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Like Sands Through the Hourglass
Giles Reid // 12 Oct 2009
2009 has been a weird year. Of course, every year is a weird year: it’s hard to keep 6.8 billion people busy doing boring things for 8760 hours. So this week I will be reminiscing about the year that’s been in typical last-issue cop-out style.
Taxes are boring, so let us begin with deaths. Every year [...]
Keynes and the Abstract Truth
Giles Reid // 05 Oct 2009
“If there’s anyone here in marketing or advertising, kill yourself.” While I can’t condone all of the implications of these immortal words from the very mortal Bill Hicks, the sentiment behind them is a noble one indeed. Marketing infects everything, with its main purpose being to make us spend money on things we wouldn’t have [...]
... More!Better Lucky Than Good
Giles Reid // 28 Sep 2009
(Note: This article is my contribution to Michael Laws Awareness Week, which I have invented as a way to foster unity among non-Michael Laws New Zealanders by observing the kookiness of our most mascaraed male mayor. To fit the theme it may contain rambling and incoherence.)
In my last column I alluded to the oddball Ayn [...]