The Guardian piece is a fascinating read. Researchers have shown changes to search result algorithms can influence voting preferences. We've just had two really weird election results (Trump and Brexit), so maybe we're all being manipulated by a libertarian billionaire computer algorithm genius! I guess it's plausible, but my gut feeling says the Trump White House is still more cock-up than conspiracy. And even if true the Mercer master plan would appear to leave the actual levers of power in the hands of Google and Facebook, the Owners of the Algorithms.

Haha, and thanks for your concern! Roll on RBI.

Agreed Gabor. The woes of dropping to 20Mbit/s read like first world problems on my rural ADSL, which manages 2Mbit/s on a good day.

If you regard the two silver fern with stars (weetbix) as essentially the same flag, surely you should only rank one of them. Otherwise you give a silver fern double vote.

“Aporkalypse Now”
“Ba ba baaa ba ba bar lamb”

If I ever learn to cook I'm gonna open a food joint that brings a North African influence to the meat pattie. I'll call it the Berber Burger Bar.

Meanwhile, government owned Landcorp continues to convert carbon absorbing forests into methane belching dairy farms.

Northland rugby breached the electoral act with its 'Cheering For Northland' billboard. There were complaints to the electoral commission and they made a slight alterations, removing the Na characters (start of the National logo) but leaving the image of John Key. Last time I looked the billboards were still up.