Jon Stewart gives Parliament the smack-down...

Parliament passed a law outlawing the use of the new permanent broadcast for satire.

Jon Stewart's Daily Show has got our back, in its regular 'America to the Rescue' segment.

Why we have the internet

While searching the internet to see what the 'Fruit Leather' in Cookie Time Christmas Cookies is made of (I've always wondered) I came across a site that reminded me of pretty much the entire internet circa 1998. Before all this fancy-schmancy Web2.0 guff came along.

Check it out: Mom's Fruit Leather Innovations and The "Magic" of an Egg Explained

Latest column on www.theset.co.nz - Youth Parliament and voting age

Hey folks, my latest column has just been published on www.theset.co.nz
Enjoy

12 weeks to go...

12 weeks until deadline for papers, they're going well and I'm preparing to give presenations on two of them over the next few weeks (one presentation done already, went well).

Oh, and a website: http://www.shaunmcgirr.com/

Awesome-ist lego creation ever

Yes, a 350-pound lego aircraft carrier.

14 weeks to go...

Well its 14 weeks since I last said how long it is to go until I have to hand in my four research papers. Just working on one of them now made me remember and look at my countdown calendar. Thankfully its not 40,000 words on October 15th...actually only about 30,000 now due to stuff already written and them not all needing to be 10,000 words exactly.

Peace out.

I'm a teacher!

Well, a tutor more accurately. For POLS112 - 'Introduction to Political Ideas' here at Vic. Bascially, its about all the -isms... liberalism, conservatism, socialism, etc. It will be my first time tutoring a university course and I'm pretty excited!

Ok so we didn't win that big auld mug, but...

...we did get listed as one of the eight best geek vacations by Wired magazine!!! Surely that's some consolation, no? Ok, it was Lord Of The Rings hangover, but still.

Wired Magazine: The Best Geek Vacations