Daily Show on financial news
Jon Stewart had a good piece last night on why we shouldn’t just trust the economic and financial “experts”. People deserve better from […]
Media
The Standard
With all the charm of Slough
Paul from The Fundy Post has done a rather humorous review of John Key’s holiday home in Success Court, Omaha Beach, as featured […]
Happy New Year
Cyber-Santa came a little late to The Standard this year but we’re certainly not complaining – evidently we’ve got a New Year’s present […]
Christmas wishes
Well I didn’t get my pony but I hope everyone’s Christmas was as enjoyable as mine. I’m just finishing some peanut butter on […]
A photo finish
I have glimpsed the future. I know how Election 08 will play out. It will be a thriller, going down to the wire. […]
Don’t panic
A few readers have written in complaining they’re getting a strange message in their browser when they visit the site. Turns out that […]
Memo to all National Party staffers:
Listen up guys and campers, there are some disturbing bits of info coming back from our ‘plants’ in the media world, including David […]
Party like it’s 1999
If we needed any more reason not to let National take us back to the 90s, I think this might be it. Via […]
Looking for: whatever he can get
In perhaps his strongest signal yet to potential coalition partners, John Key has set his Facebook ‘Looking for’ status to “Whatever I can […]
Headline of the Day
Paris Hilton doesn’t help drunk elephants I haven’t read the article yet, and I don’t think I will. With a headline like that […]
Latest Cosmopolitician on shelves now
Thanks to the reader who sent us the latest edition of Cosmopolitican, a nifty little publication that did the rounds just before the […]
Time for an upgrade
So the Herald links to us from the front page of their website this afternoon, and the resulting traffic knocks out our server. […]
NZ Herald to investigate Nats’ funding
Matt Robson’s newsletter has a real scoop on the Herald’s next propaganda campaign: NZ Herald investigation into large, secret party funding I have […]
Chaos at National
It seems the suggestion of “Deutschland uber alles” as a campaign song has got National’s General Manager Chris Simpson the boot. I also […]
Outage
Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you […]
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 […]
Can you save the rabbit?
http://www.10mg.nl
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)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A message for DPF
I just rediscovered Toothpaste for Dinner. Having narrowly recovered from a somewhat grueling experience reading this post over at Kiwiblog I thought I […]
Undercover photo of Key at National HQ
Kiwiblogblog has a great undercover photo (you can tell ’cause it’s grainy) of John Key at National Party HQ. I won’t ruin the […]
Run your own McDonald’s
If you’ve got work to do, don’t read this post. Play This Thing has a review of The McDonald’s video game. It’s flash-based […]
George Bush: a “B” in ECON101
QUESTION: Do you think there’s a risk of a recession? How do you rate that? BUSH: You know, you need to talk to […]
Asset sales
From the Herald:
David Brent on discrimination
Helen Simpson was asked by Christchurch Casino staff to cover her cleavage and feels that she has been discriminated against on account of […]
a_y_b: MIA
Apologies for my silence, I’ve been having a Microsoft Word nightmare. When mail merge would work, the printer wouldn’t; when the printer would […]
Answer this question and get FREE movie tickets
The Labour Government is stuffing up. They can’t find the right words to describe John Key and the National Party. Because of that […]
Lockwood Smith, man of the people
Captions welcome. Via nznationalparty on flickr
Map the candidates
Someone just sent me this. Pretty cool site which uses Google Maps to track the US presidential candidates. Map the Candidates is a […]
Kiwiblog’s tomato disaster
Go check it out. You know you want to. Via swissmiss
Your mum was right – sharing’s good
That’s why we’ve just installed “Share This” – a blog plugin that should make it easier for you to share our tasty content […]
Double triplespeak
Hi. Mike Moore here. Today I’m in Uzbekistan adding value to their goat herd. I woke early and checked the nasty emails from […]
Key on economic management
Presenter: “Where. do you see it [the NZ dollar]?” John Key: “Hard to pick actually at these levels. um, yeah there’s just so […]