It’s raining men
A reader just sent us this one minute montage of photos from John Key’s jobs summit. Enjoy.
all_your_base
I wish my house was clean coal clean
Shepard Fairey
Good Copy Bad Copy (repost)
I posted on this in the early days of The Standard but now might be a good time to check it out if […]
Once bitten
After his gaffe last time Key’s made a point of openly announcing his next meeting with the Tories’ deputy chairman, strategist and largest […]
Actions speak louder than words
Remember this infamous PowerPoint presentation from National’s 2005 campaign? Remember the Nats’ vote-winning strategy of targeting female voters as outlined in The Hollow […]
Obama’s elf
I’ve tried all day not to post this, now I’m giving in to get a good night’s sleep.
Fueling the PR machine ain’t cheap
Just like petrol prices, the cost of fueling National’s PR machine is on the rise. Tracy Watkins reports that “National has employed 18 […]
Ralston on Ryall
Ralston’s latest column – Ryall’s disabled thinking – covers Tony Ryall’s decision to ignore a select committee recommendation that National set up a Disabilities Commission, […]
Miro 2.0
Opensource. Free. Cool.
Trying to live on 500K/yr in NYC
President Obama wants to set US$500,000 as the top pay for banking executives whose firms accept government bailout money. From Boing-Boing: The lead story in […]
Half truths
Across the Tasman Kevin Rudd has announced a huge recovery package. Here at home, National is merely tinkering around the edges. Key’s standard […]
Always look on the bright side
Watch Obama’s inauguration live
The embedded stream below is meant to work even outside the US. Fingers crossed. If you find/know of another good live source drop […]
I hope so too
Here’s a cool interactive feature from the NYT – “I hope so too”: The New York Times asked more than 200 people in […]
National’s first hundred days of (in)action
Truly sensible sentencing
“I’m not one for ideological stances; I support what works”, said John Key in a speech to the Salvation Army in early 2007. Well […]
Internet campaigning
There have been two interesting pieces from the Guardian recently on the way UK Labour are beginning to embrace the opportunities of the […]
crashtheinauguration.com
Via SwissMiss: CrashTheInauguration.com, an online Inauguration guide created by AirBedAndBreakfast.com, is connecting last minute travelers with accommodations in Washington DC. Individuals or groups can […]
War crime?
Idiot/Savant seems to think so. DPF doesn’t. Robert Fisk does: What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too […]
Streetview sleuthing
Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google’s watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl […]
Labour’s maiden speeches
Rather than decorating their tree, some committed Labour Party staffer seems still to be hard at work posting maiden speeches to YouTube. The […]
Obama in 1980
From Time: In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named […]
Estonians to vote by mobile phone
Last Thursday, while our new government was making it easier for businesses to fire employees, politicans in Estonia were making it easier for […]
From clean and green to grey and grubby
Tourism New Zealand has recently launched its dedicated YouTube channel – Have Your Say – where tourists can post video messages about their experiences while […]
National’s abuse of Parliamentary process
Audrey Young writes on her blog that National would do well to heed the opinion of the Human Rights Commission who have today […]
Courting the ethnic vote
I’ve just watched the first part of the Address in Reply debate which included maiden speeches by two new National Party MPs – […]
Kia kaha
The Greens have joined in opposing National’s “Fire at Will” Bill which they say puts “jobs and democracy at stake”. They’re calling on […]
Dear John
In case, like me, you tend to mainly read the news online, here’s what was stuck to the Dominion Post this morning:
Occupy, resist, produce
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis describe in the New Statesman how: [a]lmost entirely under the media radar, workers in Argentina have been responding […]
Farrar back on the PS payroll?
A mate just pointed out that the metadata of David Farrar’s election analysis document suggests it was authored on a Parliamentary Service computer. […]
The moral high ground
Murray McCully has just used his recently acquired ministerial discretion to allow Fiji’s under-20 soccer team to enter New Zealand in transit on […]
Merriam Webster word of the year: Bailout
It often provides an interesting take on what’s on people’s minds. The top ten was filled out by: Vet Socialism Maverick Bipartisan Trepidation […]
It’s 3am again
Armstrong’s a little more charitable in relation to National’s dithering on the evacuation of Kiwis from Bangkok than I would have been. Yes, […]
Obama launches weekly YouTube address
Post traumatic Obama disorder
While there have been reports here of distraught voters calling the police and helplines for assistance in dealing with the trauma of a […]