YouTube campaigning
Mark Torley filed this piece on “YouTube campaigning” for One News last night.
Media
FreeRice
FreeRice is a vocabulary game. For each word you correctly identify, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help […]
Political pants
The website Twisted Twee is selling these babies nappies. The site warns “price fluctuates weekly depending on my swinging political opinion. This week […]
Protests
The Herald reports that “As many as a thousand people joined a march in Whakatane to complain about children being caught up in […]
Creative Commons: Wanna work together?
Unions to encourage election participation
The Herald reports that new CTU president Helen Kelly envisages a more centralised union election campaign, “getting members to talk about politics and […]
Defining political conservatism
A month or so ago we posted on a study that appeared to show that the brains of conservative and liberals differed. A […]
Trotter in the Independent
Apologies to The Independent Financial Review and to Chris Trotter for this rather large cut and paste from the second half of his […]
Can you save the rabbit?
http://www.10mg.nl
Arrests
Indymedia reports that “In a wave of massive state repression, 300+ Police, in many cases armed, raided houses around the country today making […]
Banks? Thanks…
So you just had to do it didn’t you Auckland… And a shout out to publicaddress for the clip (there are more here)
Fighting virtual climate change
The New York Times reports that game maker Electronic Arts and energy company BP have collaborated in designing the latest version of E.A.’s […]
Left brain or right brain?
Apparently most people see the dancer spinning counter-clockwise. If you see her going clockwise you’re possibly right-brain dominant.
Free culture. Amen.
Wouldn’t be a weekend on The Standard without a post on free culture now would it? I’m going to go out on a […]
A nice little earner
I know the Nats are leaking all over the place, but this is getting ridiculous. From our homies over at Kiwiblogblog, here’s a […]
Ig Nobel awards
This years’ Ig Nobel awards have just been presented. The awards recognise achievements that “first make people laugh, then make them think”. Pictured […]
Found
It’s Friday. Maybe you need a break. Don’t say we never think of you. Here’s a site I used to love but had […]
DPF: Death Penalty Facts
There I was just reading this when I notice DPF doing a post on the same thing. Stuff reports that under Clark’s leadership […]
Hollow Men new season at Circa 2
Good news for Wellingtonians. It looks like Dean Parker’s play The Hollow Men (based on Nicky Hager’s Don-downing book) has got a new […]
A disturbance in the force?
I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated […]
Tough but fair
Listening to Nine to Noon on RNZ yesterday I thought there was some useful insight into the bigger picture behind Key’s “the war […]
Stuff-up
Anyone else notice this morning that Stuff.co.nz seemed to think it was February 26? Apparently Paul Holmes is going to be on Dancing […]
Che
Today is the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. The BBC has a piece up titled “Che: the icon and the ad” tracing […]
Know your asshole footprint
From Vanity Fair: Regrettably, some [people] are simply not aware of how large an asshole footprint they leave on the planet. Here, Vanity […]
Are you biased?
And would you even know if you were? A team of researchers have set up an online test that can help to uncover […]
Colourful advertising
The Sony Bravia ads are among my all-time favourites. First we had the bouncy balls, then the paint explosions, now it’s clay bunnies.
Herald Editorial on National
A scathing attack on the National Party policy development and release process from the Herald Editor: An Opposition seeking to style itself a […]
Ralston on National
A good read from Bill Ralston in the Herald today. He observes what seems to have been a turn in media and public […]
Ethical coffee good for business
The Guardian reports that “Growing consumer demand for ethically sourced coffee has fuelled a huge year-on-year rise in sales”. Global sales of coffee, […]
O’Sullivan defends Key’s comments
Fran O’Sullivan of the Herald, has lept to John Key’s defence. She points to a couple of times back in 2003 when Clark […]
Many a true word is spoken in jest
The NBR this week – hardly a publication known for its politically balanced coverage – includes digs at both National Party blogger David […]
Comment here. Get famous.
The NY Times reports: DASHIV is in town and the celebration has not ceased. Strange women are opening their apartments to him. Three […]
So trickledown does work!
Apparently when the senior members of the National Party are having a tough time, they take it out on their workers. How else […]
You can fool some of the people…
…all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of […]
She just gets worse.
If you thought Herald columnist and shill for big business Fran O’Sullivan couldn’t get any worse, think again. Here she is on Sunday, […]
Conservative c0ck-up
The Register reports that (link maybe NSFW) “a Tory blog has been penetrated by an act of classic web waggery after it leeched […]