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InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) congratulates NetSafe subsidiary
Hector?s World Limited on the UK launch of its online cyber-safety resource Hector?s
World.
Public Address won the NetGuide People's Choice Award for "Best Blog" last night.
Many of you will realise that it isn't the first time this has happened, but it's
still nice to be recognised in a public vote. I had been studiously laid-back about ...
Moviepostersdownunder.com has just started up and is run from a South Canterbury
farm house. The owner has spent a lifetime devoted to projecting movies and during
that time has built up a truly amazing selection of movie posters. The posters encompass ...
Melissa Chandler writes: Just days after carrying the Olympic torch on its journey
to Beijing, Miss World Zi Lin Zhang has touched down in New Zealand. The 24-year-old
Chinese woman arrived in Auckland yesterday for a six-day visit, during which time ...
Last year Radiohead asked fans to pay what they wanted for their new album, this
year a theatre director is asking audience members to do the same with his play.
Director Anders Falstie-Jenson says he is interested to see how much people will ...
Polynesian theatre directors deserve more authority and respect, says one Auckland
director. Samoan director Justine Simei-Barton says that Polynesian directors are
often brought in as co-directors, rather than being given full control of plays.
Getting in the groove for NZ Music Month, we are very pleased to confirm that Dave
Dobbyn and Victoria Girling-Butcher will each perform a song from their new, unreleased
albums as part of a discussion on the craft of songwriting with Hip-Hop/R?n?B ...
Scoop Review of Books Picks of the Week 9 May 08 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review
of Books How different would the World have been if the young Karl Marx had followed
his heart and pursued his love of literature? What if playwright David Mamet had ...
'Kiss' by Jacqueline Wilson Random House (RRP $40) Reviewed by HANAHIVA and JEREMY
ROSE for the Scoop Review of Books A Kid?s View of Kiss Kiss is about Sylvie, a
teenage girl who lives in a fantasy world with Carl, her best friend from childhood. ...
For the last six years, the Youth focussed organisations in the Dunedin community
have organised a Youth Expo for around 1200 Year 10 students from the greater Dunedin
area. This year, the seventh Dunedin Youth Expo will be taking place at the Edgar ...
Puccini?s La Bohème , arguably the most popular of all operas, gets a face lift
in 2008. The NBR New Zealand Opera?s new production sees a vibrant cast and creative
team bring this timeless classic back to life in a fresh and stylish way.
The 2008 NZ International Comedy Festival is delighted to announce Ben Hurley, Justine
Smith and The Outwits (Rikki Cosgrove, Andi Spargo & Jared Corbin) as this year?s
nominees for THE FRED AWARD, which will be presented at LAST LAUGH this Sunday night.
While 2006/7 was a year of tightening conditions for the domestic screen industry
in New Zealand the latest statistics from the Screen Industry Survey by Statistics
New Zealand do not show any significant decline or long term trends for the industry, ...
'The Ministry for the Environment has created a document in order to help New Zealand
households get more sustainable and reduce their environmental footprint. Entitled
?25 Easy Steps Towards Sustainability?, the downloadable booklet will inform ...
A ?relatively abundant? infestation of the unwanted marine sea squirt ?Styela
clava? has been discovered during a routine sweep of the new Marsden Cove Marina
by a dive team contracted to Biosecurity New Zealand.
A world-class multi-media visitor experience celebrating the life and work of one
of New Zealand?s greatest scientists Ernest Lord Rutherford is to benefit from
a significant sponsorship partnership with the University of Canterbury.
In a media release yesterday (published on Scoop and presumably elsewhere) Greenpeace
climate campaigner, Simon Boxer said, in an attempt to link Owen McShane to a posting
by Dennis Avery on the Heartland Institute webpage:
?[I]nsects had evolved at least ten elaborate forms of mouthpieces, uniquely adapted
(one would say) to their feeding upon flowers, one hundred million years before there
were any flowers on Earth.? ? Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
If what people are looking for on the internet this week is anything to go by, then
kiwi Mums can expect to receive flowers and gift baskets and be taken out for dinner
by their appreciative families this Mothers? Day.
