I aren't as skilled at this here interweb as some but would be interested to know what the origin was of of this entry at Wikipedia on the page about the vile Jack Abramoff

The scandal is known for being completely blown out of proportion by Democrats and the media…

The scandal is known for being completely blown out of proportion by Democrats and the media…

Another two edits added information to an article about English band Echo & the Bunnymen.

This is not news-worthy. This is normal use of Wikipedia. Good on this MoJ employee for contributing.

If someone ever ran…

Particularly scary, though not surprising:
"WikiScanner also identifies employees of another department, Defence, as the most prolific Wikipedia contributors in Australia."

Not only can this be extended to any sign or symbol – so the Rotarians & Masons are screwed. Sign & symbol extend to, tatoos, handshakes, gestures & colours- red hoodies etc.

Squee! Also, anyone want to post a link to Stephen Colbert editing his own wikipedia entry live on air?

The elephants one?

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/08/wikiality.html

Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! Pikelets? FUCK YEH BRAH!

Squee! Also, anyone want to post a link to Stephen Colbert editing his own wikipedia entry live on air?

What they should do is get someone to build a non-Wikipedia page with the Wiki code and let people go wild there. Then…

That said, it's all there in the history and some of it is bloody…

And the incident itself has been added to the Mint Chicks' Wikipedia entry, which is nice.

(I'm a little annoyed that I found out about it too late to change their discography to include "Pluck the…

The page now has a hilariously stern Wikipedia warning stating "the factual accuracy of this article is disputed."

Wow, now someone's reverted & protected the article. AND they berated everyone, including the band, for vandalism, & attempting to "compromise the integrity of wikipedia". Hahahahaha!

Chaos ensued:

Forming in petrie dishes, they began by playing lesbian punk house parties and low profile shows (for which they were paid with extended…

What ever happened to the days of theatre-ing a thread?

And IMNSHO, the turnout three years ago – and the issues around counting the votes in some parts of the country – doesn't give New Zealanders a great purchase on the moral high ground to patronise the Yanks.

Well, IMNSHO, the difference there is, while our most recent local body…

After all, every state in America suffers internationally because Florida couldn't count chads. Them's the breaks.

Yes, Kyle, just as my blood pressure suffers when people who can't be bothered voting in local body elections (which hardly requires standing in line for hours on end on a winter weekday) spend…

All too typical, unfortunately, especially on any story that involves a modicum of technical understanding. It's still shitty. I'm sure The Press would be unhappy if I took one of its stories and presented it as my own.

And just to get really weird, back when I was blogging for…

Kyle I think the good people of Manukau and Waitakere cities, and parts of Franklin district, may have issues with you cutting them off along with Auckland City if you dig at Drury. Severing the bridges at Mangere and Pakuranga would be more effectively targeted at Banks ;-)

I'm with…

The Rough Streets of Compton LA err I mean Christchurch.

it was a 750 ml coke bottle with dry ice inside it. thats only just one step up from shaking up a bottle and leaving it for some unsuspecting person to open. then the headlines would be "cleaner got coke…

We lefties in City Vision/Labour have a dozen or more candidates aiming for Council, various Community Boards and…

“Going to prison is not a downside for the gang. Other than the fact they can’t be with their families, they have simply changed addresses, from Wilsons Road to Paparua Prison,” he says.
Detective…

Stocks will make a comeback, as will property. You just won't know when, until it happens. I'm personally thinking…

Severing the bridges at Mangere and Pakuranga would be more effectively targeted at Banks

Lets do it, blow up the bridges and build a wall.
Then the rest of the country can send its dregs and criminals there for safekeeping (a bit like chch now).

After a while we might…

Nice. Its prolly better to look at the housing market and share markets in the long run terms.

For sure, although that doesn't stop a loss now hurting like a bitch, or a big win feeling sweeeeet. But yes, long term is the ONLY way to look at serious investments.

Yeah, my Sydney friend sold her Arch Hill 2 bedroom cottage for 300k more than she paid for it 5 years earlier at Easter. Kinda puts Kiwisaver into perspective!!

