Victor Billot

Southern Hemisphere

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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.

Music and Dancing

Finally got around to uploading some obscure mp3s from the dim past – including tracks from Das Phaedrus, Age of Dog, Swarm, Body Bomb, Alpha Plan and a few of my own, spanning the last 20 years (just about!)

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That’s very generous of you . . . sir

A small mention here at Tumeke for my comments today about our Prime Minister who craves to see the warm and friendly hand of charity extended to the dispossessed.

John Key is a confused man. He wants a British “honours” system, an American “generosity” system and presumably a Burmese employment system to pay for it all.

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(Barbed) Wire

Just listened to one of the tracks from the new Wire album “One of us” – available as a free download.

Still brilliant. Contributing to my theory that post punk music groups can (not always) survive middle age better than pre punk music groups.

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New Times

I’ve moved this blog off wordpress.com to my own domain. Using the opportunity to check out some new themes. However there are always a few glitches and currently I’m trying to figure out embedding YouTube videos.

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Alpha Plan video from the archives . . .