a members bill from Roger Douglas to undo the last government's change that abolished youth rates. He wants a return to paying someone less than minimum wage if they're under 18.
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2010/02/25/is-roger-anti-youth/

There was a protest today at parliament over the threats to existence of National Radio
http://wellingtonista.com/nice-day-for-a-protest-picnic

Steve Biddle has blog and photos of a tour of Telecom's exchange on courtenay place
http://feeds.geekzone.co.nz/~r/GeekzoneBlogUsers/~3/fOr4BEXaJgg/7113

Leaked: Microsoft's document on your private data that they store for government to come get.
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ggc6FzGp7tA/the-secret-govern...

Amazon, oh Amazon - how sad for you. Microsoft claims they own patents for something in linux, but they won't say what.. they just say "pay up".. and Amazon paid up to their threats.
http://blog.christophersmart.com/2010/02/24/amazon-microsoft-sign-linux-...

Mark Atwood tells how to add more memcache capacity without an outage
http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/884224.html

A postive bathroom scale
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WGpSAHUk9OY/body-scale...

cool things: blood bath and ninja hook shower thingies
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O0t48obDNzA/blood-bath...

WTF happened to question time? Parliament is sitting under "urgency", so National have cancelled question time. This isn't normal practise.

OLPC Viewfinders - made on Reprap, originally uploaded by Br3nda.

Checkout out these thingies.

They're viewfinders - slot them into the OLPC XO laptops's top right hand usb port, and they're now in perfect position to be a viewfinder for the laptop's camera.

These were made on a reprap, the open source, open hardware 3d printer that's capable of printing copies of itself.

They're made from a milk byproduct polymer/plastic. They cost a fraction of a cent each.

These were printed by Vik Olliver, who also painted them XO green. THANKS VIK!! :-D

Get in contact with OLPC NZ if you'd like a copy of the file that prints these.