Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
happy kiwis
Saw this on one of those little ‘human interest’ bits that they do to pick you back up after the real News and the song’s been stuck in my head all day. It’s some happy kiwis singing for their supper at McDonalds. I know it’s kind of become a thing to video yourself rapping your […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
bananas
In a world full of apples and oranges, creative people are bananas. The creative mind is a funny thing, it’s kind of like a hyperactive 4 year old, it has a short attention span, it likes to wander off when mum (mom) and dad aren’t looking, it’s prone to the occasional toy-throwing tantrum and it’s […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
wool be expecting ewe
Create a New Zealand Consulate experience in your very own home or office! Decorate the room with New Zealand tourism posters as seen in Murray’s office in Flight of the Conchords. You can download high resolution images from this guy. Here’s a couple of my favorites…
Here’s a link to the Tourism New Zealand website, because […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
alternative font design
Someone smart person who was involved with the launch of Toyota’s new little car, the iQ, thought designing a font for the campaign was a good idea. But an even better idea was do it with the car.
Follow to story.
blog crasher Mark
WHAKANUIA TE REO MĀORI
Celebrating Māori language Week brought to you by the color […]
No Comments » - Posted in entercation, New Zealand by timezoneone
Monday, July 27th, 2009
invisibility cloaks
I’ve been working on projects for the U.S. Army race teams recently and while doing my homework, I stumbled across some impressive images that show just how well this pattern does its job of making the U.S. Army soldiers almost invisible…
There are 4 soldiers in the next image…
And the image below has 4 soldiers and […]
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
New Zealand has 3 and half official languages, Māori, New Zealand sign language, English and our very own unique dialect of English known as New Zild.
This week we celebrate the the Māori language with Māori Language Week – Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. Māori Language Week is about people who don’t usually speak Te […]
No Comments » - Posted in entercation, New Zealand by timezoneone
Friday, July 24th, 2009
ceo talks up a feel good revolution
This from the CEO today on the Crocs Facebook page:
Over the past week, we’ve seen a powerful demonstration of the loyalty and passion Crocs and our products inspire among hundreds of millions of fans around the world.
The latest evidence is this article in Newsweek¹s July 27th issue. Columnist Steve Tuttle, who last summer wrote a […]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
global challenge update
So it is the first full day of wearing my pedometer. GCC reckons you need to take 10,000 steps a day to reap the physical and psychological benefits of walking. Apparently this equates to around 5 miles. So far I have taken 7,633 steps and have yet to walk back to the train station - […]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
calling all couch potatoes
Do you remember when you were chokka full of energy and played a different sport each day? I wistfully remember those days. Today I can hardly drink a glass of water without getting puffed. After a hard day Zoning all I want to do when I get home is veg out. This is not doing […]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
first time daddy
I am a first-time father. I’m a daddy, the father of the family, the pater familias -that’s right; I said it in Latin. Now, before some of you Zoners begin to roll your eyes, keep reading - this is specifically for Richo - soon to join the ranks of first time fathers.
Being a father is […]
