by Jon Bridges This week I take the random nature of a Surf Report seriously and jump around from Nintendo to lanterns to Craig McMillan to poetry. Is there a method to all this? No. That's the whole point of the internet. Do you know who Nintendo creative legend Miyamoto is? I didn't until I followed a link from Boing Boing to the GameJew site to watch this effecting little video (pictured) about one person's love for his idol...Have you heard of "windows" when talking about movie releases? I hadn't until I stumbled across this story at Onfilm about the controversy sparked when the announcement came that NZ film Out of the Blue is to show on TV3 before it goes to DVD. Putting the free-to-air TV window before the DVD window is detrimental according to VideoEzy (one word), part of the deal according to film funding partner TV3, but certainly unusual. While you are there, there's an interesting interview with actor Karl Urban about the making of the film.

Seems like Auckland's lantern festival is the place to go, not so much for looking at lanterns but to listen to what other people say to each other. Both Tze Ming Mok and the quite fantastic Robyn Gallagher note humourous things they overheard while looking at lanterns last weekend.

Again at my favourite place, the nexus of art and sport, I found a beautiful, beautiful website today. The official absolutely, not-a-pisstake blogsite of NZ batsman and part-time bowler Craig "It was me" McMillan. His milkshake disappointment is my favourite part. This blog is pointed out by Public Address's cricket blog, Aye Calypso, where the encyclopedically-informed writers dawdle to point out that although they are not actually at this month's ICC World Cup of Cricket, they will endeavour to make you feel like they are.

And finally a bit of a whinge. There's a great website that the Americans have called American Poems. It has 236 poets and almost 8,000 poems in all. It's a lovely resource that you can wander into for a bit of a daydream in verse. I was keen to point out the New Zealand version in my Surf Report this week until I realised that there isn't one. The best online NZ poetry resource I can find is Victoria University's Best New Zealand Poems that I pointed out last week, and it is only an annual selection that goes back to 2001. I'm sure there is a very good reason that this hasn't been done yet. Probably someone is quite busy, and the washing doesn't do itself, but I mean really! I suppose this is the sort of complaint that stems from living in a time when we are used to any and all information making itself magically available free at the end of our ADSL router. We have no time for rights issues and other niceties, we want it searchable and NOW. We are spoilt, given; now please someone make us a poetry archive ASAP.