Happy 1000th.
Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next […]
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Feeling mean? Which Disney villain are you?
Get “scientific” with this poll and determine “which Disney villain are you”?
Batman Politics
Who would have thought? Murray McCully as The Penguin. Hat tip: onegoodmove
Upgrades: Hardware
Upgrade is complete There will be a hardware upgrade on monday during working hours (still trying to get the time). The site will […]
Daily Show on the Pollies
The Daily Show’s John Oliver goes behind the scenes at the Pollies, the US awards ceremony for political ad consultants. Hilarious. Watch the […]
Updates – gravatar/identicon
The latest tweak on the system are Gravatar/Identicons. Read about it on this site in the Gravatar menu item. Apart from the graphics, […]
will.i.am vs john.he.is
So you’ve seen Obama’s Yes We Can music video; here’s the McCain response:
Who do you want answering the phone?
Just received this parody of Hillary Clinton’s 3am ad, but with a New Zealand twist. Very funny.
Tweaking the updates
Yesterday’s site issues were due to a combination of inadequate Expires (causing a lot more files being transmitted) and the web-crawlers grabbing the […]
National on personal attacks
Greenwoman just flicked us this:
Upgrades
I upgraded the site tonight. There have been a lot of security fixes since we pushed a test site together in August 2007. […]
Bad Comics
So, one internet comic writer challenged another internet comic writer to draw 200 bad comics and this was the result. Awesome on so […]
Flat-Earthers heart climate change deniers
The Climate Science Coalition is the last of a dying breed; a rabid, climate change denying lobby group. Of late, they have been performing a desperate, last-ditch attempt […]
Extra weight
A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them […]
Blogger sweatshop
(Via BoingBoing.net)
John Key – The Gambler
A reader’s just sent us the lyrics to the song sung at Labour Party social and again at the conference as reported in […]
Oops.
There was a reboot on the server last night for some reason about 20 hours ago, and the database process failed to start. […]
Too stupid for words
I’m not usually big on the Bush-bashing, but this is classic: Say what you like about Reagan, at least the dude could read […]
Sir Ed and Helen Clark – admired Kiwis
From the Sunday Star Times: A new poll suggests that National Leader John Key may be up against a bigger obstacle than he thought in […]
John Key’s DVD: Take 2
Our sources tell us National is set to follow-up to last year’s DVD ‘John Key: Vacuous for New Zealand’ with its sequel ‘John […]
Didn’t take long
A reader just sent us this – REM meets John Key. (Hat-tip: PJ)
Lockwood: unsurprisingly relaxed about global warming
“Frankly, it’s a market”
That’s what Key said when asked about his plan to increase GP fees. A reader reckons Key’s planning to apply the same market […]
When good ads go bad
From Stuff: Details of a massive home loan scam targeting buyers in South Auckland have emerged involving former Westpac mortgate manager Amar Singh. […]
Clarke and Dawe on the sub-prime crisis
Steve posted a stick-figure explanation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis earlier in the week. Here are ABC commedians Clarke and Dawe giving their […]
‘Try the dead rat, it’s delicious’
Hat tip: Chris S in the comments.
John Ansell’s reverse Midas touch
Oh dear. It started with Roger Douglas and now political ad-man John Ansell has got on board the ACT train to electoral oblivion […]
Sabotaged truck under labour
Earlier this week a reader drew our attention to Michael Hansen, a candidate in the recent local elections who drew 423 votes in […]
Dream of sliding to work?
Google have just opened a new European engineering headquarters in Switzerland, according to a report from the BBC: “Dotcom companies were defined by […]
Yes, Pecan!
Ben and Jerry’s icecream endorsed Obama when Edwards pulled out. To celebrate Obama’s win in Vermont, Slate recently ran a competition to name […]
Some free publicity for the NBR
Speaking of humour, that joke of a newspaper the NBR has had a crack at us again. According to them The Standard is […]
Herald Editorial – ‘Why assets sales were worthwhile’
Tomorrow – ‘Slavery: it wasn’t so bad when you think about it’
Pythonesque
According to the Herald some people marched down Queen Street against the Electoral Finance Act on Saturday. Apparently they were protesting the removal […]
Someone really needs to do this with Winston’s speech
Well, I think it’s funny.
Moore than you can chew
Madness is a key ingredient in politics. Always has been. J’accuse. Far queues. I think, therefore I am. Martin Luther King went to […]
Romney humiliates self, white people everywhere
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s not the first aspiring leader to try and present himself as ‘down with the bros’, but this is […]