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by Vaughan Lovell

I am a smoker.

Yep, a dirty, filthy, reviled creature who lurks in wind-less corners in the winter, puffing on cigarettes which contain more harmful ingredients than a molotov cocktail.

So I tried to quit just recently, and it went absolutely great - that is if you make money from tobacco sales. Read more

by Amy Paterson

It’s been 15 years since British act The Cure performed live in New Zealand.

And for many of their ardent fans, it was well worth the wait.

Thanks to the online petition organised by New Plymouth fans Gordon Pitcairn and Alastair Ross, The Cure returned for one show only at the Vector Arena in Auckland recently.

As a Cure fan myself, I was full of excitement and anticipation. Read more

by Angela Norton

The US military has picked up on a robotic pack mule that may help soldiers to carry large loads in the battlefield.

BigDog is the piece de resistance in engineering company Boston Dynamics’ range of artificially intelligent robots.

The robot mimics the movement of four-legged animals and can walk, run and climb on rough terrain. Read more

by Sam Mickell

It didn’t take long for the publicity hungry vultures to start circling following the death of alleged child abuse victim Nia Glassie.

As the New Zealand Herald’s website spouted the other week, “Film stars, sports people, mayoral aspirants and members of the public Read more

by Dylan Quinnell

Boobs on Bikes. What do I think?

Well, the first question that comes to mind is: why?

Parades usually have a point, ones that happen down Auckland’s main drag at midday, anyway.

The Santa parade is meant to spread a bit of cheer, and quite possibly chuck in a bit of advertising. Read more

by Dylan Quinnell

A few weeks ago I was in vegas, Roto-vegas that is, writing for the Daily Post newspaper.

My three AUT colleagues and I were so busy during our field trip that we never quite realised how lucky we were with the traffic in Rotorua.

The worst traffic jam we encountered was a four car queue Read more

by Niko Kloeten

As my dad so succinctly put it when the Tall Blacks were lagging begind the Australian Boomers by about 20 points, “They just have better players than us.”

This is an obvious problem.

The solution would be to get some better players. Read more

by Amy Paterson

Scrap solar system mobiles, or archaic astronomy CD-ROMs, Google has taken viewing and learning about the night sky to a whole other level.

Google has recently released a new application that allows internet users to explore the night sky from their home computer.

The new feature, Sky, is part of the free online mapping service Google Earth. Read more

by Niko Kloeten

If you want to give yourself an inferiority complex, youtube is the place to go.

Whether it’s sport, music or even politics you can easily find people who are much better at what you do than you ever will be. Read more

 by Beth Allan

They say the eyes are the window to the soul, but some say they’re the windows to the body.

Iridology is the practice of reading the iris – the coloured part of your eye – to gain insights into your body’s condition.

I recently had a reading done at Chancery Nature’s Health and found it to be very accurate Read more