How often does New Zealand make Al Jazeera and Wonkette? I’m thinking, too often:

What passes for culture round here. If there had been rugby on, I bet they would have been watching.

I mean, yes, Christmas is overcommercialised, no question. I guess I just don’t see how drunken rampages are a solution. To anything. (Well, apart from boredom.) It is interesting to consider though: all cultures eventually come to an end, replaced with another. Imagine one day in the future, children reading in Wikipedia: “December the 25th, 2015, commonly known as ‘Red Friday,’ saw the Beehive overrun by an army of Santas. They were unstoppable due to their heavy padding and seemingly unlimited supply of beer bottles. It marked the beginning of the brief and drunken Christmas Revolutionary Government.” Of course, it would be edited (and edited back) daily to say ‘enthusiastic’ in place of ‘drunken.’ Savvy students would check late at night or early in the morning, when the Christmas Revolutionaries were too drunk or too hungover to operate machinery.

Yeah, did you hear about that? Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. (Surprisingly enough, that’s from Wired News, not The Onion.) Now, I could understand where he was coming from. There doesn’t seem to be a Wikipedia entry about me yet, but it would certainly pain me if I was not rightfully recognised as a the sole founder of Rambleschmack. Who, them? My friend, history is determined by the persistent.

If, however, I was the founder of Wikipedia, I just might think twice before completely undermining the credibility of my own creation. It’s on thin ice as it is. People might start making fun of me.

I am, as you would expect, a huge fan of Wikipedia. I’m a collectivist, an idealist, and I feel that knowledge and education are hugely undervalued in our society (nearly as much as imagination). Its very existence is music to my socialist soul. So it was nice to read an insightful defence of Wikipedia on The Long Tail. As far as I’m concerned, there is still some great stuff in there.

Anyway, New Zealand gets mentioned in good ways too. Apparently we made some kind of video testimonial, and if the dumbarses didn’t think of streaming media as a good idea, I would have watched it.

And for reading this far, here is your reward. Daring Fireball reports: Fucking hilarious, and a good Jobs impression.