A little test
After a remark by all-your-base the other day, I’m testing how good Akismet (the WordPress anti-spambot) is. I’ve removed the need for entering […]
Media
The Standard
Drinking Liberally Wgtn
Just received this from Drinking Liberally Wellington: We hope you’ve enjoyed our unannounced winter break. We’re back this Thursday, at 5:30 at the […]
Labour lolz
I reckon Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, has been a huge success. It’s great to see MPs unscripted and it’s good for […]
100,000th comment
Our first comment was on our second day, August 17th 2007 “Where will it lead? ” by trythisone on our third post… who […]
Definitely not the sewer
This post by Scott Yorke over at Imperator Fish amused me. It is such an apt description of the differences between the two […]
They put a bus lane through my heart
This goes out to all the dispossessed emos of Manners Mall, the forgotten victims of Wellington City Council’s new bus lane: [Hat tip: […]
Pay equity protest TODAY
It’s pissing down with rain here in Wellington but the pay equity protest is going ahead. Grab your workmates and head down to […]
Bluehost have been a pain, but it is all over now.
Ok. The new server is up and running after a few painful days with the system being suspended, and then after moving it […]
Libertarian laughs
[Hat tip: onegoodmove]
Roger Award nominations open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand, which is organised the Campaign […]
What, me worry?
Apparently, Minister for Unemployment Paula Bennett doesn’t like reading too much, She prefers to have things explained to her with whiteboards, charts, and […]
Server move
The hosting company has moved the site to a new server last night at about 10pm. That is nice, however they didn’t bother […]
Headline fail
This is a classic. Media are reporting that National MP Nick Smith has had an assault complaint lodged against him by a Nelson […]
Pigs, kiwis… and a king!
From SAFE: Join Mike King, one of New Zealand’s leading comedians and pig campaigners, launch an exciting new pig-friendly initiative to help end […]
Caption Competition
Server Glitch
I’m unsure exactly what the server glitch was earlier today. The hosting company had a problem with our database going ballistic, so they […]
The Daily Refrain takes on Larry Baldock
So. There’s this dude who writes a song a day (weekdays only) and puts it on Youtube. Calls it The Daily Refrain. He’s […]
A place in the sun
Another bad week is about to end for John Key with a mammoth defeat of his handpicked Mt Albert candidate. What’s that now, […]
Self-inflicted wounds
Whale Oil has a page of ‘trophies’. Little pictures of people he thinks he has dragged through the mud and embarrassed. Even made […]
Political Chicanery
The Irascible Curmudgeon writes some really good posts. So without apology we republish this little gem on spin and the art of re-writing […]
Joke candidate cracks a funny
From Lee’s presser yesterday: “I am the only candidate that Mt Albert voters can vote for that will be inside John Key’s Government.’ […]
3000th Post
Well it is that time again. We just rolled over the 3000th post on the site. Number 2000 was in November last year, […]
Housie
I was listening to Parliament on the wireless this afternoon. First. Question Time. Bennett was asked how many jobs the Jobs Summit has […]
Iz satisfard
hattip: Maia, Anthony Karinski
Happy Birthday lprent!
Happy 50th lprent! Now here’s someone Russel Norman could legitimately call grey 😉 But seriously, Lynn is a baby-boomer, one of those generation […]
I wish to complain…
It turns out that Phil Goff was aware of an allegation about Richard Worth weeks ago that may relate to the current investigation. […]
The best part of The Onion
Is the fake editorial cartoons. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between them and the Herald’s:
Is this Rodney?
From Darren Watson.. For those who don’t follow Star-trek, click the image.
Caption Competition
More Mt Albert silliness
Nothing tops a lamington on the head, but still, here’s Mt Albert candidate Jackson Wood pounding the streets of Wellington to drum up […]
The Standard now largest NZ political blog?
No, not because we’ve overtaken Kiwiblog in readership just yet (although ours is growing at a healthy 10% a month) but because I […]
Caption competition
Key: Govt “on track”
Prime Minister John Key today announced that he was ecstatic with his government’s performance and was “on track” to making his the most […]
Join the Super City hikoi
IHI Aotearoa has put out the call for Aucklanders to join their hikoi against the Government’s undemocratic Super City proposal on Monday, May […]
Priceless
Spotted on Labour’s “Grassroots” supporters’ site.
Outage
There was an annoying outage in the site earlier for a few hours. The hosting site was investigating a performance issue on the […]