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By the numbers
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By the numbers
Just in time for the long weekend, Idealog subscribers can look forward to finding issue #24 in their mailboxes today (or tomorrow, if you’re fortunate enough to live a sensible distance from the Sky Tower and the Beehive). It's a goodie, too, with the trademark Idealog range of topics: from 19th-century Maori master carver Tene Waitere to the wild bunch running Dunedin’s Natural History NZ to the clued-up Kiwis who are using public data to create cool new services and insights into government. We also have the New Zealand answer to the Segway (which weighs just ten kilograms and goes ten kilometres on a single charge), an interview with adman-turned-artist-turned-award-winning-winemaker Dick Frizzell and lots, lots more.
And just in time for the launch tonight of the second season of The Jaquie Brown Diaries, we have a profile of Gerard Johnstone, the show's writer, editor and director. We met him just as post-production was at its most chaotic and stressful. Brown thought he was coping amazingly well: "He keeps it all inside. Sure, he'll probably get some sort of stomach disease later in life for keeping his stress and frustration inside, but for now I appreciate that, because I'm sensitive to noises."
You have 140 characters. What do you want to say?
What's the first tweet a twitterer types each day? 'Good morning', of course. And so does the next twitterer, and the next, and before you know it a wave of banal greetings makes its noisy way around the world.
What would that look like? Canadian Jer Thorp wondered just that, and put together a cool visualisation of good morning tweets mapped on a globe. We have a feature request though: how about an animation of twitterers promptly unfollowing the senders of such dull tweets?
(Via Flowing Data)
Paeroa haz pizzazz
Weird that L&P is never sold on the basis of its lemon, or L, content. Still, Paeroa does have a lot going for it as a brand, and not surprisingly the Paeroa Department of Tourism is taking full advantage. The behind-the-scenes view of their national roadshow is now up to its third instalment; here’s episode one. You can see two and three on the department website and on YouTube.
Magical Jemainanous
In what's shaping up as a bumper film season, the latest wee treat to come to our attention is Gentlemen Broncos, a new film by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, starring Jemaine Clement as a plagiaristanous. Magical.
The lamppost that keeps on giving
We love this hi-tech lamppost concept posted on Philips' website. It collects solar energy during the day and acts as a windmill when there's a breeze, it conserves its energy at night till someone approaches when it automatically lights up, and it even lets people around it know how much power it's storing or using through a user-friendly display on its trunk. Philips reckons it can even feed energy back to the grid. Oh, and it looks fantastic. No word on what such a bright light would cost to build but, hey, what council could resist?
Last chance to express yourself
Idealog is now four years old. Like all four-year-olds, we could do with a little guidance. So help us out: we've put together an easy five-minute survey to let us know what you think of Idealog: the things you love, and the things only a mother could love. We know your time is precious so we'll make it worth your while: every completed response we receive will be entered into a prize draw with the opportunity to win a THERMAGENIUS heat pump water-heating system worth $4,500, plus $500 towards installation from Leap. So tell us what you think, and don't hold back!
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Survival instincts
On November 9, The Big Idea and the Arts Regional Trust are presenting Survive & Thrive, a public forum aimed at people working in the creative industries. Questions to be covered include doozies like 'How can you help your creative business thrive in these tough times?' 'What opportunities are coming up that you could take advantage of?' and 'Are you ready for them?' If you know the answers to these—or would like to know—then this is the evennt for you. It will be hosted at Telstra Pacific Events Centre in Manukau City; it's free, but numbers are limited and registration is required. More info at The Big Idea.
Onyabike
Here’s a question for those of you who work in a web-related job: have you done anything worthwhile recently? Great—then you'll want to get your entry in for the inaugural Onya Awards. Entries close in just over two weeks, so get onyabike and get entered. The awards evening promises to be bonza—it's held on the final evening of Webstock 2010.
Fine effects
AnimfxNZ 2009, the conference for the movie and gaming FX industries, kicks off in November at Te Papa and the Museum Hotel. It’s a key event for everyone involved or interested in FX and animation and features a typically top-notch list of workshops and speakers (you can expect many of the event attendees to be just as clever and well-connected too). Registrations are now open.
Quote of the week
“Predators with big gnashy teeth that commit large-scale violence on other animals really pull the ratings.
–NHNZ’s Craig Meade on the prime-time formula, in Idealog #24
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Previously in Idealog Weekly …
October 30, 2009: Man of the moment
October 23, 2009: By the numbers
October 16, 2009: Pavlova principles
October 9, 2009: The secret of the songbook
October 2, 2009: Free and easy
September 25, 2009: What the world wants
September 18, 2009: A slice of the pie
September 11, 2009: Walking man
September 6, 2009: A calmer kind of business
August 28, 2009: We have issues
August 21, 2009: Mincing about in waistcoats
August 14, 2009: Wired on pop culture
August 7, 2009: Trust is not a commodity
July 31, 2009: Fuzzy logic
July 24, 2009: Game of life
July 17, 2009: Grape expectations
July 10, 2009: Blade runners
July 3, 2009: Free: another word for nothing left to lose
June 26, 2009: Poorly pleased
June 19, 2009: The giver
June 12, 2009: Buggy on down
June 5, 2009: Brand Cambo
May 29, 2009: When the going gets tough, go proactive
May 22, 2009: Bayerische Wasserstoffmotorenwerke
May 15, 2009: Rugger blogger
May 8, 2009: Get on our cloud
May 1, 2009: Easy Tiger
April 24, 2009: Tiki tacky
April 17, 2009: The not-so-great indoors
April 3, 2009: A site for sore eyes
March 27, 2009: Dual control
March 20, 2009: Worth their Alt
March 13, 2009: Biofuels or bio-fools?
