Archive for June, 2011
Sorry, but it’s Labour that breached privacy
Talk about spinning like crazy. Labour is appealing to the privacy commissioner about lists of supporters and donors falling into the hands of a right-wing blogger…. President Moira Coatsworth said the party discovered on Saturday that there had been a potentially “malicious” breach of the database. An investigation revealed within hours that there was a [...]
Opawa Shops
Took this photo a few weeks back. These have apparently come down in the last aftershock.
Liquefaction Map
From the weekend’s Press. Click to Enlarge
That was a big one #eqnz
Today’s Feb 22nd And the original from Sep4.
The movie was widely regarded as a flop, it certainly floundered…
…net takings were negligible
How to fix the world food supply, or break it. Your choice.
Saw this on Contra Celsum just now. Oxfam’s chief executive, Dame Barbara Stocking, claimed this week in a BBC interview that there will “absolutely not be enough food” to feed the world’s population in a few decades’ time. Such certainty about the future is remarkable, so I downloaded Oxfam’s new “report” with interest. Once I [...]
Mac Doc’s next post…
…will be about this (I’m guessing) A deluge of abusive drunks is straining Wellington Hospital’s emergency department, clogging its systems and demoralising staff to such an extent that at least one doctor is considering leaving her job. Nurses say they dread night shifts at the department and have told of constant verbal abuse and occasional [...]
Wisconsin Union Protesters Staying Classy
There’s a time and place for everything. A celebration of the achievements of Special Olympians is not really the place for a zombie protest against the Wisconsin governor’s policies.
