http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHg5ap_Z_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8PiVPRjujE

And 'Safer Communities Together – The Musical'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvs8PNbGVdg

Your T-shirt is ready.

(hattip: Sideswipe)

Friday they bury Ben Smarts Dad and on the Sunday Hides campaigning to reopen or what ever he is say about Scott Watsons conviction.

I'm not infavour of prisons, except where those inside them pose a risk to society. Prisons are made for the…

I reckon they could have made it a little longer. Looks nice though. We are spoilt.

Good angle, beautifully executed. Mainly the great outdoors but integrates the nightlife smoothly if briefly – and fitting use of music by those Fielding boys.

The song is actually Alphaville's 'Forever Young', from 1984 — and re-recorded as a hit more recently by Youth Group from Australia, and Jay-Z. Alphaville…

Good angle, beautifully executed. Mainly the great outdoors but integrates the nightlife smoothly if briefly – and fitting use of music…

Could you also ask the mechanic to put in a favicon for PA? The bookmark looks so bland without one.

Seconded. Useful for those of us who use bookmarks bars as opposed to menus, too.

42 posts per page:
Difference from 50 ppp: 16%
Difference from 20 ppp: 210%

:)

That voiceover at the end of the tourism video is... oddly threatening.

The geri pranksters version has a kindler 'n gentler tone. Also the song has been de-funked, without the Leon Russell-ish Mad Dogs & Englishmen-era piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmCRg6qcGX4

So he's regarded as merely having done what he often does — padding out huge stretches of his column with quotations he doesn't even need to retype.

In some ways I'm grateful it's not Darth's standard offering of trite quotations from the Bible. Me thinks, though, he locates the quotation…

he man with the appropriate spanner won't be able to get to it till Monday

Could you also ask the mechanic to put in a favicon for PA? The bookmark looks so bland without one.

I wonder if the weirdest thing about that Nightlife video is that it's entirely urban.

"Look! We have restaurants now!"

This is why we really really needed punk rock.

Trust me, little improved after Punk. Thank Peter Urlich and Mark Phillips for the first real jump into the 20th Century around '81.

The party scenes resemble those in This is New Zealand — down to the presence of an exotic dancer. Perhaps it's even the same NFU crew?

Did they have more than one crew back then?

It's civil service cinema verite, from the time when Ian "God Boy" Cross was running…

This is why we really really needed punk rock.

when I see his evil eyes

I see pompously rheumy. The smell of camphored cardies and certainty untroubled by an open mind.

I trust this allays your concerns.

Thanks for that Stephen, sounds hilarious, I'm not clear was this real or reenacted?

The point is about the words – or rather the sentences. He could have used quote marks if he liked. Which would have shown how lazy he was being (part…

At any rate, we seemed terribly keen to sell what were bloody thin offerings for nightlife.

Never confuse sales with delivery.

[Edit]: and I should add, the 'quietness' is still a big draw for some, me included.

Your observation may be accurate, but MFC wasnt completed until the early '80's and the clip is from the '70's so its moot...

The spherical fountains give it away at the Christchurch Town Hall. But there's also a shot looking out from the Fisherman's Table in Auckland, and the shot…

Your observation may be accurate, but MFC wasnt completed until the early '80's and the clip is from the '70's so its moot...

What, you expect me to remember stuff that happened before I was born? That's, like, youthism.

RB, 50-instead-of-20 posts per page is making refering back to older comments, IMO, much harder.]

I'll just throw in upgrade on the search engine. I am finding it most difficult.
Alright then ,30

Can't look at the clip right now, but: if it's an indoors one, the Michael Fowler Centre and Chch town hall are identical,

Your observation may be accurate, but MFC wasnt completed until the early '80's and the clip is from the '70's so its moot...

Wow, Alan Grayson sure gets around. And so creepy!

I didn't even twig that Grayson was the chart-man. I thought I was threadjacking. Accidental win.

Key part at 2.30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NYBTkE1yQ

I agree; fifty posts per page seems just a tad excessive; 25?

Compromise: 27 and a half it is, then.

I take my hat off to anyone that can get far enough through one of GG's articles to spot plagiarism. My eyes usually glaze over when I see his evil eyes.

That glare is just to disguise Garth's own glaze. Old curmudgeon trick.

See what I did there? Throwing out shapes.

Dare I ask...user-configurable?

That would be new functionality rather than just using a different value in the CMS, but not a bad idea.

[O/T,
RB, 50-instead-of-20 posts per page is making refering back to older comments, IMO, much harder.]

Actually, I've been meaning to ask about that — I think I feel the same way.

Anyone else have a thought on this? It's a parameter I can easily have changed.

Right. Nothing wrong with being an ideas aggregator. Pretending that the ideas are your own, though, is deceiving the reader.

Yes — just not too much. You're supposed to be adding some value of your own.

