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• Events, Games, Happenings, Internet, Music, Science!, Wellington

  Winging Your Way Through The Weekend, 27-28/4

  26.04.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  Kia ora!

  Welcome to the weekend. What to do, what to do?

  If you find yourself wandering about Newtown this weekend why not check out Wellington Festival Of Circus? If having clowning & cabaret up in your face isn’t doing it for you maybe Darren Shan could keep you in theme but through the safety of bound text?

  If you’re more of a performer then a watcher have you considered entering this years Smokefree Rockquest? It’s the 25th year this right-of-passage is running and man has it fostered all sorts of household name kiwi musicians. Need some inspiration? Here’s a surface scratching list of previous contestants including Kimbra and last years winners New Vinyl. Take yourself on a journey through our CD collection.

  The curtain falls on Game Masters at Te Papa this weekend. The amazing exhibition that caters to almost every level of gamer was borrowed from the incredible ACMI in Melbourne’s Federation Square and includes Pacman, Space Invaders and Sonic!

  New music on the playlist shelf this week includes ex-Wellingtonian Willy Moon and half New Zealand alt-indie darlings The Veils with their fourth album.

  Ever wondered what happens when you wring a soggy towel out in space? Here’s the answer:

  - Physics, fascinating!

  That’s what’s a going down.

  Fowler out.

  
  

• Internet, Library, Library Serf

  Lawspot

  20.11.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Got a puzzling law question? Lawspot is a Wellington-based website that aims to provide answers to people’s legal queries. So you can find out about the legalities of downloading MP3s from YouTube for example.

  While Lawspot isn’t a substitute for personalised, one-to-one legal advice, it’s a great way of finding out general information. If you’re interested in the law in general you can also browse through answers to see what legal concerns people have.

  We – Wellington City Libraries – also have a range of useful online law databases, courtesy of mygateway.info.

  If you’re interested in studying law (and staying in Wellington while doing so), the Victoria University Law Faculty has all the info, obvs. - including a video that features impressive Wellington buildings and scenery (and two tiny clips of people in lectures).

  
  

• Fantasy, Grimm, Internet

  Ferragost by Melina Marchetta

  06.08.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ferragost is a short story set in the world of the Lumatere Chronicles, featuring Lady Celie. It’s being published in the Review of Australian Fiction, an online journal, which is available for purchase (about $3.00 Australian) from tomorrow (7 August).

  Melina Marchetta promises that the story doesn’t have any spoilers for Quintana of Charyn, which is released in a few weeks’ time, but that it does provide useful background. More explanation and a short extract here.

  
  

• Internet, Interview, Library Serf, News, Sport

  Some Links

  26.07.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you’re a Jodi Picoult fan, and you’re interested in Between the Lines, the new novel she has written with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, then here’s a Radio New Zealand interview they did together today, talking about the inspiration for stories, who to cast in the movie, and other such writerly things.

  Here’s a lovely salute to Margaret Mahy by American author Kristin Cashore, focussing on the many reasons why MM’s young adult writing is so wonderful, and so deservedly award-winning.

  If you are interested in the Olympic Games and statistics, the New York Times has a map of medals won by country from 1896 to 2008. It is pretty cool (if you’re not into stats) and very interesting (if you are). In 1984 New Zealand won enough medals for “New Zealand” to appear on its circle.

  NPR.com (National Public Radio, I believe) in the US is compiling a list of the best young adult novels ever. You can vote for your favourites (a bit of good taste from New Zealand won’t hurt).

  
  

• Internet, Library Serf

  Random Link

  04.07.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  Epic Reads is a new book site focusing on young adult literature. Established by HarperCollins, epicreads is interactive (polls, quizzes, reviews, contests, forums etc) and you can sign in via Facebook to share results and content. Additionally, the site has two separate channels for paranormal fiction (called Pitch Dark) and romance (Story Crush).

  For links to other sites of interest we have a list!

  
  

• Internet, Library Serf, Movies

  Prepare yourself for the games

  07.03.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  The 74th Hunger Games are nearly upon us (attendance is mandatory). In the intervening two (!) weeks, you can familiarise yourself with the politics of Panem: visit the official government webpage. It has really cool landscape navigation (fancy scrolling right instead of down!). You can become a citizen (District 4’s population could do with a boost). Or find out if the trackerjackers are particularly bad this season, or keep up to date with Capitol news. Plus more.

  (You can also pre-purchase tickets to the film – the first showing as at one minute past midnight on Thursday the 22nd of March.)

  
  

• Library Serf, News, Not Library Related

  What Muppet Are You?

  28.02.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  In honour of the Academy Awards yesterday, here are some rather searing, searching personality tests for you to try out.

  Which Muppet Are You?

  The Muppets Personality Test: Which Muppet Are You?

  What Muppet Are You Most Like?

  Which Muppet Are You? Facebook App

  Yours,

  Fozzie

  
  

• Flash games, Internet, Isn't that cool?

  Like this? Like that!

  09.02.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you’re looking for readalike suggestions (or a way to waste much time), then try this. It’s a very cool home-made (by someone very clever) visual book-recommender thingy, based on Amazon’s large database of items. It uses the information Amazon gathers about customer purchases to create links (myriads of links!) between your favourite titles, and other similar ones.

  For example, here’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan using the gizmo. If you are using a mouse with a scroll button, scrolling will zoom in and out, revealing a really large web of possibilities. Another example: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green.

  Very cool.

  (found via mediabistro.com)

  
  

• Facebook, Internet, Isn't that cool?, Jack

  A look back at the year through Facebook tinted glasses…

  09.12.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  … or something. The Facebook Data Team recently compiled a bunch of data from Facebook (what else would they do?) that eventually spat out Memology 2011. Points of interest include the top ten ranking topics of the year, the top ten status trends of the year and the fact that somehow Rebecca Black managed to stay off all of the lists. Pop over and have a look to see if anything you “like” or talked about charted this year. While you’re on Facebook, make sure you “like” us on our official Teen Blog page and maybe we’ll be a noteworthy meme in 2012.

  
  

• Internet, Simon

  What do you love?

  07.12.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you tell What do you love? what you love, it will come back with a whole page of different links, tools, pictures, and whatever else Google can find. Cats? Joe Jonas? Sleeping? Those frozen croissants you can get that you bake for 15 minutes and then eat? Just type it in and brrrrrrrowwwwse

  
  

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This is a blog for teens about reading, Wellington, and whatever else. Feel free to comment! We like it! We can be contacted at teenblog@wcl.govt.nz

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