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Visit New Zealand Marketing Campaign
It's My Imagination | 4 hours ago by Lynne
We have a dream of visiting New Zealand and Australia, who doesn’t?! From the United States though, this is the kind of trip that has to be planned well in advance and a trip of this magnitude would be life changing. There are so many amazing read more
The full-size station wagon is alive and (sort of) well
Jack Yan on Vox | 19 hours ago by Jack Yan
I swear the Holden Commodore Wagon looks more imposing in the metal than in a cellphone camera JPEG. And it shows that Down Under, the full-size station wagon remains a staple. We plain never caught on to minivans, at least not in t read more
We ain’t moving
Jack Yan on Vox | 19 hours ago by Jack Yan
Warehouse Stationery Kilbirnie blames the landlord for this one. Or it could refer to the fact that a warehouse is an immobile in legal terms, ergo Warehouse Stationary? And I am sure Vodafone loves its new typeface. read more
Not Much Soap, Too Much Cheese
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Soda | October 11th 2008 by Rambo McCool
Don’t try to prove me wrong, Epic. Thanks. You’re from New Zealand, anyway. Posted in Awesomeness, music, Videos Tagged: cheese, europe, jonathan coulton, new zealand, over there, soap, song read more
A little bit of Barbie in the heart of Wellington, NZ
Caffeinated Traveller | October 11th 2008
By no means would I call myself a ‘ barbie girl’ and I think all who know me would agree with this statement. Pink is not a colour featured in my wardrobe; frills and sequins have not come close to my skin nor apartment since the 80s. But read more
Whittaker’s Dark Caramel
Chocablog | October 11th 2008
Not to be outdone by the surprising taste of Whittaker’s Favourite Kiwi Fruit milk chocolate block, we returned from a day sightseeing the joys of Auckland and stumbled upon a long-held dream choco-combination of mine – top notch dark chocolate a read more
Packing, Moving - I'm Stressed !!!
The White Hummingbird | October 11th 2008 by JyMystique
Wow!! After living in this apartment for the past 3 years. I'm actually moving again.I couldn't sleep last night. So, I was sitting in the kitchen area staring at the house. And, felt the attachment to it and I'm overwhelmed with mixture of feelings. read more
Guiding Lyndon And Judy Forrest On The Tongariro River
Lake Taupo Fly Fishing Guide Reports - New Zealand | October 10th 2008 by Andrew
Guided regular clients Lyndon and Judy Forrest and Robyn from TALTAC today on the Tongariro river. The morning was quite reasonable fishing with at least 6 hook and plays plus a few other possible missed takes and a couple of wriggles. Fortunately read more
Financial difficult, need urgent money
Prayers Online | October 10th 2008 by Matt
Hi, could you pray for me about the 3 following situations 1) About finacial difficult I am living in 2) About my relationship with my wife who want to spend money in gamble machine, and who don’t like if I can help my family only to help her f read more
The joys of being a tiny country in the middle of nowhere
Fumbling towards geekdom | October 10th 2008
The differences between the American elections and the NZ elections (coming up on 8th November) are kind of interesting.Launch date of the USA main parties' campaigns for 4th November 2008: end of 2006.Launch date of the NZ main parties' campaigns fo read more
Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’
Frog Blog | October 10th 2008
I am among the first to critisise both the Labour and National Partyś leadership for playing down the importance and risk of our current global financial meltdown. I think they are both soft-peddaling the issue until after the election in order to a read more
Dominion Post cleared of contempt - the right decision?
Ethical Martini @ Wordpress | October 10th 2008 by Martin Hirst
An interesting decision this week in the New Zealand High Court. Contempt of court charges against Fairfax Media and Dominion Post editor, Tim Pankhurst, were dismissed. Earlier this year the Dom Post published extensive details of a police affidavit read more
Canadian Green Party - Shift happens
Frog Blog | October 10th 2008
Continuing my sporadic series of political ads from Green parties in other parts of the world, here’s a rather inexpensive but quite sweet one from a small corner of Canada. Canada has an election this week and the Green Party is polling wel read more
401. BAD TASTE (1987)
1001 movie you must see before you die part II | October 10th 2008 by cosmo
Title: Bad TasteYear: 1987Country: New ZealandGenre: Horror, Comedy, Sci-fiRunning Time: 91 min.Directed by: Peter JacksonStarring: Terry Potter¸ Pete O’Herne¸ Craig Smith¸ Mike Minett¸ Peter Jackson¸ Doug Wren¸ Dean Lawrieimdb: http://www.im read more
Tupiza Rocks, Friday Photo
Backpacking Travel Blog | October 10th 2008 by Benedict Adam
Somewhere around here Butch Casidy and the Sundance Kid had there final stand. A short horse ride out of town gives opportunity to trot amongst these wonderful red rock formations. Try and avoid the midday sun though, we made the school boy error, th read more
What IS on the end of your fork?
