Posts by Russell Brown
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The solar bowl is used for cooking, they claim.
Might it be connected with Wok-Fi?
I am reliably informed that the Asian Crime Wave is facilitated by a secret wireless network constructed from innocent-looking Chinese cookware.
Speaking of which: what on earth was Codders on about in her column yesterday?
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sorry suspect I am technically challenged in terms of how to make this play straight off. Watch for Helen, hope you like it.
Nah, we make it easy. Just paste in the URL and our software embeds it. But you did that already anyway ...
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Nat, I will not be surprised to get an email shortly from Russell along the lines of: "See? See?"
See? See?
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Topless bloggers in tawdry cheesecake photoshoots, it's all a bit ... common, don't you think?
Unless it's Suicide Girls. I totally make an exception for them.
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Parliament sits again this week, restarting a political scene that's the same but different. Will our representatives move on from last year's rancour? What new narratives will the year hold? Who are the key characters? What will matter in 2008? Share your hopes, fears, dreams and, above all predictions here.
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The stuff dreams are made of. Everyone wants to see their friends naked.
I don't.
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It would be a delightful novelty, for example, if some folks would cease to accuse others of being Darth Rove's apprentice, while slagging off anyone who doesn't agree with them as a kitten-eating bastard.
Now you see Craig, if you'd just lay off the kittens, you'd find that your cholesterol would come right in an instant.
But yeah, I think the Rove comparison's a bit strong. What we're seeing is the news media being so friggin' desperate for a narrative that they're jumping on every Key diversion, even when there's not a lot there (and, as the Herald did, they have to make stuff up). As John Armstrong noted, Key is just flipping from one thing to the next at the moment: the media follows him and Labour seethes.
But Key will want to be careful. The 12 year-old girl whose new friend he is comes from just the kind of family that National and Act MPs have vilified in the past: Mum on DPB after split; has two more kids, making five in total with new boyfriend who doesn't live on the premises. At some point Judith Collins or someone is going to spit venom about DPB mums, and someone is going to ask Key whether that applies to that nice welfare family from McGehan Close.
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Oh, and if you didn't get an RSVP thing, don't worry, just turn up at the venue - south entrance, Auckland museum, 6.30pm (from 6 is okay if you're at a loose end), tomorrow.
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Main thing to take away from it for me was a complete disagreement with the consensus reached that it was "unrealistic to think that you might change the number of people who are interested in politics in any given population". It wasn't those words, but it was there more or less.
Eh? I honestly can't understand how you'd have taken that from the panel. It's certainly not my view.
The point I can't believe escaped me during the discussion is that it's all very well for geek-politics people to talk about the govt and the public sector as "they" - but who's putting their hands up to actually stand for councils or for govt?
I really wish we had a few more people like Cr Richard Simpson in politics.
Tangential:And again, grating, for me, was the continual return to "the govt must do this" to make whatever we want happen. I'm a firm believer in, we do it. We are the public, we have to make it happen.
Fer sure. I made the point that it's independent ventures - Scoop, the original They Work For You - that produce the leaps in engagement. The point - and it's kinda geeky - is that there are things the government can do in the way it presents public data that make a big difference to the way ventures like that can work.
And when it comes to things like copyright law, well, it's the people we elect to government who make it.
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Next time put the call out for bands, i know a few who would play for the love, and some quality beverages.
Yeah, people are usally keen to play for very little - it's the production that racks up the $$. Next time, though. Anyway, off to the venue ...
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