LOTR trailer is here: The official trailer for the final film in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Tolkien trilogy hit the cinemas this week - but cheeky people had no conscience in eating into their workplace's net bandwidth connection to watch it. The actual movie hits the big screen on
December 18.
Paul's not alone: New York radio talk host Bob Lonsberry got fired this week after alluding to Rochester's black mayor as an orang-utan. He apologised and the station (owned by Texas media giant Clear Channel, which has an interest in Newstalk ZB) accepted the apology until it read Lonsberry's blog. His column headed "Whose side are you on?", prompted the station to declare: "It became obvious to us that he is not embracing diversity or the beliefs of the station."
Buy a piece of coastline: With house prices out of control and the future of local coastline up for debate, head to Clett.com to legally become part-owner of a historic Scottish Island, located in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.
Who is this clever man?: For all the debate in the past week about Paul Holmes, what about the man he is supposed to have ridiculed? Read the official biography of Kofi Annan.
Fishing for tips: A free email newsletter for anglers called Reel Life has been launched, a joint venture between Fish and Game New Zealand and the electronic publisher Inbox. The first issue includes a fishing survey for the Central North Island.
Take five seconds: A local online petition at Take5 calling on the Government to extend the GE Moratorium by five years passed 27,000 e-signatures this week.
Scrabbled text Scrabble lovers will enjoy Yahoo's new game, Text Twist - a word game in which you must rearrange letters to form words before the two minute time runs out. For those on PC only.
The Return of the King trailer
Bob Lonsberry's blog
Clett Island, Scotland
Kofi Annan
Reel Life
Take 5 on GE
Text twist
