The Owls Are Not What They Seem

You know that we’re big fans of Madame Fancy Pants. You know what we’re not fans of? Thieves! Dear MFP love­lies, Sorry to say that our big com­pet­i­tion will be can­celed as someone has stolen your prize. 🙁 If you hap­pen to know of someone acquir­ing a Deadly Ponies Mr Night Owl bag.…? If you […]

best cities… wtf?

Best Cities on FacebookUsu­ally web­site related piss­ing con­tests (Hot Or Not; Rate My, [er…] Kit­teh etc etc ad infin­itum) are inher­ently dull.

But maybe not so dull if you are former Wel­ling­to­ni­an, now München­er mad-geni­us developer Ben Nolan.

His Best Cit­ies Face­book applic­a­tion did, for a tiny golden moment, have Wel­ling­ton in the top spot. Which means of course that this piss­ing con­test is now of interest to us, too!

Unfor­tu­nately, Face­book being the kind of ran­dom, vir­al place that it is, the app has been seized upon by at least two dis­tinct region­al groups each com­pet­ing with­in each oth­er paro­chi­ally for the title of best city.

The upshot of all this is that towns like Slavon­ski Brod, a no doubt quite lovely town with a rather pulch­ritudin­ous pop­u­la­tion but not much lar­ger than Inver­car­gill, is the world’s fifth best city, with Wel­ling­ton releg­ated to 15th.

This is clearly not good enough. Get to it. peeps!