Consultation over information ; Politics is entertainment; Hillary?s Dream; Cell
phones are the new smoking; Green wrath; UK says NZ out, China in; What do customers
want to know; A winning idea; Who said this; US newspapers down and up; Manglish; ...
Limelight, a new nationwide online business and community directory service that
provides direct benefits for Kiwi charities, is on a six-week tour around the country
raising money for Variety the Children?s Charity and the Child Cancer Foundation.
The Northland Regional Council?s website www.nrc.govt.nz has beaten more than 80
other local authority websites to be judged the best of its kind in New Zealand.
The Council was ranked number one amongst New Zealand?s 85 Councils, collecting ...
Top NCEA learning support site Studyit last night won the 2008 People?s Choice
Net Guide Education Award.
Christchurch City Libraries is offering a star-studded programme, and introducing
a high level of online interactivity this year, to celebrate Matariki next month.
On Thursday 8 May, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) officially opened
the first Autotronics Lab in the country. ?Smokin'Joe McAndrew, one of New Zealand?s
most successful rally drivers, with a record three national championship titles, ...
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Hewlett-Packard
(HP) have joined forces to help young unemployed people across Africa build their
entrepreneurial and information technology (IT) skills, it was announced today.
Audio: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey talk about the NZ Government's Rail buy back
from Australia's Toll Holdings. Also, Gen-Y and Gen-Xers are dodging paying their
credit card and internet bills!
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to National Party leader John Key about carbon
emissions trading scheme and railways.
Video: The Kiwi FM studio is small and perfectly formed (and not unlike a box) -
but no stranger to live-to-air performances. (And while we say it?s small we did
squeeze in just about all of the Windy City Strugglers - although Rick Bryant had ...
Birthday Cheer for Ricky the Special-Needs Monkey | May 08, 2008 10:11 Russell Brown's
Hard News One of the more straightforward reasons to distrust groups touting climate
change "scepticism" is, quite simply, the way in which those groups conduct ...
This year's Nelson Arts Festival will be held at Founders Heritage Park in October.
With both the Theatre Royal and the Trafalgar Centre closed for refurbishment, Nelson
City Council Festival Director Annabel Norman said there was some lateral thinking ...
Despite a slowing New Zealand art market, Peter Webb Galleries has enjoyed a healthy
year with some record sales.
A collaborative work featuring Maori activist Tame Iti goes on sale at Webb's auction
in Auckland next week. Iti features in a political CD release of songs produced to
accompany Dr Tutu, a work on four canvasses, mounted with fence post construction, ...
Lives are being turned around through the help of an innovative new study, helping
Pacific people with drug and alcohol addictions, delegates at the Alcohol Advisory
Council of New Zealand (ALAC) Pacific Spirit conference were told today.
Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX:LCT; OTC: LVCLY.PK) today announced it has
applied to list its American Depository Receipt (ADR) program on the International
OTCQX to increase the Company?s exposure to U.S. investors.
It is perfectly understandable that the Heartland Institute is upset ?it?s been
revealed as completely misrepresenting esteemed scientists to make its case. But
there is no need for it to take its embarrassment out on Greenpeace.
Claims by the New Zealand arm of Greenpeace that five scientists have been misrepresented
in being included in a list of 500 cited in a report on global warming, beg at least
two questions and two observations, according to Terry Dunleavy, secretary of the ...
The news release by Greenpeace New Zealand currently on your site concerning my
organization, The Heartland Institute, is riddled with errors and is designed to
mislead, not inform.
It has become commonplace knowledge, and is unchallenged, that global average temperature
has not increased since 1998. This corresponds to a 9-year period during which the
level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, in contrast, did increase, and that by almost ...
In decoding the genome of the platypus, a team of researchers from the United States,
Australia, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, Spain and New Zealand has revealed important
information that will enhance our understanding of other mammals and may lead to ...
