Here is my response to Don's music video post.

The beef and lamb maidens have been joined by another girl. Over the last four years the Beef and Lamb board had an advertising campaign utilising the gold medal winning Evers-Swindel twins and Sarah Ulmer. Apparently their gratuitous meat consumption helped them to win Olympic gold medals. It was a simple premise but as the advertising campaign was getting stale they obviously wanted a new face. For this they required another young and female Olympic gold medallist.

I was listening to a compilation of old electro tracks the other day and thought to myself, wow, some of this sounds like that awesome track on the cool breakdance video I taped off the

I was a bit late on the uptake but the radio service on Lastfm is now free in the USA, UK and Germany but 3euro/month for everyone else.

Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes Guilt Upon Accusation and forces the termination of internet connections and websites without evidence, without a fair trial, and without punishment for any false accusations of copyright infringement.

The Bike Wise Battle is running this month in New Zealand. Basically its a competition to see which organization can get the highest percentage of its staff to ride at least 2km in the month. To compete all you have to do is ride 2km sometime in the month. As well as signing up for an organization you can also designate a department within your organization. During the month you login and record your km.

The Wellington City Council in their wisdom have decided not to endorse this years go by bike day. Luckily we can still go by bike anyway, people are meeting in Civic Square at 8am on 18 Feb 2009. BYO breakfast this year.

This talk is a good explanation of how the current economic crisis came about. In short, a big crash in the nineties was delayed by additional borrowing, now all that borrowing is catching up.

Its tomorrow! Great opportunity to get rid of some of that old junk without harming the environment quite as much as chucking it in the tip would.