I’m curious to see how New Zealand organisations take up the Twitter application. So far I’ve only found one of each.
Radio New Zealand News
Greenpeace New Zealand
Tags: Internet, New Zealand, twitter
Bruce Simpson is the editor of Aardvark Science and Technology News and Commentary. Based in Tokoroa, New Zealand, he is notorious as the guy who built his own DIY cruise missile for under $5,000. He’s known as Missile Man and Rocket Man and appears on TV productions including acting as a technical adviser or “expert” for Junkyard Wars, Scrapheap Challenge and Let’s Get Inventing. He’s also built a massive pulse-jet powered dragster that’s used “to scare the snot out of movie stars” and has appeared on several TV shows. This guy reminds me of another New Zealander: Burt Munro from The World’s Fastest Indian - a guy with a dream who keeps refining his inventions in his local back yard. In this case Bruce tests his jet engine inventions out on the Tokoroa airstrip.
Here’s a video of Temuera Morrison trying out the pulse-jet JetKart at Tokoroa.
Check out Bruce’s XJet YouTube channel
Tags: New Zealand, Tokoroa
Neemia Tialata, All Black prop, features his tattoos and faith in a slideshow on Rugby Heaven. Neemia talks about the process of getting his tattoos in Petone, the reaction of his mum, and the role of faith for him and a few of the Pacific Island guys on the All Blacks team.
Pictures, audio and production were by Peter Meecham, Fairfax photographer.
Tags: All Blacks, Christianity, New Zealand, rugby, tattoos