Rachel Henwood - Freelance Writer | October 10th 2008 by Rachel
Of course I have been aware of the food scare crisis going on in China over recent weeks, but I admit it was only last week that I really sat up and really took notice..... read more
Westland National Park
NZ Tramping | October 10th 2008 by Greg Brave
This is the areal view of Westland National Park. We took an sight-seeing flight from Franz-Joseph glacier township, and saw from above the glaciers, mount Cook and mount Tasman, and many other beautiful mountains and lakes. read more
From Marisa Miller and Harleys, to James Bond and Astons
Lucire: Insider | October 10th 2008 by Jack Yan
Two motoring-related snippets this time—and I’ll keep it short given that this isn’t why some of you come to Lucire. The first item relates to our most popular item this week: Harley–Davidson has released images of the photo sho read more
Bald is beautiful
Online Marketing Bloggers | October 9th 2008 by wowo
Here is good news for us. In this late of October, Air New Zealand is holding a casting call to select 30 adults to be shaved and tattooed to serve as cranial billboards in Los Angeles. This activity held as part of the airline’s marketing campaign read more
Beaches & pies
Frog Blog | October 9th 2008
A bit more from Lizzie Gillett, as she checks out what London ex-pats miss about New Zealand: read more
Bangladesh Rolls Inept Kiwis
Sports Blogs | October 9th 2008 by Scott Miller
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Meet the Candidates, Tukituki
Frog Blog | October 9th 2008
The Bay Buzz covered a local Forest and Bird candidate debate in the Tukituki electorate last night. It seems the sitting MPs tried to dominate the event: It was mostly the Rick[Barker, Labour] and Craig [Foss, National] show, with an occasional re read more
The climate change numbers
Frog Blog | October 9th 2008
The Environmental Defence Action Fund has a climate change time line of the last eight years which covers major climate studies and related events, alarming impacts that are taking place and eight years of political inaction (in America). It starts t read more
Aotearoa
Dreamer | October 9th 2008
So Google can go Maori now. Most impressive indeed. I tried finding my way around in Maori for a bit before giving up. You'd think i would've picked up something being in New Zealand for 4 years.PS: Aotearoa means "long, white cloud" in Maori. It rep read more
Cut Off Your Hands - You And I (2008)
Astounding Sounds | October 9th 2008 by Kevin
Hailing from a land where there are more sheep than people, then venturing Stateside only to be threatened with a legal suit from a Portland, OR based band with the same name. It would seem the odds of making a name for yourself on an international l read more
Mitsubishi Pajero: Essential Mountain Gear
Ads of the World | October 9th 2008
Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO, Wellington, New Zealand Executive Creative Director: Duster Creative Director: Paul Nagy Art Directors: Martin Hermans, Oliver Maisey Copywriter: Dan Moth Illustrator: Salt Design read more
Porsches, elections and Bathurst
Home with Amy | October 9th 2008 by A. Forbes
Some worthy news stories for the week that I'm impressed with:Court orders Petricevic porsche to be sold to help recoup investors lost money. This is a car belonging to a bankrupt Bridgecorp director. Do you think that directors should be held respon read more
Something has to change (Part 2)
Vegas Linda Lou | October 9th 2008 by Linda Lou
It's been over five years since I became single again, and still, I wake up on my side of the bed. It's 5:10 a.m. I click off the alarm with a pathetic sense of superiority, having prevented the assault of the "BEEP," "BEEP," "BEEP" scheduled for 5: read more
Thanks
Open Parachute | October 9th 2008 by Ken Perrott
I recently attended a celebratory dinner with members of my extended family. Inevitably such gatherings include people with widely different philosophical religious beliefs. That’s just a fact of our democratic, pluralist and secular society to read more
Maori Legends (Part two)
NZ Tramping | October 9th 2008 by Greg Brave
In my previous post I wrote about the beautiful Maori legend which explains why rain falls on earth, and in this post I will continue writing about Maori legends. Mythical Monsters Along with various gods Maori acknowledged additional various fo read more
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