All over Wellington, people are dressing up in the crazy costumes because the Rugby Sevens are in town!
But here are some unrelated linky.
First-person tetris. I can’t bear to play this, and the music reminds me of when I used to dream tetris. Did you ever dream tetris? There’s a wiki article on the Tetris effect that is worth a read.
Pass Fail – using visual design/usability principles to make boarding passes more useful. Compare the designs and be enlightened about how uselessly most information is presented to us. (Notably, the fantastic Air New Zealand boarding pass is given a significant thumbs up – it’s obvious why, when you compare it to what else is out there.)
Did aliens play a role in Woolworths? I think I first saw this via Public Address, but it’s been around a bit, for good reason.
Stray dogs in Moscow – absolutely fascinating.
Following from the 39 Steps discussed a couple days ago, here’s the BBC’s 21 Steps, a story told in interactive form. It doesn’t load for me at all, sadly, but it sounds very interesting – maybe someone out there can get it to go?
The Society of Unordinary Young Ladies – comic in which the female characters from 80s sitcoms team up to fight crime.
(Facebook) Ant Timpson provides a lengthy interview with the guy behind seminal mash-up video experience, Apocalypse Pooh.
And finally… Japanese Chewbacca loves Sea Chicken!
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Oh my goodness, I wasn’t going mad! No only did I dream tetris but now I dream sudoku. I think I have an addictive personality – which isn’t to say you might become addicted to me, but rather that I may well become addicted to – well – anything really. Farmtown, Sudoku, tetris, spider, freecell (did anyone else start at Game 1 and work their way through several thousand of the games, staying at each one until they had it correct…..?)
Words cannot express how disturbing those canapes made with sea chicken are.
What is sea chicken exactly? Do sea chickens have feathers? What kind of canned sea-creature has feathers and lightsabers? Do sea chicken eggs turn into golden robots? I have so many queries!
I would love to love sevens weekend. I do love the idea of Wellington dressing up and going completely insane.
Unfortunately, the large contingent who take it as an excuse to behave like obnoxious and inconsiderate louts always annoys me too much. I’d love to be able to wander around town and check out the costumes without having to worry about people constantly being dicks.
Quite seriously, I think that if NZ legalized pot and banned alcohol it would make events like this much more fun. People would be likely be chilled out and silly rather than rude and invasive.
People might be chilled out and silly (like many non-offensive drinkers in fact), but there will also be those who are paranoid and reactionary, not to mention all the non smokers who are quite happy not to be in the presence of second hand weed. And before anyone calls ‘cliche’, I have seen and experienced both behaviours firsthand.
I don’t buy this ‘pot is so much better than booze’ argument. Both induce altered states, and both can make people very difficult to be around for the non partakers.
samm: The people who were f**king me off by being annoying and invasive during Sevens weekend weren’t having a bad experience, they were having a great time. These weren’t angry or depressed drunks (the alcohol equivalent of the “paranoid and reactionary” pot smoker) – they were happy drunks.
Every drug has its down-side, but in my experience drunk people tend to be more of a problem to others than stoned people. Just look at what happens when British football hooligans hit the Netherlands.
Similarly, I can’t imagine people who’ve just gotten high deciding it would be a great idea to go up to complete strangers in the street and blow whistles in their ears, smack them on the head with part of their costume, or grope them, all in the name of “good fun”. All three of which were well in evidence in the streets of Wellington last weekend.
I vote for raise the drinking age to 67.
Sorry, but I’m just not convinced that legalising pot would result in some kind of blissed out public event utopia as you seem to be contending. Granted, it arguably wouldn’t be worse than it already is, but for me the issue of second hand smoke alone (based on recent experience of being unable to escape other people’s weed at the Pearl Jam and Fleetwood Mac concerts) is enough to mitigate against it. I don’t care if you smoke your shit, but I object to being forced to do the same just because I am in the same crowd (applies to tobacco also). I think we will have to agree to disagree here.
Pearce, samm: the only way to settle this is with jelly wrestling.
You may nominate a champion if you do not wish to be doused in jelly yourself.