Archive for 2008

December 05 2008

Not Really News

posted by Ana Samways at 1:45 pm

Still bored? Check out my blog, Not Really News, over at MSN.

How to have “greener sex”, at the end of the day finding 10 irritating phrases is not rocket science… and incompetent golf cart driving. Go here to read.

Deliberately creating public outrage is the best way to grab headlines, launch of an online STD carrier database… and the least effective ad you will ever see. Go here to read.

The Kangaroo Hoodie, Dressing for Success (for the ladies only), and the literal interpretation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ hit ‘Under the Bridge’. Go here to read.

December 04 2008

Former NZ PM captured on Google Street View
Today’s Choice Links: Former PM immortalised by Google Streetview; Transcripts and audio of real emergency calls; How to put out a fire in a pan; Wow! Wow! Wow!; Licking the ceiling; The ten poorest countries of the world; Alternate endings to the financial crisis; A bear is not a dog and shouldn’t be chained up in your backyard…

December 03 2008

Album Giveaway: The Mots

posted by Steven Shaw at 10:57 am

The Mots

By Ben Eldridge

Well… they have arrived. The decent, no… great, no… f%&king excellent guitar band that Auckland has needed for about two years now. Ladies and gents, meet The Mots…

December 03 2008

Today’s Choice Links: Taking Google Street View for a spin; The waistband stretcher; Atrocious advice from Supernanny; Puerile bits and bobs; McPhail and Gadsby; Woman vs. cow; And a Saudi cleric discusses domestic abuse techniques on a talk show…

December 02 2008

A Christmas Message

posted by Ana Samways at 7:16 pm

Forget about the religion and the website this clip is plugging, and think about it as showing a new way of looking at Christmas.