Archive for April, 2010|Monthly archive page

Alea Redacta Est: on pokie profiteers’ poor PR

In Rory MacKinnon on April 30, 2010 at 12:32 am

As I’ve said before, part of my job at Scoop involves copy-pasting the two-or-three hundred press releases that come through every day. A lot of it is drudgery, but occasionally you get public relations gems like this one from the Gaming Technologies Association (not the fun whoosh-bang kind of gaming technologies; the kind where you lose all your money to a pokie machine).

Gaming industry calls for greater recognition

Auckland, New Zealand: It’s time the true contribution of gaming machines to the New Zealand economy was recognised and acknowledged was the message from conference participants at the 2010 New Zealand Gaming Expo. Read the rest of this entry »

A Post-Powerful Earth: Pt. 1 of the Rick Giles saga

In Rory MacKinnon on April 4, 2010 at 1:32 am

[Ed. - for the uninitiated, click here, here and here]

The cracked asphalt bubbled and congealed in the heat as I trudged down State Highway 1. Six long years had passed since the seas began to boil; five since the night of the Parliamentary Fatwah. Three since my wife and family were taken by the Mongol horde. Limping into the shade of a crumbling public toilet, I dropped my pack and wept.

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