ol’ NZ).
However, music that speaks to a NZ listener in a NZ social/cultural context will be much more likely to come from a NZ source. So if that is one of your criteria for non-crapness, then a higher proportion of NZ music will be non-crap (subjectively, for a given NZ individual listener). Conversely, if you want to seek out non-NZ music, then you will have to wade through a lot more crap to get to stuff you like.
So … did you want to make a serious point about the relative quality of NZ music? Or are you just going through the motions?
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“A spring tide, combined with the outfall from the nearby sewer. This is Venice, after all, and the agency treats expense claims for luxury hotels with extreme prejudice.”
Tatiana laughed bitterly, “No, Stud. Think again”.[Damn -- beaten to it; so I withdraw in favour of the preceding addition. NB Emma: refreshing the page deletes unsaved comment text, so doesn't help much in avoiding this kind of thing.]
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Hard News: Over the paywall?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
a recent RNZ Media Watch podcast. Get it while it’s still online
Eh? Have they started expiring their podcasts?
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to Euan Mason,
All our PM stands for is ... Plastic Man.
“No-one ever gets the truth from … Plastic Man” -
Hard News: A wretched editorial, in reply to B Jones,
Possibly so. In most online fora, it’s people with extreme opinions on a topic who are more likely to respond, and those showing extreme disagreement, most of all.
Ben Goldacre calls this distribution the “bell-end curve” :-) -
Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
The drop in grid demand from uptake of solar may not matter so much in the long term, as it could be completely offset by increasing use of the grid for recharging electric vehicles.
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Hard News: It was 30 years ago today, in reply to Ethan Tucker,
Yeh, but school pupils generally are anti-establishment whenever this is an option (regardless of the establishment's political hue).
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
managed to wire the hot water to bypass the meter
where was that electricity actually coming from?
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Richard:
cruel but […] fair
Not really fair to the teams as a whole, though, to reduce the competition to a striker vs. a goalkeeper.
Geoff:
soccer goals should be smaller, to account for the bigger bulk of today’s players
Shouldn’t goals should be larger for larger goalies? (Cf. Terry Pratchett’s take on the game in Unseen Academicals, featuring an orangutan and the winner of a pie-eating competition, both selected as goalies for their ability to reach both posts without moving from the centre.)