Posts by Jake Pollock
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The podcasts of the past couple of episodes haven't been working. I got none of the last ones, and only the first segment of the new episode. I'm subscribing through iTunes. Any thoughts?
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That's... beautiful, man.
It was funnier in my head, and it's late here. Leave me alone.
Of course, for the time being at least the media will report this sort of crap as if it's something serious, in the same way that 'subject x has 800 000 hits on google' was once a testimony to its importance.
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It's internet activism. Or, as I like to call it, inactivism.
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Russell: That story comes from a post on fivethirtyeight, about Western Pa. It's provenance has since been confirmed, although I'm tempted to think it's apocryphal, despite my dim view of attitudes towards race in this part of the US.
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There should be an 'American' somewhere in my last post. See if you can spot where!
I should also add that, upon telling people trying to register me to vote that I am not a US citizen, more than one has said 'that's unfortunate'. I politely told them that it's not.
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I'd guess they probably map quite neatly onto raccoons in that sense.
On a recent drive from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati and back I saw many many dead raccoons on the side of the highway.
And whilst in Cincinnati I met an who knew a considerable amount about New Zealand's proportional representation system.
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7: The Amazing Race. After 13 seasons, it's just not that amazing.
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If it helps, Jon, I just plugged a Samuel Flynn Scott track into it (funnily enough, only about half of the tracks seem to work), and it didn't come up with a single track by another New Zealand artist on the first version. Jeff Buckley, The White Stripes, Tegan and Sarah, Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes all showed up, as did Neil Young and Dylan, but I had to refresh it four times before a Crowded House track appeared.
The same thing happens with Dimmer. Anything off of the Mint Chicks Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! album seems to have a lot of New Zealand music associated with it, but F*ck the Golden Youth doesn't. The Straitjacket Fits (only their real hits seem to work) come up with a lot of Flying Nun stuff, and the Andrew Brough tracks throw in a bit of Bic Runga and Greg Johnson, but that's hardly unfair. Goldenhorse comes up with almost exclusively New Zealand playlists. Basically, it seems like the more popular it is in New Zealand, the more likely you'll see a lot of more random New Zealand tracks in a Genius playlist, unless it's Crowded House.
The bigger problem with the New Zealand stuff is that most of it just doesn't work.
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The correlation between congressmen voting against the bill and unsafe seats in the upcoming election may surprise you.