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2013-05-23 01:33:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Our latest Critter of the Week takes a closer look at an iconic NZ vent organism: the vent mussel Gigantidas gladius, literally translated as 'gigantic sword-shaped mussel'.

http://on.fb.me/10Uv1TX

2013-05-22 22:42:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Random Access Memories is growing on me... #daftpunk

2013-05-22 22:16:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

wayhay! videogame developer gets txt mistakenly, goes epic.  http://imgur.com/gallery/cq1Ba

2013-05-22 22:12:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

sooo, research showing open plan offices makes people sicker, unhappier and less productive. http://bit.ly/11ZAa3s #yyyyop

note - link breaks in IE (well done MS), so google and find syndicated version :)

2013-05-22 21:08:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

finished my illustrator course! http://www.skillshare.com/Learn-the-Ins-and-Outs-of-Illustrator/589498286/projects/10244

2013-05-22 03:54:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

the universe...OF BEER.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672615/an-app-that-maps-the-entire-universe-of-beer#1

2013-05-21 22:37:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries have been edited.

PURE gold :)

 "Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

"“When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”"

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/lone-star-statements

2013-05-21 20:19:38 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

best. recipe. ever.

 read the comments!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1505633/

2013-05-21 01:56:50 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Seven new species of sea urchins (of a type called 'tam o'shanters') have been discovered in the NIWA Invertebrate Collection 

http://bit.ly/10gtEij

2013-05-20 21:54:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Stem-cells restores sight to blind man

fuck yeah science!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23568-stemcell-treatment-restores-sight-to-blind-man.html

2013-05-20 21:45:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

ooooh. maybe fifty shades of a gray is the modern equivalent! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger

2013-05-20 01:45:11 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

What is wrong with the science of communicating the science of science communication

H/T +Bora Zivkovic

http://isabel.penraeth.com/post/50726627016/what-is-wrong-with-the-science-of-communicating-the

2013-05-19 23:35:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://publicaddress.net/8593

NZ needs a constitution, badly. Here's a law which contravenes our Human Rights Act, but against which no one has any recourse...

2013-05-19 22:40:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Postgres is UTF-8/varchar out of the box and wants nothing more than to give your app gigantic, unconditional data hugs."

i love that entire thought - giant unconditional data hugs make me smile and think 'squee' :P

http://datachomp.com/archives/top-10-reasons-i-like-postgres-over-sql-server/

2013-05-19 22:27:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A newly-published study has shown that the presence of blue whales in the South Taranaki Bight is greater than expected, and that the whales may be foraging http://bit.ly/14lo6XA

2013-05-19 21:52:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you're interested in the TPP(A), you will be interested in this.

If you're not, you should be. This website will help to explain why.

https://internetnz.net.nz/news/media-releases/2013/NZ-born-Fair-Deal-Coalition-gets-global-makeover

2013-05-19 21:43:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

in a postgres/postgis workshop today.

let the whooshing-over-my-head begin!

#upskillingmeself

2013-05-19 20:51:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

oh, dear...

http://twist.redspider.co.nz/captured/Kpqjq.png

2013-05-17 02:43:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

hello, tasty motorbike photography pr0n. nice to meet you. (click through to read the mag!)

http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/50625015786

2013-05-17 02:19:55 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

did any of you hear about this?

yeah. it happened less than a week ago. 19 people are injured (none dead, thankfully). the shooter (at time of writing) is still loose.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/new-orleans-shooting-not-national-news

2013-05-17 02:16:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

you ain't never seen a Harley Davidson motorbike rally like this one...

http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/50622909746

2013-05-17 00:52:37 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

This was handled beautifully, by all involved :)

https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/13df5a239271?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km_postIds=13df5a239271

I especially love the lack of ranty-rad-fem-being-nasty - it meant everyone involved could have a chat, through The Medium Of Wit - without pushing anyone into a defensive, Bad Person corner.

2013-05-16 21:01:19 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Yay, NZ has made it onto @BuzzFeed! http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/hardest-parts-about-living-in-new-zealand #ahem

2013-05-16 02:29:52 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

@keith_ng's interactive dataviz of the '13 is bloody brilliant. go have a look! some, um, illuminating cuts/additions http://bit.ly/14qrujn

2013-05-16 01:32:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

MAANZplaining definition 2: complaining that pesky, uppity females want control over their eternal-being factories.

