The Internet Archive has collected a compendium of live television feeds from prior, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Putting aside the disastrous foreign and domestic policy that these awful events unleashed within the USA and upon the World, it is numbing to watch the live coverage unfold as the realisation grows that the initial crash was the harbinger of a much bigger set of coordinated events.
I’ve just seen a great video of a bloke forced to kit-up like Bok and wear a sign saying Richie McCaw cheats at a All Blacks v RSA game. Hilarious (except for the drunke git who takes the matter way too seriously). It’s not entirely safe for work but is damned amusing.
I just got an email about the launch of Drinking Liberally New Zealand.
The idea behind Drinking Liberally is to provide a relaxed, non-partisan forum for people from through the left to get together, get to know each other, trade ideas, and come up with withs of working together. They have a speech from a guest speaker at the start - it’s the Greens’ Nandor Tanczos for the launch, and things pretty much go from there.
The first Drinking Liberally is next Wednesday starting at 6 at the Southern Cross in Wellington. Should be good. they have more info over at The Standard.
