I just finished watching the best action movie I have ever seen. Oh wow. Everybody on the Interwebs was praying that Michael Bay wouldn’t screw this up. Well – he didn’t screw it up. I had such a great time watching Transformers. It was romantic, terrifically funny, had fun, believable acting and was jaw-droppingly gorgeous [...]

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Review of the 2007 Telecom Prospect Exhibition City Gallery Wellington 11th Feb -29th April When most people think of contemporary art they think of a crazy work that’s only special because the artist thought to do it first, (like creating a mountain of popcorn) or it’s something that most people believe a monkey with a [...]

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The middle squid is sending two messages simultaneously through it’s skin patterns – a challenge to the male on the left, while courting the female on the right. In the same way, there are multiple messages in this blog post. Hopefully that doesn’t make it too meandering or geeky Digital Maoism I was reading Jaron [...]

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In Part 1, I examined strange markings on the surface of Mars. In this post, we’ll focus on things a little closer to home. Crop Circles first started appearing in British fields in the late 1970s, and were instantly seized upon by UFOlogists, who soon labelled themselves ‘cerealologists’. They claim the circles are formed by [...]

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Currently there is a fantastic amount of information coming back from Mars. There are two rovers and several high-resolution satellite cameras scanning the planet, and the first thing to be properly uncovered was the infamous Face on Mars: The formation is actually very pretty, in the latest high-resolution pictures. Its region, ‘Cydonia’ (a bad science [...]

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