Victor Billot

Southern Hemisphere

Broke, Anxious or Seriously flush

The following article appeared in the Otago Daily Times, on Wednesday 3 February 2010, in response to an article by Dr Mathew Zacharias entitled Patients’ rights trampled in drive for equality and ongoing talk about user pays models at the Dunedin Public Hospital.

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Man makes religion; it does not make man

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BlueShift

Dunedin at 5.45am

Book club

What I have been reading in 2009 >>>

Science and Capitalism

Terence Kealey falls out of love with market myths at New Scientist and is descended upon by hordes of screaming libertarians (AKA self justifying plutocrats)

Drinking liberally

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An appearance this Tuesday 23 April 7pm at Velvet Underground, Dunedin for the Drinking Liberally series.

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Technology and socialism, continued

Following up on Kevin Kelly’s Wired piece on digital socialism, Creative Commons guru Lawrence Lessig worries that use of the “S” word will give the open source nerds a bad rap from the foaming, freakily hard right of American politics.

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From the Crypt: Age of Dog

1992, Crown Hotel, Dunedin.

Snow business

Never mind the butter, here’s the ex-Pistols

I am an agriculturalist, I am an anarchist . . . dairy me.