The Panel with Bob McCoskrie and Sam Bloore
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DetailsDTW: Flight of the Concords tickets early with VISA
So I’m sure you’ve heard that FOTC’s are coming back to NZ to perform for the first time in 3 years, but what is a little more unknown is that you can get tickets early via a VISA pre-sale website. You need to obvioulsy a VISA card holder, but if you are go go here…
DetailsAnother Romney flip-flop over gas prices
Mitt Romney, the king of ‘flip floppers’, has done it again and this time it’s around gas prices. Yesterday he spoke out about why prices were so high. “When he campaigned he said he wanted to raise the price of gasoline,” Mr. Romney said of Mr. Obama at a pancake breakfast here Sunday. “He said…
DetailsThe Panel with Alex Penk and Steve Tollestrup
Today we talked about Closing Prisons for PPPs, MMP and where we should go with the review, Should the government ban smoking with an interesting point from Steve where Pat Robertson has stated we should make cannabis legal and become de-baptised [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/40199827″ iframe=”true” /]
DetailsDTW: Discovery Channel's Penguin Cam
If you’re looking for a way to make your office space more relaxing today then check out ‘Penguin Cam’ at Discovery Honestly, I have these guys on a computer screen maximised to full screen and it was relaxing to see and hear them do their stuff. The ‘Topside’ view is probably a little noisy for…
DetailsMega blunder…or justice for Kim Dotcom?
From day one of this controversy around Kim Dotcom I stated publicly that his assets shouldn’t be frozen and his site should not have been taken down. You can hear my initial thoughts here in an interview I did with bFM Now that wasn’t a statement of his innocence, I have no idea about if he is, or isn’t…
DetailsJason Russell, co founder of Invisible Children, naked and swearing on the street
Jason Russell was arrested in the weekend for public masterbation and public drunkenness…here’s a clip (never thought I’d say that on my blog) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32PBZ870ymg&w=560&h=315] Since then Invisible Children has released a statment “He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better. The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll…
DetailsACC, Privacy, Blackmail, Michelle Boag and Judith Collins
You have heard by now the breach of up to 9,000 of ACC’s clients privacy in the last 10 days or so, clients that have sensitive claims, and clients whose details in part were emailed to Bronwyn Pullar by accident. The details were among more than 9000 ACC claims – some featuring well-known people –…
DetailsSexy Britney Spears: Acceptable. Dead SVU victim: Acceptable. Skimpily dressed model stretching: Banned!
Before we start this post, please be advised that if you watch the video there is graphic language and sexual themes contained within, I could not find the censored version of the ad. It’s interesting what gets banned in America, they have really tight laws around profanity and nudity…but not so much around violence. Think…
DetailsThe Daily Show with more insight into Palestine become a country in the UN
John Oliver from The Daily Show does a two part story on how when America decided to pull funding from UNESCO as they, along with 100 organisations have recognised Palestine as a country, there ended up being no winners. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1014907&w=425&h=350&fv=sid%3DThe_Daily_Show_Videos%26autoPlay%3Dtrue%26configParams%3Dnid%253D82125%2526site%253Dthedailyshow.com%26nextvideo%3Doff%26endCapAutoPlay%3Dfalse%26objectID%3Dvideo_player_box] [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1014908&w=425&h=350&fv=sid%3DThe_Daily_Show_Videos%26autoPlay%3Dtrue%26configParams%3Dnid%253D82125%2526site%253Dthedailyshow.com%26nextvideo%3Doff%26endCapAutoPlay%3Dfalse%26objectID%3Dvideo_player_box]
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