It can be easier, sometimes better, to quote generously rather than rephrase the ideas yourself.

Right. Nothing wrong with being an ideas aggregator. Pretending that the ideas are your own, though, is deceiving the reader.

[O/T,
RB, 50-instead-of-20 posts per page is making refering back to older comments, IMO, much…

If the text is provided explicitly for reuse, like a press release or wire story, are journos supposed to attribute it?

Yes.

A wire story might be incorporated in a news report, but ideally you'd want the source noted in the byline.

And cutting and pasting press releases isn't journalism.…

I'm guessing the global warming deniers *want* their drivel repeated and don't care about attribution.

That'd be my line if I was Garf's employment lawyer, anyway.

I reckon he…

Teasing drunks – has to be one of the perks of the job.

Shurely "tasing drunks"?

Teasing drunks – has to be one of the perks of the job.

And yet the clip is so much more.

Indeed. It's so Kiwi it makes Hot Fuzz look like Bad Boys II.

Let me know when they taser a pregnant woman. I've got a pool going on that one if anyone wants in. $20.

Apropos Media7: I'm afraid that learning that "trauma journalism" is a trade term doesn't improve my feelings about news reporting

Not at all, Stephen. It's actually an important, and relatively new, field of training and study — for a long time, journalists sent in to traumatic situations were pretty much…

And the underlying conditioned cultural response that it's not ok to share ideas, that people must work independently, is why the environmental problem will never be solved.

Mark, the underlying cultural assumption behind 'plagiarism is bad' is 'credit where it's due'.

The teenager in question explains himself by saying he is off to buy a pie from the convenience store at a petrol station.

The concerned policeman ensures that the teenager has enough money to purchase a…

Brickley, watch the you tube clip from Stephen a couple posts above to see what Russell was referring to.

I can't watch that at work either.

I'll wait until I get home I guess.

Why can't someone just spell it out?

Anything about cops and I'm dying to know...

I notice that deeper in that April-Fool's-Day-2007 release from the C"S"C, Augie says:

Dr Salinger uses…

To what do you so obliquely refer?

My work internet does not allow me to open Facebook.

What is this all about?

Was asking the same question, No one's prepared to write it down, people just keep pointing to some video clip, elitism against the blind.

I'm torn between an iconic pie and "Safer Communities Together", and a stern cop head and shoulders with "Always Blow on the Pie."

The latter gets my vote.

But I fear we may not be hearing too much more of Garth.

Ah yes the capitalist ethic, no communism in journalism etc, how right you are.

And the underlying conditioned cultural response that it's not ok to share ideas, that people must work independently, is why the environmental problem…

What is this all about?

See here.

They are going to start sicking up soon, from what I'm reading.

As long as they're doing it on the other side of campus, I am slightly vindictively pleased by that.

Further evidence is found at :24 the family concert is at none other than the Christchurch town hall.

Can't…

when the internet was abruptly deprived of probably the greatest moment of real-life television policing in New Zealand history this week, loud was the wailing and, um, gnarly was the gnashing.

To what do you so obliquely refer?

My work internet does not allow me to open Facebook.

What is…

But what street in what NZ city is at 0.49? I can't figure it out.

Looks like Queen St to me. Definitely not in Wellywood.

Oh yes it is!…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NhQmZ3S6E

And that end message did seem to say: if you're white, it's all yours...and so if you're not already there, go and claim your piece of it (before.....)

There has been longstanding clashes between the weather people and the climate people over' the Science'.

You might have had a point if MetService hadn't issued a statement endorsing the mainstream view on climate change and distancing itself from anything Augie Auer said.

Cheers,
Brent.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0704/S00001.htm
"So simplistic, it's silly" is how Dr Auer describes the statement by NIWA climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger that "As climate warming occurs, the atmosphere can hold more moisture and therefore more rain falls and therefore what we…

Give me strength – trying to write and the end of lectures party started 4 hours ago.

Cops have been to my street twice and I have heard a fire engine once.

All has been quiet for the past couple of hours – eye of the storm.

I trotted off…

But I fear we may not be hearing too much more of Garth.

I feel your fear Rusty, and I'm lovin' it.
:-)

Sadly there isn't very much footage around, but we're working on it!

... coming up with the best exploitative t-shirt design.

SPOILER ALERT don't read past this bit, also Russell we need some sort of spoiler alert system...
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I'm torn between an iconic pie and "Safer Communities Together", and a stern…

Cops have been to my street twice and I have heard a fire engine once.

All has been quiet for the past couple of hours – eye of the storm.

But what street in what NZ city is at 0.49? I can't figure it out.

Looks like Queen St to me. Definitely not in Wellywood.

But I fear we may not be hearing too much more of Garth.

Something good to come out of global warming, then?

But what street in what NZ city is at 0.49? I can't figure it out.