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After the American float passed in the street parade for the Wellington Sevens:¹

“I didn’t cheer for the Yanks,” man number one said.

“I have a shirt that says the US bombs the world. I should have worn that,” man number two said.

Yea, as if the rugby players care. And that shirt is uninformative and lame. Where’s the wit?

_{1. A rugby tournament between 16 countries}

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This is worth a look: Shorpy.

“Shorpy is a blog about old photos and what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living.”

The past looks so poor.

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A nameless woman bites her Burger King Whopper in the Auckland airport. As the meat glistens off her teeth, she says, “American people… they’re just so easily brainwashed, it’s just disgusting.”

Swallow your filthy burger, woman!

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Today’s I leave for Sydney to compete against Australia in FullCodePress. FCP is a competition to “build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours.”

My team is awesome, and we’re going to win. The competition starts on Saturday. Here are some details:

Can I see the event online?
The two teams will be building their websites online, and you can watch the progress on the two websites in real time. The web addresses will be announced at 9.30am on Saturday at http://www.fullcodepress.com.

The New Zealand team

• Ali Green
• Jeffrey Wegesin
• Mark Rickerby
• Peter Johnston
• Steve Dennis
• Thomas Scovell
• Zef Fugaz

Photo and video action:

• YouTube action
• FullCodePress Picasa
• FullCodePress Flickr
• FullCodePress Flickr Group

Blog action:

• FullCodePress
• CodeBlacks (our team)
• WIPA
• Max Design

Who is running the event:

• Webstock
• WIPA

24 hours without sleep! I’m going to feel like a student. Wish us luck…

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Abraham Lincoln, on President Polk and the war he waged against Mexico:

“Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory - that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood - that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy - he plunged into war.”

George Washington, on the war with England and his responsibilities as General:

“I shall constantly bear in mind that as the sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first to be laid aside when those liberties are firmly established.”

I wish more presidents were writers.

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