March 6, 2009: It's electrifying
February 27, 2009: Experience-rich and theory-poor
February 20, 2009: It's a hundred-and-fourteen-pager
February 13, 2009: Own your mistakes
February 5, 2009: Rules—made to be broken
January 30, 2009: Money: that's what I want
December 5, 2008: Framed by the thousands
November 28, 2008: Spank-branding novelty next week
November 21, 2008: In the Loop
November 14, 2008: Your good health
November 7, 2008: Misfits of science
October 31, 2008: No absence of colour
October 24, 2008: Plain-speaking Peri
October 17, 2008: Rebels with a cause
October 10, 2008: Seoulipsism
October 3, 2008: Fall seven times and stand up eight
September 26, 2008: Don't label us
September 19, 2008: Bloody Graham
September 19, 2008: Dream proposition
September 5, 2008: Taxi!!!
August 29, 2008: Up-Skilling on Idealog TV
August 22, 2008: 144 pages of pure pleasure, plus politics
August 15, 2008: Wash down that Lovemark with a Steinie
August 8, 2008: Strange journey
August 1, 2008: SMElly and happy
July 25, 2008: What a dive
July 18, 2008: Softly and woolly does it
July 11, 2008: The saviour from Timaru
July 4, 2008: Last laugh
June 27, 2008: King Kev
June 20, 2008: Slow ART
June 13, 2008: Killing two birds with methane
June 6, 2008: A combine harvester
May 30, 2008: Gold paint
May 23, 2008: Rock, out
May 16, 2008: Goodwill hunting
May 9, 2008: No wine jokes please
May 2, 2008: Who's bad?
April 24, 2008: Succession success
April 18, 2008: Out now or thereabouts
April 11, 2008: Paint by numbers
April 4, 2008: Reincarnated good
March 28, 2008: Making it
March 20, 2008: Knock three times
March 14, 2008: The customer is always tight
March 7, 2008: Beautiful words
February 28, 2008: Goodnight, I'm off to work
February 22, 2008: The art issue
February 15, 2008: Straight to the top
February 8, 2008: H for hot
December 13, 2007: Nothing in common? Perfect
December 6, 2007: Who needs a beer?
November 30, 2007: Dirty secret goes public
November 23, 2007: Don't speak
November 16, 2007: Worthy work (and free beer)
November 2, 2007: East meets best
October 25, 2007: Raid the fridge
October 19, 2007: Looking good
October 13, 2007: Can't miss it
October 5, 2007: Fresh meat delivery
September 28, 2007: If the walls had eyes
September 21, 2007: Phoenix rising
September 15, 2007: Can we fix it? Yes we can
September 6, 2007: Feats of social engineering
August 31, 2007: Doesn't bite
August 24, 2007: Telling us where to go
August 16, 2007: Tomorrow time
August 10, 2007: Going West
August 3, 2007: How to ... be your business
July 27, 2007: Freaky food
July 20, 2007: Meet the neighbours
July 12, 2007: Free Hollie
July 6, 2007: Green queen
June 29, 2007: The truth about youth
June 21, 2007: Walk this way
June 14, 2007: Times ten
June 7, 2007: The ape woman needs a label
June 1, 2007: Impossible is something
May 25, 2007: Yeah, we're still here
May 11, 2007: Trophy time
May 3, 2007: Friends with the band
April 23, 2007: Why worry?
April 19, 2007: Done by the big jobs
April 12, 2007: A rockin' good read
April 5, 2007: No fear
March 29, 2007: Out to pasture
March 22, 2007: Hip-hop and The Human Touch
March 15, 2007: Crazy Frog and Billy T
March 10, 2007: The Benadryl edition
March 1, 2007: We can be Xero
February 22, 2007: Back on board
December 15, 2006: Free beer
December 8, 2006: December 8, 2006
December 1, 2006: December 1, 2006
November 24, 2006: November 24, 2006
November 16, 2006: November 16, 2006
November 9, 2006: November 9, 2006
November 3, 2006: November 3, 2006
October 26, 2006: October 26, 2006
October 19, 2006: October 19, 2006
October 12, 2006: October 12, 2006
October 6, 2006: October 6, 2006
September 28, 2006: September 28, 2006
September 21, 2006: September 21, 2006
September 14, 2006: September 14, 2006
September 7, 2006: September 7, 2006
August 31, 2006: August 31, 2006
August 24, 2006: August 24, 2006
August 17, 2006: August 17, 2006
August 11, 2006: August 11, 2006
August 3, 2006: August 3, 2006
July 27, 2006: July 27, 2006
July 21, 2006: July 21, 2006
July 13, 2006: July 13, 2006
July 6, 2006: July 6, 2006
June 29, 2006: June 29, 2006
June 22, 2006: June 22, 2006
June 15, 2006: June 15, 2006
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