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Public Address 17/8/06 - A Great Occasion Of State
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Maori, who do funerals so well, have gone a generation without such a great occasion of state as the tangi for Te Arikinui, Dame Te Atairangikaahu, will be. I think the ceremony will be good for us all, if only because it - and the subsequent... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 16&17/08/06 - The Crazy People/Duh!
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 2:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Glenn Greenwald has a bunch of links to angry conservative proclamations about Israel's decision to take the UN peace deal. The universal theme is effectively that Israel has let down Team America by declining to throw itself into the meat grinder... More >>
Public Address 08/08/06 - Profoundly Unimportant
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 9:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I have a serious post in mind, but for now, let us wallow in the unimportant. I'm talking Rockstar: Supernova. PA reader Dave Burns has given Rockstar judge Dave Navarro a stern telling-off on his own website (you'll have to scroll down to find the comment), ... More >>
Public Address 07/08/06 - Greening
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
National MP Nick Smith's drive to embed some green credibility in his party's environmental platform is laudable. Matthew Hooton claimed recently that Smith was "progressively winning over his more sceptical colleagues" on the climate change issue, and now ... More >>
Public Address 2&3/08/06 - Anomalies And Mysteries
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The publication of a "controversial" expert report on drug classification - prepared for, and ignored by, the British Home Office - is creating some chatter in the UK press this week. And so it should... More >>
Public Address 28/07/06 - Darwin Awards Shoo-In
Friday, 28 July 2006, 10:06 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Was channel surfing once and caught this great line on CSI: Corpse cutter 1 [Looking over dead guy with a gunshot wound]: Who takes a gun to a knife fight? Corpse cutter 2 [Smug old guy with beard]: The winner, obviously... More >>
Public Address 27/07/06 - Wheezing From Wellington
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What is it with ageing baby-booomer Fairfax columnists and homosexuals? The Dom Post's Karl du Fresne has joined his stablemate Rosemary McLeod in advancing wheezy conspiracy theories about the Labour Party's gay mafia wing... More >>
Public Address 26/07/06 - Reasons To Be Cheerful
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 12:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I meant to celebrate this yesterday, but themes got a bit serious. So, now … go Jolisa! Public Address's own delightful Jolisa Gracewood was named Reviewer of the Year in the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, for her work in The Listener... More >>
Public Address 25/07/06 - So That's It, Then?
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is that it, then? The Independent's story states as looming fact something that has been hinted at elsewhere in the past week or two: the abandonment of "Iraq as a political project" and the preparation of a Plan B - the partition of the country, and of Baghdad... More >>
Public Address 24/7/6 - Go Ahead, Make My Charter
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Thanks to readers who, in the spirit of engagement with the television-making process, have come up with some ideas for programmes to get us through the months without Orange Roughies. My one first, then we'll hear from our panel of experts... More >>
Public Address 21/07/06 - Toilettenstreich!!
Friday, 21 July 2006, 4:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Why call a post "Frivolous Friday" when you have an excuse to use the magnificently comedic word "Toilettenstreich"? Toilettenstreich is the title of a German capture of a mad Japanese TV show - Google translates it from the German as "Toilet caper" ... More >>
Public Address 20/7/6 - How Would It Go On TradeMe
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 1:40 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
How would it go on Trade Me? | Jul 20, 2006 10:30 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 20/7/6 - More Things That People Do
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 12:13 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Guardian has a couple of important items with respect to the war in Lebanon. The first is a news story claiming that the US has privately given Israel one more week to do whatever damage it can to Hezbollah before it weighs in behind international ... More >>
Public Address 19/07/06 - They Have A Point
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 12:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
National's immediate response to the release of the QC's report on Philip Taito Field yesterday was fairly predictable: it called for a commission of inquiry. The problem is, National always seems to be calling for a commission of inquiry... More >>
Public Address 18/07/06 - Mindshare Vs. Moolah
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 11:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So YouTube hits 100 million videos a day. And surely, any day now, they'll be slapping ads all over the place and cashing up big-time. Well, not so fast. As Ars Technica points out, the DMCA provides YouTube with a defence against copyright complaints, ... More >>
Public Address 17/07/06 - Depressing
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Here's a grim irony: Ya Libnan, an online news service that grew from a blog founded to cheerlead for freedom and democracy during last year's "cedar revolution" now finds itself keeping a body count and venting outrage as its authors' "beautiful ... More >>
Public Address 14/07/06 - Some Week
Friday, 14 July 2006, 10:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Tze Ming raises a good question when she ponders the relative silence of the Anglophone blogosphere after the atrocity in Mumbai this week. I thought about that too. The most trivial reason for me is that I've been caning my brain through the gears all ... More >>
Public Address 13/07/06 - Things I Never Knew
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 11:44 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We have such educated readers. Gabor Toth got in touch to point out some things about our soon-to-be obsolete silver coins that I didn't know. July 31 will be really the end of an era... More >>
Public Address 12/07/06 - Freaky Money
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 4:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's not often I get a courier pack from the Reserve Bank, let along one with money in it. In fact, it's never happened before. But a nice little media pack with examples of the new 10, 20 and 50 cent pieces arrived at Dubwise Towers this week... More >>
Public Address 11/07/06 - New Old News
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 12:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
As DPF correctly pointed out yesterday, Don Brash's new director of "forward renaissance", Garreth Spillane, isn't that new: he started three months ago. DPF wonders whether the angle might be that Spillane is (a) gay, and (b) an opera singer, but points ... More >>
