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Monopoly – the game that destroyed a thousand families – is launching a new set based on Auckland. In a fine piece of democratic consultation, the city planners for Monopoly Auckland Edition asked the public for idea suggestions through Facebook and email. As with all things internet, if it can be #hashtag mocked, it will be – as was the case yesterday and today with the #AucklandMonopolyCards hashtag.
Lynda Brendish wrote a piece about Dove’s Real Beauty campaign celebrating the sentiment of empowerment but criticising the parent company Unilever. Plenty of others have found reasons to criticise, too (for example, featuring traditionally attractive white women and showing women as their own worst enemy rather than the sexist society they live in). But what about the men, you ask? Well, here’s a brilliant parody of the campaign showing how they have a very different problem.
In becoming only the 13th country in the world to legalise same sex marriage, New Zealand’s garnering a lot of attention from around the world. PLUS: Video of Parliament spontaneously bursting into song.
A time traveller stranded in New Zealand seeks help in the NZ Herald’s classifieds section to go back in time and warn younger self.
Journalists in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but we feel this editorial decision by Stuff should be preserved for posterity.
Google’s Glass project makes us go “wow!” and “whoa!”, but could augmented reality also make us go “wtf?” in the future.