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Public Address 27/02/06 - Four Strange Men
Monday, 27 February 2006, 10:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
For all that we've been deluged lately with pronouncements about speech, free and otherwise, this clip might actually be the best thing I've seen all year. The late Frank Zappa deadpans his way through a 1986 episode of CNN's Crossfire dedicated ... More >>
Public Address 24/02/06 - Totally Hot
Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Please be warned. The pictures displayed on this page I'm linking to may provoke intense feelings of lust, desire and sensual excitement. You may find yourself unable to tear your gaze away from these images... More >>
Public Address 23/02/06 - All You Can Eat ...
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 11:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Business New Zealand waded into the Broadband debate yesterday. Quoting from the release: Business NZ has called for a more factually based argument over broadband access. Chief Executive Phil O'Reilly says given the conflicting claims over broadband ... More >>
Public Address 22/02/06 - Telecommunications & God
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm inclined to believe that the Business Roundtable's submission of a column by its chairman Rob McLeod arguing against regulation of Telecom - without the fairly important declaration that McLeod is a director of Telecom - was an error, rather ... More >>
Public Address 21/2 - Tomorrow Is Another Scarlett
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There are very few things I've written here that have generated as energetic a response from the readers as a post that featured Uma Thurman, Scarlett Johannnsen and assorted other beauties. I like to flatter myself that it was the humour of the thing, but ... More >>
Public Address 20/02/06 - Philosophies
Monday, 20 February 2006, 10:26 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had a dream in which somebody committed suicide last week. The room was a classic interior of the unconscious: the foyer of some grand theatre, primarily consisting of smooth, mottled, curving marble. We were looking down, a long way down, over a ... More >>
Public Address 16/02/06 - Everything Is At Stake
Friday, 17 February 2006, 11:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If you need an excuse to distrust big telcos, and Keith's last post didn't do it for you, check out The End of the Internet on the website of The Nation... More >>
Public Address 17/02/06 - Large File Alert
Friday, 17 February 2006, 12:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Russell Brown's Hard News It's taken an unseemly time to get together, but we have the video of the interview with the BBC's Ashley Highfield from the Great Blend last year. Grab it here as a tasty 73MB, 51-minute MP4 file, or feel free to view a rather ... More >>
Public Address 15/02/06 - Telco Fury
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 11:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Our 11 year-old is back in school, after several months' complete estrangement from the system, and - fingers crossed - it seems to be going pretty well. Part of the arrangement was that he'd get a mobile phone, and after a frustrating hour of trudging ... More >>
Public Address 14/02/06 - Enemy Mine
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 10:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Something that's been aggravating the hell out of me lately is the subtle difference between an 'online journal' and a 'bulletin board'. For some reasons there is this belief that posting acres of drivel for people to 'discuss' is equivalent to posting ... More >>
Public Address - The Bright Side Of Insurgency
Monday, 13 February 2006, 9:34 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Bright Side of Insurgency | Feb 13, 2006 10:49 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 10/02/02 - Five Kinds Of Yikes
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When I heard on the news that the Labour Party may be in the cart to the tune of $400,000 for overspending on campaign limits, my first thought was: WTF did they spend it on? National's campaign advertising was not only cleverer and more effective, ... More >>
Public Address 09/02/06 - Is It Because I Is White
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Apparently our local imams have called for amputations and executions of errant cartoonists and publishers. Well, that's what it says in the New York Times anyway: "From Gaza to Auckland, imams have demanded execution or amputations for the cartoonists and ... More >>
Public Address: Mt Roskill Will Take Over World
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 2:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
[***contains Helen Clark anecdotes***] The year I moved to Wellington one of my flatmates got incredibly excited that I knew someone on Shortland Street. People get excited about that sort of thing in Wellington. I got excited that she knew Kate Camp - and ... More >>
Public Address 07/02/06 - I Predict A Riot
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 1:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Waitangi Day 2006, London. (Actually it was Saturday.) The smell of cigarette smoke, cheap scotch and strippers hung heavily on the clothes I'd fallen asleep in. It might be cold outside, but central heating's a bitch when you pass out in your winter woollies... More >>
Public Address 06/02/06 - The Cartoons
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 1:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
How did a bunch of mostly crappy cartoons published five months ago in an undistinguished newspaper with a smaller circulation that the New Zealand Herald come to this? Have we suddenly lurched into something bad? And what happens next?... More >>
Public Address 03/02/06 - Conquering dictatorship
Friday, 3 February 2006, 3:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Was it something I wrote? The mysterious "capital T" exception for searches on Google China, as noted yesterday, no longer applies. A search on "Tiananmen" will now get you the same set of bland, regime-approved results as a search on "tiananmen", although ... More >>
Public Address 02/02/06 - Results May Vary
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 12:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Sometimes, what's most interesting about a speech is not what's in it, but what's been left out. Consider yesterday's contribution by His Illustrious High Lord of Harken and Leader of the Intelligently-Designed Free World, Not Including France, ... More >>
Public Address 01/02/06 - Cheese
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 12:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In keeping with Auckland's reputation as Godzone's multicultural heartland, the flavour of the minute this past weekend was "Japanese". We had walked past an Italian restaurant called Tonys (seriously guys, a less stupid name might be appropriate), and ended ... More >>
Public Address 31/01/06 - Threats and stuff
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 2:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I've been telling people that tonight's address in Orewa will be the don't-scare-the-ladies speech; that National has acknowledged that its campaign rhetoric on race, the Treaty and belonging to the "mainstream" deterred women and urban voters and possibly lost ... More >>