Nice. Its prolly better to look at the housing market and share markets in the long run terms.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/12/100_year_bull_b.html

Otaki – the new Sydney! You heard it first here.

But we'll start up a ferry service to connect Northland back up, because it's nice…

Russell... thanks for the Salon sub-prime primer... its cleared things up substantially for me...

Ditto that. Also liked the If Meetings Were Blog Comments clip. First.

Oh yeah, and now the housing market is supposedly in decline, meaning I'm going to get less for my current house. Bummer. That's another…

as the last Auckland election showed, it really doesn't matter who the Mayor is — it's the party vote that counts. The Mayor is the Mayor but it's the party with the most seats on council who will determine what the council does (and how ratepayers…

STV? Why bother? Referenda for everything. Those *might* actually be votes worth having.

The Tamihere & Banks show would be so much fun to watch from the south.

Where's your ambition? I'd go for the trifecta, get Michael Laws to stand out west.

Word on Facebook is that Martyn Bradbury, aka Bomber, is running for the Auckland mayoralty...

i saw a chap walking along courtney place the other day wearing a bowler hat, and i thought to myself, "bomber was 10 years ahead of this time."

and reading span's comment, i found myself…

Clean and safe how hard is it?

But does anyone think Tamihere would actually make a good mayor in west Auckland? I think he'd be a disaster.

Hard to say.... he could be a disaster? But he also did quite well with the Waiparera Trust for many years (before spectacular falling out), and thats a sort-of-local-body-type operation…

The Tamihere & Banks show would be so much fun to watch from the south.

Oh, don't ...

Built QEII for the commonwealth games and his greatest folly try and get a motorway from Riccarton Road to Bealy Ave cutting out the heart of Hagley Park. Massed protest…

"Auckland's local body politics are screwing up the city, but let's not just laugh at them – let's learn from it so Christchurch doesn't go the same way."

Now watch us elect Bob bloody Parker because people recognise his name. Once he's in, he can be Mayor in Perpetuity for…

I've recently just moved outside of Auckland City to Waitakere City (by moving 2km to the adjacent suburb). Even though it does have a large effect on greater Auckland, I'm glad I dont have to choose between Hubbard, Banks, et al. But who do I have to choose from?

McCarten…

As to the local election coverage...

I've recently just moved outside of Auckland City to Waitakere City (by moving 2km to the adjacent suburb). Even though it does have a large effect on greater Auckland, I'm…

Well, I guess "a A mayoralty with no real power" is pretty tough on people whose school reports were full of phrases like 'does not play well with others', but I can live with that. And I guess that's the big question mark I have about Swiney. Does he…

the left is a messy mix of Labour/Greens/Alliance.

I don't perceive City Vision as being as messy as the alternatives, namely a divided left in Auckland City, allowing Cits and Rats to win by default every time. Certainly they are good at running campaigns and are out of the blocks…

I have to rely on the burghers of Hobson ward to return Richard Simpson to council when I'd cheerfully vote for him if I had the chance. STV would have been a good thing.

And I had to rely on the voters of the Lambton Ward to elect my favoured…

The Auckland mayoralty makes me want to cry.

So, I'm in Nelson on holiday at the moment, and the local morning paper is The Press. In the Saturday edition there was an article that basically said "Auckland's local body politics are screwing up the city, but let's not just laugh…

The Auckland mayoralty makes me want to cry.

The whole thing's messed up. The right is too far right and the left is a messy mix of Labour/Greens/Alliance. I have to rely on the burghers of Hobson ward to return Richard Simpson to council when I'd cheerfully vote for him…

I think Alex Swney will be worth watching.

Certainly – but who is going to be doing it? Sorry for sounding like a broken record, but Auckland's sole daily newspaper is giving me little hope that their local body election coverage this time is going to reach the dizzying heights…

Out of interest, is Swney one to watch because he is neither Banks nor Hubbard?

Yes. The theory is that he'd take votes away from Banks' pantomime candidacy, but if Hubbard struggles, it's not unthinkable that some of the Hubbard vote would go to him.