2013-05-16 00:48:39 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

the weirdest bit?

where she says she's a great mom to her kids, followed by 'and we will be parents to a human kid, one day to'.  that one day they will 'have a human kid to'.

ummmm

also, hilariballs.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-is-the-most-epic-brand-meltdown-on-facebook-ever

2013-05-16 00:25:01 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For anyone who thought there aren't incredibly unreasonably people MAANZplaining here in NZ.

This beautiful article in response.

http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/05/16/men-against-abortion-nz/

2013-05-16 00:16:55 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Meh, still easier than Arkham Horror.

2013-05-16 00:10:55 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

do i have the biggest hardon ever right now?

http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/50536488888

h/t +Dylan Paris 

2013-05-15 23:09:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

ever wondered why your <strike>work of art</strike> story ended up on the slush pile? look no further! http://bit.ly/11FIqpo #writing

i shall accept thanks in the form of drinks and donations of non-sequential bills (of the money sort, silly people, not the 'we're billing you for this' sort. hah. you thought you had me for a moment, didn't you...)

2013-05-15 23:00:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Our Critter of the Week is the very 'cosmopolitan' brittle star Ophiomusium lymani.

What does that mean? Find out at http://on.fb.me/11FH8ur

2013-05-15 22:37:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Throttle Roll 2013 - hardcore #custom #motorbike pr0n http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/50526959011 #sweatypalms

2013-05-15 22:20:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

we just #rickrolled Alpha Centauri A/B http://xkcd.com/1212/ #theyllbecomingforusnow

2013-05-15 22:02:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

dear friends. please know that you're awesome. no, don't shrug it off - be classy and accept the compliment. it's only #truth, after all

2013-05-15 21:47:28 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

nuhair (asymmetric as - shaved on one side, not on other)

2013-05-15 21:26:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-15 21:26:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

huh. google has been busy - new Maps, new G+... http://google-latlong.blogspot.ch/2013/05/meet-new-google-maps-map-for-every.html

2013-05-15 21:23:16 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

also, wow, hello drastically new google+ look

2013-05-15 21:23:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

i literally laughed out loud.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/7-most-unbelievable-autocorrect-wins,32454

2013-05-15 20:54:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Changing my gender to male on Google+ improved my What's Hot experience Google+ has updated how they distribute content to users through Explore

Earlier today, +Kimberly Chapman told me about a little experiment she'd done. She'd opened a tab on her browser and directed it to plus.google.com/explore, a stream that enables you to see the hottest content on Google+. In another tab, Chapman changed her gender on her Google+ profile from female to male, and then loaded the Explore page into another tab.

The difference was astonishing. "As a girl, I get stupid warm-fuzzy meaningless shit," Chapman writes on a post (http://goo.gl/ZDBxT). "As a guy, I get nerdy stuff. This is not okay. I get that [What's Hot] algorithms are based on what people click, like, share, comment on, etc. Fine. But I challenge anyone to give me one good reason why there should... more »

2013-05-15 20:48:07 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

this was fun to read

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-that-will-make-you-feel-really-old

2013-05-15 03:44:12 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

i'd vote for him. he's very, very smart, and (by all accounts) a humanity and decent sort, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/shortcuts/2013/may/14/eddie-izzard-mayor-of-london

2013-05-15 02:53:07 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I agree.

The near-constant technophobio/futurophobia displayed by engines like Hollywood are starting to piss me off. They teach the public to fear, not hope and work towards.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681961/can-science-fiction-writers-inspire-the-world-to-save-itself

2013-05-15 01:47:36 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

new motorbike blog post, ft burgers, seagulls, the fish song and, of course, #themonster. http://mymotocyclette.tumblr.com/post/50464077013

2013-05-15 00:04:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Tardis Console Interactive Sound Sculpture

This is wibbly wobbly awesome-sauce!

2013-05-15 00:04:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

first lunchtime ride in AGES shortly. can't wait.

#themonster 

2013-05-14 22:02:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I would think it a privilege to meet this man...

http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/bret-dunlap-discovered-running-and-it-changed-his-life?page=single

2013-05-14 03:06:37 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Chris Hadfield and co have landed safely! Welcome back to earth! (I don't know whether that is home or not anymore, heh)

2013-05-13 22:44:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Just signed up for this :) You can, too! http://skl.sh/12blx9D #skillshare #illustrator

2013-05-13 20:51:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

new meme! ryan gosling won't...eat his cereal. #vine #clips #hilarious http://bit.ly/10uqKWi